Korean Fury

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I teach Liberation Martial Arts and dream of One Korea. SouthpawPod.com

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Korean Fury@liberationma· Feb 6

Some people are initially interested in boxing, muay Thai, or kickboxing but eventually move on to grappling because they wanted to spar a lot but weren't afforded those opportunities in striking arts or there wasn't a way to do it safely. The Liberation Martial Arts approach is about learning to do it safely and right away.

You don't have to move on to something else. You really don't.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Feb 3

We've been saying this for 10 years. When it comes to martial arts gyms (and even other in-groups), it's more likely you'll be physically harmed by people who have physical access to you than some other gym. Especially as Americans, you're trained to expect the call to come from outside the house when probabilistically it'll be someone you know and trust. Only people you trust can violate trust.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Feb 2

I originally posted this 10 years ago, then 5 years ago just thinking about the extortive side of affiliations/registrations, and unfortunately, because of a constant legacy of incidents, it's become timeless

Black belts will hide their poor character and crimes behind their rank and competition records.

Avoid martial arts rose-colored glasses where you think an achievement in skill equals an achievement in character.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Jan 26

The standard model of martial arts training assumes you're a child who trains every day and will train your whole life.

If you're an adult learner who trains irregularly learning under a standard model, this raises an important question:

Does your training model match your material conditions or does it imagine perfect conditions?

Korean Fury@liberationma· Jan 15

Taking care of our mental health often means more than one thing. Therapy can be a necessity, but practices that help us reconnect with ourselves can also be transformative.

Our brain needs care and support, but also meaning and happiness. For some of us, martial arts provides that balance of happiness and meaning.

Everyone's path looks different. What matters is finding what helps you feel well.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Jan 4

Whenever the US does something bad in another country, it's not just about that other country. It's also about the rest of the world because it's always practice for somewhere else, and it's also license to do it somewhere else. Somewhere else also includes bringing it back home to the US.

A serial killer doesn't stop at one and it's not just about the current victims but also the potential future victims.

We should ALL always be invested in US actions, or else.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Dec 27

The dangerous mistake people commonly make when it comes to self-defense is to assume direct physical harm will come from strangers, Others, people who have no access or proximity to you. It can happen but the norm is direct harm comes from those with direct access. This same bias replicates itself in the subculture of leftist martial arts (though the material reality of access isn't limited to gyms). People worry about and have hypervigilance toward other camps or other gyms, but people you avoid lack direct access to you. So there isn't analysis, sometimes out of group pride, for danger that comes from within your own group or people you identify with.

Day to day harm will come from people you spend your days with, physical harm will come from those with physical access. This isn't an absolute rule or a rule at all but a statistical reality people don't reckon with for various reasons. If there's dangers and problems that come from your own subculture, it won't look like what you're expecting because you're expecting strange and different rather than familiar. There's been people in martial arts who have been sounding the alarm to look at their own gym, and that also carries to political martial groups. Access and lack of access isn't figurative but material reality. Physical fighting is the reckoning with material reality, or it should be, but isn't always.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Dec 9

A lot of martial arts teachers and facilitators think direct input equals direct output. Just tell them what to do, and they will perform it. If that were the case, we'd all be the masters of everything because we've been told lots of things our entire lives. We'd be master chefs, speak multiple languages, good at every sport, and play lots of instruments. Teaching isn't that easy or straightforward.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Dec 8

Feedback that summarizes what you're signing up for with LMA and why this is exciting

So what I'm getting so far from
the material is that the pedagogy is about creating the conditions that help people develop the most appropriate movements for them.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Dec 5

Image comparing modern US police with historical Japanese samurai labeled "cops" and "cops, Japan." Angry emoji for modern police, starry-eyed emoji for samurai.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Dec 1

We talked about training frequency determining the approach. A curriculum for someone coming 6 days a week will look very different than someone who comes once a week—or in the case of free training clubs, once every few months. But what about training approaches that are designed for children with the assumption that they will train daily for decades or a lifetime? Is that the right approach for adult beginners who train casually? An approach for an irregular schedule for adult bodies in a shorter timescale should look drastically different IF those differences occurred to instructors. But if it doesn't, you have a lifelong approach meant for young plastic bodies and minds, being taught to adult beginners with shorter and irregular timescales.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Nov 28

