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You would think the combination of a history so rich in kung fu and an abundance of dirt cheap steroids would make for some decent fighters? I can't think of one decent fighter from China in Pride or UFC.
plrpower said:They are not a free country. They do what they are told and dont play sports unless its for the country. I could have completely made that up but I think its true.
UFC22 said:Don't forget March 26th A Pride event will be airing on cable TV on FSN! Vander is back!
I agree. 8 hours a day of training would be counter productive in my eyes, you'll easily become over trained and burnt out. Physically and mentally.Kane Fan said:ok so no Chinese art is focused on grappling?
and what about all the strikers doing well in mixed?
and your claim that the Kung Fu guys dont train enough is bs
in a country of a billion someone must train enough to equal a pro
and you act like everyone in the UFC is banging away for eight hours a day
more bs, that's the top level guys making enough money that they don't need a regular job, why arn't CMA guys fighting in the midcard levels then?
and as far as throwing out parts of training, it's not like boxing and wrestling are all 100% useable in the cage
a lot of boxings defence is just plain gone
you can't really hide behind 4oz gloves and in wrestling the get off your back is a great ticket to getting choked
Kane Fan said:ok so no Chinese art is focused on grappling?
and what about all the strikers doing well in mixed?
and your claim that the Kung Fu guys dont train enough is bs
in a country of a billion someone must train enough to equal a pro
and you act like everyone in the UFC is banging away for eight hours a day
more bs, that's the top level guys making enough money that they don't need a regular job, why arn't CMA guys fighting in the midcard levels then?
and as far as throwing out parts of training, it's not like boxing and wrestling are all 100% useable in the cage
a lot of boxings defence is just plain gone
you can't really hide behind 4oz gloves and in wrestling the get off your back is a great ticket to getting choked
CrazyK said:I agree. 8 hours a day of training would be counter productive in my eyes, you'll easily become over trained and burnt out. Physically and mentally.
On another note, I've been browsing this forum a while and Djimbe consistently defends Kung Fu blindly.
It is not all that applicable to the real world, very old system of doing things
when there are newer much more advanced systems of self defense such as Krav Maga.
Djimbe said:Grappling, yes , STANDING Grappling . Not GROUNDFIGHTING , no . It never ervolve there because MA was always the tool of WAR until the age of imperialism , this means way into the 1800s , going to the ground pretty much = death on a Battlefield , for various reasons , and tactics that keep you there are just Suicide .
Im sorry ?
I was refering to Chinese MAists in the states and the like .
Theres no MMA in China , man . I honestly think that theres ONE BJJ school in ALL of the PRC . Its a Communist Goivernment , and they do the sports the state TELL them to . You do San Shou/Wushu , you do Judo , you do Shuaijiao i certain places , or you shut the hell up .
And LIKE it .
Because CMA guys have their OWN Proving Ground (San SHou/San Da) and culture to Support it . With Rules Relative to judge the skills the Way they train . And SOME CMA ppl DO do middlingly well in MMA , Ive seen Local events won by CMA ppl and a guy from Northern Lights Tai Chi puts his guys into Grappling competitions and they meadal .
okaaaayyy , 90+ % .
response in boldDjimbe said:and YET , ppl with real jobs work 10+ hour days their entire lives and get Immensely strong doing so .
Yeah I'm sure I'll get immensely strong sitting on my ass in an office. These guys aren't doing 10+ hours a day of intense MMA training.
I dont do aythign Blindly . And I Talk about Boxing , Capoeira , Muay thai ... I just dont let pl that know nothing about what they are spaking dump all over somethign that has Value .
Kung fu has some value, but not nearly as much as you give credit to it.
This implies that you think that "All Kung Fu Is he Same" wich it very well is NOT ! WICH system is it thats "Too old a way of doing things" , and why ? Oh , you dont know what yore talking about , do you ? Can you name 15 Kung Fu systems and tell me how they do things differently ? Do you know wich systems have Forms and wich dont ? No, and I don't need to. Kung Fu is not all that applicable to sport or the real world. You can do all the spinning in the air flying kicks, and work on your circular blocks. I'll be happy to jab you right in the nose, then take u down for a choke.
HAHAHAHAHAHA !!! you pulled the RBSD Tard Card ! OMG , not JUST RBSD , but SRT RBSD ! Krav Maga ! If guys that are holding Uzis use it it MUST work , right ? ANd I LOVE the old "Argument To The New" if its newer it MUST be BETTER , right ?
Im going to give you a free lesson :
Gravity hasnt Changed .
