Originally Posted by Mike Brewer

What a crock of shit. I bumped heads with Boar because he's an uptight, arrogant piece of shit that can take neither jokes nor criticisms and who's even worse at taking apologies or admitting when he's wrong.

Boar is famous here for his solid knowledge of all kinds of things. He is famous for being one of the best sources of information on TCMA around. He is also famous for being a complete baby when it comes to people who disagree with him, and for his ability to overstate, misconstrue, and flat out lie when it suits him. He said things about me and others here that were not true in any context, and he wasn't above taking any cheap shot that fit his agenda. Talk about not being able totake a punch, he went from telling me my service to my country was dishonorable because I was a PSYOP soldier to telling me I was a sell-out because I used MMA training methods to taking cheap shots at me for taking a security job to feed my family. For all hisw many merits and positive traits, Boar's ability to embody hypocrisy is something still virtually unparalelled here at Defend.net.

You weren't here for those arguments, so I fully understand your willingness to stand by your instructor. I'm not trying to change your mind or challenge your loyalty. I didn't want to make this a Mike and Boar thread, and I've tried to drop it several times now, TTE. I want to seriously suggest that you let it die.

My statement about the MMA attitude of superiority was purposeful. Boar is not an MMA guy. Boxing and wrestling do not mean MMA. Different animal. Boar has said he doesn't train MMA, but that he "knows a lot of people who do." Uh huh. I know a lot of black people. Does that make me black? He has a lot of prejudices toward MMA, which was clearly obvious in his accusations that I was a "sell out" for even suggesting that MMA training and techniques had any value at all. He has also shown an awesome capacity for lumping whole groups of people together and judging them by the actions of some. You do it regularly, too. Whether it is calling other tai chi people idiots because they don't read the same translations of classics that you do, or whether it's inserting yourself into an argument I had with Boar long before you ever knew about this board, you're showing precisely the kind of inability to be honestly self-critical that he did. Maybe something to that...

Of course, I tend to agree with you on most things, and I don't mind the things we disagree on because you seem to be man enough to argue issues without taking things too personally. I'd like to make sure things stay that way, and so I want to suggest that we not discuss Boar anymore. That argument was and is between he and I, and it doesn't need to play out again through proxies. Let that one go, please. I'm sure we can find all kinds of things to argue about all on our own.