Uke

Throughout your entire post, all you offer is opinion based on more opinion. That's why it’s apparent to everyone here that what you have to say is book learned rather then apparent from experience. Your statistics and theories mean nothing here, and your doubt isn't even reasonable. Your doubt is just cynical for the purposes of covering up the fact that you haven't been exposed to serious violence outside of frat parties and friendly gatherings where a pushing match breaks out.

No one ever claimed that anything was guaranteed or a "silver bullet". The man in this story can tell you that. HE GOT STABBED IN THE GUT, SHERLOCK!!!! No one is completely safe and like Tant01(*groan* he beat me to it) pointed out RBSD doesn't make claims like Helio Gracie's statement likening BJJ to a bullet proof shield. RBSD doesn't grant you "spider sense" either. It does however train you to move passed panic, execute finishing force in the most expedient manner, survey the situation and get the hell out of there. In the time it took the man in this incident to finish his attackers and call for help you'd either be laid out bleeding or still tae-bo kicking and punching at three men who were armed.

Most RBSD "guys" that you've had contact with might tell you anything. The RBSD pioneers that I have known throughout my life told and taught me what I am telling you.

I don't think that you think anything, Garland. I responded to what you wrote, which was a representation of what you think. I don't have to assume what you know to make certain statements. The ignorant things you write tell on you like a bratty little brother. And that's not me calling you a name. That's me recognizing that you write about what little you do know and then fill in the obvious holes with your own assumptions about training you've never had.

And yes RBSD practitioners die less. My entire time spent in the martial arts community has been around men who had high rank in other arts like muay thai, BJJ, kung fu, karate, jujitsu, judo, aikido, boxing, escrima, tae kwon do ... and they all come to my teachers after being in a street altercation that made them realize that what they had spent years learning didn't prepare them for what they faced that night of awakening.

In fact, in most noteworthy RBSD systems, more than 50-60% of the white belts have black belts in other systems! They don't just wander off the street and say "Make me a street fighter". They all have been placed in situations that forced them to admit to themselves that although the loved what they did for years, it wasn't made to keep them alive or even safe when it counted. No one would spend 10 years practicing a system in an effort to master and compete in it and then just completely abandon that training all of a sudden in favor of something else if that new training didn't offer something totally different that appealed to their need to accomplish an end.

I don't have to bet my life, Garland. I have defended against and taken away knives. I didn't get cut either, but then again that wasn't guaranteed. Getting cut wasn't my biggest worry nor should it be anyone’s. Where I got cut before I could finish was. If you're waiting for me to write some grandiose bar fight story like Brewer used to then you'll be waiting until you stop breathing. The funny thing about Brewer in this context is that he wrote dozens of stories and even started a topic called "Story time", but in probably his best post ever he stated:

That was probably the truest thing he ever wrote. Yet he wrote post after post recounting many details and telling hero stories for the children here around the proverbial campfire. I don't have to remember details to know training. You on the other hand are left doubting because you have no idea what training lies outside of tae-bo tactics. You are sitting here, telling people who have seen it, learned it and done it that it can't be done with regularity.

Maybe you get mugged with regularity on the mean streets of Salt Lake City Garland, but even here in NYC few people get mugged with any regularity unless they're being targeted by a specific group. Corrections officers, who are called NY's boldest, use these tactics more than police or the military. They are locked in with NY's worst for 12 hour shifts, and they don't have guns or blades. The prisoners often have all types of nasty improvised weapons. I can tell you that they aren't using muay thai, boxing or any other tae-bo method to stay alive.

This isn't about bragging rights. This about what I know thanks to better men. This is what I have learned thanks to the benefit of their experience. This is about what I can state with confidence because the knowledge that they passed on has worked many times over for me. This isn't "Uke's method". This is modern RBSD's method. Many of the guys that you talk to here aren't from the same system as me, but those guys know that what I'm saying is true because they also are rooted in the same principles. In fact, I can almost guarantee that at least one or two of them have said out loud "Osu!" while reading some of the things that I've written, but what do you know about that?

Its like DJForest said and I'm sure he was referring to you, but not only you:

If you think I'm ignorant that's fine, Garland. I KNOW that you're ignorant. That's not the same as stupid. Its just an absence of knowledge. I think you're an articulate guy, but it seems that you're trying to extend your grasp of science and philosophy to include methods of combat that you clearly haven't ever been exposed to except for on the internet.

In your last response, like in the first, you exaggerate the scope of my explanations of RBSD in order to find points to argue. You imply things like "never can", "couldn't ever" and "always will" and pretend that those are my words or sentiments. Hence, the silver bullet analogy. You have no real argument, only whimsical jabs and uninformed doubt that lead you to tell those who have done a thing for years that it cannot be done.

That would be where the hubris and ignorance come in, spanky.

You do your best to mention RBSD systems and icons ...

... because that's all you know. You hear about a couple of names, then look them up on the internet and consider yourself enough of an authority to discuss them. That's like if I decided to talk about magic tricks I could say "Oh yeah ... Magic/David Blaine/Criss Angel/Harry Houdini". I'd be basically bullshitting my way through a conversation because I knew two or three names that I could mention to seem in the know. Name dropping and knowing shit are two different things.

And psssss ... *whispering* WWII RBSD ain't the only RBSD out there, spanky. Hasn't been since WWII ended. Now go run along and act like you know about that too.

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