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People in school or average public dont appreaticiate martial arts and think only UFC type or street fighting is effective. Maybe a person or two might join for a month...

yea, serioulsy kids cant really use a martial art they just arnt developed.

lol

Yea to be honest, those online things are garbage as said above pretty much

yea nice post, i agree with you on most of the topic.

congrats!

I see what you mean, but its funny you say it like that

nice point

but most of the posts are like that

wow thats great how dedicated your club is!

Frankly at this point you aren't practicing self defense. Your sister is in a horrible situation that she created for herself, and she needs help because she's self-destructive and you're not helping her. And you are letting this person who you know is a danger into your house? I tell people all the time: If you're in a bar and someone gets in a fight, that isn't self defense. You go to bars so that you can get in fights. If someone starts a fight when you're there, it has all the validity to me of saying "I flipped this guy the bird and called him horrible names, but when he attacked me I was so surprised! It was self defense!" Personally i'd disown my sister over this until she came to her senses.. probably after being found half dead in a basement or something two or three times, but if she choses to do that to herself, I don't want her anywhere near me. That said, the whole 'nonviolence' thing is overrated when dealing with ferals who can't comprehend anything beyond instant gratification of anger; this man certainly sounds like one. Yea, i know exaclty what you meant. But you never know the whole story either you know what i mean?

WOW............yea i think you handled it well. Good job

Yet there are probably alot of quality fighters here, its not about quality its about media and who gets attention. Currently UFC is most famous among MA so ppl are jumping on board and all joining UFC type of MA. The way of thinking makes people i find think TMA to wimpy, or non-contact. Its really disappointing........The reason obviously why clubs let all types of people in is because they dont have enough money. MMA do have enough money so they can train and take thier pick. Im not siding with either im just trying to get rid of the bias.

I suggest JJ

ok you can take it leteraly or you could maybe tell how shotokans's ideas are really different from TKD so what middle ground do you take..............

how can you mix TKD with shotokan? how do you do it?

yea, i agree dont loose sight of the obvious facts.

Pull ups or chin ups also.

depends on you and alot of other factors, but mainly you and how you handle or use of skill.

sauzin made a really good point. It is effective and alot of people just dont have a certain mind set to understand the concepts.

some nice thoughts here

Well said man!

good points there

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