Comments on: Italian soldiers fear Samurai Granny

By: July 2008 stats

July 2008 stats — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:49:03 +0000

[...] Italian military fears Samurai Granny (24,372 visitors) [...]

By: jeeb

jeeb — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:56:54 +0000

photoshopped

By: jamaipanese

jamaipanese — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:19:31 +0000

i’d be scared of her too -_-

By: Kraut

Kraut — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:05:24 +0000

That’s pretty funny. Do you think the modern army that this woman is training still maintains their black powder cannons and horse infantry as well?

By: Eye roller

Eye roller — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:31:48 +0000

Yeah martial arts is great and everything, except most of it is useless in the real world. When are you ever going to be fighting for your life against a single, unarmed opponent? It’s great for exercise but on the whole Martial Arts is basically a dead style of legitimate deadly combat, and in fact has been since the Roman Empire.

By: AnonChan

AnonChan — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:09:16 +0000

“Al-san, I detect that you are merely a 15yr old liar! Go back to /b/.”

Hey! I take offence to that! /b/ is not THAT bad…

By: LOLZ

LOLZ — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:42:05 +0000

It’s entirely possible that an woman of Keiko Wakabayashi’s age could take down a person of any age, build, etc. For the simple fact that she is obviously very proficient in Aikido. When I took Aikido I had a teacher who was probably 4′ 10″ and in his 60s. He could take anyone, and I mean anyone (considering there was a guy who was at least 6′ 10″ in the class) down to the floor with no effort. Aikido relies upon technique not strength.

By: GuitarBizarre

GuitarBizarre — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:52:38 +0000

I believe there are errors on both sides of this argument.

Firstly, the original post was sexist in tone but not actual content.
Secondly, “What kind of boy hits a girl?” is not a sexist attitude. It may well be a little belittling, or even presumptuous, however the fact of the matter is, 99% of women are NOT martial arts experts, and men are generally of greater physical strength, hence the reaso this attitude is prevalent, because a man fighting a woman is generaly considered an abuse of power.

So while it may be belittling to that VERY small minority of female bodyuilders and martial artists, the sentiment expressed is still true, because these are exceptions and NOT the rule. I don’t believe any negative intent was present with either of the posts personally.

Secondly, while I’m sure maybe a couple of them DID hold back the first few times because of the stature and appearance of this woman, they will have quickly learned that it was a fruitless endeavour. They are there to learn, not to hold back.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:01:03 +0000

Hahaha, Al-san just makes me laugh like shit

By: I spot a liar

I spot a liar — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:58:09 +0000

“…Apparantly a noob like you.”

Al-san, I detect that you are merely a 15yr old liar! Go back to /b/.
Oh yes, and I’m sure you’ll have some retort that says you can take me down, blah blah blah.

Anyways; Go granny go! :)