nah i think Gene believes people should be able to say what they want as long as they keep it civil. or rather not too offensive.
nah i think Gene believes people should be able to say what they want as long as they keep it civil. or rather not too offensive.
"better to reside in hell knowing the truth than to be blissfully ignorant in heaven."
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."- Doug Adams
I dare you to make less sense!
"Freeze?! You know if i drop the tooth fairy i'm only gettin' started mother****er!"
"It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin
Don't get me wrong I have never said or will ever say that ALL kung fu SCHOOLS are great. JMD will tell you I'm one of those very few. Most of the confusion and BS spewed around comes from that bottom of the barrel.Don't just take my word for it.
Even kung fu people support my views.
Here's a quote from another thread:
Quote:
Originally Posted by jmd161 View Post
Basicly CMA boils down to one of these two.
1. Those that don't say much and train and can fight.
2. Those that talk alot gather forms and can't fight.
Most CMA (TCMA,TCFA) whatever you want to call it falls into the second choice. I've been around martial arts a long time and have seen both. The first is as rare as an actual Big Foot sighting
There are so many frauds and phoneys within the CMA relm it makes your head spin. I've seen many skilled martial artist don't get me wrong, but i've met "VERY FEW" that can actually use their chosen art with any regularity. Basicly i've seen many skilled kickboxers, i've met only a few actual CMA fighters.
At the very least JMD practices what he is commenting on and has a firm grasp of what the realities in Kung fu are. You, on the other hand, have only a vague knowledge of our subject.
Last edited by SifuAbel; 10-22-2006 at 07:02 PM.
KFM should get rid of the emoticons and instead have style and rank graphics so we can tell who the outsider non-CMA non kungfu people are, and call them trolls. Kinda like e-budo or bullshido, but for Chinese and Kung fu (non-chinese chinese.)
Lets have a poll!
strike!
totally missing the point again Abel
I "put down" those who live in la-la land and yet spout how "deadly" their kung fu is.. though I see it as simply interjecting reality into a faulty world view
The level of skill I had with my sifu isnt' even relevant to what I was talking about
Isn't it? You said you've only seen your skills for what they are when you created this san da group.
I'm not even sure that is English
The fundamental difference between when I (or Seven or Knife) make comments about a technique's application or effectiveness and quite a lot of others associated with CMA is that (1) we've tested it against resisting opponents in "alive" situations and (2) we test it frequently under a variety of conditions
How often does someone tell you that they used "technique x" once in a fight and it worked? As if that's justification? Once? Against who? It's possible to KO someone with a tornado kick once, it is still a low percentage technique compared to a knee to the head.
Or, what I like to call "idiot testing".... lots of stuff works against someone with no clue, heck, try it on your little sister Is that the standard CMA should strive for?
you're right Abel, everyone doing CMA can fight, they're deadly... in a real fight they'd all take Shogun, Fedor and Hughes out without much trouble