When I was taking karate, it was made pretty clear to us students that ideally we'd never use our skills in a real life fight, because our goal was to live life so rightly that we'd never get into a situation where the skills were needed. YRightlyLivedLifeMV

FWiW, though, just acting confident and calm will head off a lot of trouble, and that's the sort of attitude that karate, tai chi, and other martial arts (as well as yoga) fosters.

It might be related to the fact that Rebecca Gayheart can't act. I've hated her since her soap days.

Are you offering?

Now, which one of us has a fuzzy belly? I ask you!

Hint: not the one who can't grow facial hair.

It's the attitude they're supposed to foster. Depends on the quality of both teacher and student. It's really easy to avoid being inculcated with the psychological attributes.

I'm thinking that with yoga, it's harder to get the psych bits than not, because of how it's now presented.

Hint: not the one who can't grow facial hair.

Are you trying to make me think about your downy belly? Because I have seen you in a bikini.

The book's called Godel's Proof. It's just a little thing I picked up in the library -- copyright 1958, so I doubt anyone here's read it.

Also unsurprisingly, I get twitchy when arts get so dramatically bowdlerised.

Do you think Tai Chi's bowdlerised, then, or a bowdlerization in itself? My admittedly small amount of googling suggests that it's always been both martial art and exercise.

There are few martial arts that aren't exercise. However, I consider that a side effect. For most/many Eastern arts it's a fight/philosophy thing (it's hard to fight systematically without philosophy, I've come to learn). If you strip out the fight, you get a philosophy with hand gestures.

If you strip out the fight, you get a philosophy with hand gestures.

Jazz hands!

Sure it's not just foreign models?

Jehovah seemed pretty equal-opportunity with his automobile hate-on. Why are there no good "why did Jesus cross the road?" jokes springing to mind?

Jeff Barry (as I've noted before), the Archies honcho, wrote The Jefferson's theme. He had one of the cast members sing it too, I recall. Maybe the daughter of the mixed race couple?

This morning, I kept picturing the cast of Good Times, while listening to The Jefferson's theme, and wondering why. When I read your comment above, I wondered for a minute if Roxie Roker sang the Jefferson's theme (she played Helen Willis, the wife of the mixed race couple). I think she's Lenny Kravitz's mom.

Imdb indicates the Jefferson's theme was sung by Ja'net DuBois (who co-wrote it with Oren Waters). DuBois played Willona, the neighbor (and character who eventually adopted Janet Jackson's character Penny) on Good Times. Good Times spun off from Maude, which like The Jeffersons, spun off from All in the Family.

If you strip out the fight, you get a philosophy with hand gestures.

With attendant health benefits.