#kumite

[grimgroaningghost]

ok wait Bat Child has to be a Gangrel, right? with the animal-like stuff and the connection with her kumite master, Bigfoot?

[nivialku7]

As someone who fell into a martial arts rabbit hole right before City Council of darkness started I have no end to my suffering every time someone talks about learning “the art of kumite”

I know it’s a joke, it’s a funny one at that, but for the love of Frank Dux, the Dim Mak was right there! The one punch kill has a long and cherish history of frauds! The kumite was a made up event created by Frank Dux alongside a million other lies except that one made blood sport, Mortal Kombat, MMA and Baki happen!

It’s like if someone in a show about baseball was a master of “the art of World Series” and it brings me unlimited suffering

[poteatthegeek]

next dropout merch: a shirt that just states:

bigfoot is real and he invented kumite

[gentlemensarts]

[tonygregori]

Stone Pitbull Tomohiro Ishii vs Speedball Mike Bailey @ the Kumite commission

[onchillvybz]

The Killer Kung-Fu Wolf Bitch

The Boondocks, S2E6

[theanticool]

The 1st Women's World Karate Championships (Kyokushinkai IKO - 1996)

Today's deep dive for women's combat sports is a throwback to 1996 and the first ever Kyokushinkai IKO women's world championships. A quick explainer because this is confusing. If you follow any combat sports at the amateur level, you know there are different sanctioning bodies for the same sports (Kickboxing has the ISKA, WAKO, WKO, etc). Well, Kyokushin Karate is no different. After it's founder (Mas Oyama) died, there were a ton of schisms and a bunch of folks created their own orgs. The most successful of which (I believe anyway) is the IKO which was founded almost immediately after Oyama died.

In 1996 the org held it's first ever women's championships in NYC.

[starsilversword]

Oh gods, tournament in 2 weeks. So nervous. Just, keep practicing. Keep fighting. Get a mouthguard.