Best manga or anime to learn a skill?

Warmmedown

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Like I literally learnt how to jab from Rock n Roll Rikitaro (RRR) and got introduced to the question mark kick and using a wall to straighten your punch trajectory from All Rounder Meguru.

Learnt how to throw a basketball underarm like Lebron can only dream of from Clannad.
I think Sweat and Soap had an author's note showing how to fold a milk carton a certain way, not that I remember it or know why one would want to.
 

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Liar you dint learn that, no one can learn stuff like this from reading a manga.

I'd say some mangas help sharping comprehension and reflection/criticism. But imo nothing beyond that.
 

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Haha yeh I did dude. Read the opening volume6of the manga. It tells in detail how to jab. Why can't you learn from it? No different to learning from a boxing or wrestling instruction manual. I've also learnt two things from the MMA manga All Rounder Meguru and you can learn many more, by seeing it and practicing. You read the description and then practice it. I practiced it like 100+ times minimum a day for months in the beginning. First slowly and then quicker. It tells tje key points of turning the palm down, armpit closed, elbow to eye level. That's what I remeber from the manga. My jab is better than most people who learnt from non-manga sources. Of course you don't learn by osmosis, if that's what you think I mean, but by drilling it, rethinking to see if it's ok, correcting and drilling more. Tje manga just taught me the key details to practice correctly.
 

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Haha yeh I did dude. Read the opening volume6of the manga. It tells in detail how to jab. Why can't you learn from it? No different to learning from a boxing or wrestling instruction manual. I've also learnt two things from the MMA manga All Rounder Meguru and you can learn many more, by seeing it and practicing. You read the description and then practice it. I practiced it like 100+ times minimum a day for months in the beginning. First slowly and then quicker. It tells tje key points of turning the palm down, armpit closed, elbow to eye level. That's what I remeber from the manga. My jab is better than most people who learnt from non-manga sources. Of course you don't learn by osmosis, if that's what you think I mean, but by drilling it, rethinking to see if it's ok, correcting and drilling more. Tje manga just taught me the key details to practice correctly.
Well, watching a video on how to jab is way easier as you'd be watching the video, no? Artwork and text don't capture the full motion
 

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It doesn't show the lower body motion though, the legs movements, hips, and the rotation as well. It's better to rotate your arm slightly inwards to add more to the jab and to be watchful on your shoulder movement. It also varies depending where your opponent is, what's the goal of the jab —> it may be to hurt but sometimes just to control the range and get a better ring control, placement...
 

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Or whether it's to the body, or as a defense. Not in boxing ofc but in mma some use it to nullify level changes. Some fighters have strong jabs, so when the opponent goes for a takedown, the jab from up down is used to freeze the takedown attempt. It can be a valuable feint as well. Feinting left or right hook and changing that into a jab when you see the opponent tried to defend the hook, hitting with a jab instead.
 

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Yeh there's more. It's just tje upper. I mean the lower is extra. Like you can jab and step or not. This is a basic jab. When learning it's good to get the basic down, muscle memory. You don't need to overload and overcomplicate when learning a new thing anyway. I would always advise someone to practice this on its own, even if they have a jab with footwork they want to learn - focus on just some aspects of it, to perfect them. Application/strategy is different from thr movement itself and comes afterwards, you need the tool practiced first somewhat to start using it. And this is just what I had as a resource at the time. I would look at mangas to try to learn boxing or mma and do it myself, as I couldn't train in a gym (also I wouldn't have felt confident going to a gym without any practice I think). Now I can jab easily in other ways too, like leaning, stepping left, stepping right, stepping back, stepping forward, from low stance. One I may work on is the upjab, kinda like an uppercut jab, to make takedowns harder to time.
More important than all these variations I feel is actually the range management. Hitting the bag, you should be focusing on being at the perfect range, swinging the bag and using its movement to practice timing and range. This is what I was working on a couple weeks ago, but I haven't been able to train (housing issues). Hopefully towards the end of this week or maybe even on tuesday I will again.

Watchful on your shoulder movement? What u mean? Turning your hand will bring the shoulder up to guard the jaw on that side of the face. Or you mean to not show too much movement to avoid it being telegraphed? It will show some. A good way to feint the jab is actually to drop level and raise the shoulder like the beginning of a jab.

The pages before explained stance briefly. But yeh it won't show everything. Even a YouTube video won't show everything, unless it's a long video. But a long video with every variation is too much to begin. It has to be broken down into chunks of focus to actually get the physical ability. Same with wrestling...you can find excellent 40 minute wrestling technique videos on YouTube but you're gonna focus on a small part at a time.
 

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