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AC Dropout,

"the best martial arts instructions are movies"??? WTF, was that supposed to be sarcasm?
S.Siegal and W.Snipes have good combat in their films i agree, but they no way show ALL about martial arts.

tell me how many Jackie Chan films you've seen him use wire tricks? thats an insult to his stunt team. Jackie Chan jumped from a tree to another tree (Armour of God) and in one take he hit the wall and had a hole in his head. Tell me the wire team would have allowed that to happen! Jackie performs all his stunts himself with no wires.
As for Jet Li, he has only used wires in the films where his character has the ability to fly. if you've seen the "Once Upon a Time in China" series, there are no scenes where he uses wires.

Bruce Lee's movements cannot be predicted! if you've seen any of his movies you'd know that he counters rather than attacks. so there would be no way you can predict his reaction.

SOG,
i dont think having consumed cannabis leaves makes you a crack head. aren't you aware that Brunce Lee was alive in the 70s? almost every was smoking pot then. eating cannabis or smoking it for that matter can be compared with taking crack. that probably explains that you are too narrow-minded to understand Bruce Lee's words.
of course you havent seen him in a NHB match, they never had them back in his days. in saying that i'd like to be able to see Bruce Lee in a NHB fight and how he copes with maniacs charging at him.

ESPRZ,
martial arts is not only for guys! im taught Kung-Fu by a Japanese woman.
i agree with you that the flexability gained from gymnastics (and also the strength) is very useful in TaeKwonDo. but have you been able to kick with thrust and power? van damm doesnt have to fastest of kicks and punches (come to think of it, i dont think he's got any punches).

lastly.....
to those who do TKD and have a heart for Corea, Go Corea! Brazil and Corea for the world cup final!
JTUK Sunday, June 23, 2002 at 09:56:15 (PDT)

Alright this is way off the topic but here goes anyways.

Earier this night, my friends and I were just chatting and the war came up. all this talk also lead to Bin Ladin. my friend said bin ladin was trained by the C.I.A. during their war with russia back in the days. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but i just went along with it. He goes on to saying bin ladin is probably a trained killing machine despite the fact that he doesn't look that way. both of them also agreed that it will probably take 2 Seals to take bin ladin down in a fight.

By this time I'm thinking, "Hell no!" it will only take 1 Seal or 1 Ranger to take him down in a fight. I mean, look at him. he's getting older and probably not even that healthy. I know his age might not even be a problem, but look at the chances he has if he went up against a young and healthy special force trooper. bin ladin wouldnt stand a chance.

im pretty sure most of you would agree with me. if not, then whats your opinion?

Mr. Hann Sunday, June 23, 2002 at 00:57:39 (PDT)

For you Jean Claude Van Dam fans here, I know there is ample proof that his body is very flexible, he has muscles, he's a gymnast, and he has studied martial arts. There is also ample proof, from his own mouth, he's a recovering womanizing alcoholic drug abuser.

Last year, or the year before, Van Dam got bitch slapped in a bar in New York, and like the true wuss he is he stayed down. The guy that bitched slapped him is Chuck Zedo. Again from his own mouth, Van Dam said it was a misunderstanding. That wuss was talking smack about Zedo, and Zedo found out. Zedo is an older guy, I'm not sure if he studied martial arts, but I hear in New York he has a rep for being a tough guy. A lot of superstars use him as a bodyguard, and at one time he was the president of the Hells Angels Chapter in New York. I don't have HBO, but I hear he was also on the series OZ. He also knocked out AJ Benza for talking smack too.

Get Real, I know you mean well, but please don't go up to a Samoan and tell him he's Hawaiian, he's going to get offended. Same thing with a Hawaiian, if you call him Samoan he will get offended. I guess similar to the reaction you get when you call a Japanese a Corean, or any asian something he's not. Polynesian is the safest term to call us, if you don't actually know the poly you're talking too. It doesn't hurt to ask, "What kind of Polynesian are you?" Most polys are hospitable, in hawaii we call it the Aloha Spirit. Team Extreme is right though, a lot of polys have bad tempers when provoked. Not all but some do. Like Samoans, Hawaiians have a martial art too. King Kamehameha studied it, I think it was a bone crushing martial art. I don't know enough about it to comment further on it. Fighting is in our blood, we aren't called the warriors of the pacific for nothing. I guess in the day, the polys from New Zealand were considered the best warriors. They are the Maori. It would be a good comparison to call them the Mongols of the pacific. They were fierce warriors like the Mongols, only they had canoes instead of horses. Maori are the ones who tattoo their faces. The strongman competitor Derek Boyer is Maori, that's why he paints his face. As far as Polynesians being asian, I know presently there are a lot of mixes in polynesians because of the immigrants within the last hundred plus years going to the different island groups. I'd don't think there is anyone living who really knows where the ancient polys come from. Most of them didn't have a written language, so no records to fall back on. They left history through word of mouth in chants and songs, but when the missionaries came to some island groups people stopped speaking their native language. The Samoans and the Tongans are two poly groups that never lost their language. Anyway, not all polys agree on where the ancient polys come from. Get Real, also please don't call a Samoan a sole unless you know him and he says it's ok. It could be derrogitory if he doesn't know you well enough.

