Top Notch Jujutsu, Starring Shinya Aoki

[vrax]

This is Shinya Aoki. He's in the top 5 at submission Jujutsu in the world. Here is a highlight reel. Skip to 1:51 for the action, which as a strange and special bonus is set to Portishead.

OH! Right, fair warning, there is a technically beautiful, but visually disturbing elbow break at about 5:05. If that will squick you, skip it.

Comments

my impressions

[desayuno_ingles]

1) It must be amazing to be so focused on something, I just imagine those guys virtually hear nothing but each others' breathing in those few minutes they are scrapping.

2) I can see why an manly homo would love this shit. Abso-frikkin'-lutely!

3) I almost missed the elbow break. And then watched it like, five times again. That stuff happens so fast! Every time you warn us, you almost don't need to.

Re: my impressions

[vrax]

I only warn out of love. Also? Even though I am Bi and have a crush on a couple fighters, when they're in action I am just watching and appreciating the technique. There is no sexual element to the fighting at all.

Re: my impressions

[desayuno_ingles]

Oh yeah, I know that. But then, sometimes, you also get to imagine yourself all jammed up in so-and-so's crotch!

Right, and my other thought was that I could probably watch this kind of thing b/c there's no real bashing each other around. I think the athleticism is really cool, but the pounding a blood turn me off of boxing.

Re: my impressions

[vrax]

To be fair one of last Saturday's fights was a total bloodbath. They're rare, but they do happen. And small cuts happen a lot.

It depends on who you're watching and how their style matches with that of the opponent. If you have two kickboxers fighting it's a lot more likely that you'll see blood than if two grapplers are going at it.

But, see the whole crotch jamming thing, within this context i'd just be thinking about ways to choke or secure a better position. Lame and unimaginative as that may be.

huhu hu...you said, "going at it"!

[desayuno_ingles]

Well, it's not the blood, per se, that bothers me. I'll watch surgery shows before my boyfriend will, but the...hm...ok, it's the bludgeoning I'm not interested in, more the puzzle of the grappling. I'd rather watch wrestling that kickboxing, any day.

[vrax]

Then these things are just not for you, there a total mix of boxing, kickboxing and grappling. There is a goodly amount of bludgeoning.

[desayuno_ingles]

Oh! I see. Ah, well. Someday I will come across a sport I'll be interested in. *grin*

[vrax]

Then these things are just not for you, there's a total mix of boxing, kickboxing and grappling. There is a goodly amount of bludgeoning.