Originally Posted by Pleasurepays

truer words have never been spoken. this sums up my feelings about Martial arts and certain styles in particular in the US and the fact that people tend to think they are the shit just because they got 2 years of Tae Kwon Do with some idiot who would get his ass handed to him by the average girlscout... and who convienently doesn't want to fight in tournaments or on the street because he's just "too deadly" or whatever.

shit., i go to Ballys everyday to work out and there are the stereotypical fuckheads there training people - same shit. Tae Kwon Do, Korean stuff, Muay Thai etc. I was watching these muay thai guys train and was asked to leave because it was making the two guys he was training insecure. i just laughed and said "let's hope and pray we never get to see how insecure they get when someone tries to attack and hurt them". that was just a couple weeks ago.

people train together in a gym and start buying into their own fantasy and bullshit, until the only reply to left to "hey, lets go out back and find out who is best... no animosity, nothing personal, lets just fight, find out, shake hands and go get a beer together afterwards" can be the famous kung fu reply - "well, i'd like to but the techniques we practice are just too deadly". Even in Go Ju, i saw a lot of this. every school had 3-4 kids who were just invincible warriors sent down by the gods in their own dojo... we always heard about them, they were always bragged about and theyalmost always got their asses handed to them the second they fought outside their little fantasy world.