Well, Bodhi, I can't speak for the "SBG Crowd" but I can tell you that you've parroted much of the overly macho stuff I'm talking about. The notion that anything that doesn't fall into your line of thinking about martial arts is precisely the kind of overly-threatened attitude to which I'm referring, and the fact that you use constant references to how piss-poor other people's methods are for "real fighting" is further proof. You've regularly come across in the past as the type to discount any and everyone outside your "crowd" for not being "alive enough" or some other such nonsense, telling people their way of training will never cut it in a "real fight." You can't have it both ways. Either you're a guy who thinks you need to stay on the very cutting edge of reality because that's what it takes to be prepared, or you think that training that way is a matter of paranoia, and it doesn't matter all that much.
Or...
You're trying to sell your method, and in so doing, trying to appeal to everyone you can, contradictions be damned.
For me, I find it a little less than genuine to read your many posts about how nearly every other martial art is full of holes, and how nearly every other teacher is a fraud only to then read someplace else that you're "fine" with people training for whatever reasons they like. You get pretty passionate about the issue when it's about those who don't do the things that SBG has adopted as curriculum for someone that doesn't really mind.
Again, it brings us back to what level of experience gives you the ability to determine what will or won't work in a "real" fight. Can you speak firsthand as to what soldiers or cops need? Can you speak to what an average guy looking for self-defense will need? How? Could it be that you've just been taking other people's word for it because it makes sense, even though you have no way of knowing for yourself?
And most of all, if it's so beautiful not to have any ego about your training - why do you seem to have so much?
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