Trading needs the same "revolution" that martial arts went through 15 years ago
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I saw a video of two internal grandmasters fighting. It was really old and flickery because it was on film. I will see if I can find a link somewhere and post it.
It was HORRIBLE. I think one guy was a Hsing-Yi guy. It was basically two old men on a rooftop going around and trying to bop each other on the head.
This film was posted in traditional kung fu forums and people were marveling at the technique being displayed. I was like, are you kidding me? It was atrocious.
I do have this to say about kung fu, however. I studied Wing Chun for a while before I was enlightened to MMA. I have used a Wing Chun technique once to defend myself in a very small space when I was attacked out of the blue in a hallway. Wing Chun worked perfectly for that. However in the other 99% of possible fighting scenarios, I would do MMA and not Wing Chun. In fact, when I joined my first MMA gym, I tried Wing Chun techniques against boxers and was subsequently destroyed every time. But there was still no ego, everyone was cool. The instructor said "if you want to try something, here is the place to try it." I was so convinced that Wing Chun was a superior fighting art and maybe if I just trained a little harder I could beat the boxers. Nope. I was shown objective evidence that I was wrong, and I began learning boxing for MMA. I feel like a lot of traders are like that... "maybe if I just study Woodie's patterns a little bit harder I will become profitable." Nope. But feel free to continue losing money.
Oh and if you find a qualified teacher, some of the internal arts could possibly be beneficial for health.
But if you want to learn fighting, it's MMA or nothing.
Agreed.
I remember that feeling well. btw, the "anti-take down" defense they teach you in other styles is bullshit
I learned that right away, too.And then after you've been immobilized in 3 seconds and have no idea wtf just happened to you, and you say to yourself "Psssh, well he's a blackbelt, no wonder he beat me." ask to roll with a white belt who has been there for 2 months. Enjoy the same feeling in about 5 seconds.
This bjjtrader guy is right on the money.
Imagine on your first day of trading a live account you decided to play it conservatively and traded only 1 contract in a long position. Imagine 5 seconds later some crazy market event happened and you just blew out your $10k beginner account. Imagine that feeling. It's pretty much like that, psychologically.
Plus air chokes cause permanent damage if the other guy doesn't tap out, or if you apply them wrong.
Blood chokes only cause permanent damage if you continue to hold them for a while.
And you can't hold your breath and wait out a blood choke
So how come Fedor (Sambo/Judo) thrashed Noguiera (BJJ) so hard? And everyone else for that matter.
Also, I thought the post was about fighting. MMA is a sport, like boxing. It's not the type of fight you would ever get in the real world. A bit like paper trading vs real trading. When they have ring fights where people pull guns, knives, outnumber someone 4 to 1, sucker punch people, or call the cops, then it might be more like real life.
you are so wrong on this...... here read this post of mine..... i posted last month for pclark
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2043771#post2043771