This piece is not written by me. It's written by a professional
MMA fighter from other forum, who trains in kung fu + some
grappling arts. He is highly abrasive, but he's one of the most
open minded person I've encountered.
There's a lot of truth to what he's saying (even though he bashes
the art I train in 
)
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Personally speaking some of the nutriders on this board are fucking
bugging the crap out of me. None of you are correct, dissect the
arguement all you want the bottom line is can you get the job done?
Let's start here:
Wing Chun kung-fu: Like most of the stylized kung-fu systems out
there they get caught up in the who's instead of the why's and
how's. The fixed positions and the inability to expand out of their
systems fighting position leaves it vunerable to take downs, angled
attacks, multiple person situations, and takes too long to
implement the ideas to practical use.
Taekwondo: You're represented by the biggest morons out there WTF
and ATA. These orginizations are out for your money, boosting their
prestige, and brain washing you into believing that there is a
purpose to what they are doing. All the while, WTF specifically,
handing you this crock of shit on how long taekwondo has been in
existance. Because of their predjudice outlook toward the
karate/Japanese culture in which it originated from they've
developed a sport based on a game played over 1000 years ago and
make people think they're actually learning how to defend
themselves. They refuse to look toward proper training for fighting
effectively taking them out of the true realm of martial arts. Now
there are some fairly solid TKD orginizations out there but they're
not represented by the vast majority thus undermining any attempt
at validating their system.
Kempo: Like saying car, there is no true identity for this system
of martial arts. Are we Japanese, American or Chinese. Who give a
rats ass. Most systems have tried their damndest (is that really a
word?) to validate a fairly effective group of fighting techniques
while others get bogged down in the muck of trying to lay claim to
some wierd Chinese Shaolin authenticity. Kenpo/Kempo has been
represented over many years as some of the hardest hitting, most
ferocious fighters in existance. There was a reason they became
popular but because of greeed they watered it down to a state where
you'd be lucky to find an instructor that wouldn't get you killed
in your first encounter on the street. Now a majority of kempo guys
are fat, out of shape fucknuts who are more interested in getting
your check book then getting in shape. They have gone the way of
TKD but fortunately most schools are changing for the better and
maybe in the next decade or so they can rise to the prestige they
deserve.
Shaolin Kung-fu/Wu Shu: Doesn't exist people it's fucking myth, as
a martial arts you are learning to be a fucking gymnast/ballet
dancer. Fucking stage performers are all they are. If you like that
shit fine but stop licking the balls of these so called Chi masters
as if most their stuff wasn't parlor tricks and simple athletic
acrobatic techniques. Simple and to the point.
Other systems of Kung-fu: if you aren't training in modern ways
then you're not training in Kung-fu. Systems were not to be mired
down to tradition they were supposed to change with the time,
passing on techniques that worked and adding new ones on to make
their respective kwoons "bad ass". Unfortunately you've all seen
too many Jet Li and Jackie Chan circle jerk movies and believe half
that shit is real. It's the fucking movies people get over
it.
Judo: Fucking turning into a bunch of pansies I swear, they outlaw
so many moves we're soon going to be left with nothing but a
pussified sumo match where only pushing is allowed.
Jujitsu: The problem here is identity. Like so many arts Jujitsu
wears many masks and covers many different areas of grappling. Some
Jujitsu systems look like modern MMA events while others are so
bogged down in theoretical shit that they have no comprehension on
what works and what doesn't work. Bottom line is if you haven't
done it against a fully resisting opponent you'll have no idea if
it'lll really work. Most of these practitioners get tied down to
tradition and never question for a second their "masters" teaching
because they've seen him/her throw some cooperative bitch around.
Find Jujitsu that works people.
Brazillian Jujitsu: Unfortunately for BJJ schools around the world
they're represented by a bunch of newbie snot nose punks. I've seen
the way they teach classes and it's a psychologists dream world. A
bunch of Males trying to establish a level of Alpha dominance and
force their peers to submit and thus establishing a pecking order
in the microcosm that is. Two type of guys come out of these gyms.
