Monday, March 24, 2014

Martial Arts in Movies

Hello good people and welcome to another edition of HypefroActive. Today i wont be talking about animations like my other two previous posts. Instead, i'll be talking about something else. Martial Arts movies baby! Yeah, especially the early Asian ones were you have the lips saying something entirely different and the words coming out there mouth are entirely different as well. Now, a good number of us watch martial arts films, you know the ones with the fast kicks, multiple punches and fancy poses with super surround sounds hyping the effects of their blows coming out like "gbish gbish gbish" and having people fly around everywhere either to attack, from the effect of an attack or simply getting away from one.

Well to make matters worse, some others like the "Ninja" types, yeah the guys with bandaged or masked faces! They not only use sword like crazy but can also cut in between depths of a leaf or divide a thread along its length. Some wicked precision if you ask me. Yeah, they sure messed everything up getting ninjas to have that much crazy feat which brings me to the anime "Naruto", but that will be coming up next.

Now, so the japs have got ninjas disappearing with tiny smoke bombs that they drop and lightly explodes and they make a get away or distraction. Nice, but this same Ninjas carry these smoke bombs all the time while they fight, somersault and fall but it never goes off. Funny thing ain't it. Well the thing about them i like the most is they don't do those chinese sounds when fighting. But these guys will cut through anything and i mean anything. And they've got other abilities as well, they disappear. You think it's a myth? well why don't you get on the wrong side of the Yakuzas and find out.

Next on the list is the Samurai and yeah they are again Japanese. The Japs are good at traditional Combat involving weapons, really good. Now in as much as i don't like the samurai "entertainment wise", I think they are the most effective in broad day light combat involving blades or at least they appear to look like it. Dressed in traditional Japanese robes and what will appear to look like a wrapper on first site to an african or what Nigerians will call "shokoto labulabu" meaning very big shorts or overblown shorts, these Asian warriors will cut clean anything with their powerful blades. With a habit of always been on stance, most of which is the front leg, with two hands tightly holding their sword which accounts for the strength in their blows whenever they strike. These guys dont talk while fighting and are very forceful even in speech which kinds of make me wonder if they are like that when the lights go off. That would be very unromantic, matter of fact, that would be the height. Check this, its night and this girl and samo hook up with stuffs unbuttoning themselves and you hear, in a very strong, forceful and harsh voice saying something like "c'mon do it". Aarrggrrr! that's the turn off right there. Crazy ain't it? Well, I'm very sure that's NOT how it is when the lights go off.

Now my favourites are the Chinese. Gosh, i love everything about the Chinese, from the mythical films with the forbidden cities, gates and techniques to their Shaolin Kung Fu with thirty six chambers, to their tiger, monkey, mantis, crane etc. Guys! it don't get better than this. This guys basically study animals and they try incorporating their instincts in a fight making it a fighting style. Funny right! Yeah i thought so too but you know what? It works. And it's called Kung fu. A lot goes into all these arts but trying to keep it simple i wont be talking about its complexities, dark sides or advanced stages. Just simple stuffs we see everyday, some of these we still find hard to believe.
There are lots of variants to Kung fu, and they claim to every School, it's fighting style. Some based on the Eagle or Tiger Claw where they train their hands into been as tough as Iron, like "The Iron fist". The thing about this guys that i like most and hate as well is the shouts. Gosh, these guys shout at everything from fighting to taking a leak. More flexible than Spidey and super fast like they are in two places at once, this little men will mesmerise you, toying with you making you do all the work while they use your force against you. Their fight style is fluid and thus has flow like a dance or they are entertaining. every move always ending up in a loop unlike the Traditional Samurai or Ninja Arts.

At this point it's important to note that this guys actually exists, they are real and they can hurt you real bad. So how applicable is what they do to real life? Very applicable thank you very much. Well except for some types of Jet Lee kicks, where he hangs slantly in mid air say about thirty degrees  to the horizontal delivering over ten kicks again in motion maintaining the distance between him and his opponent. others are where these guys jump unto a roof like over three meters high uuuumm, naaaahhhhh, that aint happening in real life otherwise they'ld be winning the Olympics for jumps and even basket ball.

In all, I'd advice you pick up an Art and learn. Not just for self defense reasons as most guys would claim is their reason but will also boost your confidence and drive, there are lots of exercises to keep that big tummy trimmed and joints oily. There are so many benefits asides knowing what's applicable in real life and what's not. And yeah, health benefits as well.

 Yeah and You could check out This animation by clicking the link below

http://youtu.be/sBAKHD4ZKC0


 Cheers.




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