[QUOTE=Ultimatewingchun;940242]Yoooooouuu have the nerve to talk about living in the wilderness!!! :eek:
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
I see, no answer. That’s cool. And expected.
Ditto that for you.
You posted endlessly one winter about how you were going to show us a thing or two-or-three at the Cleveland wing chun get together - and then you didn’t show…
and mysteriously disappeared from this forum for many months after that.
Nuff said. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Ultimatewingchun;940270]Ditto that for you.
You posted endlessly one winter about how you were going to show us a thing or two-or-three at the Cleveland wing chun get together - and then you didn’t show…
and mysteriously disappeared from this forum for many months after that.
Nuff said. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Too true. This is T’s Modus Operandi in spades!
[QUOTE=Ultimatewingchun;940270]Ditto that for you.
You posted endlessly one winter about how you were going to show us a thing or two-or-three at the Cleveland wing chun get together - and then you didn’t show…
and mysteriously disappeared from this forum for many months after that.
Nuff said. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Victor, do you remember that I was initially interested but that our lengthy discussions turned on the issue of limiting the get together to WCK people only? That’s what you wanted to do. And how it turned out. If you recall, and if you don’t check the thread, I wanted to bring in some competent fighters, like MMA guys, to mix with us – since IMO that’s the only way to really see how we’re doing, where we are short, etc. You didn’t want that (no big surprise). Is your memory getting clearer? Do you recall my telling you that just getting together with WCK people was a waste of time and all the reasons why it is a waste of time?
BTW, I never said I was going to show anyone “a thing or two or three”. But I do believe I said that if we had some decent MMA guys we’d ALL learn a thing or two. You just don’t get it – we all know WCK. Getting together to talk about WCK, do chi sao, and lightly spar isn’t going to teach us jack. What we need to do is mix with competent fighters, compare notes, and figure out how to make out stuff work against them. That’s what I’m interested in.
And fwiw, I wasn’t posting for a while since I was recovering from a fairly serious (at my age) injury I got at a sub grappling tourney.
Like Rampage said: “My power comes from my ass!”
And there the similarity ends.
[QUOTE=t_niehoff;940289]And fwiw, I wasn’t posting for a while since I was recovering from a fairly serious (at my age) injury I got at a sub grappling tourney.[/QUOTE]
What, someone injured your typing hand, thus putting on hold your rising career as a “real fighter”?
Honestly i enduldge in my fair share of BS here on the forum, but little reality check guys…
This thread has digressed into posts from a “pack of whinging b i t c h e s”
Little Australasian saying LOL 
Too bad were all so far apart - i could throw a BBQ and we could all get drunk and get into some full contact peaknuckle, that is if your egos can handle defeat - i have nimble hands no s h i t !
DREW
[QUOTE=t_niehoff;940289]Victor, do you remember that I was initially interested but that our lengthy discussions turned on the issue of limiting the get together to WCK people only? That’s what you wanted to do. And how it turned out. If you recall, and if you don’t check the thread, I wanted to bring in some competent fighters, like MMA guys, to mix with us – since IMO that’s the only way to really see how we’re doing, where we are short, etc. You didn’t want that (no big surprise). Is your memory getting clearer? Do you recall my telling you that just getting together with WCK people was a waste of time and all the reasons why it is a waste of time?
BTW, I never said I was going to show anyone “a thing or two or three”. But I do believe I said that if we had some decent MMA guys we’d ALL learn a thing or two. You just don’t get it – we all know WCK. Getting together to talk about WCK, do chi sao, and lightly spar isn’t going to teach us jack. What we need to do is mix with competent fighters, compare notes, and figure out how to make out stuff work against them. That’s what I’m interested in.
And fwiw, I wasn’t posting for a while since I was recovering from a fairly serious (at my age) injury I got at a sub grappling tourney.[/QUOTE]
***BULL5HIT !!! You want to try and rewrite history now, do you?! :rolleyes:
You gave absolutely NO INDICATION WHATSOEVER IN ADVANCE that you were having second thoughts about coming once it was determined that it would be a wing chun-only affair.
God, you’re pathetic. :eek:
…
And as for this:
“And fwiw, I wasn’t posting for a while since I was recovering from a fairly serious (at my age) injury I got at a sub grappling tourney.”
***MORE BULL5HIT. You came back on the forum and never mentioned any injury - you simply said that you (and I’m paraphrasing now) “found something more interesting to do that weekend”.
What a load of crap!
Like I’ve been saying: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Victor, go reread the thread. I told you it would be a waste of time without including competent fighters. I would think that anyone with half a brain could figure out that if someone says something is a waste of time then theyare probably not going to participate. But then, maybe I give people too much credit?
Wayfaring, no my injury didn’t effect my typing hand but laid me up for several weeks in such pain (it was a neck injury) that I could hardly move or hold down food, which put me behind at work.
I don’t need to go reread the thread.
