Timeline for Can I train monkeys to fight with knives effectively?
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| Feb 24, 2017 at 23:30 | comment | added | Rozwel | Would note that computer modeling would give a good chance of determining how our combat styles might be adapted to a different physiology effectively. How to go about teaching and testing what the computer can show you is a whole other issue though... | |
| Feb 24, 2017 at 19:01 | comment | added | pojo-guy | ... which suggests that training chimpanzees to fight with weapons would potentially require differently constructed weapons or techniques. As a karate instructor, I often find that in order to teach effective skills once people have learned the basics, I have to retrain them to do what they would do if they hadn't been trained (sounds silly, but it works). People move differently when they are thinking about moving than when they are "jsut doing it". | |
| Feb 24, 2017 at 18:25 | comment | added | BentNielsen | Humans can use their heels and flat feet in their stances to greater power when stabbing or slashing. Our more flexible joints allowes for faster movement and more freedom in movement. Great apes are far stronger than humans but are easily outmaneuvered by a human with the same weapon. | |
| Feb 24, 2017 at 17:16 | comment | added | user25818 | Forget proportions, some of their joints don't move the same as ours. And their mouths and fingers nails make better weapons than ours. Like in Theraot's karate chimp video the ape isn't showing fighting prowess it's just doing human moves. | |
| Feb 24, 2017 at 16:40 | comment | added | Durakken | @pojo-guy there is a difference between taller/shorter fatter/skinnier, and having different body proportions in general. The physics do not play out the same. | |
| Feb 24, 2017 at 16:36 | comment | added | pojo-guy | In real life, martial artists adapt the foundational skills of their system to their body type and abilities all the time. Variations in human body shapes lead to wide variations in motion and application. | |
| Feb 24, 2017 at 12:31 | history | answered | Durakken | CC BY-SA 3.0 |