A man who's spent his entire life training and learning martial arts and ki control can't fly

>A man who's spent his entire life training and learning martial arts and ki control can't fly.
>A teenage girl who practices a bit of martial arts learned how to fly in a day.
Explain this shit.

He can't look up skirts if he's above the women.

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This and there are people who were born with more power than Goku was like Piccolo Jr. Shit, Frieza's been able to blow up planets since the day he was born.

He started smoking cigarettes and started directing anime.
*Too cool for school Miyazaki strolls away*

>Implying flight doesn't have its own perks.

So when is Roshi going to croak?

Turtles can't fly, but devils can.

Did he ever try to learn?

Bukujutsu is a crane school technique you baka

Never.

>A man who's spent his entire life training and learning martial arts and ki control from people that can't fly
>A teenage girl who practices a bit of martial arts learned how to fly in a day because she was taught by someone who can fly
Same reason why Chiaotzu could fly when he was only 15 in his introduction, and why Tien could fly at the same time. They were taught how be someone who knew how.
But how did Master Shen learn how to fly? Who trained him? I'm sure there are thousands of amazing masters and fighters in the Dragon Ball world that were never even thought up.

The fuck?
He can fly, have you even watched DB?

>inb4 floating doesnt count

Flying ruined Dragon Ball.

No it didn't.

IT'S A CRANE SCHOOL TECHNIQUE YOU STUPID NERD

ROSHI AINT BOUT BRANE SCHOOL BLOOD GANG SUWOOP

Flying is a huge stamina drain, so its not super helpful for Roshi. Look at early DBZ where even Goku used kintoun instead of flying to save strength.

Plus you cant fly on ToP anyway so it doesnt matter

Correct, beamspam did.

both did

Both this.

i swear he was flying in Revival of Freiza.

maybe he was just jumping high, hovering, or falling slowly?

It doesn't matter since in the most important battle in Dragon ball history, he isn't allowed to fly.

Nah, just jumps. The way he moved on the ground and relied on his staff kind of reinforced the idea, considering how he and Jaco were the only two characters depicted running about like that.

He's canonically immortal.

Yeah but Piccolo flying isn't crane school.

Gag character
also
>Implying Super is canon

Has anybody else even learned Piccolo/Namekian flying?

no, but he was aware of the technique because the crane hermit knew it and taught it to his students.

he had a cloud he could ride on so he never needed it plus why would you want to learn to fly when you live on an island just big enough for one house?

Poor writing

there is a dimension out there where toriyama is considered a hack for giving gotenks trunks insta SS

of course a grownup realizes he knew most of the audience isnt autistic enough to nitpick about something in a gag manga, and he wanted to show the aesthetics of chibi super saiyans

Daily reminder he's Jackie Chan

Don't be stupid, he has hair, Roshi doesn't.

Who is that, sounds like a lame ripoff of Jackie Chun

>Roshi has glasses
>Jackie Chun doesn't
fucking retards. that is totally valid proof that they are different people

Roshi just lacks the want to learn how to fly. He's content flying around on his turtle and being a hermit. If he learned to fly he would be required more places more often. He was shown able to fly in DBS while he was taken over. Just further proves he could learn if he wanted.

Talent

Roshi is too old for that shit.

Because flight is a crane school technique.

Puar is a ki master, that nigga been flying since everyone else was in diapers.

A cloud he cant use.

>implying super isn't canon

Pedro I...

I forget Roshi's past, so Im probably completely wrong on this, but I feel like for the fame he managed to attain before Goku and the gang showed up, he probably figured out a lot of shit by himself. In a sense he was a genius in that regard since he had to start with nothing and figure shit out for himself without much help.

The other characters got off easy for the most part since they just go to learn from him at the start and pick up the fruits of his hard labor and experience, then just build off of it along with their alien genes and inborn genetic talents or w/e.

Flying probably was just wasn't high on his list when he was figuring out Ki and coming up with the Kamehameha. Considering Goku spams that shit out every story arc, I'd say Roshi did his job.
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oh just checked. It took Master Roshi 50 fucking years to figure out the Kamehameha. Of course he didn't have fucking time to learn how to fucking fly .He probably gives no fucks anymore at this point.

Goku just got to come along and learn it from Roshi after Roshi figured out all kinks and proper technique for it.

because of his sister?

Gohan probably learned from Piccolo. And by extension, Goten and Videl.

fuck shen and fuck crane school. that's why

>they just go to learn from him at the start and pick up the fruits of his hard labor and experience
Roshi didn't teach any of his pupils anything, not counting Mafuuba which he didn't teach Goku until in Super some decades later.

Rewatch Dragon Ball. all Roshi's training focuses on building your strength, balance, and muscle memory. he never taught ki manipulation. every single person who learned the kamehameha learned it from watching him. not just goku but yamcha and tien too.

Roshi's philosophy seems to focus on just building his pupil's core fundamentals and letting them figure out for themself where to go from there, compare to master shen who seemed to just want all his students to be carbon copies of himself

>Who trained him?
Mutaito is the one who trained both Roshi and Shen in the art of ki manipulation. Shen figured out for himself that you can use ki like a jetpack without having to shoot a fuckhuge beam of it, presumably via trial and error

that's what gamera jr is for

He never bothered to learn, and old people can't learn new tricks.

Son Goku's been flying since the first book.

Kintoun doesn't count

shit writing

>Master Shen
Everytime I read this I want to kill myself. His name is Tsuru Sennin. At least call him Crane Hermit.

I bet you call krillin kuririn too.