EPTI got C+ in iccup so I think that makes me a c rank in fish so i'm pretty much a pro
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Slayer91
Ireland23448 Posts
I got C+ in iccup so I think that makes me a c rank in fish so i'm pretty much a pro | ||
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
On October 04 2014 03:54 Slayer91 wrote: I've got a black belt in extrapolating my rank in brood war I got C+ in iccup so I think that makes me a c rank in fish so i'm pretty much a pro I think we're getting a little bit off-topic here. I think we need to stick to how Master Yu is the highest ranking grandmaster in the world and the most decorated martial artist of all time and put his opponents in intensive care, and yet, how nobody has ever heard of him. | ||
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Slayer91
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Ushio
Canada868 Posts
On October 04 2014 04:26 ninazerg wrote: I think we're getting a little bit off-topic here. I think we need to stick to how Master Yu is the highest ranking grandmaster in the world and the most decorated martial artist of all time and put his opponents in intensive care, and yet, how nobody has ever heard of him. Hes hiding in the Himalayas | ||
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PassionFruit
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http://www.hayhouse.com/authorbio/master-byong-yu | ||
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
On September 24 2014 15:35 sCCrooked wrote: He was known as the "Korean Killer" ... Master Yu (nicknamed “Lightning Bolt”) ... I sense a disturbance in the force. | ||
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sCCrooked
Korea (South)1306 Posts
On October 04 2014 04:26 ninazerg wrote: I think we're getting a little bit off-topic here. I think we need to stick to how Master Yu is the highest ranking grandmaster in the world and the most decorated martial artist of all time and put his opponents in intensive care, and yet, how nobody has ever heard of him. The answer is quite simple. If you do not know of him, you are most likely not anywhere near the top of the martial arts community. If you aren't an absolute top-of-the-world ranking person, you wouldn't know of him. You will be able to see in January. | ||
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
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{Mr.X}
United States95 Posts
I have also trained and taught Taekwondo for over 10 years, and have never heard of the guy. One thing that I do know, however, after being in the martial arts industry for so long is that it is rife with hyperbole. It's always rubbed me the wrong way how almost everyone in the industry milks any accomplishments that they have made for far longer than they really deserve credit for, and in many ways it boils down to a popularity contest of who can sell themselves the best. It's not hard to see why, as when you are running a school/style you are selling yourself. No one wants to follow someone who they don't think is the best, so you have to be that figurehead for them. Grandmaster Yu is probably awesome, but the fact remains that if no one here has heard of him then he probably isn't the "most decorated martial artist of all time", or "the most dominant martial artist in that he completely destroyed every tournament in every style of martial arts around the world." Those are pretty grandiose claims that I can confidently say are blatantly false. People who are the best at something are generally extremely well known even to the laymen practitioner (especially in this day and age where information is so readily shared via the Internet) since they are constantly winning events and proving themselves against the best. I'd like to think that the "best martial artist" is just some random guy who trains at his school all day every day, and doesn't care to show off to others how great he is. Truly great martial artists are too busy training and mastering their craft to be telling all the great businessmen of our time how to run their companies. On September 24 2014 15:35 sCCrooked wrote: This got me thinking. I wonder how the "non-violence" side would explain that every person who truly grabbed life by the horns and ended up at the top had corporal punishment throughout their childhood years and were very strictly disciplined. It's not hard. I'll even do it for you, though I don't particularly believe in either side of the argument. As someone who has recently entered parenthood I believe the true answer of how much corporal punishment is acceptable is an incredibly complex question. How do you know that "every person who grabbed life by the horns" had corporal punishment throughout their childhood years? I'm pretty certain that you weren't there for every famous person's childhood, and "grabbing life by the horns" is a meaningless statement. If you mean successful people, then there are tons who didn't have corporal punishment in their childhoods. And even if corporal punishment translated into material success, it's not hard to see a ton of examples of how that screws with a person's head and they can't handle any amount of success in a good way. Just look at the life of Stu Ungar, one of the best Poker players in history. He "grabbed life by the horns" harder than most, but i'm pretty sure that corporal punishment in his early childhood didn't help him much. Don't be so arrogant as to tell everyone else that they're not at the "top of the martial arts community" like you are. It rubs people the wrong way. | ||
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