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I do the 'ol hadouken myself, but thats just my preference.
Men have natural warrior instincts but modern day living provides no real world outlets for them to release their energy. They have to pay fees to join gyms. Or join military or law enforcement or ICE.
Throw in the occasional kamehameha while you're at it.
What if you practiced those enough that one day you actually fired one off?
I swear I read something like this once at WikiHow when I was younger and I kept the entire month "I WILL learn it! I WILL get cool powers!"
Eventually I forgot about this.
Also pretending to use the force on automatic doors.
The instinct to want to fight a bear never leaves. Only the bear does.
Ummm...akshually, there is only one jab in that diagram.
(Now I have today's reason to hate myself.)
Umm, akshually, he's saying "ous ous ous" just on the first jab, then is dead silent for the other 3 moves.
Sorry, I just assumed a more traditional "Mac" technique.
No, don’t hate yourself, you are doing god’s work. I explicitly came here to say that this us jab-cross-upper-hook, which is an acceptable thing to say in stead of oss oss oss oss.
In martial arts you're taught to vocalize as you hit, it makes you hit harder
It's the same principle behind the dad sounds when you get up or sit down. Adding vocalization gives better control over the muscles.
Yeah, to those that don't know, 'Ous' or 'Osu' is a pretty common exclamation/vocalization in Karate (and likely other Japanese martial arts), that serves this function, or also just generally is used to indicate ethusiastic compliance with a command.
The concept itself is 'Kiai' (key-eye):
https://karateexplained.com/vault/kiai-in-karate/
Roughly, it translates to something like 'Spirit Shout' or more literally 'Spirit Unification'.
To try to de-woo or de-mystify it a bit... it makes you more aware of your own breathing, it forces a repeated pattern of usage of your core muscles when executing a strike.
The core muscles... that in particular is very important.
An attack does not simply come from or involve only your arm or leg.
It is an entire kinetic and kinematic manuever that involves every part of your body; every muscle group, every joint, contributes at least something to the strike, or even block or dodge or feint.
In my training, there was an incredible amount of emphasis on using your hips, your waist, to act as ... basically the origin point of a crack of a whip, where the particular hand or foot doing the attack is the tip of the whip... your entire body is the whip, despite the seeming external simplicity of many basic attacks and blocks.
Is "ous" applicable if end up subbing at an orgy in japan then??
... probably not, no.
Ous/Osu is ... generally seen as a kind of brutish/meathead/dudebro/gymrat kind of word, by many Japanese who are not martial artists.
Its... not like everyone in Japan is a martial artist.
Ous/Osu is a word that, to myknowledge, is only really used seriously by martial artists, most others would only use it ironically, to pantomime being a big strong fighter person.
If you were just in an orgy in Japan, using ous or osu would be something like you performatively acting like a chud, something like that, kind of.
That's my personal take on it, anyway, here is another:
https://www.adamcarter.us/respecting-cultural-context-osu-it-isnt-always-appropriate/
The increasing use of the word ‘Osu’ (or ‘Oss’, or a million other incarnations) has become strangely common. It’s often used as a catch-all greeting or acknowledgment. However, this broad usage overlooks important cultural and historical nuances.
Many people misunderstand it and use it as a universal Japanese greeting, but its origins tell a more specific story. The term is not rooted in Okinawan culture – the birthplace of many traditional karate systems – but rather in mainland Japan. It originated in military and sports contexts.
In Okinawa, however, the term is often considered militaristic, reflecting the influence of Japan’s early 20th-century militarization.
To many Okinawans, the term can carry connotations of dominance and rigid hierarchy that feel out of step with their values and traditions. While they may not openly express discomfort (out of politeness), using the term in an Okinawan dojo or when addressing an Okinawan instructor can be seen as disrespectful.
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Outside of your dojo, its use can sound casual and with a very masculine tone, which may not be respectful in certain situations. Its history with militaristic contexts can sometimes make it feel out of place or unintentionally exclusive.
Hell yeah, thanks. I love languages and you got my gears turning is all
You're allowed to put more than one sentence in a paragraph, encouraged even, especially when those sentences are all very directly related.
I write on mobile, its formatted fine for mobile.
I read on mobile. I didn't say it wasn't fine, it's definitely fine, I said it could be different. And in my opinion, that difference would make it slightly better. It just reads kinda stilted and disjointed to me, like separate unrelated thoughts, when it's actually just one point being made.
In karate when I was a kid, we learned to say "pay", though I doubt that is how it was spelt.
I (and my fellows) were taught to start with just either 'osu' or literally verbalizing the kiai as 'ki-ai', but were also told that many different sounds can work, do what works for you after you get the basic concept down.
Some stuck with osu/ous or kiai, others ended up with something like hai or sai or ee-sah or 'tsah or 'tsuh or 'tsuu...
Many possible variants... i remeber hearing 'go with your gut', entirely unironically.
EDIT: Now that I think about it more, if you kept track of who was making what kind of kiai sound at a tournament, you could probably be reasonably confident as to which dojo they were from, at least at beginner to intermediate levels, hah!
Oh yeah, I’d guess the vocalization was very kwanjangnim dependent lol
... Kwan Jang Nim?
You learned... Soo Bahk Do? or Moo Duk Kwan?
I've never even heard of that.
... its... kind of sort of related to Tae Kwon Do, but also has influence from Shotokan Karate and... Taekkyeon?
Oh lordy, the 'family tree' of martial arts just never gets any simpler...
I learned Shito-Ryu... which as far as I can tell, has no Korean influence, but eventually everything goes back to Okinawan Te and Chinese Kung Fu, in some manner or another...
I wonder if we have in common any Katas.
Seienchin, perhaps?
To be honest, it was a local neighborhood place run by a white guy, ostensibly Tae Kwon Do, and we called the main teacher kwanjangnim Joe (though we pronounced it "kwah-ja-nim")
I've heard the same thing about playing volleyball.
and tennis
It really does and is supported by science!
It helps by tensing up the core muscles and also helps with timing movements by having things come together on the exhale.
I don't know about that. But once, with a few buddies, we tried to push start a car and it only worked when we started yelling.
Probably your sick martial arts skills tbh
Yelling (and being around other yelling people) would dump more adrenaline into your bodies and effectively give you all a potentially significant short term strength boost.
War cries are a thing for actual reasons beyond intimidation, lol.
I mean kind of, it's mostly that your diaphragm releasing adds a sort of "push" to your blood.
Like, if you're stretching and you wanna stretch a little further you breathe out. I'm a little fuzzy on the biology of it all but it has something to do with that
I think we are basically both right.
Doing outwardly aggressive things like yelling and screaming does release adrenaline, and that will basically give you increased pain resistance, strength, better/faster reflexes.
It also raises your heart rate and thus increases blood flow and oxygenation levels.
I don't know that moving your diaphragm substantially would... directly somehow move your blood more or faster, but it would trigger a bunch of other hormonal reinforcing loops that would lead to your heart pumping faster/harder, i think, if you're substantially flexing it in a way that you typically do not.
I wonder if it's the same thing in tennis?
Bottom two are usually swapped, left right left right is a lot more pleasing than left right right left
You reminded me of:
- The Konami code
- BADLADCRUD
on the other hand, they don't expect the left right right left
Don't forget my cheap imitation of Mike Tyson's evasion skills!
Im untouchable!
That's ridiculous...
I'm humming Eye of the Tiger.
Now do the stair climbing scene! >:D
Woosh shwi shwi! Shwi shwi shwi shwi
I don't do that but I do sometimes dance to my own beatbox when I'm home alone.
In my case, it’s randomly doing a cross over and a jumpshot with an invisible basketball.