Style bashing
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Martial D
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You didn't make any point, or even address the topic. You made a bunch of baseless accusations in the form of an incoherent run on sentence.
Good for you for figuring out periods, though. That's progress.
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You haven't actually answered the question of what your experience is...you talk big but don't actually tell us what your training is. All I've seen is you did Kung fu for a while without knowing who your lineage is. Maybe you can tell us your vast expertise
Xue Sheng
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I'm guessing armchair martial arts with a healthy dose of Youtubefu
ShortBridge
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Right. Someone else on the internet claiming perfect knowledge of a subject who will never have to back it up.
Tedious.
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting though. He's just sitting at his keyboard making personal attacks on people, it's his idea of fun. He thinks he can 'trigger' ( I believe that's the 'in' word these days lol) people into hysterics by posting what he thinks are witty and clever remarks. he could be right but we'd be hysterical with laughter, nought else.
To paraphrase someone else, he's a good... bigly good martial artist, the best, he's going to make martial arts great again!!
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Xue Sheng
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I was saying goodbye to the fine fellow..... there was no fuss, trouble or difficulty
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Yet none of you have the wherewithal to address the points made, and many of you would rather speculate about my leet youtubefu than actually read what was said.
And it is the prevalence of that very attitude and behaviour that explains the facticity of my opening post. A mutual admiration society hostile to any sort of criticism.
Rarely does a thread come full circle so elequently.
And it is the prevalence of that very attitude and behaviour that explains the facticity of my opening post. A mutual admiration society hostile to any sort of criticism.
Rarely does a thread come full circle so elequently.
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I'm the guy on the right, testing for my 5th degree black belt. Who are you to make the rule that your can't train with these guys anymore?
I'm the guy on the right, testing for my 5th degree black belt. Who are you to make the rule that your can't train with these guys anymore?
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Mark Twain said something to the effect that it is better to let everyone think you are a fool rather than open your mouth and prove it.
Isn't it interesting how the saying you posted, and Mark Twain's, get proven so easily by some people.
Has it ever occurred to you that your chosen method of approach affects the response you get? Steve challenges me far more directly than you do to these folks, yet that only dissolves into frustration when we cannot manage to communicate clearly. Why? Because Steve seems to start from a more neutral, objective position, even when he and I disagree.QED
I couldn't script this any better.
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That could be but the usage of Adieu was inaccurate for that sentence....unless you wanted a play on words.
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Let us go to the point of your post...you are correct...but what makes it that you can dispel these myths...that is the question we are coming back with.
I've been in martial arts for decades, more than I care to think about really and I don't think that in all that time I've come across someone who was teaching fake martial arts for the money. For one thing there is little money to be made in martial arts here and another that faking your style seems a lot of work just to con people out of a few quid. Now I've seen instructors whose classes were to my mind, too easy or not robust enough, or they didn't teach what I consider practical self defence. Some classes might be too fitness orientated or not enough, they might be too macho/soft for my idea of what should be taught. That's in my opinion. I've seen a 'Samurai' fighting class that was more a historical recreation club than a martial arts class but while I though some of the stuff they taught was silly they were doing it out of genuine beliefs not with an eye to con anyone. They were actually lovely people who thought if they were attacked they could uncoil a piece of wire and stab their attacker's femoral artery, perhaps but not likely, however they weren't fake.
I'm sure there's fakes out there, just like the Walts ( people who fake a military career) but to come on here, rant and rave because we don't hunt them down ( isn't there a site for that.....?) then make personal attacks on people who disagree simply makes no sense unless you are trolling for whatever reason people do that for.... I imagine it's to do with the size of a piece of their anatomy...yes their little hands! what did you think I meant )
Ah well, I'm assuming this thread will shortly be locked.
I'm sure there's fakes out there, just like the Walts ( people who fake a military career) but to come on here, rant and rave because we don't hunt them down ( isn't there a site for that.....
?) then make personal attacks on people who disagree simply makes no sense unless you are trolling for whatever reason people do that for.... I imagine it's to do with the size of a piece of their anatomy...yes their little hands! what did you think I meant )Ah well, I'm assuming this thread will shortly be locked.