What the Liberation Martial Arts curriculum looks like liberationmartialarts.substack.com

Table of Contents
1. Seed
2. Plant
3. Water
4. Nurture
5. Growth - updating

Supplementary
Pedagogy in practice
LMA theory
LMA Learning Lab updates
Instagram live and scrimmages

Korean Fury@liberationma· Nov 21

It’s really hard to get good at anything in Empire.
Capitalism strips time, exhausts the body, and drains attention—then blames you for not thriving.

The LMA approach isn’t “good because it’s radical.”
It’s radical because it produces better results.
Safety → ease → perception → real learning → real skill.

Most systems force you to grind harder inside the same conditions that break you.
LMA changes the conditions so you can actually grow.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Nov 21

Adult beginners/learners is a fairly new phenomenon in martial arts and combat sports. Pedagogy itself means teaching method for kids, like pediatrician means child doctor. So without a teaching approach for adults, teachers who began seeing an influx of adult beginners defaulted to the one place where adults are still beginners—the military. This is paired with the first Western martial arts teachers and practitioners being military chuds bringing over things they learned while occupying Asian countries.

It's not old school or authentic because adults didn't exist in that old school as learners. The adults that existed were the near finished products of those who came up in that system since childhood. Adult learners can almost never learn the "authentic" art bc the authentic art was meant for child learners. What you think is "authenticity" is often orientalism, romanticism, toxic masculinity, and projection.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Nov 7

A message from an LMA training organizer in the UK

Quote of the day by a
newcomer: So with LMA, you get
to scrap but no one gets injured?

Korean Fury@liberationma· Nov 5

Liberation Martial Arts is for radicals looking for a radical approach to martial arts. We've replaced military-style instruction with care, play, and self-determination—built for adults, friends, and organizers reclaiming movement together. Whether you’re new to training or already deep in your art, LMA refines what you do and takes it further.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Nov 3

No one does a one-time strength class for people who've never lifted before, promising they can now compete in a strength contest. You won't see an equivalent in arts, music, or sports. A college degree isn't a one-time class, and neither is a trade. No one does a one-time basketball class for people who have never played basketball, promising they can dunk or make baskets at will. Yet there is this equivalent in self-defense, which is more unpredictable, high stakes, and escalated than anything I've already mentioned. But since these sorts of self-defense classes are offered, it is now normal to believe those promises are achievable in an hour despite not having that logic for ANYTHING ELSE even when they're easier and lower stakes. No one will believe someone who has never cooked or been in a kitchen can now make any dish at will from a one-time class. But the consequences are low, it's a bad meal that took too long and made a mess. Yet people suspended their disbelief when their life is on the line. This is called motivated reasoning. You suspend disbelief BECAUSE it's your life. Capitalism will exploit that and tell you I'm the liar, not the people promising you the world in an hour.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Oct 31

Interview with Malcolm X

Q. What political system does
Malcolm X want?
A. I don't know. But I'm flex-
ible. As was stated earlier, all of
the countries that are emerging
today from under the shackles of
colonialism are turning toward So-
cialism. I don't think it's an acci-
dent. Most of the countries that
were colonial powers were cap-
italist countries and the last bul-
wark of capitalism today is Ameri-
ca and it's impossible for a white
person today to believe in capital-
ism and not believe in racism. You
can't have
capitalism without
racism. And if you find a person
without racism and you happen to
get that person into a conversa-
tion and they have a philosophy
that makes you sure they don't
have this racism in their outlook,
usually they're socialists or their
political philosophy is socialism.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Oct 24

The Liberation Martial Arts effect

Korean Fury:

Radicals training in LMA have been in
orgs, collectives, and online groups,
but the way they light up when they
become a part of a team

Anonymized reply:

