Alexey Goldin writes:

When you watch martial arts movie or play one of those "martial arts
games", quite a lot blocks, punches and kicks look quite slow and
easy, easily repeatable. Try to repeat it in dark alley against three
blokes carrying broken bottles, bicycle chains and arbitrary sticks
without real practice or even while safely sparring with instructor
or another student and it suddenly looks very different.

Martial arts are virtually useless in real street fights. But that isn't
relevant here. It's like saying that flying a Cessna in simulation isn't the
same as flying a fighter in real life, which is obviously true.

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