Kun Khmer Book Review

[kyuss]

I hope everyone is sitting down. Now for the best one yet, THEY ARE SELLING an interview with the brooklyn dork.
$9.97 buys you I am sure a delusional tour with grace fool through his warped reality wearing his trusted black krama and head scarf. Maybe he will talk about avoiding researching or doing hardcore research on systems that will help his credibility especially the cambodian ones? Saying you are silat instructor then saying silat bascially sucks then saying how its a tough system that he teaches? Maybe his meds were off that week or something?? Or Maybe it was the heat??Or maybe its everybody hates him even though I think I am a genuis??Or dont call me a loser because I'm almost 50 and just got a job for a few months and dont have a career??This has to be the comedy book of the year.

Who is the Brooklyn Monk?: A Dialog with Martial Arts Adventurer, Antonio Graceffo: Tim Johnson, Antonio Graceffo: 9781480242203: Amazon.com: Books

More myth making.

Lets hit 6,000 views! We are inching up.

[george stando]

Beyond ridiculous. It will sell like 10 copies at best. All to his family and his nuthuggers.

[tenzen]

You mean hes got 10 nuthuggers? I didnt think u could fit that many people in such a small space. Theres gotta be a mexicans in a vw joke somewhere here.

[Johntlp]

over 6,000! Was reading his new black belt article hes still writing about mma when he isnt even training or fighting as per his most current posts. Maybe he should concentrate on a career before he is 50 and a total loser.

[tenzen]

Thats not gonna happen john.

[Johntlp]

lol,tenzen!

I checked the amazon thing and I saw this blurb:

--Travelling to the far reaches of the world to find lost masters and forgotten systems of martial arts; reviving the sometimes abandoned techniques and philosophies of a subculture of warriors; immersing himself deep into the cultural and linguistic setting of his fight training. These are only a couple of the things that get Antonio Graceffo up every morning.--

Lost masters? Forgotten systems? Where and when did he do that???? Reviving abandoned techniques and philosophies???Where is this? if you read the guy he has done none of this!!!

Mostly furthering myth and building himself up no real research, training or serious writing or training or presentation on the subjects has ever been mounted by him. I mean come on.

[Tee Sok]

I read it too. This is too much. If it were true, he wouldn t be where he is
and wouldn t do what he is doing.

This is lying and deceiving people, plain and simple. And selling, on top of it all.

[tenzen]

Wow this guy. I dont even know what to say. How could anyone believe any of that. Cuz the guys been on vacation over there for the last 10 years or so. I dont get it. All that time he has spent in countries that actually have great training and he learned absolutely nothing and then fought in some half assed mma events to demonstrate that he knows nothing and worse he proved to all of us that he knows even less than the nothing we all speculated he knew.

[kyuss]

The gracefool is a good publicity agent for himself. He keeps spreading the bull thick and nobody calls him on it. When they do, he spins into they are just jealous or this or that. Its sad because he has done nothing to help the old arts survive anywhere at anytime.

[tenzen]

I called him on his bull. He tried that with me and i told him i would gladly fight him and have the whole thing recorded at a legitimate venue and he declined. But yet they couldnt find him anyone to fight. That guy is a quack. Nothing to preserve or further push any arts except the art of bull

[kyuss]

As 2012 draws to a close the brilliance from the gracefool continues:

Check out this gem:

Since I have been in Asia I have had about 4 street fights and they were, of course, the easiest fights I had, because the opponents didnt have any training--

So now street fights are EASY! I have been in a few and there weren't pleasant and they were not what I call easy. In a fantasy world maybe yes but not the real world. I prevailed and escaped which is a lot. I didn't think of it was winning but making it out intact.

Second wonder gem:

Ring fighters are also people with a life, experience, and history, no different from these alleged "street fighters" who I cant get an exact profile on. I am from New York City. I grew up fighting in the street literally every day, and thats WHY I got into martial arts and ring fighting.

Still with the New York thing. I assume he got into a million street fights as a 10 year old in the schoolyard because he didn't grow up in NY but tennessee. Did he grow up in the housing projects or something that he had a streetfight literally everyday or he is just delusional again? Does he have a grasp on reality anymore that things don't add up? So him saying he got into tons of streetfights in NYC presents an exact profile especially in light of him spending so little time there??? Also he got into martial arts only about 10 years ago or less when he was in his mid 30s nothing shows that he trained in NYC or elsewhere prior to that. He had no rank prior to the legendary black karma and the silat thing which he defaced and disguarded as useless. Again it doesn't make any sense?? Is it me or is this guy just losing it?

[fire cobra]

Guys a loon

[george stando]

Its very amusing what comes out of this guys mouth. I think it all comes from being in your room all day long alone and not having a life. Close to 45 years of that will do this to you.

[kyuss]

further classics from the mouth of the great fool:

""Hell, I wrote three books about Cambodia, and it didn’t take me that long to write any of them.""

Bragging about turning out slop that never finds a decent publisher and somehow never gets edited or proofread. But we already knew that.

On his floundering career

I told my colleague that I had saved enough money that I have two choices before me, study for my PHD in linguistics, or go to Beijing Sports University for wrestling. He told me, “No, you have one choice and one stupid insanity.” Maybe he has a point. Linguistics! Where’s that gonna get me in the future?

Whats a 50 year old dude going to study wrestling for instead of get a ph.d.? One thats lost evidently?? I guess wrestling fuels his fantasy life of being a fighter.

[Johntlp]

What's really confounding is how now he is in China and doing whatever he is doing which I assume is teaching and he doesnt train or compete because he says he doesnt have any time??? This goes back to we said earlier many MMA fighters hold full time jobs, have family and commitments and train and compete on a consistent basis. Whats worse is he still has the ridiculous Black Belt articles coming out where he says he is training? Its all bull. Each thing this guy does and says exposes him more and more. Hopefully people are waking up to his clever manipulations and constant bs. This thread is just such an incredible archive of classic gracefool BS and I am happy its still up and being read with close to 7,000 hits now