(this response was to CJ's last comments)
Fair enough, I'll clarify:

My face to face experience has taught me that when the topic of martial arts comes up, most of the people you talk to are not as knowledgeable as they think they are and lack real experience. I see no reason to suspect otherwise on this board. Now, since we seem to mostly be red-blooded testosterone laced males between puberty and retirement around here, almost all of us want to believe we can kick ass. Therefor I expect that any comment that insinuates one person has greater knowledge or skill on the topic will invite all sorts of suffering because the very nature of this board provides us with a safe, anonymous venue to be tough guys, whether we are really such or not. Whereas most guys don't seem to feel their manhood is at stake if I tell them I'm better at singing on stage in tights.
I am sure there are also rare-steak eating badasses on this board, but like I said, they're probably also smart enough not to get dragged into this.

And I have posted to martial-arts related questions on this board with similar results, going back a year or more, when I posted as Tag. But, like then. MOST particpants are too smart to get riled up, while SOME get all pissy about it.

Better?

*shakes head, sighing* I personally don't care about martial arts nor have I ever commented on them. My closest experience was disarming a rather stupid knife-wielding thief who wanted my wallet in Northside Chicago and watching the guy run off, but I have no formal training. I do think that you are reaping what you are sowing, dude. How can you expect people to respect what you have to say, speaking the way you do?

Is this where everyone rags on hahnsoo because how should he really know colour blind? What, we just gonna take your word that you can't drink coffee?
Man, some people just post on this board 'cause they want everyone to think they're some kinda genetic peculiarity who's colour blind, can't drink coffee, but disarms knife wielding thugs. Am I just s'pose to beleive you can tell me about coffee drinking now?
Now, respect'd be nice, but I'd rather be right.

Whatever. If it makes you feel better to assume that everyone is... "pissy"... about your comments, then so be it. I didn't read anyone's comments as being such.

I can tell you that for myself, I don't consider myself a badass, unless its a challenge of drawing/illustrating. Nothing about what you said had anything to do with my id being squished or deflated. I just found your comments to be brash and unmerited, given that you don't know anything about any other person on the board.

Your own personal experience is just that, your own. You reword the same egotistical view of everyone with claims of martial prowess, as you did in your original post. Assuming that they are all a bunch of talk and not worth their salt. My point is based only in logic, not in wounded ego, as I have nothing to prove as far as which color my belt is (it's leather).

Then why did you just post?

And, umm... I did capitalize SOME. You're saying everyone a lot when you quote me, go read it over again. Now who's making assumptions?

Once again, you guys are saying 'everyone', not me.

I said 'seems', 'appears', 'too many' and 'some'. In this case, some seems to be two.

I'm saying you need to learn to lurk before you leap, and that you lack basic fundamentals of etiquette, let alone netiquette. If all you are going to do is pick apart other people, then folks are going to tear into you like the troll that you are. Don't be that troll. Say sorry, learn humility, post your experience rather than your dogma. No one cares about your credentials, they only care about what you have to contribute.

Not yet, not until you say that 'everyone' was your choice of word.

And what are you going to do if I don't, martial arts master? Come over here and kick my ass?

Umm... no hahnsoo, I think I'll just ignore you.

Didn't you buy any meat?

OY!

I complained once about the chambara bashing, then I shut up. 'Taint gonna win against THIS crowd, egos or not. Everyone has an opinion...and they are entitled to it. Whether they are idiots or idiot savants.

sheesh...go ahead, keep bashing each other...makes you all look mature. *grin*

Yeah, you complained, and unfortunately were clearly wrong— and you sure as hell didn't look too great throwing a fit afterwards. Not doing too great here, either.

*bah* It may not be an art to you, but it is to others. Although if you want to start trading insults, feel free.

Dude. If you want a discussion on Martial Arts, go visit Bullshido.com and see what kind of reception you get when you exclaim that Tai chi or Tae Kwon Do would be a good martial art for anything.

Dog, you're probably wise to just give this thread up. The mob has turned against you, and nothing will turn their opinion to your favour.

Dog, as far as you having had experience "trading punches", jiu-jitsu is mianly a grappling martial art, and doesn't tend to have much emphasis or training in strikes. Thusly, I doubt that while you may have a lot of combat experience, that much of it was in the way of trading punches.

Dude, don't even go there. I train in jujitsu and the first 3 belts are largely striking. Unless Dog is talking aout B/GJJ in which case, yeah, probably just grappling. On the other hand he could just be speaking euphemistically, in which 'trading punches' might mean 'getting into fights'.

Just how traditional of a jiu-jitsu school are you going to? A lot of modern schools tend to merge styles lately, especially if a particular style is lacking in one area. Jiu-jitsu is typically lacking in strikes, so less traditional schools will often teach people basic strikes when starting out.

Probably my school is less traditional then some, but then, Dog's probably is as well. Assuming that he does JJJ. I think you will find that the schools that teach strikes are probably in the majority in western countries.

EDIT: Rereading Dog's earlier posts, it turns out that he does combat Jujitsu. A quick search on google will reveal to you that it is indeed JJJ, but it uses strikes and soforth.

(Dog pokes his head in the door and glances around suspiciously...)

Psst...Tziluthi, check Bissett Combat Jiu-Jitsu in Winnipeg. Look familiar to you?
Tarantula, I gotta agree, you really can't tell what you're gonna get just based on what they call it.

(Quickly shuts door...)

wow.

if there was a need for professional threadjackers there are a few people here who could be making millions...

Well, no you can't. If people would use the correct terms for what it is you could, but especially with martial arts, they're gradually blending together until one and another are rather quite similar, maybe a distinction here or there, but nothing too terrible. Thus, when someone actually uses a specific name for their art, I assume they're discussing that specific art defined under that name, not something based off it, or a weird western variant offshoot of it.