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Originally Posted by TTEscrima
I never said I didn't practice combat sports, I just said none of them are the same as the real thing. I've been hit in the ring and I've been seen combat and I assure you there is a world of difference in someone actually trying to kill you and your opponent in the ring "trying to tear your head off". Sorry I missed out on bouncing I was too busy as a Master-at-Arms in the Navy for the last 20 years.
I notice some very defensive attitudes about this subject whenever and wherever its broached people protest way too much whether they're MMA or TMA people.
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I'm sure in those 20 years you've learned some things, given your MOS or I think the Navy calls is Rate.
The job of a bouncer, especially I'm told in England, is no joke. And I'm just going to say this flat out, by-in-large trained combat athletes are
far more dangerous than any "average joe" on the street, in the military, or in Law Enforcement, when it comes to hand-to-hand. Now, that may not be so once you start putting knives or broken bottles into the picture. A boxer or Thai boxer or submission wrestler may find him or herself out of her element once one or more persons draws knives or straight razors.
Look, even in U.S. prisons boxers and trained fighters are respected. Basically boxing and MMA gyms are some of the best institutes we have today for turning out modern day gladiators.
And to be honest with you, sometimes I get irritated with this idea that some one has to break their legs or necks to improve as a fighter. In the U.S. military people put ear plugs in their ears so they don't go deaf and can keep their hearing for when they need it come combat time.
Not to mention people have died in the boxing ring. And had Sherman or Forrest ever met hand-to-hand without weapon, against one of today's Thai boxers or BJJ practitioners, it would be lights out for both those Civil War Generals.
Yeah, if I'd want to learn how to do night raids on horse back, then I'd defer to Forrest. I'm not deferring to that chap (to borrow British slang) to learn how to throw with proper distance in my jab.
I don't post to often on the board, but every now and then I come around and browse. Not so long ago I was browsing and saw a video clip Michael Wright had put up of himself (if I remember it might have been with the Minnesota group?). I was very impressed with what I saw in both his hands and feet on focus pads (if I remember correctly). I feel confident in saying he would defeat most of the best street fighters on the "tough streets of the U.S."
I'm a U.S. citizen by the way, born and bred.
(I'm not trying to come down on you either, but I wanted to make a response because I think you unjustly, into much haste, jumped the gun on Michael W.)
Peace.