hello people, 1st post! I think respect takes a keen eye, and most people do not have one. I remember this guy after I kindly invited him to workout with us (Aikido), he said to my face, that martial arts was bullcrud and does not work. And we the practitioners are idiots. He told me he had a knife in his back pack that would take care of any martial artist. I stood right next him, right besides his back pack, ready for him to go for his knife. I was just dying to show him that my knife skills developed from a martial art (Arnis) was better than his knife skills I wanted to earn his respect. I guess the same way some of the Gracies opted to do by their challenge matches. After I said some derogatory things to him (I'm not proud of this) he chickened out. Btw, This happened over 10 years ago.