the marines hate on asian culture and martial arts, yet they practice karate?
shareActually I find it rather doubtful that an American karate fighter could have been better than the Japanese master from the first movie and Ip Man wiped the floor with that guy.
shareYeah, in movies. This is what bothered me for so long. Kungfu movies always, ALWAYS depict American or British as super duper mega powerful whether they use boxing or karate or anything. While just minutes before the masters beat other highly advanced kungfu fighters.
Some movies even went so far showing flying kungfu and energy blasts that break rocks and walls, jumping miles from earth, but then overwhelmed by simple American boxer. I was like wtf? Why do they do this silly thing?
In real life, all martial arts depend tremendously on size. Larger size is generally superior. There's no denying this. That's why there're weight classes in everything from karate to boxing to MMA.
So eventhough Ip Man could beat a Japanese karate master, a big more muscular American karateka (and a military guy nonetheless) would be pretty much impossible to defeat. Even in this very movie, Ip Man only winning after he attacked untrainable body parts like eyes and groin. His signature hundred lightning fast punches did nothing actually.
There is a Chinese MMA fighter in China who made controversy because he destroyed all Chinese kungfu so called grandmasters that accepted his challenge. And he's not even a world class MMA fighter. Kungfu or any martial arts worth nothing when you're smaller or older.
It’s always been that way with certain westerners.
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