I have a serious question now. This has nothing to do with all your challenge matches, schedule changes, or so called “backing out”. We all know you don’t study anything, but I’m wondering if you love BJJ so much, why don’t you actually go study it? There are several others wondering the same thing I’m sure. Is it because you’re actually afraid that people will recognize you from your internet hijinks? Do you really think you’re that recognized on the internet? It’s not like that, I can guarantee you. Just walk into a school, sign up and put in the work. It’s simple as that.
I don’t care if you stop talking trash or not, just go put in some work, so you can actually see what it’s like to “reap what you sow”. Do you even have the heart to put in the work to get good at BJJ? I’m thinking you don’t. Is it about the money? I’m sure you could at least set something up with some schools to accomodate you. There are plenty of good schools that work with people that can’t afford the high monthly rates. Perhaps you could clean the mats after a class, or are you too good for that?
I mean no offense by this thread, I’m just wondering why you won’t put in the work to actually gain something from your obvious love of grappling. It’s very hard work, and a lot of times, you learn respect for people when you see how much work they actually put in. Seriously, put the DualShock™ down, head to a gym, and roll with actual grapplers, not just some weak attempt at creating your own fight club with your buddies that have no real knowledge of what real fighting is like. From your “commentary” on your fight with ShaolinTiger, you don’t even know what it’s like to spar, much less fight. Are you really convinced that was a fight? That was just like every single hard sparring session that martial artists go through, whether they’re good fighters or not. I’ve suffered worse injuries while doing simple grappling drills. Actually I’ve suffered worse just holding a kicking shield for someone.
There really is a whole other level that you’re missing out on by playing armchair grappler. The CD Roms aren’t the same, reading books, and websites aren’t the same, playing video games aren’t the same. Go experience it for real…It’s much different, and you’ll actually grow up doing it.
PS: You can keep the challenge stuff going, but just be aware that in the real world, when you issue a challenge, you’re the one that needs to accomodate the people who take you up on it. Even at the Gracie Academy, I’m sure they didn’t have a “open challenge on Friday Mornings” policy. Open door challenges are just that…when someone walks in, they’re challenging you. They don’t walk in and make an appointment based on your schedule. I’m sure there are some accomodations made.
If you can’t fight on the 12th, why should JF believe that the 19th will stay open? You’re really wasting his time if you just keep juggling the schedule around. You can’t see the future, so why would you expect him to keep an appointment that you can guarantee 100%. Why can’t you guys fight on a Sunday?
Let’s try to keep this serious, though. There are plenty of threads to take a cheap shot at Ralek in. I know we’ve all done it in threads that he doesn’t even post or read.