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Regarding the two chin-up devices, do you have practical experience with them? Especially the second one looks like it might damage the door.

Nothing in particular. Maintaining basic physical fitness. I'm more looking for motoric challenges. Sort of like juggling, but with more muscle activation.

I know, classical weight training is the best method if you want to get as big or strong as possible, but that's not the point of this thread. Topic: I can only think of the handstand and pistol squats. Muscle-ups too, but who has the equipment for that?

I'm looking for training devices that would come in handy if you can't go to a gym and you don't have an entire spare room to set one up at home. - Two-part dip bars (1) - Elastic bands - Grip trainers (2) A chin-up bar would be great, but it might not be possible to install one and a...

https://www.youtube.com/user/scholagladiatoria I'll just leave this here.

I've been interested in it for a long time, but I never got around to study much of it. Remarks: - I like to read about people, society and politics, but something about arts would be nice too. - I would prefer something that's not awfully long. - I mean recognized philosophers, not...

Where did you grow up? Belfast, Stockton or Mogadishu? BTW has anyone ever found out the story behind the tactical segway?

You get into street fights with weapons regularly?

^ I seriously just realized you meant knuckle dusters. But I'm not sure it's a great idea to "ditch them before the cops arrive", because the marks on the victim will be obvious and in 90% of self-defense situations, there will be at least one person able to identify you as the attacker...

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Even if you use an actual walking stick, how are you going to explain to the judge why you were carrying one anyway? Assuming you're not an old man.

Nobody claims that synchronized swimming and water polo are great spectator sports. People in here are delusional enough to think KD-Karate is a better spectator sport than boxing, when top level boxing draws millions and top level KD-Karate draws... a few hundred? The International...

I'm going to try a different approach to explaining my point: Take the last world cup in Kudo or any other style of knockdown Karate. How many people have watched it?

I think I saw that in a YT video some time ago. From what I understand, it's basically a regular (black) baseball bat, except if you use it to defend yourself, it will look 100x more dubious in court, because it's from a weapon company. Semi-related, here's how I imagine the average tactical...

This is repeating the same mistakes made in all the other sportified TMAs: 1) Thinking the casuals want to see a lot of high kicks Yes, the casuals will cheer a high kick in MMA or KB, but a lot of its appeal is in its scarcity, not in the fact that it was done with the leg. If you take...

I'm quite well versed in martial arts and the only thing I got in this fight is that you get a point for shooting a takedown and playing bongo on your opponent's helmet.

Seriously? http://www.ku-do.com/eng/kudo/rule/rulebook.html

The general problem with martial arts as competition sports are the complicated, non-intuitive rules and scoring systems, which were designed to force the athletes to use more spectacular techniques. This is done in an attempt to attract a casual audience, but it actually ends up confusing...

I, for one, welcome our new nerd overlords.

Of course my scale is very simple. To clarify a few details on how I scored: Popular: How many people do or watch the sport? Spectator-friendly: Is it easy to follow the action on screen? With that system, I considered Karate to be neither popular nor spectator-friendly. You can...