Seriously though, congrats to the both of you showing much respect to each other! Iâm sure it was a good match. I donât know much about SD, but if your school wonât back you for a âfriendlyâ match, then I would think that they donât want their name associated with your loss, if they thought that there style wouldnât hold up. If you won, who knows! But this is just speculation.
But by showing you you did show that SD can hold up and it trains good fighters!! Itâs not the style, itâs the fighters.
I, like others, have give you props for doing what you both did. Thanks again for the results! play-by-play is not necessary.
man, i was wrong about the results. congratulations to you both for going through with it. also, congratulations to reemul for winning, and to willow sword for coming up and admitting he lost and being such a good sport about it.
there is nothing wrong about losing a fight if you lost honorably. on the contrary, you should be proud that you stood up for your beliefs, and even though you didnât come out on top, you were a good sport about it. you still won reemulâs respect, even though his opinion of shaolin-do may have not changed.
all in all, you both would probably agree that it was a good learning experience, and that you learned something about each side in the process, and in the end, you both came out on top, even though reemul won the fight. huang was right in that regard, because each of you won in different ways as well as lost in different ways.
you are both a great inspiration to the rest of us on how to honorably settle disputes. it is definitely a link to the past that i hope will spread. it would greatly benefit the quality of martial arts here in the west to have challenges that would weed out the good schools from the bad. the styles that are existent today are existent because they are all effective. they are all effective because they could stand up to these challenges throughout history.
