Timeline for How would martial arts specialize to take advantage of human sexuality-based musculoskeletal differences, especially in women?
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| Dec 26, 2017 at 20:58 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @Mithrandir24601 Edited the text in, thanks to the Wayback machine! | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 20:58 | history | edited | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2017 at 20:23 | comment | added | Mithrandir24601 | It appears that the razordynamics link no longer works (for me at least) | |
| Dec 20, 2015 at 3:43 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | I know, from my personal anecdote (sample size N=1), I have more "upper body strength" than my wife, as in I can do a pull up and she can't. But she can punch harder than I can because part of her fitness routine is kickboxing. | |
| Dec 20, 2015 at 3:32 | comment | added | Dan Smolinske | @EdPlunkett - not sure where that came from, that's quite the typo. I meant a "fast, hard punch". Also, I'm curious to know if that three standards of deviation is for the full population, and if so what the deviation is when you correct for exercise/physical activity. | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 20:05 | comment | added | Ed Plunkett | @CortAmmon Yes, I would certainly expect martial arts to help all competitors be as effective as possible. | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 20:02 | comment | added | Ed Plunkett | @DanSmolinske You almost had me going there. | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 6:20 | comment | added | Dan Smolinske | @EdPlunkett: how is upper body strength being measured there? Punch force isn't going to correlate directly to say, how much you can bench. I mean I'm sure they are related, but a slow lift isn't the same as a fast, hard but. | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 3:20 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | ... maximizes the capabilities of m(F), once you learn the martial art, it lets you use your body to its fullest extent. When phrased that way, it should be no surprise that martial arts for a woman is remarkably similar to martial arts for a man, because of just how much is similar. Yes, there's differences, but we're not trying to accentuate those difference artificially, we're simply trying to make someone be all they can be. | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 3:18 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @EdPlunkett I think the difference is martial arts is about the journey. If I may use a quasi-mathematical notation, let me use m() to be a function you can apply to a person to teach them martial arts (I use this notation because I admit I'm having trouble wording things, so I'm falling back to mathematics). Let's create two people, M, and F, one male one female. the quality of a martial art m() for a woman is based on how good m(F) is, not how good m(M) is. It wouldn't matter if a male got an extra 20% more out of the art than a female could. What will matter is that it... | |
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| Dec 19, 2015 at 3:08 | comment | added | Ed Plunkett | My opinions about martial arts techniques would be worthless if I were foolish enough to have any. It's not my field. I only took issue with your claim that the differences in strength (leaving out speed, size, and aggression) aren't substantial. | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 2:54 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @EdPlunkett It's not that unusual. Consider lists like razordynamics.com/2014/04/29/… . If the strength differences were such a major deciding factor in how you structure a martial art, why are none of the recommended martial arts uniquely constructed to a woman's body? Why are they all just general purpose H. sapiens martial arts which happen to focus on technique (mind) over power (muscle)? | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 2:34 | comment | added | Ed Plunkett | The difference in upper body strength is about three standard deviations. Few men are as weak as the strongest women (not counting steroids). That isn't changed by a general ordering the Ranger school to bend the rules to graduate women. This is why rape is a problem: the number of adult women who can physically dominate a normal adult man rounds to zero. The psychological differences are considerable as well, and independent of culture. None of this is remotely controversial among scientists who actually measure things instead of watching movies. You're basically saying the earth is flat. | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 1:49 | history | answered | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |