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Originally Posted by TTEscrima
To claim any sport or art teaches you how to fight is like saying masturbation teaches you how to make love.
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Although I thoroughly enjoyed your analogy, I disagree.
I have worked, and continue to work, on both sides of the fence - that being the Security/Police/Military an also Combat Athletics. In my opinion and personal experience there are far more fighters, and I'm talking about people I would want stood behind me if my family was in trouble, in Combat Athletics than there are in the "street" game.
Only a very small group in the "reality" people are very good, the rest are talkers who hide behind stories of beating up drunks. In the Boxing gyms, Thai Boxing Gyms, and MMA schools I have been to I have found ten times as many people who would, and have, given me real trouble.
All of the common excuses, used time and time again, about rules, gloves, rounds and sports are typically used by people who call themselves fighters but would never have the balls to step in the ring. They prefer to stand at the side and talk about how its not "real".
After 15 years of martial arts, my functional ability has grown more in the last two years of training in amateur boxing. If you think its just masturbation, then maybe you haven't really made love yet
