In all the defensiveness you've all missed the point, I tried to equate it to something a few of you might have had experience with, sex. Apparently even that was too complicated to grasp. It's about the person and not the art. To see the flaw in the MMA concept you need to look no further than Frank Shamrock's loss to Cung Le, Cung Le used "flashy high kicks" and yet there are tons of MMA people and threads deriding them and claiming they don't work and yet when they were used on the Champion he was unable to adapt to something every MMA guy used to claim was a joke. It's obvious that defining what you can and will be attacked by causes you to build unrealistic expectations of what an actual opponent might try. If high kicks flustered him so badly imagine what a knife or two opponents would have done to his comfort zone. Finally I never said masturbation wouldn't help your love life I just said it built unrealistic expectations and whammo the insecurities jumped right out. Certainly any and all training can be helpful but like I originally said nothing except the real thing will ever truly prepare you for the event, until people can admit that they aren't being honest with themselves or their students.
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Originally Posted by Mike Brewer
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My first response is..."Um, yeah. That's why I also train for multiple attackers. Multiple attacker training doesn't prepare you to deal with guns at all, either...so I also train with and against guns."
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My first response is what the hell do multiple opponents or guns have to do with MMA? Not a damn thing except they're against the rules so you just agreed with me that MMA doesn't prepare you for them. And you can't deny they are a realistic expectation in a self defense situation. Thanks for backing me up Mike.