Perhaps an interesting cultural example of convergence or parallelism (depending on how you think about the shared influence of Spanish colonialism w/respect to the development of these martial arts in Columbia and the Phillipines).
In Historical European Martial Arts, we have messer fighting
Casual sparring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY-y_Y7IUfY
More cinematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHNzL9-zpg
irq-1•9mo ago
kulahan•9mo ago
pessimizer•9mo ago
If AI (or a book) can tell me something that has been passed down through generations, it was still passed down through generations. The problem with books is that they often don't/can't give you enough detail to do the thing. AI doesn't have that problem.
Hell, a few books and a bunch of videos don't have that problem. If people forgot about ("regular") fencing tomorrow, and 1000 years from now came across a cache of 1000 hours of fencing matches and a handful of books, I would have faith in their ability to recreate fencing accurately and then innovate on it.
andrewflnr•9mo ago
harimau777•9mo ago
All of that would be extremely difficult to capture via AI.
The older and more experienced I get, the more I've come to believe that the non-technical aspects of the martial arts are essential and neglecting them can produce negative consequences.