Obscure Martial Arts of Interest

**Cullion** · Posted On: 7/09/2011 7:11am

Originally Posted by Gezere

Got to see some Dambe too. Sad to say I was actually disappointed. From what I had read and then to see it in person I had built it up to more that what it was which was mostly haymakers.

It's a subject for a different thread, but quite a few arts involve big, loose-looking punches. I see them in CMA, Kajukenbo and Sambo. I know most people with a boxing and karate background don't like them, but there's still a difference between the wild, untrained haymaker and the kind of stuff I'm talking about.

Which category did the Dambe boxers fit into ?

**doofaloofa** · Posted On: 7/09/2011 10:40am

Originally Posted by Larus marinus

One thing I learned from the internet is that you can store a lot of pus in a cow or a horse.

Whilst training to be a medic in the early nineties we were shown films of the victims of russian mines in afganistan. It had taken weeks in some cases for the casualties to reach medical help.
One sceen that I still vividly remember is the surgeon drawing a kind of metal ball ended instrument down an amputees thigh and what looked like a litre of pus came sqirting out the end...Nice

**Larus marinus** · Posted On: 7/09/2011 2:23pm

Originally Posted by doofaloofa

Whilst training to be a medic in the early nineties we were shown films of the victims of russian mines in afganistan. It had taken weeks in some cases for the casualties to reach medical help.
One sceen that I still vividly remember is the surgeon drawing a kind of metal ball ended instrument down an amputees thigh and what looked like a litre of pus came sqirting out the end...Nice

You can get videos very similar to that on YouTube. There was one I saw of an African guy undergoing a 'big pus drainage' - but from his back. The infection had also damaged his lung and you could see the air pulsing under his skin/flesh as he breathed.

NSFW and fucking gross:

Spoiler:

**doofaloofa** · Posted On: 7/10/2011 5:04am

That put me right off my banana!

**Larus marinus** · Posted On: 7/10/2011 5:47am

Originally Posted by doofaloofa

That put me right off my banana!

Might be difficult to eat a spam sandwich with ketchup and mustard for a while...

**doofaloofa** · Posted On: 7/10/2011 11:00am

Originally Posted by judoka_uk

This kind of 'sport' is as much a test of courage as skill and strength

It reminds me of Milling

I did a bit when I did my basic (20 fucking years ago. That makes me feel OLD), though I dont know if it is still practiced in these PC times.
I got proper bashed!

**shigi** · Posted On: 7/10/2011 3:15pm

You guys do know that Super Street Fighter IV has a turkish oil wrestling character, right?

**atomicpoet** · Posted On: 7/10/2011 8:23pm

Here's a video about Kalenda, a form of stick-fighting practiced in Trinidad.

**Grey Owl** · Posted On: 7/11/2011 6:46am

Cornish wrestling demo with technique explanation...

And former champ Gerry Cawley cross training boxing.

**doofaloofa** · Posted On: 7/11/2011 8:26am

I like the sprag on into o garuma (?)
and no matts, hardy lads

Is this purely parrallel evolution, or did the Japanese nick it from a cornish miner?

In the second clip 1 min 15 seconds in, is that a photo of the Liliputt Open?