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Originally Posted by Sagacious Lu
When I want to study history (and I do enjoy reading about history) I look for historians, not martial artists.
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Do you?
Personally, I look for people who know what they are talking about.
I thought that was your point though; that history and tradition were unproven if not improvable and that only that which could be physically proved was acceptable to you?
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When I signed up the school billed itself as "The Ultimate in Self-Defense". I took it for granted that the claim was hyperbolic but it was clear that on of the school's main goals was to prepare you to fight.
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So is your problem with the style, or rather how you portray it to be marketed?
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TV-"To teach you 'how to fight?'
'Fighting' is all too easy to get experience of "
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SL-"Not at that school it wasn't; they did everything but there."
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So have you found any schools where all they do is fight yet?
Why is that? Is it because you're offended that I actually expect to be able to use a martial art in a fight, or is it because I'm supposed to pretend that the time I spent practicing those jumping spinning kicks was as helpful for self-defense as the time I spend sparring now? The reason you're not going to respond is because you won't admit that I'm right but you don't have a counter-argument either.
Nope.
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Bullshit I can evaluate my skills, my fundamental skills have grown by leaps and bounds. There are a number of people that I can now dominate in sparring that used to be able to embarass me at will. You can willfully disbelieve what I'm telling you but the fact is that I have seen far more tangible growth in my ability with my current training methods than I ever did at my previous school.
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Yada yada yada.
I'm happy for you.
Finally kicking sand in the bullies faces n stuff must be just terrific right now.
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This is a fancy way of trying to get out of making a counter-argument.
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No it's not.
It's something you've yet to realise.
Truth is not a fixed number, it is a variable perspective which makes discussion both interesting and tiresome.
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Exactly, I gave up CMA because I was told it was "the ultimate in self-defense" but there was very little actual self-defense in the curriculum. I was fine with getting a little history mixed into the lesson but that was not what I went there for and the system did not perform as advertised.
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Bingo.
So how many years did it take you to realise this?
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If I wanted history lessons I'd enroll in some college courses, I went there to learn self-defense like it promised in the school brochure.
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Brought a tear of compassion to my eye.
Poor you.
Whatever did you do next?
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The rest of the world can make of it what they want, I for one will continue to speak my mind. The forum is here to discuss the CMAs, which is what I'm doing by providing legitimate criticism of one prominent CMA.
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Groundhog day again.
You're not doing anything for/against CMA one way or the other.
You and Thai Bri need to get over your own ideas of your self importance.
What you ARE doing, is putting off people better equipped than you, me or Thai Bri, from taking part in defend.net.
I also feel it relevant to point out, that your overly expressed perspective would be relatively pedestrian on Bullshido and can't help wondering if you are not exercising your own ego by'standing out' on defend.net.
I think that's called 'Attention-Seeking'
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Go ahead and report my post if you want, I'm pretty sure I haven't said anything that will upset the mods.
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Likewise.
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You are certainly in no position to pass judgement on me.
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EVERYONE here, is in a position to pass judgement on you.
Me too!
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LOL at you trying to attack me with semantics.
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Attack you with semantics?
No.
The title of your thread was stupid.
I knew what you meant, but anyone knowing anything about CMA would think you were either a noob, or perhaps just a bit dim.