Maybe the real problem here is not how many fights or whether or not their claims are bullshit, but the fact that they are making them at all. It's sort of a "Hi, I'm the toughest street thug so I can teach you how to beat all the other street thugs" mentality. This draws exactly the wrong kind of crowd to a gym and I'd never associate with a gym that did that in the first place. I'd rather train with athletes and law abiding citizens. What the hell does everyone want to learn "street fighting" for anyway? I have no desire to fight anyone on the street. I just want to go to the gym and do stuff that I know is not bullshit. I want to train in an athletic and alive manner and enjoy the camaraderie that comes with it. I'd never think to ask my instructor how many fights he's won as it would be so besides the point to make no difference at all. Geoff Thompson got so good by fighting every day at work, not by training martial arts. If that's how he got good how the heck is he going to convince me that I can get good by a different method that he never used?
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