Popped up in the recommendation in the latest UFC content and it got me wondering, back in the day, did Chinese martial arts ever prevail against Japanese Martial arts?
I mean, we have judo, jujitsu and karate in MMA and in abundance. But rarely do we see Chinese martial arts in MMA and even in china, there is an MMA fighter who claims he sucks at MMA and yet kicks every person who practices Tai Chi or any form of Chinese Martial Arts.
I find this video to be very disrespectful because Japanese people are great human beings with great martial arts style and they were demonized to shit and we were made to feel like their style is inferior because of nonsense like this:
EDIT:
Sorry I am not in a good state of mind right now. I had no idea to offend. I have deep respect for Japan and their culture which includes martial arts. I feel that they are vilified a bit much for the past mistakes of their ancestors.
That's like asking which is better Brazilian Jiujitsu or Jiujitsu?
BJJ is an evolution of Japanese jiujitsu.
From a practical MMA standpoint, in modern times jiujitsu is likely more effective than any Chinese martial arts today. But there was likely a time albeit centuries ago when it was not the case.
If you go back far enough, many if not all Asian cultures have influenced one another. More often than not - the culture that made the first discovery in a certain field or industry influenced their neighboring cultures. As a result, there are many examples of Chinese influence on Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean cultures.
For ex:
- If you look up the oldest Japanese sword (chokuto), you'll find they are similar to ancient Chinese swords. This is likely because China went through the bronze age earlier than Japan.
- If you look up Chinese grappling or Shuai Jiao, it's been traced back to the Zhou dynasty which was 1000B.C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuai_jiao
- If you look up the origin of ramen, you'll see a lot of references to "La Mian" or Chinese hand-pulled noodles.
- Japanese Kanji writing system uses a lot of Chinese characters and literally means "Han writing".
Try not to dwell on the way a movie makes you feel. That movie was created by people who had relatives who experienced the Japanese occupation of China. It's only natural they will let their resentment show in their movie. It's not directed at you.