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Ok guys flame on this if you want but:
Most true eastern schools of martial arts are strictly against exhibitions of power. You can go on all day about how they are afraid to get in the ring and mix it up and they are hiding. But look at some of your own philosophies... do you show everything you have off, then why should they? Do you think it is a good idea to put on tape your fighting system so that others can learn how to defeat it? The reason TKD and Karate are so stagnant and their fighters easy to defeat is that you have been watching their techniques your whole life. You know what their kicks look like, their punches, their rolls, their moves, VERY little of it is unknown to you in its essence and so you can fight against it. Go back when the system was secret and new and it was very differant Karate = win on the streets.
Street and Octagon are WAY differant. In the octogon you are both wearing simular clothing, you have a non porous fighting surface and no weaponry, you are also in a climate controled area. What would Hoyce Gracie do if someone threw a garbage can at him and ran in after it to tackle him? How is his roll out effected by hitting a hard non mat surface? BJJ is not any more an ultimate fighting system for everyone than Jun Fan Jeet Kun Do, just because the originator was hardly defeated does not mean it will hand down to you. I know Capoeira Maestros who have hardly been defeated but I think the system relies way to much on being in perfect physical condition, their holes are filled with BJJ but so what. What happens in JuiJitsu when you fall wrong and break your arm.....oh oh no more arm bars or chokes now are there? What do you have to fall back on? At least if the Karate guy breaks and arm he can still kick.
Basing the validity of any system on exhibitions is foolhardy. Sure it shows you some basics but I would not study under any "master" who has multiple high ranks in multiple forms or fighting that is not over 40. Plain and simple how did a 30 year old get enough time to multi master a single let alone MULTIPLE forms. Looking over the info of this guy he had to have started training at 10 to get 20 years of experience. But split all his training up and you get basically about 4-5 years training in each and overlapping is terrible. Karate and the other forms are very differant. BJJ says basically that karate principal does not work throw it out, Karate says Mui Tai is good but is not balanced, Mui Tai says that all others lack the use of all 5 points of the body, Krav Mega (which seems to be his newest mastership) says throw it ALL away it is not direct enough. To me this man is a jack off all trades, a knowledge of many but a master of none..... oh yeah he IS a master, of all of them it seems WOW.
And i know it is rare on the boards but some of us actually care about people. I for one do not know who you are but I would hate for you to spend money with someone who is going to teach you things that might get you hurt. This is another thing in eastern martial arts.... brotherhood of warriors.
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