Doc
Senior Master
Originally posted by rmcrobertson
Dear MJS:
Sigh.
First off, your same critique might be applied to all those neat grappling thingies. Nobody is going to lie there and let that go on.
Second off---please read carefully---I don't want to be a fighter in the sense you argue. Not at all. Never did. Not the point.
Third: yes. I actually would be willing to spend the twenty years. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW LONG IT TAKES. How long did it take the much-announced Bruce Lee? The Gracies? Gene LeBell? Anybody?
And last--you are mistaken about cross-training giving a clearer view of one's failings. I yield to no one in an understanding of my failings in martial arts.
You persist in seeing everything that disagrees as an attack. It's not. You should do what you think right--all I'm asking is that you maintain a little respect for those of us who see matters differently.
Interesting reading in this context includes (because it'll agree with you as much as with me) Gene LeBell, "Handbook of Judo," and Herman Kauz, "A Path to Liberation."
"Man is his own greatest dupe, fore he tends to believe what he wants to believe." - Plato (I think)