dude… forget changing everyone else. dont take yourself so serious. you’ll live longer.
lol he actually said that the night of the UFC “tough enough” style final competition.
apparently up until UFC and MMA were invented all forms of martial arts were inept and ineffective. :rolleyes: apparently Joe Rogan is a martial arts historian along with gameshow host.
You’re correct MK. Not too many mothers telling their daughters to “find one of those nice martial arts boys to marry.”
That final show was awesome. I don’t remember him saying that, though.
Ray, just call it Chinese Boxing and be done with it
Game show host AND former world TKD champ - get it right! :mad: 
I say chinese kickboxing instead of kung fu. It’s funny how different people’s reactions are when you say different things.
For example, I was on a plane–somebody struck up a conversation w/ me because I was reading KFM. I told them I do kung fu. A bunch of people got into the conversation. They made funny Bruce Lee noises and then spent the rest of the time joking about it w/ the usual questions (can you really fight, etc.)
On the very next plane I was on, I was reading JAMA (only because I’d already finished my KFM 
). Somebody asked me if I took martial arts, and I said I did Chinese kickboxing. The conversation was then very serious (is it dangerous? Do you get hurt? Isn’t that really violent? Are you in the UFC?)
The different reactions from just saying variations of the same thing is pretty funny.
Hold on sec. Were you practicing MT and Grappling in the park, or Kung Fu?
No matter where you go, you tell people you do kung fu and they think Bruce Lee before Chuck Liddell.
I would imagine if you practiced grappling in a park, you would still get people making funny noises at you (mostly from sailors :eek: ).
that hasn’t happened since I got my cred back.
ya know, it’s funny… we were doing kung fu. But I have grappled in the park - it got a bunch of awkward looks, but nobody really said anything…
The only time I’ve been in the park and not gotten noises and comments about kung fu was while practicing broadsword - then people just moved out of the way. It’s hilarious seeing people’s reactions when they see a big, black dude with a sword walking toward them.
Especially when they’re at the ATM.
you know - I think this is actually part of the problem. People already think MA is nothing more than wire tricks and fantasy anyway - that’s my guess as to why the term ‘kung fu’ is received the way that it is - film and other media have turned it into an utter joke. Boxing is a known ringsport - they are known for beating the he11 outta people. That is likely why terms like ‘chinese boxing’ and ‘thai boxing’ get more respect. I’d venture to say that if instead of ‘grappling’, I told people I ‘wrestled’, I would get similar stupid comments about the WWE.
By thinking we are “warriors”, we are - in a sense - propogating the stereotype. No offense, but you are not a warrior, IMO, nor am I. Most of the other posters on this forum are not either. Also - especially in this day and age - respect is not given, it’s earned. If someone wants to be respected as a fighter, they should fight. Naturally though, the respect factor there is limited - you will be respected by the ones who have seen you fight, or who know that you fight. The more successful you become, the more respect you will earn.
In the meantime, just tell people you train chinese boxing
That image cracks me up!
Slightly OT, but has anyone ever been hassled because they were doing weapon practice in a park?
[QUOTE=Judge Pen]That image gets me hot!QUOTE]
I haven’t been, but last time I was in Philly I saw a guy get harassed. He was practising a Dao set, on a scale of 1 to 10 I’d give him a 6.5. Wasn’t bad looking, but the timing was still choppy and the nasty flow word wasn’t there yet. He completely ignored this one guy that kept laughing at him until the guy came up and started to verbally harass him, he gently said:
“1… 2…” Between 2 and 3 the guy turned around and walked off. If memory serves correctly that was at the Rittenhouse Square off Walnut, but it might have been somewhere else.
-Will
hehe, I saw that, MK…
The stupid new forum won’t let you just post a quote without commenting on it. :mad:
This is kind of where I am at on this issue as well. The vast majority of times a conversation like this comes up the person I am talking to has no real referance point and whatever I would say to “educate” them really wouldnt make a difference to them.
It reminds me of a discussion I had with a Bagua guy that teaches self defence to local law enforcement. He just said one day that he is no longer refering to himself as a “martial artist” because it just brings up to many things in peoples minds that he does not want to associate himself with. I was a little dumb founded at the time but now I tend to agree with him.
I practice Hsing-i, Hop Gar and Tai Chi and most of the time when strangers ask me about it I just tell them its a good work out and i enjoy it and move on. Nothing I say will really give them a better understanding of what I do so i dont see the point. If asked about the self defence/combative portion nature of it I would elaborate a bit but not a whole lot.
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