Kun Khmer Book Review

[tenzen]

The plane boss the plane.

[Johntlp]

How is this one for humor

DORK-SPEAK- Desperately need opponents, BUT NOT if you have already been to UFC, One FC or Dare. Looking for fair opponents at our level. Ultimate Beat Down 8 in Ultimate MMA Academy in Johor Bahru, on May 5. We need a 90 kg opponent for one of our guys who is having his first MMA fight. We need a 78 Kg guy who would like to fight Muay Thai, and I still need two guys between 80-100 Kgs to fight me in MMA on 19,20 May in Johor, and they will get PAID.

DONT APPLY IF YOU ARE REAL FIGHTER BECAUSE YOU MIGHT BUST THE BUBBLE OF ILLUSION I HAVE BUILT!!! Guys must be stepping up looking for him. This tells the whole story.
Graceffo lives for sure in neverland...never face a real fighter!

[tenzen]

Guess im not the only one whos offered their hands. He must be catching alot of peoples attention with his behavior and they are challenging him. This is awesome. Interesting to see what he does now.

[george stando]

he will continue the same nonsense. Its all a game to prop himself up. They aint paying any money to fighters to make it worth it, they are in malaysia where there is little to no MMA and the dude is a heavyweight. He is going to continue playing this game and when the heat gets hot, he will go on to being a monkey boxer or whatever the next hot topic is. Funny he still wears the cambodian gear like he is repping cambodia and cambodia arts.

[tenzen]

And you hear absolutely nothing about his bokator being used in mma. But with more than 10,000 catalogued techniques surely some of it would appear in his mma fights or at least in his corny posts. Him and his bokator are a sham.

[kyuss]

The whole thing runs back to this bokator thing. I think people are already questioning the whole thing and investigating graceffo more closely. Maybe then black belt and all the other people supporting this hypocrite will shut him down. I know for a fact this thread has dented sales of the ridiculous kun khmer ego rant book. The dork from tennessee just went on a tirade on an opponent who backed out of a fight with him. Imagine that, they are not paying the guy anything, he had little to no mma fights and gracefool just wanted to take advantage of him and nobody rips the idiot for his childish behavior.

[Johntlp]

Another solid KO slap against the dork....gracefool complaining about money...not getting paid enough or having to pay expenses to fight...this comes from not wanting to fight real opponents in real places where competition is ripe and making a joke of it.....someone once again slapped the fool hard and KO'd him out with this brilliant statement summing up to me the ridiculousness of everything gracefool does and says-

RMC:"So why do you do this nonsense? What unresolved childhood conflict still haunts you? There is the distinct possibility that this is a largely meaningless display of almost nothing."

in the end we all know the bubble will burst and all the bullshit gracefool has laid out will be exposed beginning with the khmer situation! Gracefools whole life is a meaningless display of nothing. A new definition we can use to define him more clearly. Not my quote, it was from the facebook page of the gracefool madman dork from tennnessee and in answer to him complaining about money and promoters.

[kyuss]

A Brilliant quote that totally sums up the guy. I guess people are getting his number more and more.

[tenzen]

That quote could possibly send is author down in the history books with the likes of socrates and plato.

[kyuss]

The dork now has some further hilarity going on. Zawn the male model from Singapore backed out of a fight with the gracefool. The dork sensing an easy fight got upset so now he is name calling the model like a true bully(using the chaiya spin that everybody else is attacking them). But I think its revealing gracefools gay side, i think he just wanted to roll around with the male model. I got nothing against gay people or being gay but maybe gracefool is in the closet and frustrated and wanting to vent on a guy with a total lack of mma experience and get close to him. Why bother or care if a guy with no experience backs out of fight? Just my own opinion on this. The tough guy posturing by the dork from tennessee is hilarious. Does anybody think the guy is actually tough? Its more a WWE or WWF type of posturing than any real threat. The dude needs to get a job badly or like the other guy said stop acting like a child and get on with your life. OR for chrissakes fight real opponents in real shows!

