"Learning it from a book"

[sdp]

I can't stand doing Katas as an adult, I appreciate learning them as a kid though. I agree with being sloppy translating to everything else and the need of good form but that's not necessarily covered in katas, so we just disagree with Katas and that some people could theoretically learn by themselves.

I'm glad you found a good school, I switch styles frequently so I constantly run across plenty of bad ones, but not to say there aren't good ones.

Don't you use an app for your karate as well? I remember seeing many of your tweets mentioning something about that and was always curious.

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by sdp

Don't you use an app for your karate as well? I remember seeing many of your tweets mentioning something about that and was always curious.

The only app I use is a general exercise tracking app. I just like keeping track of things, and it also comes in handy because my work gives a discount on insurance if you can prove you live an “active lifestyle.”

[victory_angel]

Since they were using the TMNT origin from the IDW comics where the Turtles and Splinter start out as lab animals. But then when Splinter finds the book on ninjutsu he doesn’t exactly learn from it, but it helps jog the memory of a previous existence as Hamato Yoshi. And his sons also pick up these skills rather easily as well and maybe have hints such as maybe Mikey or someone off handedly mention having weird dreams or finding strange how they seemed to have mastered their skills so easily and how it feels like they’ve learned these skills before.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by victory_angel

Since they were using the TMNT origin from the mirage comics where the Turtles and Splinter start out as lab animals. But then when Splinter finds the book on ninjutsu he doesn’t exactly learn from it, but it helps jog the memory of a previous existence as Hamato Yoshi. And his sons also pick up these skills rather easily as well and maybe have hints such as maybe Mikey or someone off handedly mention having weird dreams or finding strange how they seemed to have mastered their skills so easily and how it feels like they’ve learned these skills before.

Don't you mean the IDW comics?

[victory_angel]

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

Don't you mean the IDW comics?

Yeah I had meant to say IDW, sorry for the Freudian slip

[Utrommaniac]

But they weren't lab animals in Mirage.

Splinter was Hamato Yoshi's pet and the turtles belonged to some random kid standing in the path of "Daredevil", a blind man, and an Utrom driving like an idiot in a truck full of mutagenic waste.

[Chabrendeki]

Originally Posted by victory_angel

But then when Splinter finds the book on ninjutsu he doesn’t exactly learn from it, but it helps jog the memory of a previous existence as Hamato Yoshi. And his sons also pick up these skills rather easily as well and maybe have hints such as maybe Mikey or someone off handedly mention having weird dreams or finding strange how they seemed to have mastered their skills so easily and how it feels like they’ve learned these skills before.

But IF so, that's something that had to be explored in the movie. And not just fart-jokes and explosions.

Both films were very lazy on portraying the characters and showing them interact. And the "learning-ninjutsu-from-the-book-solution" was very much the same lazy for me.

[sethmartin]

It was the result of reshoots and last minute changes. In the version they shot, Splinter is taught ninjutsu in the lab by watching martial arts movies

[Galactus]

Originally Posted by sethmartin

It was the result of reshoots and last minute changes. In the version they shot, Splinter is taught ninjutsu in the lab by watching martial arts movies

Which is just as stupid.

There isn't really a way to handle how Splinter knows martial arts that isn't outlandish but there degrees of just how ridiculous and I maintain ways to depict that wont come off as too outlandish.

I've always maintained the simplest way to do the comic origin is that the mutagen simply awakened the memories of watching Hamato Yoshi for hours on end for years. As soon as he gained sentience he understood what he had seen but hey that's just one rout you could go and one that points how bad the movie origin was as it did away with the most important aspect; Their connection to the Shredder. That is what is important.

Also we don't really know that they were going to go the kung fu movie rout. We know it was planned as it was story boarded but we don't know if it was ever filmed and even if it was, would it be necessary to change that aspect in the re-shoots? What difference does it make to the whole Sachs/Saki angle that they had to change it. What does it say about their approach that it comes unraveled so easily? They come up with this big complex modern, fanboy kewel origin and and the best they could come up with to explain one of the most important aspects of the franchise, something that is in the title is "well he watched some kung fu movies" or "he read it in a book he found".

[Utrommaniac]

Sometimes...things that are cut from the movie...are worse.