Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
The traditionalist was a Karate teacher who held some world record for board breaking, which he claimed came from his Chi power. They debunked that and explained the science behind board breaking and demonstrated how simple it was to do it. The MA skeptic had his wife break a board with the palm of her hand and Teller easily broke a board too. The Karate teacher also admitted that a lot of the techniques he teaches is "fantasy fighting" -- i.e. impractical for self defence, but he teaches them to build confidence. Penn and Teller said that this is dangerous bulldust, and I agree... because you're giving students false confidence. Yes, having confidence is really important and a good thing to teach... but you should teach it by actually making your students competent rather than letting them pretend that they can fight and letting them believe in a fantasy. Cos that fantasy belief can get them hurt or killed in a fight. As I've often said, in our training we should _always_ assume that our attacker(s) is/are stronger, faster and better than we are. It is pointless to assume anything else.
I never understood the whole breaking wood thing, I have never heard of a piece of wood attacking someone and what did the piece of wood ever do to anyone....

My brother taught the GKR form of karate and the way general get people in is cold canvas an any until they meet their quota, Its kind of like J.Ws of the martial arts....

With the whole Karate Kid issue, Could they not of used the same story but set it in Japan instead of china, that way there would be no confusion
in regards to the whole karate/kung fu issue...