Nope, even in MMA, there are those that are dumber than dog **** and live in a world all their own:
http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/mma.cfm?go=forum.posts&thread=1368363&page=1
If you can stop for a moment and let it sink in that, on a MMA FORUM, people are criticizing the DOG BROTHERS for their full contact MMA stick fighting !
:eek::eek::eek::eek:
[sarcasm]zOMG didn’t you know that fighting with stickz is ghey? They suxx0rz bekuz they needz stickz to fiht.[/sarcasm]
Seriously I’d love to get involved with the Dog Brothers… really fun activities.
[QUOTE=SimonM;894492][sarcasm]zOMG didn’t you know that fighting with stickz is ghey? They suxx0rz bekuz they needz stickz to fiht.[/sarcasm]
Seriously I’d love to get involved with the Dog Brothers… really fun activities.[/QUOTE]
Well, fun is one word for it.
See, it goes to show you that the infection that many people blamed on TMA has almost nothing to do with TMA, but it has to do with a certain element of people that prefer to live in “la-la land”.
And it seems that some of these people have immigrated to MMA-Ville.
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;894493]Well, fun is one word for it.[/QUOTE]
Fun: Brutal, somewhat painful, and involving the opportunity to hit other people with sticks. 
[QUOTE=SimonM;894495]Fun: Brutal, somewhat painful, and involving the opportunity to hit other people with sticks. :D[/QUOTE]
Ah dude, its not the hitting, its the getting hit !
LOL !
I spar with shinai and no pads. Give me gloves and a fencing mask and I’m game for rattan.
[QUOTE=SimonM;894501]I spar with shinai and no pads. Give me gloves and a fencing mask and I’m game for rattan.[/QUOTE]
Shinai?
Dude, I used to get wood from getting hit with a shinai, that **** is fun !
Rattan may be light, but it hurts like hell.
Much more than a shinai, but less than a bokken.
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;894506]Shinai?
Dude, I used to get wood from getting hit with a shinai, that **** is fun !
Rattan may be light, but it hurts like hell.
Much more than a shinai, but less than a bokken.[/QUOTE]
Getting hit with a bokken hurts.
Done that.
Broke a finger. And getting smacked on the funny bone is not funny!!!
In regards to those fools on that forum, It may be a case of excessive phallic symbol rejection due to latent and repressed ****sexual anxiety.
Yeah, you really have to watch for those latent quadruple-asterix-sexual tendencies… 
The Underground is only slightly better than Sherdog’s forum in terms of idiots.
It will be alot harder to water-down MMA than TMA has been. MMA is a sport, just like boxing, while TMA is not a sport in itself (though some schools do compete). Point is; how many non-contact or light-contact boxing gyms do you see?
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;894509]In regards to those fools on that forum, It may be a case of excessive phallic symbol rejection due to latent and repressed ****sexual anxiety.[/QUOTE]
Generally, most idiots on Internet forums don’t train. They are usually just fans. People with egos like that don’t last in gyms, if they even went to one in the first place.
[QUOTE=1bad65;894526]The Underground is only slightly better than Sherdog’s forum in terms of idiots.
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The Underground has some great posters and some great info, but it also has many who do nothing but troll. The above thread was nothing more than a troll, which many fell for. When you see stuff like that on the underground, just ignore it
[QUOTE=lkfmdc;894530]The Underground has some great posters and some great info, but it also has many who do nothing but troll. The above thread was nothing more than a troll, which many fell for. When you see stuff like that on the underground, just ignore it[/QUOTE]
What?
You mean that MMA forums have trolls too???
NNNOOOOOO !!!
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;894534]What?
You mean that MMA forums have trolls too???
NNNOOOOOO !!![/QUOTE]
the difference is, on MMA.tv the trolls don’t actually believe what they are posting while here it is a 50/50 toss up
[QUOTE=lkfmdc;894540]the difference is, on MMA.tv the trolls don’t actually believe what they are posting while here it is a 50/50 toss up[/QUOTE]
LOL, I’ll give you that one !
They took it kind of serious on the DBMA website though.
[QUOTE=lkfmdc;894540]the difference is, on MMA.tv the trolls don’t actually believe what they are posting while here it is a 50/50 toss up[/QUOTE]
this is sig worthy…
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;894541]LOL, I’ll give you that one !
They took it kind of serious on the DBMA website though.[/QUOTE]
Well when you spend as much time stress-testing your stuff as the Dog Brothers have done it could be a bit of a ****-off to have some stupid b!tch ripping on you for using weapons.
Considering how PRIMARY weapon training was to Martial Art for 97-98% of the recorded history of martial arts… it’s a bit of a **** off that revisionists want to deny the armed component in favor of bare hand…
And I say this as somebody equally interested in bare hand (particularly wrestling these days) and weapons, I don’t intend to slight bare hand.
The truth is though that prior to the 20th century it was a sideline to weapon training.