Real Lin Kuei combat techniques are up there with top MMA fighting!

[Ogata]

cool, you should buy ashida kim's books next and see what real ninjitsu was like.

Ashida kim is a fake, a phony. Most ninjas in real life were spies and acrobatic explorers. The Lin kuei warriors were the real deal!

 

[rob mafia]

Ashida kim is a fake, a phony. Most ninjas in real life were spies and acrobatic explorers. The Lin kuei warriors were the real deal!

pssh, grandmaster kim is universe-renowned and had the balls to offer a $20K challenge to swindle any fool impudent enough to be quickly parted with money.

 

[capnlarge]

I feel like if your ground game is based on kung Fu, you're off to a bad start

 

[ralek4grammy]

...and acrobatic explorers.

Ah, the streetz were never safe due to those pesky parkour kids!!

 

[Ogata]

Ed Boon borrowed many ideas from 80's movies as well:

Shang Tsung from MK1:

Big Trouble in Little China's main villain:

MK1's Raiden:

Big Trouble In Little China's villain:

Big Trouble In Little China's Jack Burton:

MK1's Kano:

What is the first image?

I ask because it's not showing up. The link is broken.

 

[Kono dio da!]

Ed Boon borrowed many ideas from 80's movies as well:

Shang Tsung from MK1:

Big Trouble in Little China's main villain:

MK1's Raiden:

Big Trouble In Little China's villain:

Big Trouble In Little China's Jack Burton:

MK1's Kano:

Yeah man. Saw that on TV tropes. Mind blowing. Big trouble in little China is on my watchlist came out a while before I was born so, it wasn't considered "prescribed" reading, growing up. But after finding about lo pan being shang tsung and shit, I decided that I needed to watch it. Ed boon is a G. Too bad he had to put the joker and terminator in mk11.

 

[Kono dio da!]

Mma is low level of martial arts

I’ll be impressed when I see something like this:

Pettis was close.
I'm not holding my breath until someone does johnny cage's flip kick though.

 

[Kono dio da!]

What is the first image?

I ask because it's not showing up. The link is broken.

Same

 

[Kono dio da!]

Shirai Ryu >>>>>>>

Lin kuei exterminated them.

 

[noc]

At least not as depicted in popular culture.

They didn't exist at all. The Shinobi word refered to some espionage tactics known for everybody, not for secret Martial Artist clans that were used in different type of mission. That was invented for some guy in Japan

 

[spinup]

The last and final grandmaster of the Lin Kuei died in the 70s

I heard the man who defeated him is now the last grandmaster.

 

[MMAart]

What is the first image?

I ask because it's not showing up. The link is broken.

I just fixed the link. It's the picture of MK1 Shang Tsung.

 

[MMAart]

Yeah man. Saw that on TV tropes. Mind blowing. Big trouble in little China is on my watchlist came out a while before I was born so, it wasn't considered "prescribed" reading, growing up. But after finding about lo pan being shang tsung and shit, I decided that I needed to watch it. Ed boon is a G. Too bad he had to put the joker and terminator in mk11.

I agree with you. Ed Boon was great with MK1, but his recent works are mostly money grabs. Doesn't feel like the original MK at all, which was very creative and one of a kind.

In my opinion, they should have do a MK1 remake with MK11 technology, and stay with the realistic graphics instead of the shiny, colorful, but cartooney art.

 

[LiQuiD42]

Ed Boon borrowed many ideas from 80's movies as well:

Shang Tsung from MK1:

Big Trouble in Little China's main villain:

MK1's Raiden:

Big Trouble In Little China's villain:

Big Trouble In Little China's Jack Burton:

MK1's Kano:

Such a cult classic Big Trouble in Little China. Loved this movie as a child.

 

[Ogata]

Same

Link is fixed. It's good example.

I heard the man who defeated him is now the last grandmaster.

That's one way to disrespect the Lin kuei.

I just fixed the link. It's the picture of MK1 Shang Tsung.

Thanks man. Mk1 shang tsung is a very old looking guy. In the mk aftermath he looked vibrant as an old guy.

I wish we could see the grandmaster in a fight:

 

[Coolkid666]

Still waiting to see some Tekken moves inside the octagon. And yeah, it's possible, no ones good enough to do them though

 

[Billthebutcher]

ninjas have always been from japan. a famous assassination involved a ninja waiting, and hanging suspended above a cesspool in a famous lords toilet for a couple of days. when he was sure it was his target sitting on the throne, he used a spear from underneath, and killed the lord, then he dropped deep into the crap and waited there until the guards searched, gave up, and finally removed the body. then he escaped.

does that sound like an exciting job?

 

[kuroro]

Jeet Kune Do is greater than Lin Kuei...

It has a secret technique to turn into a dragon.

that's just an animality. all the top kombatants have those.

 

[kuroro]

I feel like if your ground game is based on kung Fu, you're off to a bad start

works for Weili Zhang

 

[kuroro]

ninjas have always been from japan. a famous assassination involved a ninja waiting, and hanging suspended above a cesspool in a famous lords toilet for a couple of days. when he was sure it was his target sitting on the throne, he used a spear from underneath, and killed the lord, then he dropped deep into the crap and waited there until the guards searched, gave up, and finally removed the body. then he escaped.

does that sound like an exciting job?

the way i was told this story, is he was waiting IN the toilet, and stabbed his butthole with a sword.