 missed the point
you said silat had no developement, only one step sparring,and i agree that is lame, but thats seminar silat, not real silat. and there is nobody in america,teaching real silat as far as i know. its a waste, its like my experience in other arts, finding a teacher that really knows a system and is willing to give you all the details is extremely rare. but i agree, nowadays, there are many bjj, giving it away, which is why it works, its not watered down. but my point with you, again was that there are many other grappling styles, that are just as good, butb are not taught in america. the world is huge,and i have seen no ufc in thailand, or indonesia, or taiwan, or china, etc. and if we do, who knows if the best guys at their arts, are even known. but it would be interesting. we have ufc in japan, and theres mostly brazilians fighting. so out of that whole country, we get to see only like 5 fighters from japan, the we judge the skill of all japanese arts on that? we have probably seen a hundred brazilians fight, and we know bjj is effective, however, we saw maybe one japanese karate champ, one lame silat guy from america, a bunch of champuions from america, and people now say that thoise arts suck. duh, get a hundred silat guys from indonesia, or a hundred aikido guys, or a hundred kung fu guys from china, or a hundred karate guys, etc. i bet, after you see a few good fighters from their arts, you will change your opinion on the arts. its a sad representation of other arts, in comparison in numbers, to how many brazilians do vale tudo,and for how many years. they have done this fighting for 60 yrs,and you put a jap in, who never did nhb,and he gets killed,and you say his art stinks. its pretty biased |