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Wushu Watch: The Noble Art of the Drop Kick
The drop kick has been a staple of professional wrestling for years but this week remarkable footage came out of a real world drop kick breaking up a fight. We examine the two footed drop kick and it's applicability as a body-guarding technique.
Wushu Watch: Neckbeards and Nunchucks
We examine the fascination with archaic weaponry: from the desire to tie everything up with nunchucks, to the practice of anime swordsmanship.
Wushu Watch: Advanced Ways to Get Stabbed to Death
Thousands of martial arts schools promise "self defense" and then delve into the art of disarming a knife wielding attacker. We look at some high level, and extremely stupid, ways to wrestle a knife from your attacker's clutches.
Wushu Watch: How I Learned to Fight Twenty Men
The idea of fighting multiple attackers has been something of a fetish in the martial arts world for decades. We take a look at some of the most woeful answers to encirclement.
Wushu Watch: Why Aren't People Getting Thrown Around By The Wrist in MMA?
Kotegaeshi is one of the staple throws of Aikido and the wrist attack appears in traditional martial arts systems around the globe. While many consider it worthless, we examine the principles and feasibility of the technique in mixed martial arts.
Wushu Watch: Ki, Chi and Everything Between
Every martial art claims to use the opponent's energy against him. We examine the real world examples of this against the flim flam demonstrations of Aikido and Systema.
Wushu Watch: A Concession to the Men In Black Pajamas
There are a great many reasons to laugh at pressure point fighting systems, but not all of the arguments put forth by believers are completely absurd. We take a look at what professional fighters can learn from pressure point nonsense.
Wushu Watch: Disarming an Unresisting Gunman
From their beginning martial arts have been concerned with defending against armed attackers. Thousands of years of training and experimenting later, the solutions are just as laughably outlandish.
Wushu Watch: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Wing Chun
While Brazilian jiu jitsu and wrestling dominated the early no-holds-barred events, one man was working to bring honor back to the school of Wing Chun. We look at the anti-grappling fighting system that man developed.
Wushu Watch: Five-on-Five MMA and the Yamma Pit
There have been a hundred gimmick attempts to make MMA better and a grand total of zero have worked out. We take a look at some of the dumbest ways promoters tried to fix what wasn't broken.
Wushu Watch: Lessons to Learn from Aikido
Aikido is the punchline of every joke in MMA but maybe there's something more to it. We examine the flaws and principles of the Japanese martial art.
Wushu Watch: Snakes in the Grass, Hypocritical Dating, and Anti-Grappling Techniques
A week without fights brings out the worst in the MMA community. We discuss T.J. Dillashaw's defection, Ronda Rousey's love life, and why you shouldn't even care.