1) Teaching anyone, let alone children and women sportive methods for the use of combat including but not limited to weapon defense and disarms multiple attackers is irresponsible. You won't find a reputable school that claims to teach SD or combatives that uses that approach.
2)Calling a school premier when you don't know what's being taught there is a fast way to get exposed as being full of shit. The Defense Institute does teach sport kickboxing and does train athletes for participation in MMA events. However, they do NOT blur the line between where sportive methods end and reality begins. I've already provided the link, but it wasn't necessary for me because I know that no one claiming to teach VAJ would make such foolish claims. Unlike some people, there is a strong, concrete curriculum that students don't deviate from.
And unlike Mike, people who have actually trained for more than 3 years don't have to make shit up as they go along. And its not just VAJ or the Defense Institute. I've been to Renzo's school in NY when he was partnered with Craig Kukuk and they have acknowledged that what they do in the ring is sportive. I have discussed this with Matt Serra, who lives in NY, trained under Renzo and been in the UFC and Abu Dhabi and he acknowledges that what he does is sport. A tough, demanding sport, but sport nonetheless. Matt Thornton has on occasion asked my senior to come to his schools and teach SD and its principles because while he loves and believes in MMA, he is intelligent enough to know that it isn't meant for the streets so he invites one of the best to come introduce his students to street reality. And Thornton flat out puts it out there: "SBGi is not a wrestling Gym, or MMA "fight club". These men are all great at what they do but have enough sense to call a spade a spade.
Who is Mike Brewer again?
3)Attempting to discuss subject matter that you don't know about with authority further exposes you as full of shit. No matter how you see it Mike Brewer, you were on the soft and hard topic running at the mouth yet again like you knew what you were talking about even though you admitted in your first post on the topic that you didn't. Several members posting there told you the same, but as usual Mike took it as an attack instead of realizing that people who DID know what they were talking about were telling him that his bullshit was transparent and he should read if he wanted to learn and stop preaching. Of course he opted to preach.
4)Constantly telling other people on an internet forum about how tough you are makes you lame. This is undeniably true. When you have to take time out to explain to people that you don't know that you've survived through odds and kicked ass that you can't prove, why bother doing it? Its so that you can lend some sort of "Fonzy" coolness to your posts so the younger posters who might be impressed by that bullshit won't question the things that you write.
5)Why write one thing to disagree with it later?
Originally posted by Mike Brewer
Originally posted by Mike Brewer
Its called hypocrisy. You agree, then you later disagree depending on your mood. You're saying nowadays that MMA methods are applicable in SD combat, but just above you wrote that on the street MMA is reduced to conditioning exercises and a mindset. Which is it? Toe jams must be tasty because you sure keep your foot in your mouth a lot, Mike.
Next you'll be making shit up about how we were saying that MMA fighters COULD NOT learn SD and that SD only works for non-MMA fighters.
The debate has always been about:
The way an intelligent man fights is designed around the most lethal ways that he can be harmed and/or killed which are edged weapons and firearms. His goal is to work smarter, not harder. His training is geared to maximize his efforts by being armed and dirty, not to be fair or fun.
You seemed to have understood that when you wrote the above quotes, but somewhere along the way you got lost. Are you now telling us that within a matter of months you, Mike Brewer, have devised a way for MMA to be all the things you said that it wasn't?
I doubt it. And the fact that you won't put your personal opinions about combat into practice by opening your own school to compete with the schools that you see as premiere means that you yourself don't even believe what you're writing.
Your feeble explanation as to how other schools are doing it is nonsense. StraightBlast is NOT an MMA gym and does not teach MMA as a form of street self defense. Defense Institute is NOT an MMA gym and does not teach MMA as street self defense. The Dog Brothers are not an MMA gym and do NOT teach MMA as street self defense. But you mention ALL of these schools to support your arguments, and none of them fit the criteria. They all offer MMA as a sport for competition and fun, but they all make it clear that they're not teaching MMA as a self defense method.
No one is. So you can continue to write as if you've won something here and pat yourself on the back about arguments that you fail to address. But in the end, all you'll have are the impressionable minds of people here who don't know any better. Have fun doing it, but while you are having fun think about this:
The man's school who you call premier for reality comes from the same family that I do and teaches the same SD foundation, fundamentals and skillsets that are found here at the headquarters in NYC. You call it premier yet argue against the same methodology that I have been writing all along, which is just another instance of hypocrisy.
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