tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816543885506698609.post2167101030212520862..comments2024-03-04T07:54:51.181-08:00Comments on TK SCISSORS: A BLOG OF RINGS: RINGS 4/20/01: 10th ANNIVERSARY WORLD TITLE SERIESケー・エスhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000498560411184727noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816543885506698609.post-13308393590716962672017-07-09T17:50:27.534-07:002017-07-09T17:50:27.534-07:00These are weighty question indeed and I am ill-equ...These are weighty question indeed and I am ill-equipped to address them with the learning they deserve but in all sincerity I think you for posing them. ケー・エスhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00000498560411184727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816543885506698609.post-38473870883920233182017-07-03T09:37:02.070-07:002017-07-03T09:37:02.070-07:00May the ancient gods of fighting cast fire and thu...May the ancient gods of fighting cast fire and thunder over me if in any moment I grow enough of a pedant to morally allow you to call yourself a fool after all the prizeless work you have gifted my senses with in your blog.<br /><br />In my humble opinion, things like shape, ruleset or "mixedness" of the sport should be unimportant next to things like safeness, care or correct adaptation to an environment populated by children. To put an example, I get horrified every time I see one of those children's muay thai matches in which Thai toddlers knock each other out with 100% hard knees and punches, but at the same time I'm rather familiarized with all the karate and taekwondo competitions geared to children in which they punch and kick each other as well with the vital difference that they won't have brain damage before they hit adulthood. The same could be applied to a mixed competition with no more trouble.<br /><br />Now, if we talk about the intrinsic overtones and/or cultural baggage carried currently by mixed fighting, that's another story. I would naturall abhor that children grew up in a sport in which your life goal is to be a jacked bro with nasty tattoos, pink mohawk, horrible Brazilian accent and gawdy shorts who only strives for money, womanly cattle and alpha maleness. But I would be overjoyed that our deadbeat society could find a way to divest the sport of such a foul image in the same manner judo found its way from the ancient fighting methods of a caste of warriors who entertained themselves by beheading peasants into the pure, enlightened, blindingly white-clad and human-building art that we enjoy today. Is it not true, perhaps, that in the times of yore the sport of pankration was considered a noble form of cultivating the human excellency which was extolled by athletes and philosophers alike?Mala Estrellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11291328686798254135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816543885506698609.post-37194161209962779902017-07-02T19:04:00.221-07:002017-07-02T19:04:00.221-07:00I will not claim that my reasons are objective or ...I will not claim that my reasons are objective or even reasons so much as feelings and inclinations, but I am of a mind that the fighting youth of today and of all days should devote themselves to noble sportsmanlike amateur disciplines, and wherever possible Olympic disciplines; when they are no longer fighting youth but instead fighting men and women, they may do as they would, of course, but as a parent the notion of a child training in mixed fighting fills me with revulsion. I claim no authority on this matter but feel in my heart that this is so. But it is important to remember in this as in all matters I am a fool. ケー・エスhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00000498560411184727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816543885506698609.post-16735998583703859212017-06-30T12:27:05.085-07:002017-06-30T12:27:05.085-07:00Out of curiosity, and although I'm pretty sure...Out of curiosity, and although I'm pretty sure I will agree due to the similarities between our rings-connected minds, what are your objective reasons about why is a bad thing to coach children in mixed martial arts?Mala Estrellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11291328686798254135noreply@blogger.com