SOG, I can't believe you are so ignorant and full of crap. I think someone must be posting using your name, although I read what you posted a month or two ago and you really seem full of hot air. If you are posting all these things, you truly are a sad sack.

I like listening to Howard Stern on the radio, and you sound like that fat oaf Crazy Cabbie. Big loser lost a silly boxing match against another loser named Stuttering John. Cabbie was a hundred pounds heavier and five inches taller. You know that oaf Crazy Cabbie claims he was airbourne ranger, and is always talking about killing guys and ripping nuts off, just like you. Says he was trained to kill and blah blah blah. I bet you know what a tea bag is, because you seem like that kind of guy. I didn't know what it was until cabbie demonstrated one before the fight. I don't like watching Stern's E show, but I watched the fight on E after hearing it on the radio. Looked like two girls fighting.

SOG, have I ever seen you in a NHB or any other Multi Martial Art competition? Judging from your posts, I guess not. You've made some truly ignorant comments in most of your posts from one or two months ago until now.

Telling guys to get big, take roids, do whatever it takes to get bigger, and stronger. You are an idiot. If you are a true follower of NHB, then you would know the bigger guys are seldom the best. In no sport is it only strength and size that counts, not even in football. It helps only if you know what to do with it, and if it doesn't compromise your mobility, agility, and speed. Boys in Hawaii no better than to buy into the myth about size when fighting.

If you can look at book without any help from a sensei or a sifu and perfect a technique, then you must be an idiot savant. I don't see any other explanation for you to be able to accomplish this, other people maybe but not you. Your posts do not demostrate any intellectual qualities, or instincts for any type of fighting. So I can't see you perfecting anything from a book, except memorizing those lines you read about ripping nuts out and tea bagging guys. You sound like WWE prefight and postfight interviews. "Do you smell what the SOG is cooking? I'm going to tea bag you, yeah. I'm crazy, i'm nuts, look out i'm coming. I take no prisoners." lol

Have you ever taken someones life? Have you even come close to it in a fight? I doubt it. I've beaten a couple of guys unconscious and kept beating them, and put them in the hospital for some time. One was a racist ass who called me a sandn*gger. I left that bitch in the street gurgling his blood with a broken arm and a broken face. The other was a loud mouth haole who called me out because he was with friends of his and they felt the Samoans were always picking on them. I'm not even Samoan, I was only a freshman in college, and I had no clue that the Samoans had been regulating the last few years. Allegedly he was the great white hope, some martial arts guy at our college going to pound a Samoan. I'm no dummy, so I left the scene and got some older polys to go back with me only to make sure I didn't get jumped. I put that bitch in the hospital. I broke my hand on his head, but didn't know until later that night. Yeah, I rage sometimes when I fight. I've never studied marital arts, but who did and some who still do.

You just sound like a blow hard. You okole bandit.

I apologize to everyone else for wasting their time and space here to post this about sad sack SOG aka Crazy Cabbie.

Team Extreme, from one poly to another. I don't think the SOS are something to be proud of. There were polys in Cali making names for themselves long before the SOS started up. I doubt if the SOS are as ruthless as some of the other ethnic gangs in Cali. I guess you don't know about the big fight in the bay area back in the late eighties. My older cousins told me about it. They deserved what they got, even if it wasn't a fair fight numerically. Shoot a lot of times those soles went after guys smaller than them even when the soles out numbered them. I never heard any of my aunties or my uncles say they are proud of my cousins claiming gangs. My uncles would slap some heads if they found out my cousins were claiming. Not many gangs back in Hawaii anyway. Look at Junior Seau and his younger brother. I heard his brother got shot in the head a few weeks ago. Since being in the NFL, Juniors says he's always been anti-gangs. If I'm not mistaken I think the SOS started in the bay area of NoCal.

I've got waves to catch, it's summer break.

You were right Ikaika, this is an interesting site. Tell everyone back home I send my aloha. Tell the ohana I need to replenish my supply of poi and dry fish. I can get rice and other stuff up here. VBoyz. Wassup bruddahs? Aloha nui loa.

Sorry again to my asian brothers and asian sisters for wasting space posting to Crazy Cabbie and my friends.

Kalani (HapaHawaiian) just surfing through... Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 17:20:16 (PDT)

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