Yeah there are some people who just toss witty comments around and smash everyones ideas.
Its fine, but we are on the internet, its the internet. Most people here are dilligenet practicioners of some kind of martial art or combat sport.
I think that if you swim through the BS you get a lot of insight here. If you don't go to thier level and you keep an open mind you will see things from many perspectives and understand different martial arts and concepts and such in new ways. You for instance, are likely to realize that a double leg takedown will negate most martial knowledge you have right now.
I agree nobody should be a "know it all", it is certainly annoying, you have picked up on how this forum operated quicker than I did. (someone- "Dan, is this some kind of BJJ plug?" me- "No, but I recomend ground fighting to traditional martial artists because many of them simply have no idea what is going on when a fight hits the ground, I am not saying BJJ/Sambo/[any other grappling art] is intrinsically better than any traditional martial art, but it is an element that is often overlooked, and assuming Kerr wants to learn and develope as a martial artist, the skills of ground fighting are necissary.")
You have studied many martial arts from what your profile states, and I like the mix. I LOVE to see traditionally based guys like yourself training in a sportive way, it must be cool to be into TMA's and then train in boxing and kickboxing, because you can drag things into the different styles and take things out of it, its a beautiful thing and style is but abstraction (though i respect most styles as indevidual works themselves).
Good luck exploring martial art, and pull what you can from the discussions here, I have gotten a lot of different perspective from all different people and it makes me feel like I understand and evaluate martial arts/artists in a much less bias manner.
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