Punching hasnt Changed
Kicking hasnt Changed
Humans havent Evolved to a different Bodytype , still the same Limbs , Torso , Joints , & head .And I'll give you a free lesson, weaponary has changed, systems of self defense have evolved through science, and sport cross training between self defense and sport has reached a whole new level. I don't know any part of kung fu that teaches how to disarm someone with an oozi pointed 2 inches from your face. Krav maga does
There are no Kung Fu fighters in MMA simply because they will lose, sorely. Just like the TKD and Karate guys before them. The difference is at least they are smart enough not to go out on international TV and get stomped like the TKD guys did at the beggining of MMA. Yes some chinese arts have some ground work, so what, I'd rather cross train in an art solely based on ground fighting like bjj, with a standup/clinch art like muay thai. Why? Because practioners of these systems have time and again proven the worthiness of their arts. Kung fu hasn't and never will, by simply not participating and telling others that their system is too "deadly" to be used in MMA(lol what a croc of shit) or go out and get stomped by bjjers, muay thai, shoot fighters, etc... Which I have seen plenty of. Hell, for as much shit as I give Karate, I've seen many tapes of Karate guys handing it to supposend "Kung Fu" experts. lol.BOSSDAWG said:all kungfu being the same are u kiddin me ? lmao CHINESE ARTS HAVE GROUND SKILLS IN THEM. anyway kungfu is a generic term and really means very skilled person. Boxing is the real term used. You won't see alot of mma from China beacause they are alot of traditionalist and think some sport fighting is hokey. Bruce lee thought tourneys were hokey and said most sifu's during his time agreed. Plus they already fought on roof tops nhb for real even with weapons for rep.
CrazyK said:There are no Kung Fu fighters in MMA simply because they will lose, sorely. Just like the TKD and Karate guys before them.
Yeah that's what I was getting at. I've seen pure muay thai fighters and bjjers do very well in mma. But haven't seen any pure fighters of the styles formentioned do well in mma. A lot of people have backgrounds in them though, I think they have a lot more application then kung fu.MikeMartial said:I have to disagree with this statement a bit; yes, there's no "pure" stylists in either TKD or Karate-----but many many succesfull MMA fighters have strong backgrounds in these arts. Think St. Pierre and Loiseau; I think I've stated this before, too.
But the question does remain as to why no MMA's have CMA in their background---if the art is so practical, as the defenders of CMA state, then why hasn't someone taken a CMA and applied it to MMA?
Saintinistic said:I feel that CMA traditionalists are exactly that, and prefer to stay within what they love.
Saintinistic said:In a fight based on rules, you have to be better at applying those rules, but if the rules dont fit your style (or no style) then you enter at your own risk or not at all.
Kane Fan said:with standing grappling you should be good at avoiding clinch takedowns which can help to keep the fight standing
how can you put a ? mark when I mention strikers doing well in MMA do you even watch MMA? GSP, David Louasioue(sp), RIch Franklin, Andrei Arlovski, Tim Silvia, Chuck Liddel
yah a lot of those guys can roll but they tend to strike on their feet and win that way so what prevents the Chinese from doing the same thing?
so basically your saying the reason there are not Chinese (mainland China) fighters in mixed is cus they are not permitted from the government right?
CrazyK said:Yeah that's what I was getting at. I've seen pure muay thai fighters and bjjers do very well in mma. But haven't seen any pure fighters of the styles formentioned do well in mma. A lot of people have backgrounds in them though, I think they have a lot more application then kung fu.
Actually China is on track to surpass the USA in economic prowess with in the next 10 years. On top of that there are a lot of successful athletes which come out of China, think Yao Ming, basketball is an American sport, yet he was able to reach greatness. I don't see why they would not take an art which is homegrown in their backyard and make it a staple of their pride as a nation if it was so effective. The Koreans did it with Tae Kwon Do, the Brazilians did it with Ju Jitsu(and lets not even get to how poor they are)and they certainly do not have the economic prowess China has. Have you ever even been to China? I have, and to say the least I've seen people much worse off in the slums of Jersey City then I did in Shanghai.Djimbe said:Im saying that China is NOT the US . Everyone doisent have a Television , a Car , and Money for PPVs Many , if not MOST Martial Artists in China have no CLUE what BJJ OR MMA even ARE yet ! Its not supported by the Government , and The government decides what gets Funding there ! there is like ONE BJJ school in China ! Its a Third World Country , man , its POOR , and its not yet caught up to where you are yet . It may take another Decade or two , as well . Things dont move there like they move here . They just DONT . ANd thats not any kind of "Excuse" , they just dont know about it , so they CANT Care . And evewn the few ppl that DO know about it cant really affoard to do much .
