Comments by "TheRezro" (@TheRezro) on "Thoughty2" channel.

To make long story short. First myth to bust is that West didn't have martial arts. American Indians also. But prevalence of guns and growth of peasant societies lead to death of many styles. And that is true not even for west, but also Japan go thorough same proces. Interest im martial arts peaked in modern times thanks to television, what lead to semi mythical status of the Asian arts. Problem was that it become fertile ground for scams. As athletes could easily pretend to be masters, teaching teens basic moves learn from TV. Furthermore people forget that stuff like Wushu was done by monks as ritualistic practices and many of those techniques weren't really for combat, but for physical and spiritual training. Which is why they contain lot of unnecessary movement and there were situations when boxer could take out one of those with good punch. But we shouldn't disregard all those as made up. Things is that in many cases people did actually rediscover actual existing arts. For example. Modern Shinobis are reconstruction, but based on actual sources. HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) is also legit stuff based on the sources. The lesson here is to be wise and not glorify Kung Fu masters. Martial Arts should be researched like any piece of the history. Both historii reconstruction as much as modernized Martial Arts have own merits. Bruce Lee for example did massive work investigating what do and what doesn't work. Gaijin Goombah has really cool pop-series dealing with many myths about Ninjas, simply by comparing them with sources. With sometimes interesting results. Like for example Shinobi rarely did use swords, for legal reasons. Though those techniques were passed to Samurai, who in fact commonly have same masters. At the same time they were prolific users of the guns. Shinobi snipers were true silent death, Japanese Daimio could expect.
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