>>9384703Daggering.
But all jokes aside this thread hits home for me. There was a point in my life where I made it my point to learn about African martial arts. Being mixed race, which is generic but as far as I'm willing to go, and having a triple digit I.Q. Combined with state funded equality lessons lead me to try to find a African equivalent to what is now known as Hema. I didn't and the more I researched African martial arts I found there to be 3 kinds. Adapted martial arts, which take African concepts or more successfully African people and dump a ton of successful shit from other martial arts. This would be a lot of philly shell boxers that incorporate wushu, especially wing chun, into their boxing. Similarly are the numerous machete fighting martial arts that are unsuprisngly similar to eskrima in that both claim to be native inventions but are just shitty European fencing, eskrima is of course better than machete fencing because the natives had a martial tradition already but that doesn't mean it isn't destreza.
These are followed by the Native Arts themselves like capoiera and stick fighting, stylized and useless for the most part, most African militaries don't even invest time into them for esprit de corps reasons like America does with bayonets, which is funny because most African wars come down to machete attacks once the bullets run out.
The last being Hotep Martial Arts, these are a bit rarer nowadays but there was a point where people would legitimately try to pass off shitty taekwondo as Proto-Egyptian capoeira from Nubia but most of those people have disappeared off the Internet. I remember watching a video of some black dude with skallagrim of all people discussing African sword fight form and I knew from actual research that the closest thing to hema fencing in Africa was functionally dervishing and this guy was a street hustler. Made me unsub Skall. Pic related