The guys that learn decent technique because they put their ego
asided establish a good level of respect for one another and learn
and the fuckers who develope a bully mentality and never get past
their own ego. There's nothing wrong with pride until the pride
gets in the way of true learning. I saw over a dozen BJJ fighters
go into matches against 'inferior' styles because they saw Royce
Gracie do it in the UFC. Unfortunately most of those guys forgot
they were doing a sport and the Gracies had been accepting
challenges for decades before the UFC came around, their style was
designed in neutralizing the mono stylistic stand up fighter who
believed they couldn't be taken down. The guys that get mired into
the BJJ is all you need to know get caught up into the same
downfalls as all the other systems that eventually failed due to
their inability to change. The minute you don't fear and give
respect to another style is the day you're going to leave yourself
open to defeat.
SAMBO: Got caught up in nationalistic pride and failed to branch
out beyond the neccessity that developed in the first place. Look
we can do throws and all kinds of joint locks but we won't choke
people out. How much sense did that make? Fortunately it has made
the changes neccessary but sport sambo has not changed with the
time and will not succeed until it gets over a lot of the rules
that limits it's capablities. Most sambo guys turned to jujitsu,
judo and wrestling, you rarely see a pure samboist anymore. Then
you have that group that got caught up in the "combat" aspect of
sambo. Take a look at the Jujitsu section of this and find out what
we think about theoretical martial artist.
Ninjitusu: God what a bunch of freaks. Can this shit work, I guess
so but whats your fucking goal, you want to be a power ranger or a
fucking Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Seriously, what's the point in
doing Ninjitsu? Fuck Ninjitsu up its fucking ass I have no respect
for the art so I might as well end this shit right here. I here the
Taijitsu hand to hand can be quite effective but the other stuff is
queer eye for the straight guy gay.
Aikido: WTF, artful form of evasion that's all this is. Great
fucking concept but stop saying you're a martial art, you're not.
If you're not going to engage the opponent and you're a bunch of
whining pacifistic cultist seeking enrichment then fine, go eat
your tofu and circle jerk in the corner and leave the real martial
artist to the real people. Don't get me wrong I love some of this
shit but if you like most of the aspects and want to learn how to
defend yourself find an Aikijujitsu school that does some level of
sparring and leave this shit to the ball room dancers.
Muay Thai: Muay Thai is not kickboxing people, it's what they do
but it's not kickboxing. I'm sick of hearing this shit. Muay Thai
teaches more than sparring in the ring. Great form of fighting
terrible for self-defense. What's that? You heard me, specifically
for guys. After you elbow somebody in the face and knee the crap
out of their body what are you going to tell the cops "oops?". God
no, if you want to learn self-defense take some Japanese
Jujitsu/Combat SAMBO stuff, at least if the theoretical stuff
doesn't work you can beat the crap out of them afterwards.
Kickboxing: It's a fucking sport people get over it.
Boxing: They're all jealous of MMA fighters. I hate boxing. Hate
it.
Wrestlers: Being on your back is not gay.
Freestyle grapplers: This includes the grappling gambit here, going
to the ground on the street sucks ass. Been there, done that, if
you have and got away untouched you got lucky.
Krav Maga: Probably one of the most effective theoretical based
systems I've come across next to Combat sambo. But then again you
saw what I said about Combat SAMBO. Unfortunately they got greedy
too and allowed a bunch of half educated punks go out and teach
there system for obscene amounts of money only to teach nada.
So these are the nutriders I've come across in my nearly 4 years
with bullshido formerly known as Mcdojo.com. It's been said before
but let me summarize it for you. If you are at a school and you're
happy so be it. If you want to look for an effective system that
you can learn how to fight you must learn stand-up and grappling.
If you want to learn self-defense make sure there's some level of
effective sparring that allows you to attempt some of the
theoretical ideas. For those stand up guys that think they can't be
taken down I hope a grappler comes along and drops you on your
head. For those grapplers who think they can take anybody down I
hope you get KTFO. For those of you who don't spar and think your
shit really works I hope you get mugged and for all you bullshit
artist that weren't even worth my time in mentioning I hope you
contract a painful disease and die like the piece of shits you
are.
*PS if I missed your style up here and you think you need to say
someting let me intercept you comment and use the universal :::
middle finger :::: salute.
