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Athletes have something to prove, and people trying to make money have something to prove. Martial Artists shouldnt. Besides, do you really have a higher opinion of someone who would open thier doors to public sctrutiny? let alone young people like us on some random website?

An honest school or tradition should have more respect for the fact that they themselves were not trained by accident, they were chosen and trusted by thier own teachers to pass on the art well. All I've seen on that show are gyms and competitive schools, and that just isnt what training is about.

As far as finding a traditional school, its hard to find; the best I can tell you is to look for teachers who have real jobs plus run a school, instead of charging an arm and a leg just practice with them. And doesnt spew a bunch of bull-s**t.

And please, pay attention. I know for a fact how young aikido is, what I refered to is the art form that aikido came from. Research on aiki jujutsu, and aiki inyo ho, these arts are older than the Tokugawa period; designed for the sole use of monk-soldiers on the battle field. The man who made aikido thought them to be too severe, and violent; so he came to America with a pacifistic version and found success.

THis is what I think of Her Grimm:

So what do you guys think of my boday?

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I don't know what to laugh at. Cynical's reaction, or the fact that Soul Fighters is proving he is gay.

Takuya? That was a homosexual japanese guy that hit on me... alot, in high school. Other than that though, cool dude. Didn't realize he posted here.


Hey Takuya!!!

I'm not gay, but if Takuya Kimura had been hitting on me, it might have gone a bit farther. No Homo.

Herr Grim, you seem to have a sort of snobbish look into dojo's and gyms that are large and popular.

I can understand you not understanding why such schools work well, if you've only trained at small, extremely traditional schools, and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with training at those. I think it's great. What I'm saying is you may be a bit close-minded.

Let me put it to you this way: Really, it makes NO DIFFERENCE if the Dojo/Gym is large or small, if it has a hundred students or a thousand, if the there are many instructors or just one. Because it reality, it all depends on the STUDENT whether or not they'll actually succeed and excell at the martial art style they study. The instructor can spend all of his/her time on a single student, pounding in the rules of respect and honor, instructing over and over the right way to do tecniques and katas whatnot, but if the studet doesn't give a s**t or is lazy or doesn't give it his or her all, that student is going to fail.

The reason I explained that to you is to get you to realize that a lot of those people that come from those large gyms that 'aren't true gyms' or 'aren't true jobs' could kick your a**. Of course, you could probably kick a few of their asses as well. I'm just saying don't snubb your nose at those that study at larger dojo's. The Dojo itself doesn't make the student better. The student does.

That's why I don't get all this blabber on here about 'your martial art sucks! Mine is way better!' stuff. A master of the style of... let's say... Wu Shu would kick the crap out of someone who's not a master of... let's say... Kenpo. And a Master of Kenpo would kick the crap out of someone who's not so great at Wu Shu.

Do you understand at all? It depends on the person, not the place or the teacher.

I'm not trying to knock 'traditional' schools. In fact, I think they're great. But I think larger, widely-spread dojo's and styles and great, also. It also depends on where you live. I live in America, for example, and some of the 'traditional' things they do in China wouldn't fly here.

Whatever, though. You can keep looking down at other schools, but if you do, please don't claim to know what a 'true' martial artist is all about. I've never seen or heard any of my Sensei's say anything bad about any other style or school, and I work there twelve hours a day, six days a week.

...Oh, and yeah... That's my REAL Job.

Fatty. 3nodding