I'm a poster on the Something Awful Forums who posts in the MMA threads in SAS and the Martial Arts thread in Ask/Tell from time to time. I had known about Bullshido for a couple years and visited every once in a while. I found the Ashida Kim story absolutely hilarious, given that I knew a kid who believed his books were real and gave him the ability to be a bad ass. Even still, I was generally content with the discourse about martial arts on SA, given my status as a dilettante.
Until I read this thread.
Now I, in general, have no issue with TMA practitioners so long as they don't try to force delusions about the effectiveness of their art in a fight on other people. Doing it to have fun? Awesome, more power to you. Doing to study the culture? An odd way to go about it, but so long as you've got a good school it sounds like a decent way to do it. Doing it for physical exercise? Great, I might even join you. But to pretend that kata and shitty conditioning will give you the ability to beat down a boxer, or that, each in their prime, Erine Reyes could beat George Foreman? That's so terribly deluded, and to promote that kind of thinking can give people who train in that way a false sense of security that will get them hurt. I did my part to try and dissuade people from believing that shit, but the thread eventually dissolved into a storm of fakeposting and trolling.
While I'll keep posting on SA for other stuff, I'll stick around here for the martial arts discourse.
So, what brought you to Bullshido?
Until I read this thread.
Now I, in general, have no issue with TMA practitioners so long as they don't try to force delusions about the effectiveness of their art in a fight on other people. Doing it to have fun? Awesome, more power to you. Doing to study the culture? An odd way to go about it, but so long as you've got a good school it sounds like a decent way to do it. Doing it for physical exercise? Great, I might even join you. But to pretend that kata and shitty conditioning will give you the ability to beat down a boxer, or that, each in their prime, Erine Reyes could beat George Foreman? That's so terribly deluded, and to promote that kind of thinking can give people who train in that way a false sense of security that will get them hurt. I did my part to try and dissuade people from believing that shit, but the thread eventually dissolved into a storm of fakeposting and trolling.
While I'll keep posting on SA for other stuff, I'll stick around here for the martial arts discourse.
So, what brought you to Bullshido?
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