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Oh good. He’ll have options if it goes bad or he realizes that dude is modern Frank Dux. The OG used to love outing fake martial artists. Those were always fun threads
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I told him a while back to join the OG and never mention the word sensei on here or he’ll get laughed out of town.
I dont think he ever joined
It wouldn’t go well that’s for sure. Fucking sensai
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Yep. 
Sensei and Sifu can be translated as “teacher”. Agreed, would be weird to call someone “master” in English.
I always thought the whole “professor” thing in BJJ was just because “professor” was also the word for teacher in portuguese lol so not really that different from calling someone “coach”.
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I dont train BJJ anymore. But I know there are a shit ton of legit gyms in the valley. Another one of my buddies trains at Megaton’s I think.
There’s SOME truth to the delusions of bjjers but it’s nothing like karate or kung fu was before MMA.
If I said to my students that I’d just beat up a biker gang my students would laugh at me.
(So much so that when I really do beat up entire gangs of hoods I keep it to myself!)
We sub leased from a kenpo school in the late 90’s and as we waited for the mat to clear these weird 30 year old virgins would talk endlessly about how their grandmaster Lenny who was a 5’6” chubby and middle aged man…. had killed people with his bare hands and had run drug rings out of town with nothing but his karate.
I specifically recall once the assistant instructor explaining to his lessers that Lenny would murder Tyson in a fight but “maybe” not if he had to do in an actual boxing match.
Bjj guys can get annoying and be unrealistic but for the most part any kind of sparring or rolling helps keep you grounded. And many bjjers watch the ufc religiously and have to confront realities like Kron last week.
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When the subject of bjj for self defense comes up in conversation I tell people that bjj is really good for self defense against a single untrained person who has no weapons and we’re on a padded surface.
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IMO self defense is do random that you can’t say if u are facing one guy, three… are u fighting your drunk pal? Or a home invader,
Last time I had to defend myself I was tackled before I knew I was in a fight so bjj worked well. But real fights can be in any surface, a living room witch tables is so different that a parking lot that everything is different.
To be honest I think the abilities that are most useful in a random bar fight is probably strength,
I’d rather have Eddie hall on my side in a brawl that Mighty Mouse.
But there’s only so much you can do about your strength and athletic ability,
I mean if I ain’t gonna roid up 100 lbs then learning skills is the best you got.
Obviously mma skills in general would seem to be best,
Grappling or striking styles can with but have huge holes
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An MMA gym I went to in L.A. had a muay thai instructor that came up to me a couple times after class requesting that I call him “kru” instead of “coach.”
I was like “I’m not Thai, I’ll just stick with “coach,” thanks!”
That stuff is super gay imo. I want to learn to fight, not LARP.
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I’ve hit the bag at regular gyms (like your la fitness, golds etc) for years.
Soooo many times I’ve seen karate weirdos or as I call them karate pedifiles doing their thing on the bag
Practicing karate wing chung whatever the fuck on the bag like retards.
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You ever see Charlie Z out there?
I haven’t heard that name for a while. Is he still assaulting people out there?
It’s not assault bro. When you ask if they’re ready, and they kinda give you a half nod while looking down at their everlast gloves, it’s on son!
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And it’s not stalking when Kim Kardashian sent you a psychic invite to come over.
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I always liked the instructors that talked like English was their 2nd language when discussing martial arts.