bullshido Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/tag/bullshido Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sun, 04 Sep 2022 22:47:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 182200397 The hard road out of Gammatude https://didacticmind.com/2022/09/the-hard-road-out-of-gammatude.html https://didacticmind.com/2022/09/the-hard-road-out-of-gammatude.html#comments Sun, 04 Sep 2022 22:47:33 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=16321 I make fun of Mark Cuckerberg constantly, because he is the literal epitome of the low-value Gamma sperg-nerd who managed to get very lucky with a product and an idea, and has since managed to strike it very rich. (Faceborg is a terrible product from a terrible company that hates you and everything you stand […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2022/09/the-hard-road-out-of-gammatude.html/feed 1 16321 How to fight like a priest https://didacticmind.com/2022/07/how-to-fight-like-a-priest.html https://didacticmind.com/2022/07/how-to-fight-like-a-priest.html#respond Thu, 28 Jul 2022 22:35:18 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=15972 So some rather interesting things went down today in my Telegram channel (join now if you haven’t already – all the cool kids are there), wherein I initially posted up a video that showed two Orthodox priests engaged in fisticuffs in Banderastan. Essentially, the family of a slain Ukrainian soldier called in their local Russian […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2022/07/how-to-fight-like-a-priest.html/feed 0 15972 Martial farts https://didacticmind.com/2021/05/martial-farts.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/05/martial-farts.html#respond Sat, 22 May 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=11709 Good ol’ Sensei Seth decided to poke fun at the various martial arts styles and show us what would happen if you put them all in the same room together: He was so successful with this that he decided to include a few of the “newer” arts in a follow-up: And then he decided to […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/05/martial-farts.html/feed 0 11709 How to kick https://didacticmind.com/2021/01/how-to-kick.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/01/how-to-kick.html#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:51:45 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=7449 I have been telling my readers for years to take up a form of striking martial art. In a striking art, the most fundamental techniques always come down to punching and kicking. When you study martial arts for effectiveness, power, efficiency, and speed, you’ll quickly find that different arts have very different techniques. That is […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/01/how-to-kick.html/feed 7 7449 Life lessons from the Jade-Faced Tiger https://didacticmind.com/2020/10/life-lessons-from-the-jade-faced-tiger.html https://didacticmind.com/2020/10/life-lessons-from-the-jade-faced-tiger.html#respond Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:00:59 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=7425 The name of Samart Payakaroon is not well known outside of martial arts circles, but within them, his is a name that inspires hushed awe and deepest respect. That is because he is considered to be perhaps the greatest nak muay – practitioner of the Art of (Breaking a Man’s Body, Will, and Soul with) […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2020/10/life-lessons-from-the-jade-faced-tiger.html/feed 0 7425 Belting up https://didacticmind.com/2020/08/belting-up.html https://didacticmind.com/2020/08/belting-up.html#respond Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0000 I realised today that there was some information about Krav Maga that I didn’t have the time to include in my previous post on the subject. So here it is. This concerns the issue of whether or not civilian KM has legitimate reasons for teaching more advanced and dangerous techniques. If you go higher up into […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2020/08/belting-up.html/feed 0 30 Short answer: yes https://didacticmind.com/2020/08/short-answer-yes.html https://didacticmind.com/2020/08/short-answer-yes.html#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0000 Toe Rogan and one of his guests were talking about Jew-jitsu, also known as Krav Maga, sometime last year: His answer is basically correct, and I agree with him. Krav Maga is absolutely a legitimate combat art. That is not, however, the whole story. I studied KM for 5 years while I was living in the […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2020/08/short-answer-yes.html/feed 2 44 Crush the opposition https://didacticmind.com/2020/08/crush-opposition.html https://didacticmind.com/2020/08/crush-opposition.html#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0000 Gina “Crush” (or “Conviction”, depending on which part of her career you look at) Carano is not quite the household name in WMMA that, say, Ronda Rousey is. But unlike her vastly overrated and overhyped successor to the title of “Queen of Women’s MMA”, Gina Carano had (and has) serious striking credentials and had a legendary career in […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2020/08/crush-opposition.html/feed 1 58 Learn the rules – then break the rules https://didacticmind.com/2020/07/learn-rules-then-break-rules.html https://didacticmind.com/2020/07/learn-rules-then-break-rules.html#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0000 There is an old quote from, I think, martial arts legend Bruce Lee which goes something like this: “Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2020/07/learn-rules-then-break-rules.html/feed 7 114 The man who should be Batman https://didacticmind.com/2020/06/the-man-who-should-be-batman.html https://didacticmind.com/2020/06/the-man-who-should-be-batman.html#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:00:00 +0000 If you haven’t watched a Scott Adkins film, he’s basically the king of martial arts B-movies these days – and some of those movies are actually very good. One of my favourites is Boyka: Undisputed, in which Mr. Adkins plays the dark anti-hero Yuriy Boyka with gruff and growling charisma and amazing fighting skills. He is […]

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