LMA has completely reinvigorated our local
base building org. Now regular
fundraising parties, a food coop and
educational events have been started by
new members who joined via our LMA club

Korean Fury@liberationma· Oct 24

Wholesome feedback about the Liberation Martial Arts online curriculum

If had LMA 10 years ago, I could've been really fucking good by now.
Ifl had LMA 15 years ago, HS and college wrestling would've felt more like a leisurely drive and less like a mad dash in rush hour to get to my destination on time.
Ifl had LMA 20 years ago, I could've turned my weaknesses into strengths instead of just hiding them with the strengths /| already had.
But I have LMA now, and that's enough to make me look forward to the next 20 years

Korean Fury@liberationma· Oct 13

What are you waiting for?

When the learner is ready, the LMA approach is there

Korean Fury@liberationma· Oct 12

At the LMA Learning Lab, we're introducing our own martial arts traditions based on Korean culture, from something we call sugo wrestling to reviving a lost Korean resistance art called Pyongyang bakchigi. (FYI Taekwondo is nonindigenous to Korea.) We offer privates and semi-privates. Join the squad

Group photo of martial artists flexing and posing

Korean Fury@liberationma· Oct 11

Watch out for a bot campaign supporting Machado. Their script starts with "She's far from perfect but..." A lot of the new international far right features women

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Korean Fury@liberationma· Oct 10

People think The Matrix is a prediction of the future where we're forced into a virtual world but in fact a children's book that's older than The Matrix is a better predictor, and that's Harold and the Purple Crayon. He wasn't forced into a virtual world; he went in voluntarily to escape his alienation and neglect.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Oct 8

Cults is a loaded term because people immediately think of strange religious cults with death pacts. It also assumes you need a powerful leader when it doesn't need a leader; it's more about the behavior of members. So if you instead think more broadly about negative or unhealthy groups, many of us might be in them

Korean Fury@liberationma· Oct 7

Mutual aid request Black muay Thai instructor and organizer needs some help to cover expenses. $1000 is needed by November. Help if you can. Venmo is ron__king

Korean Fury@liberationma· Oct 3

Writing about the rightwing conspiratorial side of wellness: www.patreon.com/posts/140386...

Why Wellness Is Getting MORE Conspiratorial

Health and fitness spaces have always been political. What’s new is the acceleration of old patterns—purity, distrust, and “clean living”—which are now louder and more profitable through social media. If we truly care about health as carework, not content or clout, we must call out the forces shaping wellness culture.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Oct 1

USians are so uncomfortable with grief, death, dying, emotion, and vulnerability that any picture of Asians mourning and grieving with their entire body is a sign of propaganda bc in the US you're not supposed to acknowledge grief. It's shameful, backward, wrong. In a "free country," you're supposed to be emotionless, and mass killings are supposed to be normal and every person should be prepared to take someone else's life and have the means to do so. Acknowledging the realities of death is somehow undemocratic, while killing without remorse or humanity is freedom. Yeah, it's Asians who are propagandized 🙄

Korean Fury@liberationma· Sep 27

Comparing the US to Nazi Germany isn't even apt because the US was doing genocide and apartheid before Nazi Germany. Furthermore, the US is far more powerful than Germany ever was because the Nazis were stopped. Up to date, genocides committed or backed by the US have never been stopped. Israel is only successful with their genocide because of the backing of the US, which makes the genocide a de facto US genocide. The US is the actual engine and without the US, Israel would not last. Without the US, there would be no genocide. Without the material power of the US, Israel is meaningless. Israel didn't bootstrap its way to power. It's a child writing checks with its parents' money. The parent is the real source of the problem. Comparing the US to weaker non-Western countries is just racist avoidance and deflection. The buck stops with the US. The US isn't acting like another country, it's being itself. Since it's settler colonial inception, it's ALWAYS been the problem. There is no one worse to compare because they've always succeeded at their evils at the greatest magnitudes, and they're still going. It's not past tense. As the most powerful unstopped evil empire that is both past and unfortunately still the present. That's a uniquely US trait.

Korean Fury@liberationma· Sep 23