No more common day ones as no one is pure anything anymore(besides the older Gracies). You have to look at about 10-12 years ago and you'll see that the Muay Thai fighters were the only consistently successful in UFC, and Vale Tudo tourneys besides BJJers. I saw 1 Kung Fu practitioner in all my years of watching mma and he got submitted in about 1 and 1/2 minutes.Djimbe said:Who ? WHat PURE MT fighter has suceeded in MMA ?
CrazyK said:Actually China is on track to surpass the USA in economic prowess with in the next 10 years. On top of that there are a lot of successful athletes which come out of China, think Yao Ming, basketball is an American sport, yet he was able to reach greatness. I don't see why they would not take an art which is homegrown in their backyard and make it a staple of their pride as a nation if it was so effective. The Koreans did it with Tae Kwon Do, the Brazilians did it with Ju Jitsu(and lets not even get to how poor they are)and they certainly do not have the economic prowess China has. Have you ever even been to China? I have, and to say the least I've seen people much worse off in the slums of Jersey City then I did in Shanghai.
The bottomline is that these "secret deadly arts" are truly bullshit in the end. I can post you 20 videos of Kung fu "experts" getting the crap kicked out of them by other MAist.
EDIT: To add, China is pressing the Olympic Commitee to add Wushu as a an olympic sport. So the support is there.
In the end they are not competing in MMA because they are a lot of smoke and mirrors and no real application.
Response in bold.Djimbe said:There are no "Secret Deadly Arts" and I have never argued that there were . And Russia was an "Economic Superpower" in the eighties , while her citizenry stood in day-long lines for Bread and Toilet Paper . YES , I HAVE been to China , and not JUST to the bic cities . THE PEOPLE THERE ARE POOR - FAR worse off than in ANY American city , and on the whole worse off then most of Brazil , wich Ive ALSO been to . Using Russia is a horrible analogy. Russia produced some of the greatest athletes in the world, anyone who was good, they supported. Unlike the USA they could hire these athletes and basically turn their once hobby in to a full time job. China also has a similar program, and if they had 1 just 1 good fighter that they think would compete with the big boys of mma they would sponsor him to the fullest. In the end they never will because they have too much pride to see the infamous Kung Fu masters get throttled.
Oh , and "The Brazilians" didnt do ANYTHIGN , one RICH FAMILY did . THEY developed hte Sport and Funded it , not Brazil . It came out of Brazil, and the Brazilian people embraced it. All martial arts started in similar fashion with a small tight knit group of practitioners and then expansion.
OI , and when has Taekwondo been Successful in MMA ?
Didn't say they were. I said that they marketed their system of martial arts to world wide acclaim, and have competed in many mma events, at least they aren't pussies.
Your "Arguments" dont fit reality .
lol
I said that there is no support FOR MMA - not no support for Wushu .
Yeah but you're missing the point. The chinese could market their system and put themselves up against other martial artists, such as the Koreans did with Tae Kwon Do, and the Brazilians did with Ju Jitsu(BOTH of which are sports in and of themselves). The $$ if there for their system, but they don't choose to chompete because they know they will fail.
Please enter a San Shou Rules tourney . Tell me where you live and Ill direct you . Bring your Skills . If there is no application you should clean uop against your same level and weright Class , no ? Please take Video for us all . Thank you .Contact me in about 2 years, I'm finishing up my NCAA Football eligibility and as long I don't miracously get in the NFL then I'd be up for it. Until then I'll lose my eligibility for competing in any official sports tournament.
CrazyK said:Using Russia is a horrible analogy. Russia produced some of the greatest athletes in the world, anyone who was good, they supported. Unlike the USA they could hire these athletes and basically turn their once hobby in to a full time job. China also has a similar program, and if they had 1 just 1 good fighter that they think would compete with the big boys of mma they would sponsor him to the fullest. In the end they never will because they have too much pride to see the infamous Kung Fu masters get throttled.
Yeah but you're missing the point. The chinese could market their system and put themselves up against other martial artists, such as the Koreans did with Tae Kwon Do, and the Brazilians did with Ju Jitsu(BOTH of which are sports in and of themselves). The $$ if there for their system, but they don't choose to chompete because they know they will fail.
such as the Koreans did with Tae Kwon Do, and the Brazilians did with Ju Jitsu(BOTH of which are sports in and of themselves)
Didn't say they were. I said that they marketed their system of martial arts to world wide acclaim,
and have competed in many mma events,
at least they aren't pussies.
