*guest,
My NHB record is not from cage matches. I have defended myself in real life 27 times … every time against guys who were bigger than myself. I am 5 foot 11 and about 185# - I also traded punches with guys a few times in my youth and once I got sucker punched in school. I got right back up but I guess if you count that as a fight I lost it. That being said, I am a nice guy. I don’t go to bars and I stay out of trouble. My fights were not me and my friends picking on some little drunk punk. I was defending my life on a few occasions, defending my idiot friends or dealing with arrogant muscle-heads that think that big = winner.
I also worked at a residential detention center which was a large campus. I had to restrain dozens of inmates. Some were a head taller than me and ones had arms as round as my head. I had to do this without swinging at them while they were trying to beat the hell out of me. Still, I would have swung if I had to but I didn’t because I am good. I had to do this by myself with no weapon.
I have succesful records in wrestling, kickboxing, boxing and sparring (if you count that) and I have been sparring in my training for over 20 years.
I am currently writing a book. It will be a comprehensive book on my personal knowledge. The entirety of my system will be contained in it for examination. It won’t cost very much since I am not famous.
It will stand on its own. No plans for a video or a dojo really. Why? Because I just want kids who only have McDojos in their town to have something that they can suppliment their training with that doesn’t cost them $800. Because I wished I had that when I was a kid. I had to do my early training myself. I had to work hard, research things and create. Later on I got formal training and mixed with some great instructors in TMA. I was doing mixed sparring long before there was a UFC too.
The UFC made NHB fighting popular when I had already started my adult life. I really don’t feel the need to prove myself. I might try it once someday just to say I did it. But I am 31 years old now so its a maybe.
Emin though - his career is martial arts. He is the one out there saying he can defeat any man alive including the Gracies. I don’t have a reason to go to Pride or the UFC. I am just some guy. He is super Bruce Lee man of steel Emin. If he is going to talk big - he should back it up. He should compete. If he does (even if he loses) I will have much more respect for his claims.
Videos may not be a good representation of Emin, I agree. Heck, in some of his parry defense demos the guy actually gets the punch in before Emin blocks it … if the guy didn’t aim to the side he would have hit Emin. You have to slow the video down to see it. Maybe video is a better representation than real life sometimes. They use it in football to make calls. A guy’s attitude and charisma can dazzle you in person but the tale of the tape doesn’t lie.
>In self defence as you probably know it’s idiotic >to “go” on the ground,
Not everyone “goes” to the ground. Most people get taken there. In BJJ they are smart enough to realize that going to the ground on your own terms is better than getting put there. Not every guy walks up and says, “Hey you, we are going to fight now.” Once a guy just ran at me when I wasn’t looking and tackled me into a bunch of chairs and started swinging. That one went to the ground before i even knew it was a fight. Was I supposed to ask him to stand back up so we could fight like men or wrestle?
>you are 200% more vulnerable to your opponents
>friends,
Yea, when you are standing up they can come up behind you. You are always vulnerable to his friends. You have to try to use the terrain and indirect attacks to different guys to get some sort of advantage. Run to a safe bottleneck like a doorway or a hallway. Get help. Find high ground where they have to climb to get to you. Use your brain. Take the battle to them if you are surrounded. (Sun Tzu) … But when there are more of them they are more likely to grab you. They can’t all punch you at the exact same time. Grappling is going to be something you have to deal with - when there is a group it happens more often. Know the ground. Stand up and run if you can … if the guy behind you doesn’t get you in a headlock. But you better be ready no to get buried if they take you down.
>Yet most fights in NHB fights go to the ground,
>Why you ask? because in a 1 on 1 in a ring it’s
>best to go to the ground and 90% of the
>competitors they train for specifically that
Strikers go to the ground too. When you hit the guy and he falls down you follow him down there and finish him. Its going to go to the ground eventually if its one on one. You just have to decide how it happens. I guess you could knock him down and run away but … there’s a fence.
>and that is why WC/WT/VT is not suited for a ring >match.
Yet boxing and Muay Thai are … why not compete in those then?
>Yet you said you think you could beat him but have >no intention of ever trying to do so,
There are a lot of guys who are better than Emin who I don’t intend to fight too. So what?
>i guess it’s your loss keep on with your ignorance >of bashing people you have no intention of ever
>trying to even spar with.
I am not bashing him. I am saying he is just like a hundred other self-defense instructors I have met. I didn’t mean that he is average as in … an average guy on the street. I meant average as in an average martial arts teacher. Maybe we were confused on that issue. I don’t mean to seem like I don’t respect him or the millions of martial arts instructors as good and better than him. I am just saying that he doesn’t stand out from them in my opinion. He has no reason to be arrogant. He is no better than the rest of us.
>This turned into a flame fest,
You were the reason it did - not me.
>if you were secure enough in yourself you
>wouldnt even have said you could beat him in the
>first place, you would be content that you knew
>it yourself.
Hey, you asked. I never said it until you called me a mouse-jockey.
>go check him out yourself and then form your oppinion,
If he ever comes to town I will. Happy?
Like I said a dozen times. I am not trying to call him a wimp. I am just saying he is your typical self-defense instructor. Maybe I just haven’t met as many really really bad ones as you have.
*Little Idea,
Emin is a about 6’1" 200 lbs.
>Emin Boztepe may be a lot of things, some good,
>some maybe not so good, but average isn’t one of
>them.
His arrogance is what offends me … that’s the only thing really. I don’t mean he is the average guy on the street. I just mean that he is an average self-defense instructor. Get exposed to more of them and you will see what I mean.
Maybe also the Turkish thing has something to do with it. My family is Greek. My Mom’s Dad was in a Turkish POW camp for 2 years during the wars over Greek provinces after Greece won her independence. My family over there has faught the Turks for centuries. They also faught the Nazis. I don’t have a lot of love for either one.
>Emin is a about 6’1" 200 lbs.
The last guy that attacked me (3 seperate times during the same hour) was 6 foot 4 and 250# and even though he wasn’t a WT master he was athletic and a punk. It wasn’t his first fight. He had a lot of reach on me and a big weight advantage. (I am 5 foot 11 and 185#) This guy wasn’t as skilled as Emin but I handled him and controlled the fight very easily. 6 foot 1 and 200# doesn’t even sound scary after that.
… Okay, I feel like a choad for talking myself up even though it was in defense so I am going to lay low for a little while. sigh
>> Perhaps it was because I had an inherent skill for the science and never deviated from natural principles. - Miyamoto Musashi 1643
