Ajax wrote on Oct 29^th, 2018 at 5:49pm:


Did. Judo as a kid cos there was a good club down the road. It was really good, got into a fight with a slightly older and much stronger bully. He grabbed me and we went to ground and I pinned him. Made the guy concede defeat, he struggled a lot but I actually remembered my training specifically in that hold and I kept side control unit he fatigued and gave up. I was so amazed and proud I used skill to beat him. We stood up and I graciously put my hand out to shake hands and he punched 4 times in the face and broke my nose and he ran off. I was outraged he did that after I won. Went and told my instructor that judo is incomplete like I was an adult. Years later a work crew was hostile toward new crews, you don't need details, and this guy attacked me on the job. I wasn't expecting it. He had a safety harness on and amazingly I grabbed the harness like it was judo and threw the guy so hard on the cement he tried hard to get up but couldn't. The boss walked in at that point and sacked the guy on the spot as he tried same on other guys. I was amazed I remembered that throw instantly and under extreme pressure 20+ years since I last did judo as a pre teen. Wish my old instructor was around to thank him.

Then joined karate and boxing clubs, got so bored with karate all standing in lines doing repetitive movements and pretend sparsring like I kick punch you block then swap over. They always wanted more money for fake weapons and crap so I quiet and did boxing. I loved boxing first night I got put in with an experienced guy and was told to fight. I fought like a maniac and never landed a punch and the guy hit me whenever he felt like it. He made it hurt but not so hard to knockout or injure. I was only white guy. I went every night for years and had a bunch of fights titles etc.

Got jobs and girls and stopped boxing for decades then had another bunch of fights and coached guys until I was 45.

Lastly mma started and some young guys asked me for striking training so I started a gym with them and they taught me basic wrestling bjj and kicks.

I realised  I am born to wrestle really as I picked it up quick and I have good natural leverages for it. Wish I had somewhere to learn it when I was young but there were no clubs.

These days I privately do self protection with and against weapons, sticks knives etc. It's just survival stuff no real style. About 3 of us different ages and backgrounds meet up occasionally and just experiment with knife defence, ranged weapons, escapes,  high impact and run away stuff. It's cool, lots of randoms blow in and out, some bring knowledge, some test themselves, some are trying to prove stuff. That's my entire history on it.

The great thing about martial art is that its an expression of one's self through physical display.  If you believe that martial art should be pretentious, a gimmick, then as you do it, your moves would show it.   And I have seen no shortage of (mostly young men), showing up their fly kicks.   Are they right or wrong, there is no answer just for the moves per se.  Its how they use it.  If they use it to improve their physical and mental fitness, helping others, then to me it represent good.   If they use it to hurt others, then no matter how flashy the moves are, they are bad. 

I think many people don't realise what the word MARTIAL means in martial arts.

Term Dog wrote on Oct 31^st, 2018 at 9:24am:


Certainly not to holler for a battery ... with a little poetic license   

I should add that when fighting people with Martial Arts training, their 'mentality' is always somewhere far away in Asia. In fact, they think like an Asian and if you walk around Australia - you'll see the little yellow people and how mentally 'stoopid' they are trying to live here.

I laugh at Martial Arts trained people and how they act as if they are 'mentally' trained ...but really, they get their heads punched back to Asia. 

I hate fighting.

I never see the sense of Men wanting to touch other men.
Seems so 'gay' to me, that they want to 'touch' each other up. 

Captain Caveman wrote on Nov 1^st, 2018 at 5:12am:



You mean like the Rock?

Captain Caveman wrote on Oct 31^st, 2018 at 8:56pm:


fezz is a shortening of a nickname I was given at 17, naturally got shorter over the years ... how aussie is that!
Lucky for me I was born with a glass half full in my hand.
The head injury is getting hit on the right temporal lobe by my surfboards rail while surfing a solid 6' point break in WA.

Bit slow on the reply because I've just broken my left radius and ulna 

I'll have to check out old mate fezz from the show you speak of, you've peaked my interest.