Hi Rick
Hundreds to thousands of people are fooled all the time by out-of-date self defence training and/or traditional martial arts systems. My statement was neither ignorant nor arrogant in any way and apologies to you Sir if I have inadvertently hurt your feelings by what I have said. My statement was actually empirical in its content and notice that I did not degrade or trash any system or anybody’s name nor did I attempt to make any personal comment- did you just call me an asshole?
Have you ever tried to choke someone out with one of those over sized helmets? You know the ones that are 4-times the size of the average human head? What about going to the ground and having to secure a position before you can strike, eye gouge and/or bite? Maintaining a strong side-control position where you trap the opponent’s jaw with your shoulder? What about takedowns? What about CQC combinations while maintaining anchors on the neck? Are you getting the picture? It’s really impractical training unless you are solving your problems exclusively within kicking and striking range. Of course people in-the-know realise that fights are won on the street in close quarter range and if something goes wrong and you end up on the ground, you had better understand how to neutralise the threat and get back to your feet, so I stand with my statement that this type of course – the one with the Elephant Man as the bad guy – will give your students (mostly women) a false sense of security.
For your information: yes I do have a website. Yes, I do sell things on the website. I’m sorry the pictures were not to your taste. My last website, which was designed by me and had more appealing pictures to fellow martial artists, had an average of 150-400 hits per month. My new site, which was designed and marketed by professionals, now gets between 17,000 to 20,000 hits per month. Big difference, eh? I am sorry that you feel I am an ego maniac- have we met and/or trained together? I don’t seem to remember the name.
Rewinding to my original reply to Kvntu, I merely asked how my post related to his comments regarding that I was out for financial gain and/or self importance issues. If I was trying to sell something, like a seminar and/or a DVD, I would have just posted a link for a new release or an announcement for an up coming seminar like I have done many times in the past. As far as self important issues go, I don’t suffer fools gladly. |