Internal and Combat

[Mike Patterson]

"Everybody loves the smell of their own taint."

- A.J Liebling

When faced with, and pressured by, a worthy adversary...
Rather than rise to your level of expectation,
You will instead sink to your level of true ability.

- Mike Patterson

[wenshu]

When faced with, and pressured by, a worthy adversary...
Rather than rise to your level of expectation,
You will instead sink to your level of true ability.

- Mike Patterson

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do more like?

[Robinhood]

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do more like?

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.?? ...????? What, hitting the wine a little early today?

[Lucas]

for with to when happens does winter dogs in tuesday after fires.

[Yum Cha]

When faced with, and pressured by, a worthy adversary...
Rather than rise to your level of expectation,
You will instead sink to your level of true ability.

- Mike Patterson

I agree, but take another perspective.

Your training and fundamental basics will save you from the misadventures of your aggression and imagination. When you can learn to simply rely on those basics and lose the misadventure, you are at your best.

[PalmStriker]

When faced with, and pressured by, a worthy adversary...
Rather than rise to your level of expectation,
You will instead sink to your level of true ability.

- Mike Patterson

One who sees all things with Buddha Mind knows that there is no hard, and no soft, only the path.

[Miqi]

I'm not knocking assessing oneself on a scale that runs from external to internal - whatever works for you. But, not that it will stop people who need the internet to project a fantasy, but there is also a scale with these two guys at either end of it. It's worth considering where you - we - are on that scale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akN9eRTBE5Y

This video has a disturbing ending. If that don't warn you, nothin' will. But interestingly, the BJJ has superb wushu - I mean, rather than BJJ, actual proper san da style wushu - and the "kung fu" guy could well be your average anonymous internet internal wushu hoaxer who took the hobby-fantasy just one step too far.

[rett]

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From the info blurb on that video it was the young BJJ guy who challenged the old out-of-shape TCMA guy. It's not like the old guy had some kind of unrealistic fantasy about his skills. Also, it was a vengeance match which I guess explains why the young challenger didn't respect the old guy's attempts to tap out.

[lkfmdc]

This bout was carried out the day on October 17 in Colombia between Luis Carreño (challenging) vs Kung Fu Master (Desafiado)
This man was challenged to a fight without rules and without time for the crime of PEDOPHILIA. This man was caught in the Act, sexually harassing a 12-year-old girl and was challenged under the martial codes to a bout of honor...Also is Pastor of a church and Chinese martial arts practitioner for more than 20 years...

I think the guy got off EASY all things considered.....

[Miqi]

From the info blurb on that video it was the young BJJ guy who challenged the old out-of-shape TCMA guy. It's not like the old guy had some kind of unrealistic fantasy about his skills. Also, it was a vengeance match which I guess explains why the young challenger didn't respect the old guy's attempts to tap out.

Yeah whatever - I'm sure the MMA guy was so mad for no reason.

You know, we're all probably closer to the fantasist end of the specturm than the other end. It's just that some are so obnoxiously convinced that they're not - the "reality" is going to be either something like this video, or them crying sayig "I didn't mean it, I was only joking, I was just shooting my mouth off on the internet".

You know what, even if young MMA psycho is just goig to leather you for daring to calll yourself a martial artist, it might be wise to take that as your reality check, rather than trying to patch it by calling him a bad man. Yeah - he is a bad man. A very bad man. And I don't think he gives a crap about your Qi.

[lkfmdc]

The fat guy represents everything that's bad about the hobby-fantasist. He's only better than the rest in that he dared to test the fantasy - although, that is bad too, because he could have got himself killed, and probably encourages his students into similar danger.

He is one end of the spectrum, and an apt representative for every obnoxious "internal martial arts expert" on the internet. The only thing that was missing was a BS distraction to prevent the lesson being learned. So thanks for supplying that.

Yes I'm sure the MMA guy was so mad for no reason, and the fantasist entirely innocent. It's also true that the MMA guy wasn't receptive to the other guy's qi, lol. So, actually, that even proves that the TCMA guy's method was better. Heh...

none of what you are saying applies to the video, read the description....

[David Jamieson]

A young fit guy beating up an old fat guy is proof of nothing.
Jesus Christ what do you expect?

[sanjuro_ronin]

I think the guy got off EASY all things considered.....

Agreed.
Far too easy.

[Miqi]

none of what you are saying applies to the video, read the description....

Lol. You almost make me feel stupid for suggesting that these two men are a good example of the two ends of the scale in the martial arts world, and a good example of what happens when those two ends meet. Fortunately, it turns out I was right all along.

[MightyB]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akN9eRTBE5Y

All in all, pretty bad @rse! Nice striking, great ground finish. I was really impressed with his striking.