Posts by Eric Jackson43

The way this was phrased is just off, considering Jesus lived ages ago. It’d make way more sense if you asked:
Are liberals or conservatives actually closer to what Jesus taught?

Austin Roberts8 said:As far as I can tell, Harry Potter isn't even fantasy...

Then what is it?

rustyhawk3 said:So, last Wednesday I finally dealt with this massive nuisance I've been dragging around for fifteen years—three internal and two external ones. I spent way too much time listening to horror stories and endured three agonizing exams at both some private clinic and the local county hospital. After hearing all those grim tales about people getting them surgically removed, I decided to just go to a private clinic in Los Angeles (Dr. Misir) for laser surgery instead.
Ten minutes later, I was just sitting in my car feeling like nothing had even happened. Honestly, if you're dealing with bleeding, bathroom issues, or any other "joyful" side effects of hemorrhoids, I’d highly recommend it. 👍

If anyone wants the lowdown on how it went, just ask 😉

What's the damage, price-wise?

I don't know much about the guy, honestly, but from what I've gathered so far, I'm actually kind of digging it. 👍

I honestly think what the OP is trying to get at is that the whole "Luke, I am your father" thing isn't even real

Jonathan Johnson67 said:your idea of Bruce Lee is kind of a weird way to label every single Chinese martial art

Honestly, both terms are pretty fuzzy and usually end up being used interchangeably, though I guess Bruce Lee covers a wider spectrum than just basic combat sports.

I think there’s actually a specific sport called Wushu too, but I don't know if any local gyms around here even bother teaching it. 😕

Isildur said:If you can't wrap your head around how massive the TV coverage is on a national level here in the USA, along with all the prize money at these tournaments, then honestly, you're just a total simpleton.

Fair point. My bad. Here’s another HUGE competition with full national TV coverage for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLc_m5DeTNA 😛
(Not trying to bash John Doe or derail things, but I just couldn't help myself 😉 )

If my memory serves, John Doe started out as a basic war simulation before it actually evolved into a sport.

Gregory Flores said:God, you've clearly been hitting the sauce over this John Doe stuff, why don't you just start your own thread already!!! I'm not looking for a war over John Doe, but if you want realism, stick to Airsoft, and if you want colorful chaos, go with John Doe. And just a little heads up, an Airsoft match uses maybe 4,000 BBs while $43 John Doe uses about 200 per round$33 if I recall correctly, and it's usually the same deal with all the gear. Oh, and since we're being honest, the paint in John Doe wipes off pretty easily, so there's that.

I guess I take a good chunk of the blame here (and so does the guy who opened the thread by bringing up John Doe in the first place).
But honestly, there isn't much to be said when comparing Airsoft and John Doe.

Drew Phillips3 said:- Yeah, it happens. Those so-called "non-calls" are usually just misses about 80% of the time—I've learned that the hard way myself... most of the time it’s just an accidental miss because the guy is mid-sprint or something and he honestly didn't feel a thing.
- Look, everyone deals with those issues, but basically, most non-calls are just that "maybe I got hit, maybe I didn't" gray area, so nobody's really out there throwing direct accusations.
- We're going to settle all these misunderstandings with universal rules once the association officially forms (in a few months).
- It's possible to miss one shot, but since these guns can fire up to 20 rounds a second, if you don't feel one, the others will get you... even if you don't feel them all, you'll definitely hear them hitting your gear.

But from what I gather, people are using sniper rifles too, which I assume fire one shot at a time, so when someone is just a few steps away from the objective, it's a toss-up whether they'll actually admit they were hit.

Drew Phillips3 said:those are two completely different things...

As far as I can tell, the only difference is the gun itself (and maybe the mask). If I'm not mistaken, nothing stops anyone from just grabbing a Paintball marker and running an Airsoft scenario with it.

casualmarlin9 said:Paintball is a legit sport played by over 18 million people globally, featuring massive tournaments with prize pools hitting $1 million. In the States, you even see matches broadcasted on ESPN. It’s all about strategy, teamwork, and raw individual skill.

Airsoft is just for folks who want to play soldier and run through the woods in camo gear; it doesn't have anything to do with being an actual sport.

You can check out more about the Paintball scene in America and across the globe at www.painthr.com

Don't get me wrong, but those neon, glowing outfits some people wear for Paintball look absolutely ridiculous to me. A camo uniform actually serves a purpose, helping with the whole strategy and teamwork aspect of the game. Honestly, if I ever decided to step onto a field myself, my style would probably lean way closer to Airsoft than whatever this version of Paintball you're pitching is.
And just because there are televised tournaments doesn't make it the gold standard—I mean, they hold competitive wood-chopping contests too, but that doesn't make it a global phenomenon.

Airsoft sounds pretty interesting, though I can't help but wonder if you can actually rely on people to call their own hits. Has anyone ever run into issues where someone refuses to admit they got tagged, or maybe even worse, someone falsely accuses another player of cheating when they didn't actually get hit? Even when everyone plays by the rules, there’s always going to be some level of misunderstanding, right? And is it always obvious when a hit happens, or does it get tricky if a BB just hits a strap or something and you don't even feel it?

