Martial Arts

Jace Connors claims in several of his videos that he has developed his own "parkour fighting style"[1] that blends parkour, taekwondo, krav maga, and "gunfighting" (whatever that is) into one deadly discipline. He perfects this muscle memory and elite skills by doing "katas", which are basically just one-man drills where the fighter punches and kicks at an imaginary opponent, supposedly to train muscle memory.[2] Jace's form and stance is like jello, however, so any muscle memory learned from these "katas" is of dubious usefulness.

On top of this, Jace has a fondness for what could be described as "gun kata" which is essentially just martial arts with guns. Jace hasn't explicitly stated this belief but he seems to think that the ability to do "gun tricks", flourishes and fancy stunts is indicative of one's overall prowess in combat.[3]

The usefulness of katas in general is questionable, because they do not actually train the user to react to enemies in a fluid way or adjust to changing situations, or fight in a real-world scenario in any capacity. It appears from Jace's videos that all he knows are these "katas", but he seems to believe that he will develop this elite martial art style to be used in some sort of military application in which soldiers will wall-run into enemy compounds and frontflip onto the hoods of Humvees while firing handguns wildly into the windshields.

Jace also gives questionable advice on martial arts[4 ]including such assertions as "footwork isn't as important as you think"; with many martial arts, footwork and stance are crucial to the point where they are learned before anything else. Other claims include "aim for the head", and "dodge as many hits as you can instead of blocking", which are equally questionable.