did you guys know there's a porcelain period southeast asia nusantara silat eskrima arnis martial arts fantasy webnovel about a binukot choosing violence and trying to kill the hero of prophecy
its got marxist buddhist nascent bodhisattvas, excessively honorable femboy girlfailures, butch lesbian colonizer killers, adhd demon girls, polytheist-buddhist-hindu-animist religious world building, 14 layered world, feminist islamic empires, each guy has 4 souls the works
I just love when a man in his late 30s to mid 40s decides to start doing hand to hand combat as a hobby like okay king build a house next! kill a boar!
Demonstrating some wushu skills: 寸掌 (cun4zhang3; one-inch palm strike), 手刀 (shou3dao1; knifehand strike), 寸拳 (cun4quan2; one-inch punch), 隔山打牛 (ge2shan1da3niu2; lit. hitting a cow from the other side of a mountain, in wushu: indirect knockdown)
Nine-Section Whip by master Ding Xiaoyuan 👊 According to the book Soft Weapons: Nine-Section Whip and Rope Dart, "The nine-section whip, regarded as a 'powerful hidden weapon,' was first used on the battlefield during the Jìn Dynasty (265-420)
I think it’s really cool that he’s based off of the (martial artist) fighting instructor and consultant of the series named Sifu Kisu who’s actually blasian in real life
If anyone doesn’t remember, he was Sokka’s teacher