• Guidy@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    We need a new Judo craze in America.

    What happens when you do Judo?

    You become confident, and typically very humble. You also get fit AF.

    What happens to guys who are confident, humble, and fit AF? They are viewed positively by women.

    It’s hard work but very fun. You do need decent health insurance though because it’s easy to get injured. The younger you are when you begin, the easier it is.

    You can do BJJ instead but that’s way more expensive and not always so humble.

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      4 days ago

      I took kung fu as a teen and I remember my teachers telling me a story about how the grandmaster essentially beat up a homeless person for asking for money.

      I think they were trying to communicate how badass the grandmaster was but it just made him seem like a dick.

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      Oh yeah confidence by physical appearance, the best kind of confidence… Let’s hook up him in modern society, maybe we should teach him that there exist plastic surgery too…

      Confidence and being humble starts when you accept yourself aa you are and you value that. The hyper fixation of the current state of society of creating gym bros is the opposite.

      The only thing about judo is the Zen part, that most of the centers don’t teach. Because they are hyper fixated on creating gym bros.

      Someone that bases his confidences on what he does is not confidence. Confidence is a self appreciation and it does not depend on what you do.

      Society is fucked up if the tip for helping young boy to be confident is to send them all to do martial arts. And I’m especially talking about western martial arts that deviate so much from the original meaning that they have in China or Japan.

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        2 days ago

        Tell me you’ve never been to a judo class without telling me you’ve never been to a judo class.

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          I’ve been to judo class. All we did was cardio to the limit most of the time and 10 min of practicing movements. It looked like we were training for an ironman.

          Maybe your place is different. My experience is that most martial arts train for self defense and not for self body control.

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      3 days ago

      Lol, there’s already an obsession with martial arts in America. I don’t think having more people with Joe Rogan brain running around is going to help anyone.

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          And I imagine Joe Rogan didn’t start his career by immediately getting ripped and doing steroids.

          I just don’t really think something as simple as taking judo classes is really going to do much to tackle a problem that likely started at the socioeconomic scale.

          A large part of conservative propaganda is telling individuals that cleaning their room or working out will solve their problems. When in reality the problems are much more complex and likely systemic in nature.

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            I just don’t really think something as simple as taking judo classes is really going to do much to tackle a problem that likely started at the socioeconomic scale.

            I think a role model of positive masculinity is a good place to start.

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              think a role model of positive masculinity is a good place to start.

              Right, but what about being a judo instructor makes you automatically a positive masculine role model? Steven Seagal instructs aikido an even less aggressive martial arts and he’s a giant piece of shit.

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                Nothing automatically makes someone a good role model obviously, but going through a program like Judo teaches you a lot of things like being humble.

                I’d actually contrast that to supposedly softer martial arts like aikido where you don’t actually train with resistance and therefore don’t get that humbling effect that I was talking about.

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                  I think you can experience some humbling events, but teaching people to be humble isn’t exactly the goal of any of the martial arts. Lots of people just end up learning how to be more effective at violence. I used to do some amateur boxing, and I wouldn’t really claim a lot of the guys I boxed with to be especially humble. Lots of contact sports has a lot of ego involved in it.

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      3 days ago

      We need a new globbin craze in America!

      (I’m not saying this at all because I am the head of my local globblenoobin or because I’m a globbin enthusiast that thinks the solution to everything is everyone should be globbin like me.)

      What happens when you do globbin?

      You become confident, wise, and typically very humble. Some would say you become among the most humble people you could ever find. You also become lit AF.

      What happens to guys who are confident, wise, and lit AF? They are viewed positively by women.

      It’s very hard work but very fun. All you require is fifty thousand kopecks and a note from your local beetlebobbin. The younger you start your globbin journey the better, because it’s easier to become the head of a local globblenoobin if you start early!

      You can always do glubinobin instead, but it’ll never be as good as the most highest esteemed globbin!!!

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      4 days ago

      What happens when you do Judo?

      You get brain damage from getting kicked in the head all day and then you become more misogynistic, more violent and generally more right wing as a result. Unless you know of a way to pit these golems against incels and get rid of the problem that way I’m pretty sure we are going to need a more general and far reaching approach than Judo.