[Johntlp]

Now you got me cracking up kyuss
interesting hypothesis though you might have a point there
but quotes like this from a 45 year old man just show you his 12 year old emotional level:
"So many other things going on in my life, like relentlessly harassing Zawen the no-show model and other important preoccupations"
he needs some anti-bully courses to educate him about bullying and how he really is the bully. dude needs to grow up fast.

[kyuss]

The dork is slowly admitting the obvious and what we have said all along. Big fish in a very microscopic pond. He refuses to step up and refuses to face reality. if he can't manipulate the situation and control, he wont do it. Who respects that? He is constantly talking up his "win", his prowess, calling out male models and being the bully, is this escaping him? All the problems would go away if he fought guys in shows where there are plentiful competition. He is hiding and doing his journalistic spin. His credibility or what remains of it is slowly eroding away. We have been saying this all along:
""Just to set the record straight, a few days ago, when I said I was having trouble finding opponents. I did not mean that I am so good. And I didn’t mean that I have fought everyone on the planet. I meant, in the whole Malaysia MMA there are only about 10 guys over 80kgs. I have already had 8 fights, so I have fought most of them. One idea would be to step up the level and fight in the bigger leagues, but so far, all of the opponents I have been offered were much, much better than me. ""
FRIGHTENING THING for today is the idiot is actually teaching people--kids no less--mma. Based on what skill level, what rank attained and what fight has he had where he proved any prowess against a known or game opponent? This is fantasy at the level of skill he possesses the dork is only passing on bad habits, poor set ups and a lack of progession you get from training with top notch coachs, trainers, fighters and schools. He doesnt seem to believe in training with top notch people or fighting good opponents since he holds no rank and doesnt believe in mastering anything at all but yet feels the need to teach what little he knows or scrambles together. This could possibly be the worst crime of all.

[george stando]

Teaching what???
The guy is like 10 years behind the times, the training methods, the techniques. Did anyone actually watch the fights? Pure amateur level. Its amazing what you learn working with top notch fighters and trainers especially in Brazil. You got to take your beatings to learn. If you avoid that then you avoid growing into a top level instructor, competitor, individual. Graceffo totally avoids that, totally avoids top level anything but yet is a coach or trainer? You are passing on your mistakes and your own make believe systems of training and development. In malaysia, he is getting away from it. This clown is is trying to be like conrad's lord jim, who keeps trying to make himself into this false hero. He is an expert promoter and salesman, no integrity,no credibility, no chops, no nothing. Every word, every step, every move, exposes that. And in every issue of black belt, there are more and more examples of this nauseating bullshit. reality is beyond him.

[Johntlp]

The one problem with him is EGO.
I only have been grappling for about 15 years and the difference when you step up and challenge yourself is ENORMOUS especially with new teachers and training environments.
I too watched the fights and listened to gracefool talk and he is like at least a decade behind. Watching dvds and trying to imitate only goes so far. Quality, top notch instruction and quality opponents and partners is essential to growth. He refuses as George pointed out.
You can only see as far as your experience so he BELIEVES through EGO he is good enough to teach, good enough for this or that but he will hopefully come to an awakening when and if he meets true top quality coaches and trainers.
I mean the only so called rank he possesses is bokator, he runs in the ring like WWE wrestler with the cambodian gear, so why not teach that if you are an expert in it- why teach something you havent mastered and just started learning? He has been exposed and yet he runs from the truth as been said. He is not doing bokator in the ring in any way shape or form.

[Tee Sok]

I agree with these last two posts, it makes me think about a Perry Ubeda interview
of many years ago in which he said if you want a fighter or a student to improve and grow then
don t protect him but train him harder and match him up with stronger sparring partners.

Graceffo saddens me, he met many different teachers some of whom looked good so why don t choose
one and train there, and by training I mean STAY there and learn everything you can.
He seemed to have a lot of time and money traveling around SE Asia and in my opinion he wasted
lots of both trying to be everywhere and to be the first to meet this or that teacher.
And then to turn his travels and memoirs in an egocentric venture and show.