As for your second comment, I’ll post you some footage of the fights I haven’t been doing after I add Sunday’s Throwdown to the mix. I’ll figure out how to put some clips together and post it Red so you can get an idea of what I’m going to bring to you when I can get out there. There is a company Artistic Finishes by you, the one I wen to visit last time … please, do all your painting and chores in advance.
I’ll be in Europe next month and some running around but will try to get out to you in about 3 months. Work on your cartwheel kick.
nothing wrong with that - it happens. But you have to look at it another way - if that woman has no clue what to do when she’s on her back, then she’s as good as raped. on the other hand, if she has some idea, she may be able to do SOMETHING that can get her up and out of there quickly. MA training is not a guarantee of anything, it only serves to give you a better chance. that applies to men as well.
yeah I know, you’ve been to some throwdowns. Now you’re organizing a little sparring match, big fukking deal. All the tough talk about not fighting unlss you get 500$ in advance and how you won’t play with rules and al that crap and yu’re gonna post som vid of some sparring matches? Do they last longer then a 1:48?
So you’re a tough guy and a sexist eh? Is that something your master teaches you or is that just soemthig you were born with?
Seven, I agree with you and I know you’re training helps you take care of yourself. You know what you’re doing. A lot of my posts are playing Devil Advocate for folks out there who might not be trained like you are.
Someonme competing like you obviously can hit hard on demand.
A girlfriend of mine is moving out to Queens in a few weeks and she has no desire to learn any self defense but I’m getting her MACE and going to use a small water bottle to teach her how keep distance and spray, or at the worst use a stiff arm to create space and spray … it’s something, but she’s 115lbs. and a wet noodle. She’s pretty much a sweet girl from the suburbs and defenseless (I like this about her). She acts bad a$$, but she aint hurtin’ anyone.
While on the topic of sparring women…I may be mistaken but back in china (not remembering specific time period) wasnt it common to have no seperation between men and women when it came to fighting? I think this was brought about because women sometimes were victorious.
I spar women. There aren’t many at my school but I spar the ones that are there. Does this benefit me in any way? The women are small and fast so it does work my reflexes a little but does it really benenfit me? No it doesn’t.
So why do I spar them? Because it benefits them. Who is a woman going to be attacked by, another female their own size or a larger stronger male?
For me kung fu is just as much about teaching as it is about learning. If I’m in a situation where I can learn something, I learn. If I’m in a situation where I can help someone else in my class I try to help. I find that while helping others I gain more understanding of a technique and also learn about myself.
Kung Fu, especially in a class environment, can’t always be, me, me, me. Helping others to understand a technique or to have a better fighting strategy also helps you.
Not helping a woman because you feel that it doesn’t help you is irresponsible and selfish.
do you guys really think that sparring women doesn’t do anything for you? Are all you sparring matches balls to the wall no holds barred to the death matches?
I will sparr anything, just for the record. Men, women, cats, dogs, trees, walls, air, myself. It doesnt matter to me. If I can hit it I will. (sept the cats tho, I go easy on those little guys, they cut you if’n ya dont)
I’m 195 lbs and pretty muscular. There are guys at my gym that weigh 130 soaking wet. If I refused to spar with them because it “didn’t do anything for me” I’d get called an arrogant ****head, and rightly so.
I’m trying to figure out why having the same attitude towards sparring with women is in some way more acceptable.
Red, my problem with you is this: you type a bunch of crap – insult people’s training, beliefs (I am a Taoist and believe in what I’m studying), even their wives – from behind the safety of the computer. This is cowardly and shows no honor or class. You’ve mouthed off to me several times and we are martial artists so I’m calling you on it again … hopefuly this time you can make it. Last time you were a punk. And I know you’ll either be a punk this time or feel the pressure to fight and I’ll beat you really good. It’s that simple… while you’re typing I’m figthing. What do you think is going to happen?
I’ve tried to be nice to you. You can be a man and apologize and we can be cool. But if you are going to talk to me that way, and I have the means to come see you, I will.
I will not fight a woman, unless she forces me to. I will sparr with a woman any day of the week.
Fighting and sparring are different. I am lucky enough to be able to withdraw valuable experience from anything I do. I look at every moment as a lesson in the overall school of life. Sparring a woman has deffinate teaching possiblities, and lessons. You just have to be able to find them. Look hard.
It’s just even in sparring, I feel if you are not landing those shots you are not programming the correct distancing and intention into your muscle memory … so maybe this is an anti-sparring thread on my behalf.
I’ll roll with a woman if she just wants to do locking (preferably no gi ); how’s that?
Ray, from time to time, for whatever reason you can be a nice guy. But somewhere on this thread you decided to take shots at me for whatever reason and I’m sick of your bi-polar personality. You took personal shots for me because you don’t like my stance on some of your beliefs instead of talking to me directly about it. For that you can fukk off. You want respect you gotta earn it. A lot of people on this board - hold a poll if you like - gotta believe you’re trying way to hard to get poeple’s resepct with this tough guys attitude. You talk liek all you do is fight in the back aleys, anything less just ain’t worth it but you gotta get real here pal. If you were training half as hard as the image you’re trying to project you woulda gone more then a minute and a half in that ring bucko.
You’re all full of **** and vinegar when it comes to claiming you want to fight, yet half this forum spent a good 10 pages or so giving you ideas on how to do that, and where to go and you had some excuse for everyone. How do you think that looks? I tried to have some patience with it while everyone else was busting your balls and the cheap shots on this forum are how you repay me? The tough guy attitude I can swallow with a grain of salt, there’s a lot of that on here, but the flip flopping personality and the always blathering on about the secrets and the stuff you got that no one else has has got old. It’s been the same thing for 5 years over three different screen names. When’s it gonna end Ray? When are you gonna stop? Take a tip from some of the guys on here that actually are pushing the envelope. Do you see 7*, MP, Monkeyslaptoo, Ross all talking tough constantly and telling people they got the secrets that are going to take them through NHB and the gracies? you respect them then pay attention to who they are.
); how’s that?