ShortBridge
3rd Black Belt
Backyards, garages, and basements have a long history of producing terrible martial artists. Typically, those are the hobbyists.
YouTube has all the proof you need. This website has plenty of examples. Some of the worst stuff I've ever seen.
YouTube is proof of exactly nothing.
Whack jobs are more likely to go on YouTube and "prove that the world is flat" than astrophysicists are to go on and prove that it is not.
Thinking more about this: Let's say Niel deGrass Tyson goes on YouTube and explains something that he and the top minds in his field have gone deep into. There aren't 100s of NdT's, but there might be 1,000s YouTube whack jobs...So, I guess that proves that he's wrong?
And back to the original subject, Black Flag Wing Chun was HIGHLY COMMERCIAL and heavily promoted...and we all just agreed that it wasn't what it claimed to be. So we seemed to agree in this case that commercial and highly self-promoted didn't equal better...then you came along and claimed that it does?
YouTube is proof of absolutely nothing. The belief that it is has literally picked apart hundreds of years of progress in a variety of fields, including martial arts.
Defend your thesis. Better yet, go touch hands with as many people as you can, and form valid opinions about what is good and what isn't.
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