Champ-Pain
Blue Belt
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DONE! That was easy enough.I'm talking about using the ignore feature on the forum. It will disable his posts from your view.
Anyways, lets try to return to the topic.
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DONE! That was easy enough.I'm talking about using the ignore feature on the forum. It will disable his posts from your view.
Anyways, lets try to return to the topic.
Cyriacus: I can almost guarantee I will NOT hit the display button, in this case. I appreciate your opinion and I tend to agree that it's gone on long enough... but I'd like someone, anyone to answer one question before this thread is locked/closed:
If winning is irrelevant, then why do so many athletes train, practice and sacrifice so much, so hard and so regularly, in order to do so... sweating, bleeding and on occation crying, due to pain, exhaustion and injury, some even cheating, doping and/or using performance enhansement drugs, in order to win at whatever sport they participate in?[/QUOTE]
For the money!
Cyriacus: I can almost guarantee I will NOT hit the display button, in this case. I appreciate your opinion and I tend to agree that it's gone on long enough... but I'd like someone, anyone to answer one question before this thread is locked/closed:
If winning is irrelevant, then why do so many athletes train, practice and sacrifice so much, so hard and so regularly, in order to do so... sweating, bleeding and on occation crying, due to pain, exhaustion and injury, some even cheating, doping and/or using performance enhansement drugs, in order to win at whatever sport they participate in?
Really? How about the amateur athletes who don't get paid?Cyriacus: I can almost guarantee I will NOT hit the display button, in this case. I appreciate your opinion and I tend to agree that it's gone on long enough... but I'd like someone, anyone to answer one question before this thread is locked/closed:
If winning is irrelevant, then why do so many athletes train, practice and sacrifice so much, so hard and so regularly, in order to do so... sweating, bleeding and on occation crying, due to pain, exhaustion and injury, some even cheating, doping and/or using performance enhansement drugs, in order to win at whatever sport they participate in?[/QUOTE]
For the money!
If this is considered a threat by you or anyone else in the planet - I'll take the ban, immediately. Who am I even threatning, I'd like to know?Guess who else lives in Australia... maybe I'll get lucky.
If this is considered a threat by you or anyone else in the planet - I'll take the ban, immediately. Who am I even threatning, I'd like to know?
I think someone is just very insecure about themself and is crying over spilled milk, calling on you and others to clean up the mess he can't clean up by himself.
You know what, I'm a little bored. So I figure I'll throw something different in here....
Considering you (JC) have decided to post this in the "General Martial Arts" section, rather than the "Competitive Arts" section, I'm going to say that, in regards to competition and sport, sure, winning is the aim and therefore important (note: not all-important, but it is still what you strive towards... whether than means winning each time, or just improving and getting closer to the elusive win, the aim is to get to the top there, it's really how they're set up), however in martial arts, absolutely not. Martial arts have nothing to do with competition, winning, losing etc are not concepts that have any real place in their context.
I'll see if I can explain where I'm coming from here.
I have a background in a form of Karate that was developed specifically to win tournaments, as well as a form of TKD, which focused on a more competitive training approach; I've won and lost tournaments. And none of it has anything to do with what martial arts actually are. All they are, really, is the application of technical methods taken from martial arts in a competitive environment.
One big difference is in the mind set. It's not uncommon to hear, in competitive forms, that you need that "killer instinct", and that sounds all martial art-y, doesn't it? After all, martial arts are methods of violence and killing, aren't they? So you could hardly have a martial art without this "killer instinct", could you? Actually, yes. In fact, a "killer instinct" approach takes you away from a martial approach. It is limited, as it is only designed for a single approach, it is overly aggressive to the detriment of other options, and removes the other legitimate strategic approaches that any martial, or military methods require.
What's actually needed, when dealing more with the older, traditional martial arts, is not a "killer instinct", it's a "killer intention". Essentially, I don't give a damn about winning or losing, I care about killing you. My only intention is to kill you. My aim revolves around killing you. The only important thing is, you guessed it, killing you. When I come in as an attacker in my training, I am aiming to kill my partner (with control, but without remorse or concern for them on an emotional level that way). When I am the "defending" partner, I aim to kill my partner in the same way.
"Winning" is thoroughly irrelevant if discussing martial arts. And yes, I know the context that you have been using it in, but as we are in the General section, perhaps a broader understanding could help you here.
Especially if that certain someone you are trying to ignore has the power, or knows someone on MT who has the power to reverse the process I took in hitting the ignore button, just for a few moments, just long enough to have me see it, and then hit it to block his posts, once again. I know for a fact, I didn't hit the view button, yet it was very viewable to me.I told You You'd Read a Reply eventually
If You Ignore someone, Youll Inevitably Read one of their Posts eventually.
Really? How about the amateur athletes who don't get paid?
The pay off for them is satisfaction, a sense of achievement, self esteem etc. No one does this and doesn't get something back. We wouldn't do it if it were all bad.
Especially if that certain someone you are trying to ignore has the power, or knows someone on MT who has the power to reverse the process I took in hitting the ignore button, just for a few moments, just long enough to have me see it, and then hit it to block his posts, once again. I know for a fact, I didn't hit the view button, yet it was very viewable to me.
Especially if that certain someone you are trying to ignore has the power, or knows someone on MT who has the power to reverse the process I took in hitting the ignore button, just for a few moments, just long enough to have me see it, and then hit it to block his posts, once again. I know for a fact, I didn't hit the view button, yet it was very viewable to me.
Especially if that certain someone you are trying to ignore has the power, or knows someone on MT who has the power to reverse the process I took in hitting the ignore button, just for a few moments, just long enough to have me see it, and then hit it to block his posts, once again. I know for a fact, I didn't hit the view button, yet it was very viewable to me.