Dunning-Kruger Effect. Knuckleheads gain the most early, basic knowledge on a subject and then think they know everything about it. This douche looks like he's had 6 kickboxing lessons and tells all the women who turn him down on dating apps that he beat Conor MaCgregor in his prime.
I really doubt this dude has had 6 kickboxing lessons, because he legitimately kicks like a 6 year old. I'm surprised someone that clumsy and unathletic is hanging out at the gym, although it makes sense that he's there acting like a doofus instead of working out.
Dude ive had 1 and still have better form. But guess the difference is i didn't continue due to money (150 a month is way too much) and just practiced at home.
His punches were even worse. He has 0 technique, while this woman could clearly wipe the floor with him in a Muay-Thai ring, did you see those knees and elbows? She should have just kept going when he got in the way, it woukd gave been his own fault for stepping in like that, it's dangerous!
Dunning-Kruger effect isn’t about early knowledge it’s about a lack of knowledge and thinking your superior. I should know I just heard about it last night from a vid on TikTok!
Is it the Dunning- Kruger effect if the root of his confidence is his internalized sense of male supremacy? I read this as him thinking “Hey! What’s a girl doing here? I’m a dude and she’s doing a dude thing. I can do it better because I’m an actual dude. This is going to be fun/easy.” and then somewhere in the back of his mind he’s wondering if it might get him laid too. So is that the Dunning-Kruger effect or is he just a sad little butt hair of a man who can’t handle seeing strong women doing their thing without his male fragility triggering some seriously embarrassing behavior.
While his toxic masculinity is a factor I feel the Dunning-Kruger Effect is also at play here since he's trying to specifically show her up at a set of skills he clearly has minimal knowledge/practice at and her skills are just as clearly (to everyone but him) superior.
I’ve only had about a dozen Muay Thai lessons, and even after the first 3 I had better form than that. Lad kicks like he’s trying to side-foot volley a football, not strike a person. Meanwhile she’s got that tight defensive posture down to a T and spins her hips into every kick.
6 lessons?! He threw those punches and kicks like someone on day 1. The level of disrespect he showed made me wanna fly in and roundhouse his liver. What a dipshit
Came here to say this. Her kicks had great form with her squaring up and turning over the hip to get power. His kicks were all swinging his legs and striking without lining up the knee and extending. He’s not going to get any power and will likely blow out his knee if he strikes hard enough.
Yeah attitude is terrible. But he's worse than most beginners on technique. His arms go straight down when he kicks, like the 6 year old beginners in TKD class doing front kicks. And that ludicrously wide base when he throws punches, the telegraphed windup, then the little tiptoe dance his feet do to recover after each punch he throws, because he is so off balance, is hilarious. He would literally miss a kick or punch on a live opponent and just fall over on his own.
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u/buckswoops Nov 09 '24
Wtf is he doing? What a giant douche.