{"id":460,"date":"2012-04-19T22:58:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T02:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karate.gregoryzone.org\/?p=460"},"modified":"2013-10-24T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:28:11","slug":"re-stomp-the-groin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Re-stomp the groin."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you enjoyed the various episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/EnterTheDojoShow?\"><em>Enter The Dojo<\/em><\/a>, which I collected in a previous post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karate.gregoryzone.org\/?p=420\">here<\/a>. One of the scenes that I find especially funny is the one in which Master Ken describes a series of techniques in response to a guy &#8220;getting up in your face&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3CGMWlXosp4?rel=0&#038;start=110&#038;end=&#038;autoplay=0&#038;loop=0&#038;playlist=3CGMWlXosp4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What makes this clip funny is that it is so over the top and disproportionate to the offence. It also manages to work in a well-known martial arts cliche (&#8220;It&#8217;s better to be judged by twelve than carried by six&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The best humour, especially satire, is built around an element of truth. It isn&#8217;t hard to find examples of that which is being parodied here. Indeed, I came across the following while searching for examples of defences against the haymaker, which apparently is the most common first attack in street fights.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/phMWM7LP0ls?rel=0&#038;start=337&#038;end=&#038;autoplay=0&#038;loop=0&#038;playlist=phMWM7LP0ls\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, that guy won&#8217;t be throwing any more haymakers for a while, what with the punches to his carotid artery and the head stomp.<\/p>\n<p>Or, you could just break his neck and, just to be safe, also punch him in the spine.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z7sKF2MhnXo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you enjoyed the various episodes of Enter The Dojo, which I collected in a previous post here. One of the scenes that I find especially funny is the one in which Master Ken describes a series of techniques in response to a guy &#8220;getting up in your face&#8221;: What makes this clip funny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backinthegi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}