True Martial Artists Unite

[Ol' Fighter]

Okay I'm getting extremly pissed off at all the fake martial artists that are around these days because majority of them are nothing but con-artists just looking for a quick buck and not only that the people who train under these dastardly people are being 'duked' but they just don't know it and it pisses me off like a little while ago this guy and I started arguing about what form of what is better and so one thing led to another him and I got into a courtesy match and I totally kicked his ***. Sheesh I though he knew so much turned out he didn't even know the basic countering stances....

But enough of my ranting what do all you OB members think about fake martial artists?

[Raiyuu]

Do you mean people that falsely claim to be qualified instructors, or just people that claim they know a martial art and don't?

Because if I take it as the latter, it sounds like you just find these people on the street and challenge them to spars. Which (forgive me, O wise sensei) doesn't sound plausible so much as it sounds like the plot of [i]Street Fighter[/i]. :p

[Sojio]

I have spent months looking for a suitable martial art to start. I only recently found a Ninjukai Taijutsu school near my house. You must go through a rigorous physical and mental examination before you start to see weather you are physically able to become a student. The masters at this Dojo teach student only to pass on their skills not to make money. I had a long chat with one of the masters there about what he thought martial arts should all be about and he said "martial arts is a discipline and way of life. Those people who do martial arts are just using it as a means to raise their identity." I think this is true in the sense that to the majority of todays society martial art has become a means to become cooler rather than to discipline ones self.

[Ol' Fighter]

[QUOTE=Raiyuu]Do you mean people that falsely claim to be qualified instructors, or just people that claim they know a martial art and don't?

Because if I take it as the latter, it sounds like you just find these people on the street and challenge them to spars. Which (forgive me, O wise sensei) doesn't sound plausible so much as it sounds like the plot of [i]Street Fighter[/i]. :p[/QUOTE]

No, nothin' happining on the Street Fighter thing because I don't run up on random people and say 'hey I challenge you to a fight' no it's not anything like that it's just I honestly don't care too much for people who are like I know such a such and I bet I could do this those type of things. All I care about is if you are diciplined in your style of fighing that's all, it sounds like another anime sound of thing but it's the honest truth.

And your question I mean both of what you said which I should of included from the start.

[Guest kendoka]

Lets not run before we walk here. Would you all like to post some credentials before you throw insults at "fake" martial artists?

Here, I will start

Sam Schumacher,
Yonkyu,
[URL=http://www.milwaukeekendo.org]Milwaukee Kendo Club[/URL]

[Sara]

[QUOTE=Lonley Fighter]...like a little while ago this guy and I started arguing about what form of what is better and so one thing led to another him and I got into a courtesy match and I totally kicked his ***.

Sheesh I though he knew so much turned out he didn't even know the basic countering stances....[/QUOTE][color=#b0000b][size=1]I'm confused. Do you have this problem a lot?[/size][/color]

[Dragonboym2]

[COLOR=Blue]I took karate for some time. There's a small Dojo not to far from where I live, and a freind of mine at the time enrolled there. I was invited by him to see his belt test. I thought that taking Martail Arts could be fun, so I enrolled. I met alot of great people, and I had soem good times(I was kinda a class clown)
I ended up making it to my sixth degree on my blue belt, but one day, I had some pains in my back. I went to the doctor, and I was told I had socliolis. I was given a huge clunky back-brace, and I had to wear it at all times. I couldn't go to practice anymore.
I haven't been with my brace for about seven years now, and my back is in great shape.
I haven't gone back, since I left. I would like to come back some time.

For being a "true martial artist" I have strong beleifs in the philosiphies and teachings of martial arts. Violence is a last resort, try to be mindful of all things and people, fight fair, etc. What do martial arts mean to you?

"KAMEHAMEHA!"

Dragonboym2[/COLOR]

[Ol' Fighter]

[quote name='Sara][color=#b0000b][size=1]I'm confused. Do you have this problem a lot?[/size'][/color][/quote]

Recently yes, like during the months of February and now it was crazy like these people just appeared out of nowhere and me, I (from what my friends have told me) have a thing in which I kind of take my dicipline too serously and well I just can take it too seriously sometimes but another thing has been quite literally smacked into my head by my teacher and that's the simple words of 'let these people be' and well I kind of feel bad because of some of the things I said to certain people because if it made them feel happy or whatever who am I to take away their happiness... and yes, I'm a bit of a hypacrit for that... :animeswea