Instead, you need to know that your BULL5HITTING WAYS are crystal clear to a lot of people around here, including me.
Done.
Can we like go back to talking about the WC bridge and the natural mix of grappling / striking in fighting?
I’m getting kind of bored rehashing the one time in a decade WC people decide they can get together and mix it up at all and who did / didn’t show and why. If that type of thing happened monthly or even yearly there’d be less girly drama.
And invite MMA guys along, whatever for all of this type of stuff. Restrictions are stupid. Although I’m not sure what level of people T is talking about w/r to competant fighters. But the better they are the more inspiring it would be.
Terrence,
How are we supposed to take you seriously when you punk out on things like that get-together? I guess you claimed to “school” some people and then you no-showed?
Lame!
[QUOTE=TAYLOR1;940643]Terrence,
How are we supposed to take you seriously when you punk out on things like that get-together? I guess you claimed to “school” some people and then you no-showed?
Lame![/QUOTE]
Oh, goody, another HFY cultmember who can’t read yet want to put in his clown-ass $0.02.
How old are you? Twelve?
Terrence,
It can’t be better said than by your own Sifu:
Just for the record, Wayfaring…
The Cleveland, Ohio wing chun get-together was my idea, and it took place in May, 2003. A wing chun sifu from that city whose student used to post here volunteered his school for the weekend - and it was arranged.
But you should know that at that time this forum was in complete chaos in terms of wing chun lineage squabbling - and there were also numerous wing chunners posting day-after-day trying to counter some others (such as myself) who were constantly talking about the need to do real contact sparring.
I was simply trying to get people down to first base, (ie.- a wing chun get-together that was not going to be just some forms, chi sao, demos, and lots of talk, talk, talk)…
and so this was going to be a wing chun-only get together for actual sparring (and it did include contact sparring with protective gear)…
and even though the turnout was small, the weekend went pretty well, as far as it goes.
BUT IT WAS HARD ENOUGH TO EVEN GET THAT GOING - since there were plenty of people who didn’t want to come if it did include contact sparring with headshots, etc.
So I knew that if it became a completely “open” affair the wing chun turnout would have been even smaller.
Was hoping that the idea would take off - and then at some point down the road we could have started inviting other stylists as well. And I made that clear on my posts as well.
Tried to follow it up about 6-7 months later with another get-together at my school here in Brooklyn at the time - but my landlord started giving me problems (she wouldn’t fully commit to allowing us to have the room exclusively for an entire day - much less a whole weekend)…
so I had to cancel it.
But you should know that at that time this forum was in complete chaos
It appears little has changed. Well, leave or learn to love the chaos, I guess.
My BJJ teacher teaches Muay Thai with some other Asian kickboxing blends in there as well. Every 6 months or so another local school, run by a former ranked MT fighter (also a blue belt under my BJJ teacher) has an open sparring day at his MT school where guys can come and spar a few rounds, and several schools in the city turn up.
There’s no lineage wars, some school pride but little rivalry and no bad blood, everyone gets a little medal for participation, everyone goes home having learned something, minor bruises at worst but usually just a feeling of satisfaction.
Not much of this in TCMA or WC at least.
[QUOTE=Ultimatewingchun;940909]The Cleveland, Ohio wing chun get-together was my idea, and it took place in May, 2003. A wing chun sifu from that city whose student used to post here volunteered his school for the weekend - and it was arranged.
But you should know that at that time this forum was in complete chaos in terms of wing chun lineage squabbling - and there were also numerous wing chunners posting day-after-day trying to counter some others (such as myself) who were constantly talking about the need to do real contact sparring.
I was simply trying to get people down to first base, (ie.- a wing chun get-together that was not going to be just some forms, chi sao, demos, and lots of talk, talk, talk)…
and so this was going to be a wing chun-only get together for actual sparring (and it did include contact sparring with protective gear)…
and even though the turnout was small, the weekend went pretty well, as far as it goes.
BUT IT WAS HARD ENOUGH TO EVEN GET THAT GOING - since there were plenty of people who didn’t want to come if it did include contact sparring with headshots, etc.
So I knew that if it became a completely “open” affair the wing chun turnout would have been even smaller.
Was hoping that the idea would take off - and then at some point down the road we could have started inviting other stylists as well. And I made that clear on my posts as well.
Tried to follow it up about 6-7 months later with another get-together at my school here in Brooklyn at the time - but my landlord started giving me problems (she wouldn’t fully commit to allowing us to have the room exclusively for an entire day - much less a whole weekend)…
so I had to cancel it.[/QUOTE]
It’s all good, Victor. Getting together and mixing it up is good intentions. Organizing it is difficult. People make it or not. When it happens it’s good times.
Somehow all the mouthy people over at Bullshido seem to pull of this concept - they do the mega-throwdowns once a year and localized ones get organized too. They have smaller turnout even at megas and smaller ones may be just 3-4 people. But they happen.
It seems that this group of mouthy people is unequal to that task. I don’t know why.