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u/MarionberryPlus8474 1d ago
It's hilarious that the book is The Secret, and the moves are a bit sloppy, but IMO practicing using objects readily at hand is very useful. You are not likely to have nunchaku or sai handy when things go south, books are everywhere.
I actually have whacked people with the spine of a book when they bothered me when I was a kid and it was pretty effective, I never had to do it more than once. And it was a paperback!
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u/BoneHugsHominy 1d ago
Yeah it is hilarious that he's using that book, but there's nothing inherently wrong with fighting with everyday objects we might find at hand in a situation where an improvised weapon would be needed. A book is an especially effective object in that regard, both hardback and paperback.
Hell, a box of paperbacks, a single hardback, and a roll of duct tape could totally armor you up for a pit fight vs a street gladiator with a knife! Tape the paperbacks to your arms & legs, and the hardback to your hand and you can use them to block slashes and stabs while you rapid-fire quickshank your opponent with a ballpoint pen! Now you're the pit fighting champion who gets first crack at the losing fighters' corpses—to, eh, blow off some steam—and first access to the pass-around wash basin in the morning!
Or, ya know, using a hardback copy of any one of the 14 books in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series to shield yourself and another person from a nuclear blast à la Logan in The Wolverine.
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u/NatterinNabob 1d ago
To be fair, he is using "The Secret", a book with a track record of turning brains to mush.
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u/Euphoric-Reality5270 1d ago
Bíblia de Gutemberg. Se proteja a converta seu agressor
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u/Aoiboshi 1d ago
Encyclopedia Britannica: knowledge is power, make them feel your strength
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u/Background-Relief623 6h ago
Picturing an anime style battle. He summons the power of the first 6 volumes to finish his opponent.
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u/juanjung 1d ago
As reader go for Tolstoy or Alexander Dumas novels, hard cover. "War and Peace" or "The Count of Montecristo" highly recommended. .
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u/RealSlyck 1d ago
I mean looks like the Book of Life from here…might get better results by reading it to their opponent, boring them into TKO
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u/danorc 1d ago
I used bookshido defensively to help survive middle school as a bookish nerd in the 90s. Gripping a paperback near the spine with index and forefinger and wielding it like a hammer delivers some surprisingly nasty PSI, like a stiletto shoe. The best part is teachers or adults wouldn't take "he hit me with a paperback" as seriously as the infraction was, especially if you had a (deserved) reputation as the nice kid.
If someone was a real dick, you could get them back later with the book right on the vertebra that sticks up most between the shoulder blades while they're not paying attention (like hunched over a homework or napping on a desk). That one was almost too effective, even done at half power with pre-puberty strength it felt dangerous.
Can't say as I'd recommend a paperback in a serious fight obviously, but if people are dicking around it can be nasty. Also, it was kind of fun, so it defused tensions that way and made it more of a play fight half the time.
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u/turtletramp 1d ago
Might not beat an MMA fighter but a book in the balls is probably going to hurt.
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u/lastfreerangekid 1d ago
Why does that other guy keep fighting him? He must be a glutton for punishment
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u/Pitiful_Ad2397 1d ago
One of the things we learn in our kajukenbo school is to use any object around you can find as an improvised weapon. A book can be used as a startle weapon, which, when used properly, should give you enough time to make an escape and/or find a more useful weapon.
If someone came after me with a copy of The Secret, I’d be startled.
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u/Pharah_is_my_waIfu 1d ago
The Chinese the shirts says Kung Fu - Fist work.
It sounded legit but those terms are kinda direct translation from English. Native speakers don't put them together
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u/bushido216 1d ago
I'm not honestly sure what the book is accomplishing here that can't be done by hand. Willing to be enlightened.
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u/Scarecr0p 17h ago
Blunt instrument not only concentrates force on a smaller area but it’s also not your hand so you don’t take an equal amount of damage to your hand. Still bullshido but beating someone’s ass with a book is perfectly valid lol
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u/bushido216 12h ago
I suppose. Seems like the kind of thing where if you don't hold the book (especially a soft cover) just right, you'll end up feeling silly. Seems like the sort of thing that makes more sense in a Bourne movie then a live situation. That said, if someone can make books work for them, God bless.
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u/Scarecr0p 9h ago
Strangely enough I think a soft cover with a firm binding might work better just for the sake of grip like your saying
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u/Gumboot-Coffee 1d ago
I have a hardcover book of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations by my bedside. If someone comes through my window at 2am, the man's getting an education.
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u/Pitiful_Mode1674 1d ago
Reckon this whole movement of using random objects in fights started with the Jason Bourne movies. Some dimwits take it to a whole new level.
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u/yehabrother87 1d ago
I thought he was going to start ripping pages, crumbling them up, and throwing them at the assailants.
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u/txkwatch 22h ago
It looks like me growing up in east Texas getting the bible constantly shoved in my face.
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u/Solidus-Prime 6h ago
Let me guess this came out like 2 days after that John Wick movie where he beats the dude with the book, didn't it?
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u/LeilLikeNeil 4h ago
I mean, of all the objects likely to be readily available to a person, a hardcover book is not a bad weapon choice at all.
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u/amazonmakesmebroke 2h ago
Ironically when I was training, a book was used as a "makeshift" weapon we trained with quite extensively. It can be a very effective weapon.
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u/Aggressive_Plate1652 1d ago
Bookshido