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[ProKarateShop]

This is what is awesome about the internet...you can pretend to be anyone and anonymously voice your assinine opinions to whatever end you wish...without any knowledge base, experience, education, or facts to support your statements. You could literally be a 10 year old kid from Pocatello ID telling people about your take on fighting.

At least I represent myself for who I am. My name is Garland, and below my posts is my facebook profile. The only thing I don't give out is my SSN, my address, or my Credit Card info. I don't embellish myself to be more than I am...I'm just a normal dude.

Haha, very true.. sending you a FB request

[scb]

Folks, I understand things can be all fun and games.. But there are a lot of personal attacks.. I think this getting away from what it means to be a Martial Artist.

it's good that you understand this

however many people will not keep it civilized when they run off arguments, what is actually tells a lot about their level of education

[Tokyo Kid]

You have very little education, don't you? It is the person, not the style. If a person learns a technique and makes it work for him/her and can effectively use the technique then that is what makes the person better. If they are a trolling internet tough guy like yourself then they will get their asses handed to them every time.

Go figure.

The problem I have with this line of thought, the whole "it's not the style it's the person", is only partially true. While it is true it's up to the individual to train hard, if the style is garbage from the get-go, training can even become detrimental. You might be able to "make it work", but you shouldn't have to when there are available effective styles out there with proven results.

To many martial artists use this "there is no bad style" as an excuse. There are bad styles, just as there are bad teachers and students. Of course, I'm sure this dead horse has been beaten more times than an aikido student in a bad neighborhood, so let's go back to discussing scb's ged.