Kun Khmer Book Review

[george stando]

LOL! Too funny. The hate thing is getting tired. People like the dork think they are above criticism because they only surround themselves with the blind who dont question their insanity and bullshit.

[Johntlp]

The guy we write about is his own worst enemy. He writes nonsense then constantly backsteps to correct it or does his usual spin. We just point it out. Everything is so transparent and manipulative a child could figure it out. People must agree because this thread is still one of the more popular ones.

[Johntlp]

Post of the century alert from today:

"Even my Silat style is ground and pound!"

wasnt this the same guy who said this:

I am so fed up with Malay martial arts, my best advice about silat at this point is, go learn a real martial art. I have never seen so many fat, smoking, unfit, un-fighting, people in one room as i did in any silat event I ever attended. I have tried to support all sorts of traditional martial arts, but now that i am fighting again, my real opinions are coming out. if you are fat or a smoker, or if you want to practice ridiculous moves and then claim you can beat real fighters, silat is a perfect martial art for you.


Is he just forgetful or just writes idiotic things without thinking? The dork is without a doubt one of the most confused people on the planet.

[george stando]

This is getting absurd now. The guy is losing it.

[kyuss]

its funny the dork continues on in the new black belt he continues on about using bokator in mma though he hasnt utilized one move in any match he has had he says" the french martial arists take some of the seemingly useless bokator techniques and make them viable mma moves" fair enough but what does he know about using a tech in a high level mma match against a decent opponent? i mean at some point you got to say what does this guy really know about anything since he only spends about 10 minutes training and 300 hours talkign and writing about it. Its funny how he continues to sell and sell but recently he trashed wing chun as useless in his endless streams of nonsense that he blurts out senselessly.
of course once he reached a place with fighters his size and experience the fighting ended as we knew before he even went there. he found fighting in malaysia where there is little to no mma or people his size but cant find anything to train or fight in china?
dorkspeak: "Someone asked me if I was training in China. But I told them. I don’t have any place to train and no place to compete, so I just try to stay fit. I only go in the gym one hour per day for weights and thirty minutes for cardio. My friend laughed at me and I realized, for a normal person I guess that would be a pretty good routine, but it seems like nothing in comparison to fight training."

[tenzen]

I saw where he had posted that kyuss. Hes a fraud and knows nothing about martial arts. If he did he would know that training in some form of kung fu would benefit him a great deal being that he has wasted the last 15 or so years of his life pretending to learn martial arts. He calls himself the brooklyn monk because he spent time at shaolin temple yet wont practice kung fu even for the health benefits. He talks down about every style he tried to learn about before in favor of mma because he watched some videos. Guys a clown.

[george stando]

He is just tripping through his own wires. If you fight in mma, wrestle or do bjj and are of that world his writing is ridiculous its recycled stuff from others but no insight into training or understanding. His only link to validate himself is the bokator and his black krama so he keeps inserting it but ignores researching it or getting to the bottom of what he learned so his work is not to be trusted. He is a failed journalist and writer who tries to exploit martial arts thankfully at 45 he has some sort of temporary job but for the most part is not a shining example for anyone to follow.

[george stando]

Over 5,000 VIEWS!
Somebody is reading this

[Johntlp]

He has been utterly exposed and hung by his own words. Graceffo has no one to blame but himself. He continues to rant about peeps hating him like a baby but he should be questioned for what he is saying.

[tenzen]

This has to be the most popular thread on this site.

[kyuss]

couldn't resist. When stupidity rears its head we have to single it out. Another quality rant from the dork from brooklyn

""When I argue with people, using facts, they immediately attack me personally, They can't win using logic or research, so they call me fat, stupid, a bad fighter... hilarious the stuff they come up with. They often use curse words like Louisa said "buthole" and one of Christophe’s friends, who considers himself an intellectual, said "farts". Then they tell me to leave Asia. I am guessing this is simply an admission that they have no facts.""

When does the dork ever use logic or RESEARCH! Research is a dirty word to him. Try researching his black krama or going back and reading his statements about silat then spinning it all around.

Somebody should do some research into graceffo himself--now thats a story and a half!

[Johntlp]

That's Classic, Kyuss!
The dude writes like he is 12 years old. What about this one. How about he doesnt know what he is talking about, never ever did any research and never trained in any martial art to any depth to understand anything other than the surface or did just enough for him to sell himself and his brand of twisted truth that doesnt make any sense at all. This below just illustrates it to the tee:
"A few months ago, when I said "come to Cambodia and learn clinching, where they invented it" that was a horrible distortion of the truth, the verbal equivalent of massacre, a mistake that will haunt me till the end of my days. Sometimes I wake in the middle of the night, and dream that I am typing those cursed words. My finger hesitates over the "post" button. Then I press it, and I instantly wake up, knowing the atrocity I committed, and I scream "NOOOOOOOOO!" But it is too late. You cannot un-ring a bell. And the damage I have done to...someone...by writing those destructive words has left a scar on the very fabric of all that we hold dear. Children in Ethiopia will go to bed hungry because of those words. The recent US Embassy bombing was clearly a reaction to my jingoistic, pro-Cambodian post."

[Johntlp]

another good one. "30 years of martial arts" another myth more like 10 sporadic years with no mastery of any kind:

Dorkspeak: I am amazed at how many people who don’t do martial arts or fight, believe they would be better at it than me. I have trained more than 30 years of life, and without ever having trained, these guys are better than me. It is very humbling.

[kyuss]

Never fails to amaze me at all what comes out of his mouth. Beauty is his words and his writing that hang him out to dry. Its a record and an inconsistent one at that. The 30 years of martial arts training is absurd and his writing sort of starts about 10 years ago and he just posted this as well:
The dork-October 23 was my 11 year anniversary in Asia. Damn! I am getting old.
Antonio Graceffo(about cambodia): Less than 3 years in cambodia
You would think with all his "education" "language fluency" he would attempt some sort of credible writing on the topics and provide his source material instead of I am right and everyone is against me who criticizes him and thus wrong. Its juvenile for a man close to 50 years old and an embarassment. Like george says all the time how anyone can look up to this guy or even want to emulate him in anyway is beyond me.

Also this thread is pushing up to 6,000 views now so I assume a ton of people are keeping up with this!

[george stando]

I think its interesting to me and we spoke of this before that he is educated and has written articles on non martial arts topics that are mildly interesting but fails to do any real research into the martial arts side and tends to try to build on the hype and myth and he uses that himself to amp himself up. Odd. But its seems to me very, very calculated and manipulative. Like using Brooklyn, though he was born there he grew up in Tenn so it has hardly anything to do with him outside of a word and monk, was he ever a real monk and for how long? I am positive this thread opened up people to this because i got a ton of emails from people asking about the thread whereas in the past it was tons of threats and hollow postures from the hollow headed fools in the ether from lets say the chaiya side where the same thing was happening. I think people this thread more because its all of the dork's own statements, words and writing that is showing the reality of the situation. He cant blame anyone here for that.