Of course he had to mention working...
Sifu Abel,
Funny thiing is that the trolls on these boards are the exception to the rule if you were to actually go to a school and meet some BJJ guys. I'd bet half of 'em don't even practice a MA.
JW,
It sure as hell does. I have a private with Renzo next Friday. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
The artist formerly known as Ford Prefect.
how can you extrapolate that MoQ is an idiot
takedown
you speak with a forked tongue, attack ideas not the person...would you say that to his face?
burn one
just answering Takedown from waaaaaaaaaaaaay back on page 1
Heya,
I didn't mean to come off as an authority on bjj (that's how you seem to have taken my remarks). I guess I should've been more specific.
When I said I know a few of the opening statements to be true, I was talking about the Gracies organizing the UFC, and Shamrock going on to a prolific acting career in the WWF. No duh, huh?
I've got a lot of respect for bjj, and for the UFC (not that these two are inseperable). I don't personally believe bjj (or any MA) to be the "Ultimate Style" as many seem to think, but I would never call it a scam. That's the sort of statement that's made by overly defensive reactionaries. I think the system contains a lot of very effective principles and techniques.
That's all that was meant by my post. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
don't generalize all arts....
>>>You can take 10 years of Fung Fu, and I will teach a guy JiuJitsu for 1 year. He will beat the **** out of that Kung Fu guy, same weight, no problem.
You can't go around generalizing all martial arts like that. Either you are a kid who doesn't know any better, or you are a beginner in the martial arts who doesn't realize that there are hundreds of styles of kung fu and many, many styles of jujitsu.
Are you talking about Gracie Jujitsu, Ketsugo Jujitsu, Small Circle Jujitsu, traditional japanese jujitsu style's, American jujitsu, Machado Jujitsu, or generic Brazilian jujitsu.
Are you talking about Wing Chun Kung Fu, Hun Gar,
Praying Mantis, White Eyebrow, Tai Chi, Bagua, the list goes on indefinitly....
A more realistic state ment would be....."I can take a guy who actually fights in NHB competition or some other full contact venue (shooto, vale-tudo, full contact karate, full contact kung fu, thai boxing, judo, ect) for only one year and put him up against a McDojo Martial Artist who has never thrown a full contact punch in his entire 10 years and just does a flowery style that is all sets and theoretical technique, and the one year student of full contact fighting will win."
Doesn't that make more sense? You shouldn't generalize all Kung Fu guys, although it does sometime seem that the majority are the "Flashy" Kung fu styles that seem more concerned about how good their sets look than if they could use what they know in a full contact situation.
-jojitsu27