Contact me in about 2 years, I'm finishing up my NCAA Football eligibility and as long I don't miracously get in the NFL then I'd be up for it. Until then I'll lose my eligibility for competing in any official sports tournament.
Ok well were obviously going to continue disagreeing with eachother, and I feel like were running around in circles here. So here's what I'll do, give me the name of the best Kung Fu Sifu in my area(I'll PM it to you) and I'll go for some classes. I took some Kung Fu some years back but maybe it was by a crappy teacher because it was a lot of flash and not a lot of application in my opinion.Djimbe said:No , because they have no MMA PROGRAM . You fail to comprehend how Institutionalised athletics works from a Beaurocratic standpoint . You WANT the universe to be run in a particular way , and its just NOT that way . I WISH you were Correct , but its just not the case .
Actually the Chinese did exactly that . They Did the whole "Muay Thai Versus San Da" series , an they beat the PROFFESSIONAL Thais SOUNDLY with AMATEUR Chinese Kung Fu Fighters . In fact it was WILDLY Popular in China and Thailand and in Japan . They did EXACTLY what you describe , but they DIDNT do it IN MMA . Why ? BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO MMA PROGRAMME .
Like I said before , just because YOU dont know whats going on in the world dosent mean its never happened .
1) AGAIN , it was NOT "The Brazilians" It was THE GRACIES . You know VERY Little about Brazilian MA , neh ? You DO realise that there are SEVERAL Systems of MA in Brazil - Capoeira , VT , etc , and they ALL Compete WITH BJJ ? That JUDO is the ONLY Government Sponsored MA and THAT is whats taught in Schools like Wrestling is in the US ? BJJ is ONLY promoted by the Machados/Gracies and Zuffa , whos AMERICAN . BJJ was TRULY Cross Promoted IN THE US !
2) What Sport system has TKD Proved itself against ? Im usually the PRO TKD guy , but seriously , yore acting as if TKD fights in a huge number of MMA Matchups with success , and Im unaware of any such events having taken place . Please enlighten me .
How ? By being in the OLYMPICS wich is what China is TRYING TO DO NOW ! Theyre GETTING to the place where TKD is , they never before had the Opportunity . Theyre TRYING to Promote San Shou/San Da events and the systems that support the Ruleset , these thigns take time . Theyre pushing to make it an Olymic Event , not trying to Hide it from anyone ! Thats EXACTLYU what TKD did , but the Chinese dont get the Credit because the IOC hasnt let them get In yet ? Thats NOT the fault of CHINA by ANY means !
where have Pure TKDists sponsored by Korea been Successful in MMA ? I cant count ONE . Least CMA systems have Delucia and Le .
Implying that EVERYONE in ALL OF CHINA is a "Pussy" Smacks of Racism , man . I really hope that you dont mean to come off like that , but thats how you DO come off , and Seriously thats just not very cool at all .
You can do a Smoker , theyre Unnoficial and have no w/l Records . You can also just tell me where you are and I can give you goodd school and you can go Challenge them . Lets see how you hold up , neh ? Please , bring Videotape .
I predict more excuses as to why you can talk trash from behind your Keypad without putting up your Dukes coming though . Not much in the way of anything else .
Dude , stop attackign ALL of CHINA . Its really starting to come off as Predjudice . Hell , Im OPENING a SCHOOL and I have trained in CMA MY WHOLE LIFE and Im not even STARTING with any Chinese MA classes . Why ? Because Im not Teaching any of the Classes , and Im taking an Administrative position at first . Im LOOKING to have Sambo and Capoeira as my Base systems here , and not because I think theyre "Better" than anything else , but because I believe in the Instructors that I have coming that they are GOOD MENTORS , and I truly believe that Student > Teacher > Style .
I live in Allentown , PA . Though my school isnt Officially Open yet , any time youre in the Area (perhaps for a Game ?) you feel free to stop by and Ill give you some Free Introductory Lessons in CMA . You obviously have no Idea what its about , or how Similar or DISsimilar it may be to some things you already are Familiar with . Afters if youre lucky , Ill get you laid or somethign .
Kane Fan said:I could see after a Pushkick but woudln't you ahve to miss or feint the round to follow up with a side?
Kane Fan said:I have to say that the matchup with boxing seems a bit unfair
I mean as far as the training goes the boxers wouldn't have likely been good at doing takedowns or kicking but they should have had the same options the sanshou fighters had
Djimbe said:and yet , they were heavily favoured at the time , IIRC . They thought they were going to Crush them .
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