Dont buy the Core Combat training DVDs from Damian Ross or Carl Cestari

[Askari]

No system on the face of the earth is perfect, all have their strong and weak points.

You obviously havent trained Jiu-Jitsu yet or you would understand the complete superiority of Jiu-Jitsu over all other styles.

Now go away and practice fighting on lava with broken glass.

[Tom Kagan]

zadar95,

Since you've already spent the money, would you be willing to send the tapes you don't like to Bullshido? There are several experts who can review the material objectively.

[Cdnronin]

You asked for Lineage and I gave it to you!!! !!!

Can you provide any proof of a connection between Harold Stairn and Fairbairn? Can you prove any connection between Stairn and Wolfe? That would be lineage.

[bearich]

zadar95,

Since you've already spent the money, would you be willing to send the tapes you don't like to Bullshido? There are several experts who can review the material objectively.

Tom,

Can we please have this thread moved to a different forum? I have asked on multiple occassions for anything that might resembe bullshido and zadar has yet to provide anything other than his opinion or unsubstantiated claims.

[AMERCOM]

You obviously havent trained Jiu-Jitsu yet or you would understand the complete superiority of Jiu-Jitsu over all other styles.

Now go away and practice fighting on lava with broken glass.

You maintain Jiu-Jitsu is superior to all other systems as a stand alone?, interesting. I fail to understand why someone would wish to train on lava with broken glass.Please explain the purpose.

[Tom Kagan]

Tom,

Can we please have this thread moved to a different forum? I have asked on multiple occassions for anything that might resembe bullshido and zadar has yet to provide anything other than his opinion or unsubstantiated claims.

No. The fact that this thread distresses you because the OP won't answer your questions is irrelevant.

Your unanswered questions speak for themselves. Burying the thread under a score of "LOL, PENIS!!!!!1111" posts would negate that.

[bearich]

No. The fact that this thread distresses you because the OP won't answer your questions is irrelevant.

Your unanswered questions speak for themselves. Burying the thread under a score of "LOL, PENIS!!!!!1111" posts would negate that.

Understood.

However, for clarification, my request was not out of distress from unanswered requests, but rather out of trying to reduce useless clutter in MABS.

[Jim_Jude]

...And Jim_Jude Im pretty sure you were a closet ninja yourself at one time!!!

I am, & always will be, a closet ninja!
Ha ! Shows how much you know...

[Jim_Jude]

I am going to guide buddy on where to do his research.

This is the supposed only photo of Harald Stairn, except it seems to be misslabeled starn.jpg so we may have to work from two spellings.


The uniform looks sufficiently recent, though the image is sufficiently (convenient eh) out of focus to make it difficult to tell.

Now if buddy who is so Wolfe crazy really wants to prove his thing, the Canadian Archives can get the information for him:

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/

Now, I am sure Wolfe can give us a Unit name right? Even without it you can go down and check the archives.

Now if you decide that Stairn is not Canadian. Try the British Archives:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/

Though I've tried the online options and come up empty, you may have better luck contacting them and asking for a complete search.

Bullshido is not a question of fighting ability in this situation, but an issue of falsifying lineage. Ironic, is sounds so similar to the Hatsumi - Takamatsu - Toda Shinryuken issue. Takamatsu may have been able to scrap, very well by all accounts, & he passed some of this on to Hatsumi, but Toda Shinryuken has yet to even be verified as a real person or martial arts master.

We don't care if Wolfe can fight. With all of his years in the arts, it would be pitiful if he couldn't, but that's not the issue. Who can't read a few books or watch some DVDs on WW2 combatives, and with their pre-existing martial ability, implement what they have read into a fighting method? That's what most of us have done when it comes to WW2, if we didn't have access to Cestari or his comtemporaries...

[Cdnronin]

. How about learning more about awareness techniques or dealing with ambush attacks, multiple atackers fighting a wrestler, the sucker punch etc.etc. thats the kind of training I do, hell I just bought a book from Marc"animal"Macyoung and that was so much better than the Carl and Damians DvDs. What about the pschology of fighting how to deal with the adrenalin the aftermath. Maybe I just have higher expectations but the DvDs did not impresss me at all.

How about reading the description before you buy, so if you're looking fro something on awareness techniques you don't buy something that is not related....doh!

If I buy Wolfe's brick DVD's will it help make my teeth whiter, or restore my hairloss? If not, I'm disapointed and want my money back!

[Askari]

You maintain Jiu-Jitsu is superior to all other systems as a stand alone?, interesting. I fail to understand why someone would wish to train on lava with broken glass.Please explain the purpose.

AMERCOM,

I absolutely hate having to explain a joke. But since you dont seem to have developed a sense of haha yet, I shall attempt it:

My comment of the superiority of Jiu-Jitsu was an allusion to the jock riding culture of most martial arts newbies, utilizing myself as the foil for the joke.

Since Jiu-Jitsu is primarily associated with grappling, the second portion of my comment takes effect.

Fighting on Lava and broken glass is the straw man argument of people who dont want to train grappling. There often is the accusation that grappling is not useful for SD because of broken glass and needles. Hence the reference to Lava, utilizing ridicule to demonstrate how out of bounds that counter argument is and that only an idiot would not train grappling as part of a complete SD package.

Disengage soap-box.

[zadar95]

As far as the Bullshido goes here it is when claims such as those in the ads for the Dvds(carls andDamien) say"cut your training time in half", "have your opponet smash his hands on your elbows",the real secrets of bare knuckle boxing", "How to effectively create opennings even on expert grapplers","how to identify if you are being stalked or set up", when your answer to all of these claims is strike away with shutos hammerfists etc etc I think that is Bullshido. Almost everything on all 3 DvDs were strikes other than the chokes shown in the 3rd tape or the conditioning of your hands.

[zadar95]

I personally need more than that because strikes dont always have the desired effects, how about throw in a strike then show a armlock or wrist lock something more than just 3 DvDS worth of hitting a BoB!!!

[Askari]

I personally need more than that because strikes dont always have the desired effects, how about throw in a strike then show a armlock or wrist lock something more than just 3 DvDS worth of hitting a BoB!!!

I personally never get tired of hitting BoB. But then again he has started to complain lately, so maybe I should slow down.

Now for the other points - yours BS accusations in Green, my response in Red:

"cut your training time in half",
== guess it depends how much you want to train.
"have your opponet smash his hands on your elbows",
== Yeah, they probably would, if they hit my elbows.
"the real secrets of bare knuckle boxing",
== I found that Cestari's DVD improved my bare knuckle boxing quite a bit.
"How to effectively create opennings even on expert grapplers",
== Cestari's grappling DVD has a lot of the same stuff as Randy Couture's DVD. Though I prefer Cestari's stuff for SD, as he acknowleges punching the guy in the nuts as a guard passing option.
"how to identify if you are being stalked or set up",
== Simple, look over your shoulder......Oh, and dont buy a car from a one-armed man when you are being chased by a cop named Sam Gerard

[zadar95]

cdnronin as far as reading the ads goes I read the ad several times and if it wasnt as misleading as it was I wouldent have bought them. If it had actually said you will get 3 DvDs of us strictly answering every claim with "just hit em" as the answer I would of never bought them.(Thank God for money back gaurantees)