Skeptics, Martial Artists, Magicians, Oh My!
Welcome to another Bonus Episode of Hiyaa!! THE Martial Arts Podcast – The Amazing Meeting Show
Dave and Thais sit down to recap his experience presenting at TAM 2013 — Fighting the Fakers.
So if you are into skepticism or just want to hear what happened in Vegas, here you go!
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Featured Guest
Thais Jones
Show Notes
Links to more information about some of the things we mention during the show. BTW…Blue = Video! 🙂
In the Opening
- Welcome back Thaïs Jones
In the Discussion
People
- Evan Bernstein
- John Rennie
- Jennifer Ouellette
- Brent Weedman
- Sifu Z
- James Randi
- Benjamin Judkins episode
- George Dillman
- Reed Kuhn
Topics and Things
In the Closing
- And as usual…Hit us up, Rate and Review, Like us and Love us, Communicate with us!
In regards to martial arts fallacies, a common “No True Scot” frequently occurs when you hear MMA enthusiasts claim that a traditional martial art is useless in MMA. When provided an example a traditional martial artist winning in MMA they deny that it is an example because it doesn’t fit their definition of the traditional martial art. Eg. “Karate doesn’t work”, Karate practitioner Machida wins in MMA, “but he won using MMA techniques and didn’t actually do karate” (expecting him to fight in rigid horse stances and crane kick and karate chop the entire fight)
here is an example of Joe Rogan committing the fallacy with regards to wing chun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9L5vr3HKdE
Although I completely agree, and actually talk about that particular Rogan comment frequently, I have a feeling Dave may feel differently. Let’s wait and see. 🙂
Nope, I agree with the sentiment completely. I actually had that general concept in the talk (although I can’t remember if I mentioned it on the episode) but I placed it in the “3 Cautions” section under the “That shit won’t work in the ring” false dilemma. An excellent ring technique may be lousy in an ambush (example: pulling guard)and vice-versa. The idea some people have that if it doesn’t work in the ring it’s worthless is the false dilemma.
Thanks for the comment, Edward!