Category Archives: Fighting styles

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Next week begins the regular training season so I’ll wrap this series up with one of the most classic fighting styles. The Mullet Man himself:

If you don’t know who this is then shame on you.

It is none other than Angus MacGyver. The man famous for this:

He is a pacifist with a huge dislike on guns and fighting. Even tough he ends up doing the latter quite a bit.

So the stylistics. To fight like MacGyver you always need to follow through with your punches:

For some reason that was even better in german…

Sometimes he even ended up fighting with wildlife:

Geez he keeps taking hits like John McClane, but he will not hit a woman:

No. Instead he will let them jump out of the window. Always a gentleman, letting the ladies go first.

And for the finale, his most famous,  the double handed jumping  tornado punch:

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Oh yes, you knew this was coming. You can only blame yourself if you did not know JCVD would be featured here. You may question his acting abilities, but never his actual fighting skills. Let’s have a look:

Oh, wait. That’s the wrong gif…

What, what?

Oh I give up. Let’s just have a look at what he really is famous for:

Seriously, who the heck can bend their legs like that?!?! Not for us old geezer jiujitsu guys that shit…

Jokes aside JCVD had kicking stylistics second to none:

And then the famous jumping roundhouse:

Pure poultry in motion. No wait, poetry in motion.

What the hell? Seriously man, What. The. Frigging. Hell?

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How can you write anything about classic fighting styles and not include Steven Seagal? Known for his genius acting:

Lets start off with some body control tips from Steve:

Oh yeah, smooth…

But seriously some old school stuff:

Now onto the stylistics. Where others want to kick your ass, Steve is out to break it.

I mean he’s seriously out to break it:

The man was even immortalized by MadTV:

But seriously the man was good once.

Summer’s here, so classic fighting styles

So, summer is upon us. Our gym is closed at the moment for small renovations, so for the summer I’ll be posting some lighter side stuff (since I don’t get to go failing as often…). So here goes.

The supreme fighting stylistics of:

First some statistics:

Then on to the moves:

And sometimes you need to use a blunt object:

The prop department had fun. And then for the grand finale, which gives this post the”Wall Related” tag. I said I need to start learning techniques that utilize the help of a wall: Captain Kirk and The Wall of Destruction!