I couldn't read all that ranting!
Anyway, what your saying means this to me - that some people can become good fighters DESPITE their arts. I know you don't mean to, but thats what it adds up to. I know what you mean about training methods though. A thai Boxer doing Kata, punching thin air and walking up and down a Dojo isn't gong to get very far.....but hats partly my point. This kind of crap training is synonimous with TMAs, whereas the boxers and Thai Boxers just don't do it.
Theres also a parallel between trad Japanese Jiu Jitsu and BJJ types. One does loads of pre-arranged, rehearsed techniques, and the other rolls about (under guidance of course). OF COURSE a Japanese Jui Jitsuka could train in more BJJ type ways.... but that doesn't mean that JJJ has made him hard core.
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