Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Self Teaching Martial Arts, Is It Possible?" video.

  1. Due to growing up as a troubled youth, I can say without a doubt that you can most certainly learn to be a proficient fighter without being taught by others. Sorry Metatron, but after having seen so many blackbelt karate and muay thai practicioners getting beat up by typical "street brawlers", I fear that your personal fascination with formal martial arts clouds your sense of reality here. You've even hosted videos yourself or japanese sensei flat out acknowledging tha their modern day "martial arts" actually have most of their "martial" aspects taken out of it. It's turned into a formal way of preserving a cultural tradition. Meaning, it's not really much of a "martial art" anymore. In a real fight, there are no rules. In a dojo, there are several rules of how you are "allowed" to fight. The mindset and way of fighting you learn on the street is more practical in nature. I'm not saying people shouldn't practice formal martial arts. It's very good exercise and usually a very social activity, good at teaching manners and discipline. But it is in no way or form a way to produce the best fighters.
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  2. This. Unless you've been in a real right. No amount of time in the dojo will transform you into a good fighter.
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  3. Marxiavelli24: Brawlers win more fights than martial artists do. Also a brawler isn't necessarily a bad person. I'd rather have a brawler who also happens to be a good person covering my back, than a martial artist who only practiced theoretical fighting in a dojo.
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  4. Marxiavelli24: Boxers are actually very respectful in their own clubs. The thing about boxing is that much of it is about using psychological rage to build up force and power in your punches. So against actual opponents, they're not as respectful but instead psych eachother up.
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  5. Marxiavelli24: See there? Your master got his head smashed from behind with a glass bottle. That's the stuff brawlers learn (often painfully so). They don't teach you about getting clocked with a glass bottle in a dojo. They don't teach you about people jumping you from behind when you're not even aware of being in a fight. Now a brawler who takes up martial arts, stands a good chance of developing the knowledge from martial arts into practical usage. But if someone has never been in a fight before, a formal style of martial arts with formal rules and a formal setting isn't going to teach you being a practical fighter. The key to being a practical fighter is very nebulous. It's that undefinable trait or ability which only develops through real fighting. Being amped up and ready. Having the correct reflexes, like a veteran instinctively reaching for a gun and shoot back as soon as he hears a specific noise in the enviroment, or being watchful for details that no one with combat experience would even know to look for. Also, this nebulous quality somewhat contradicts the ideals of formal martial arts about living a peaceful and tranquil life, with "inner balance" and similar Buddhist-stuff. Maintaining this ability means being very on edge, and having a mindset that's anything but peaceful or tranquil. Just look at boxers that was previously mentioned. They gain a lot of their power through rage. And this isn't some myth, but there's been actual scientific tests where you could measure the amount of PSI a punch generated from a boxer when he punched being in a normal mindset compared to when he psyched himself up into a rage to the point where he generated enough force to crack a persons skull with a single punch. But ask any psychologist and they'll tell you why being so close to such rage is bad for your mental health (which also explains why so many heavy weight boxers end up in the news or in prison for having beaten some poor sap into a pulp) And unsurprisingly, most successful heavy weight boxers are also experienced brawlers from troubled youths.
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