What MA cliches wind you up?

[Touch Of Death]

Well, don't do sprites these, just a few Starbucks. Damn that caffeine is evil

I am supposed to be honoring a Starbucks boycott for some reason or another, I don't recall, but every time they announce the price of my double mocha, I re-affirm my boycott.

 

[Transk53]

I am supposed to be honoring a Starbucks boycott for some reason or another, I don't recall, but every time they announce the price of my double mocha, I re-affirm my boycott.

So you're in caffeine anonymous then

 

[Touch Of Death]

So you're in caffeine anonymous then

No, I am an home brewer.

 

[Steve]

The biggest of the current martial arts cliche of all:

90% of all fights go to the ground.

In fact, I wouldn't even call it a cliche.

I'd call it a lie.

Is it 91%? I can never remember.

 

[Transk53]

No, I am an home brewer.

OMG, I am already drooling. Home grown coffee?

 

[Touch Of Death]

Is it 91%? I can never remember.

It might be higher. At least one person will slip and fall. Even if you let him get up, it went to the ground.

 

[Touch Of Death]

OMG, I am already drooling. Home grown coffee?

Whoa! Slow down. It may say Seattle's Best, but we don't grow the stuff. I could hook you up with some wheat. LOL

 

[Transk53]

Whoa! Slow down. It may say Seattle's Best, but we don't grow the stuff. I could hook you up with some wheat. LOL

lOL

 

[Mephisto]

The biggest of the current martial arts cliche of all:

90% of all fights go to the ground.

In fact, I wouldn't even call it a cliche.

I'd call it a lie.

I referenced that quote earlier when someone posted some bs statistics. It's been true that most fights go to the ground in my experience but I wouldn't cite it as fact (unlike some posters here....ballen...cough,cough). I imagine it would be hard to scientifically come up with that figure but it may be possible to come up with something reasonably realistic. You'd probably have to go with a random sampling of a large number of youtube videos, that might be reasonably realistic.

 

[ballen0351]

I referenced that quote earlier when someone posted some bs statistics. It's been true that most fights go to the ground in my experience but I wouldn't cite it as fact (unlike some posters here....ballen...cough,cough). I imagine it would be hard to scientifically come up with that figure but it may be possible to come up with something reasonably realistic. You'd probably have to go with a random sampling of a large number of youtube videos, that might be reasonably realistic.

Don't hate bud just because I do it for real and you play at it in an oversize playpen

 

[Mephisto]

Don't hate bud just because I do it for real and you play at it in an oversize playpen

You're right, that's exactly what I do! I play in an oversized playpen!

 

[Steve]

Don't hate bud just because I do it for real and you play at it in an oversize playpen

I stayed at a holiday inn express.


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[tshadowchaser]

the saying that gets me going is:

"But what if"

 

[elder999]

I referenced that quote earlier when someone posted some bs statistics. It's been true that most fights go to the ground in my experience but I wouldn't cite it as fact (unlike some posters here....ballen...cough,cough). I imagine it would be hard to scientifically come up with that figure but it may be possible to come up with something reasonably realistic. You'd probably have to go with a random sampling of a large number of youtube videos, that might be reasonably realistic.

Only 42% of UFC fights go to ground. As for the infamous, and mythical "str33ts," well, sure-one could say that over 90% of those fights go to ground.

Usually, one person hits the ground, with the other one standing over them. Go figure.

 

[Cirdan]

"Aliveness"

 

[Mephisto]

"Aliveness"

Is aliveness a cliche? Either way it's an important and vital principal to include in your training. Real fight are "alive", I.e. You will get hit, and the attacks will be random. I see "alive" as the opposite of compliant basically. You need both methods to train but one should always be progressing toward aliveness.

 

[Cirdan]

Is aliveness a cliche? Either way it's an important and vital principal to include in your training. Real fight are "alive", I.e. You will get hit, and the attacks will be random. I see "alive" as the opposite of compliant basically. You need both methods to train but one should always be progressing toward aliveness.

I am already alive thank you very much.

 

[Tez3]

The opposite of compliant will be non-complaint, not 'aliveness' which is not really a word anyway because something is either alive or dead aren't they?

 

[Dirty Dog]

The opposite of compliant will be non-complaint, not 'aliveness' which is not really a word anyway because something is either alive or dead aren't they?

Well... there is some debate about whether or not a virus actually qualifies as alive or not.

But on anything resembling a human scale, you are correct.

 

[ballen0351]

Well... there is some debate about whether or not a virus actually qualifies as alive or not.

But on anything resembling a human scale, you are correct.

look at you getting all medical