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Originally Posted by Garland
I think that's probably the smartest thing anyone has said in this goofy assed post so far...because I think that it is the main distinction. Putting megalomaniacal, ego-inflated sport fighters aside...training sport fighting (i.e. boxing, judo, jiu jitsu, etc etc etc) DOES add more (high percentage) tools to your arsenal, helps you prepare physically and mentally for the realities of a fight.
Self Defense people ("self defense" is probably a misnomer) sometimes train full contact, and sometimes can prepare their adherents to the realities of ACTUAL combat...but for the most part they are blow hard arm-chair warriors just spouting out their personal philosophies.
Somewhere in between is probably a nugget of golden truth.
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It's for damn sure that the large majority of RBSD/SD Guru's ain't ever been slapped by a chick much less been in a fight. On the other hand while I know it's in vogue to call the contests that happen in sporting events ring wars or call the athletes warriors, what happens in a ring isn't a fight, its a contest with rules, fights don't have rules. Any contest or fight that occurs that pits a ring seasoned fighter against a fighter from any system including combatives who has never been hit is going to go to the ring fighter. I don't have a problem with training in MMA, I have a problem with people who dismiss everything else that isn't MMA or can't be practiced in a ring. It's about the number of tools in the toolbox and leaving anything out shows a lack of common sense and supreme arrogance as well as an inability to comprehend reality.