"I do MMA"

[Jaguar Wong]

Years ago, I heard a (probably highly embellished) tale of a Japanese game show. Contestants were strapped to a trolley, and told that the trolley was going to be run through a cage of wild animals. Once they were all psyched up, the trolley was set rolling; roars and growls were played back at high volume and game show staff hiding below the line of sight of the trolley reached up to swat at the contestants with tiger paws on sticks.

I don't know the Japanese name of the show, but in the states it was called "Endurance". That one was great because they showed the contestants what happens when they rolled a chunk of meat through with real tigers in the cages. Then as the contestants were going through, they did the paws on sticks thing. But I guess that's way off topic.

They also tied a dummy on a post in the middle of a bull fighting arena, and had a bull charge full bore through it, then had the contestants (with their backs turned to the door) tied to the post, standing there as long as possible when the heard the bull coming before they lost their nerve and bolted to safety. But the "bull" was a goofy looking cart or something like that with realistic bull sounds playing as it charged the guys. Classic Japanese TV hijinx.

Can't say if you'll be the one with the paw on a stick, though. Omega (the real tiger) will determine that I imagine.

[Jeice]

Y'see, the cream of it all is that in 50 yrs there will be schools everywhere and kids in schoolgrounds saying "don't mess with me man! I know mma!!!" and striking a lidell victory pose for a fighting stance... oh the humanity, the mma moms, the light contact mma tournaments... it will be so sweet. :headbang:

[Emevas]

Y'see, the cream of it all is that in 50 yrs there will be schools everywhere and kids in schoolgrounds saying "don't mess with me man! I know mma!!!" and striking a lidell victory pose for a fighting stance... oh the humanity, the mma moms, the light contact mma tournaments... it will be so sweet. :headbang:

I honestly forsee this. I know it's gonna happen with Muay Thai with the release of Onk Bak.

[Gezere]

GOING TO HAPPEN? That shit DID happen back win JCVD release KICKBOXER!!!

[Emevas]

I'm sorry Grandpa but I'm far too young to remember the 1980s =P

[Gypsy Jazz]

Please for the love of everything sacred and the longevity of the legs of others convince this ass that unless he has been properly taught how to do a leg/ankle lock of any sort he shouldn't be using them. If it's a straight achillies the chances of injury are comparably pretty low, but if this guy thinks "OH WOW HEEL HOOK I AM SO COOL I SAW THIS ON TV" it could seriously screw up someone's leg for a while.

Once you kick his ass thoroughly you should explain to him just how ignorant his is and point him in the right direction.

[JKDChick]

WHAT THE FUCK IS IT ABOUT WING CHUN THAT ATTRACTS THESE DIPSHITS?

[Lampa]

WHAT THE FUCK IS IT ABOUT WING CHUN THAT ATTRACTS THESE DIPSHITS?

Apiritions of the image of Bruce Lee conjured by fast Chinese men who make faces? Promises of being street deadly without engaging in anything that reminds them of what the kids who beat them up in high school did?

[Zeddy]

He's doing Judo, he's on the right path. Just gradually get all that other nonsense out of his head and he'll be fine.

I'm pretty sure after he's slammed into the mat and subbed a few times his head will straighten out. In the meantime, the regulars can have fun with him. =)

What the hell is with all the hot asian women in avatars???

That wasn't an actual complaint, was it?

[Matadon]

...promises of being street deadly without engaging in anything that reminds them of what the kids who beat them up in high school did?

I think this is a big thing, really; I know I was orignally attracted to my first McDojo, because I didn't want to fight, to learn how to fight. Hey, at 16, logic wasn't my strong point. It wasn't until after I had spent a few years lifting weights, and discovered that once you leave high school the bullies end up either working at McDonalds or in prison, that I was willing to try actually fighting.

[Strong Machine]

I goddamn HATE the term Mixed-Martial-Arts.
I get at least one call a week from a guy asking what arts we mix.Then he'll say "I do MMA too, we combine tang so do and TKD at my school" or something like that.
I just find putting "martial arts" in there gets the crazy idiots that TMA attracts looking into MMA.
I hate saying to cause it sounds so lame... but lately when asked what arts we mix I just say "we do ultimate fighting".And then they get it.But I can't shake the feeling that something called ultimate fighting should only be done by extreme skateboarders and other wanna be badasses with noserings and spiky hair.

[patfromlogan]

Good post Matadon and when I tried to + Sophist I couldn't so I looked at his list and sure enough, he was the one who'd made a good post in ShoTokan. Welcome to the site.

And encourage the n00bs in class! Make converts. I've found that nerdy awkward types really LIKE being shown things like double legs and high/low punching combos and like I saw eyes lighting up when I showed some of the low rank belts how to add the breaks to that takedown (with the take down keep the arm high and when they hit place your knee on their shoulder joint and if you have a good grip you can pull up sharply and take out the shoulder as they land and hit the elbow here while pulling them this way and the wrist breaks and... meanwhile we circle around and Sensei takes a young strong bb on the doubled up mats and shows how to take a simple ashi-guruma (school yard trip) to the double leg (osoto?) and shows 'em how, "like most Judo throws you can drob them nice on their back, or harder on their shoulders, or like this..." and he flips the guy heels over head and body slams him face first and says, "Now of course you could just as easily spike him on his head...." And they LOVE IT!

Fuck that's a long post...

[Sophist]

He came back. Months and months without seeing him, and then he turns up at another judo club I've been frequenting lately.

I think, "Heyyyyy! Wing Chun MMA guy! Time for some ne-waza!"

So I grab him, and we roll.

He kicks my ass. Not severely, but consistently. Gets a pin, an (admittedly judo-illegal) guillotine neck crank and position for a triangle choke within two five minute sessions of randori (time ended with the choke yet to start being applied).

I'm a bit miffed.

It turns out that in the interval since I last saw him, he's been training BJJ.

Not funny. Not funny at all.

[MrMcFu]

Damn yo. Well, at least he got some sense. Did he talk some smack afterwards?

[JohnnyCache]

HA! Now that's comedy.