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Professional Fighters,Instructors,Bodyguards,Bouncers,Stunt Work
Who here does Martial Arts for a living?
-Badger
Who here does Martial Arts for a living?
-Badger
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Talk about a dream job... -
Are you kidding, man?
It's a nightmare...
Apart from pro fighting and stunt work, I've done just everything:
Instructor: People left you because school is too hard, usually they want results with zero effort, and they are endlessy searching for the magical move or system that will transform them in super-warriors.
Bodyguard: My career has endured only three months; try to stay in a car for eight hours at night pissing in a bottle, bored as sh!t while your boss is f.ucking upstairs with a viado...
Bouncer: If you work as a doorman you'll end up eating all sort of insults usually ending sued if you perform amatorial face surgery...
Want a dream job?
HUGH HEFNER....he's the man I would reincarnate into...
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I think teaching(I teach private lessons & love it)full-time would be a dream job if you could do it without becoming a McDojo or Belts R Us.
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Would you like fries with that blue belt?
I think that running your own school would be prett hard, if you don't have a name, and you don't want to become a McDojo. Underdog sounds like he's been through some of the more frustrating points of a martial arts career. I'll take his experience, and learn from that
. If you have a class that's very hard, you will churn out some great fighters, but chances are, like he mentioned, you'll lose a lot of people, because the armchair martial artist is the norm here in America.
I would like to do martial arts movie choreography, or something like that. I would hate to run my own school. Fighting professionally would be cool. Then if you're good, and people dig your style, then it would be easier to run a school without worrying about losing less dedicated people, becaue they know what they're getting into before hand. Bodyguard....no thanks. I don't think I'll be placing the importance of some most-likely egotistical, jerk, because he pays my bills. Bouncer....I'm kinda small for that kind of stuff. private instructor to the stars....that's where the ca$h is! unfortunately they're movie stars, so you'll be making a McDojo.Comment
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Well, I wouldnt mind bouncing at really high class clubs, being an instructor to movie stars or becoming a high class bodyguard to beautiful movie starts, singers, athletes such as the LA Lakers or Jennifer Lopez, rap stars and of course my number one love JESSICA ALBA!! Aye Caramba!
You were a bodyguard Underdog?? What kind of training did you have to go through? Any stories? How about in bouncing?
PS-Damn you for crushing my dreams and making me face reality again!
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And yes, being an instructor in a school would be really stressful. You need to make money and attract students and at the same time try to produce kickass fighters. Must be really hard to draw the line? What would you choose, all the money and fame with sucess? Or being a poor bum who can barely support himself but producing less that 10 very hardcore fighters, while being surrounded by less competent instructors making 100,000s of dollars with a following of 10 year old black belts?Comment
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Like I've posted before I consider myself first and foremost a handgunner, that is what I'm really proficient at, second I'm a martial artist. Being in the handgun trade by my very early teens, I was more or less attracted by the bodyguard's lifestyle. Bear in mind that when I was mid-twenty "The bodyguard" was N°1 at box office everywhere. I checked out some BG schools here in italy and even contacted Bob Duggan's ESI school in Aspen (USA) but what they did teach left me disappointed to say the least. I were far more skilled in the weaponcraft than all instructor I've met then, and what they did teach reagrding hand-to-hand skills was laughable. The harsh reality is that if the goverment has trained you well (police, SF, etc.) and you can prove it, then you will recruited and well paid. If not, you are relegated to do broomwork for the main BGs. If someone has not been in special forces or the like, his best bet are attendig a REALLY renowed driving school. Chaffeurs are highly on request.
As for me, I've done my military service in SF, (Recon) but I did it for the forced-enlistment-one-year only. So it didn't count. As I've posted, my duties as bodyguard were staying at a luxury hotel door, escort a lady for shopping, and staying in a car waiting for orders.
My stint as boucer was a by-product of martial arts training, actually I was recruited because there was a voice around that I was good at fighting.
Maybe later I will post same funny stories, I had alot of laughing and some scaring moments...Comment
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Yes, I would really like that. Whenever you have the time. Your one of the most interesting character's I've met. What do they teach in driving school?Comment
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I don't have first hand experience in driving schools, they are too expensive, albeit useful, they are divided in:
-safety driving: how to control the car under every condition (ice, rain, emergencies, etc.)
-defensive driving: how to escape roadblocks and car chases at VERY high speed. They teach every sort of high speed manouvers: Chicanes, triple Js, bootleger's turn, etc.
-offensive driving: RAMMING trough an obstacle, and driving with someone armed, positioning the car in the most favourable mode for shooting.
Back in the '90 myself and a bunch of friend buyed a used BMW 2000cc to do all of this. There were crazy days, I burned a tire set in one day doing J turns an bootlegers...
I adore fast cars, I owned a peugeot 205 GTI (160hp), a Renault williams (197hp), and now I just sold my Fiat Coupe (250hp and 260 km/h) and I don't know what to buy; maybe a used 911....Comment
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Damn! Thats really cool! Straight out of the movies!Comment
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to underdog: ehhe, its nice to hear people talking about some REAL cars.. i was born in the uk, and my dad hadbeen brought up with the scottish roads, cars, and mountain type roads.. he always tells me how drivers in north america seem to have there brains turned off when they drive, and how back in europe the cars have much better engineering and more efficient engines.. he takes me out to practice these sorta manoveurs too.. back where your from, there must be some real nice windy roads to drive on..Comment
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Chopstix: a tourist from UK once told me that my sourroundings are very similar to "Brekon" or "Breacon" in England, I don't know WTF that would mean.
There is a english mag: "Evo" that just recently it's been sold here in Italy, it's wonderful: it seems that UK it's the paradise of Kit Cars, wonderful!
I'm planning to buy a new peugeot 206 GTR, there is some friends of mine that can mount a turbo in it, it will reach 180hp and 235km/h, what do you think, do you like it?Comment
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yeah man, some nice tuner cars come from england, efficient
tuber.. i like turbos because they dont tak e up any extra fuel and when your in the mountain roads that are at high altitudes, you dont lose any of the power from lack of oxygen, the turbo makes up for that..
haha, you konw underdog, your attitude towards fighting, training, guns and cars reminds me of my dad so much its scary! must be a european thing! hehe..
take care man..Comment
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Underdog, it sure sounds like you've lived a very interesting life. I look forward to hearing more of your war stories.Comment
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