There’s some truth to this. People spend endless hours grinding away at specific techniques in their local karate or TKD dojos, obsessing over kata and stuff, while completely ignoring the actual fundamentals that determine whether you win or end up in an ER. Take defensive covering, for example. In boxing or even Muay Thai, there’s an entire science dedicated to shielding your vitals and keeping them tucked away through every exchange—from how you posture during a strike to how quickly you snap it back so those openings don't stay exposed for a second longer than necessary. But in a lot of the karate training I've seen, people don't even give it a thought, just leaving their head, kidneys, and everything else wide open to the world.

Zachary Alvarez8 said:it isn't Saturday, it's Sunday😉

When you're dealing with a complete idiot on here, you really need a moderator to step in and fix things.
Hey mod, just change the title already. 😉

Every single one of those old threads just died out, and honestly, it feels wrong to let a matchup this big go unaddressed, so I figured I’d just kick off a fresh one here.
So, who's actually worth putting your money on? 😉

George Martin70 said:They’re charging an absolute fortune for this stuff—some two-day seminar is supposedly running $200, if not even more...

I guess it depends on what’s actually being put on the table when you look at the options available in the States.

ruggedfalcon2 said:You think that's steep? In the States, you'll drop like $150 or $200 just for an hour of private Wing Chun training with some big-name master... at the end of the day, it's all just business.

So, based on everything you’ve been saying, it sounds like all these Wing Chun masters are just straight-up materialistic cowards, more interested in seeing who can scam the most people and squeeze out the biggest paycheck by peddling the shittiest techniques they can find. 😉

I don't know much, but based on what this guy says about himself on his site, I’m feeling pretty skeptical. Then again, maybe I'm just being cynical and he actually has all this deep knowledge he's trying way too hard to hype up.

I'll try to dig up his rates; that might give me a better idea of what we're dealing with.

Just finished watching it.
The first one was solid, but honestly, the second part blew it out of the water. 👍
If anyone thought it was dragging or way too long, they probably just spent the whole movie looking for a restroom and couldn't wait to finally get out.😉

I get it. There’s definitely some truth to that.

ruggedfalcon2 said:It’s nothing more than just a game... I’ve actually written about this primal human urge on my blog if you want to dive deeper... basically, as long as there are rules in place and a third party watching over everything to make sure things stay fair, it’s just a game. Once you don't need that outside help or protection from a ref, then we aren't talking about a game or a sport anymore 😉

Fair enough 😉 I guess we just see things differently. Personally, I look at the rules, the cage, and the ref as necessary boundaries that let fighters go all out without constantly worrying about accidentally killing their opponent, since the officials handle the safety stuff. It lets them focus entirely on winning without having to pull punches to avoid permanent damage. You see it in TMA practitioners during sparring—they can't really let loose because the injuries would be too brutal, so they always have to maintain this unnatural level of self-control that wouldn't even exist in a real fight. Of course, the downside of UFC being a regulated sport is that it limits the technique pool by cutting out stuff like street fighting or weapon defense.
I haven't spent enough time in the trenches to know if losing those specific techniques is a bigger hit than the payoff of being able to fight without holding back. But honestly, even if we call the UFC a sport, that line is pretty blurry, and I doubt anyone would ever dismiss it as "ineffective" for a real situation just because of a few technical gaps.

ruggedfalcon2 said:-nah, because like I said, combat sports have rules and the street doesn't. A UFC fighter isn't training for those common street attacks. I listed some examples in another thread... a UFC fighter trains to fight in a cage when the bell rings, staying high with their guard and circling the octagon and all that. You don't get that on the street.😉

Plus, they’re always hyper-focused on one opponent and don't have to worry about someone jumping them from behind, which is a huge reality check. They know exactly when the fight starts, too. There's truth in that, and it's one of those gaps in UFC I've brought up before. The real question is whether the technical level of 1-on-1 fighting makes up for that gap, and if a fighter can actually improvise enough to cover their lack of street awareness with pure skill.

ruggedfalcon2 said:while competitive sports are just a game...

In the case of UFC, not really. I doubt these guys see it as some game, and I certainly don't think they take it any less seriously than people doing TMA sparring.

ruggedfalcon2 said:-nah, definitely not.

Look, this is basically its own whole debate at this point, and honestly, you probably know way more about this than I ever will. 😉

ruggedfalcon2 said:-UFC is a sport, so it’s bound by the rules of the game.

But if we're talking about sparring being built on the same strikes allowed in the UFC, then those sporting rules don't really change the dynamic. They don't offer a fighter any extra sense of security they wouldn't already have in a heavy sparring session. Basically, if an athlete is actually better under UFC conditions, they should be just as effective during training.

ruggedfalcon2 said:-you can't compare a sport to pure skill in the same context... when it comes to self-defense, skill is king... but for entertainment or sport in the cage, I think UFC currently delivers exactly what the fans want.🙂

Sure, that's true, but I don't buy the idea that having a crowd changes anything once the cage door closes. It's not like Fedor or Mirkov suddenly switch up their entire fighting style just because there are sponsors in the front row. In the cage, it's still just about taking someone down. Yeah, sure, the rules limit things to protect the fighters, but isn't that the exact same reason we have rules in a high-level sparring session? And yeah, there's a ref, but he's only there to step in when it's over. If anything, that's a perk for the pro—instead of having to worry about knowing when enough is enough like you do in training, a UFC fighter can let the ref handle the stoppage and just focus on dismantling the guy in front of them.

The rounds are definitely another "sporting" constraint, but does that really shift the reality of the fight that much?