To be sure, there is some biased thinking going on here.
And more than a little revisionism, from some. There was a huge thread about this video clip at the time, and it was clear to pretty much everyone what was happening, and why.
Following that clip being put on Youtube...
- Kevin posted on this forum to say that Obasi had 'pushed him to his limits' in their exchange
- Kevin then stopped posting entirely on this forum
- We learned that Kevin's teacher, PB, was not happy with Kevin's performance
- We learned that Kevin had, at that point, only met PB on three occasions over a 7 year period
- Pretty much all of Kevin's fellow PB friends stopped posting on this forum
- The video was also discussed on various German Wing Chun forums, with the same conclusion reached: Kevin was unable to handle Obasi.
- PB himself, who loves to post on those forums, kept quiet and said nothing.
It's strange that Kevin would publicly tell us all that he was 'pushed to his limits' during their exchange, if he was never actually meant to be defending or countering, LOL.
At least, apparently, that's the story being told today.
Everyone who watched that clip could see that Kevin struggled. Not an easy thing for some to swallow, especially for those who supported his numerous posts over the years when he told everyone that they were doing Wing Chun incorrectly, that their understanding was wrong, etc. etc.
The original poster asked why so many people had left this forum. A number of people left because it was impossible to have a sensible conversation without either a) PB/WSL lineage students insulting everyone and hijacking threads, or b) Hendrik Santo ruining threads with his spam about 1850.
There was even once a thread about improving the forum's standards via better moderation, etc., and a PB student actually trolled that very thread and wasn't banned for it
I popped back in the other day and was surprised to see that LFJ was
still talking about this Kevin/Obasi clip, and still trying to convince people that Kevin did just great