JCVD

[Wing Woo Gar]

I did. I’m proud of the accomplishment. I was 38 years old. My opponent was probably 10 years younger. I was relatively new to full-contact combat sports, with only one prior fight. I was never naturally tough or athletic. So it was a great learning experience and something to feel good about.

But I’d still feel like a fake claiming to be a kickboxing champion, even if I could technically justify it based on the belt.

I don’t know what sort of tournament experience JCVD has to back up his claim of being a champion, but it’s probably more than what I have.

Well I often feel like a fake when telling someone I teach Chinese martial arts. I’m not a Sifu, and I never received formal permission to teach. I don’t have a belt or title to my name, and there’s an awful lot I don’t know about Chinese martial arts, let alone the wide, wide world of martial arts in general. You have a BJJ black belt, and a Muay Thai champion belt, you are legit my friend.

 

[Tony Dismukes]

Well I often feel like a fake when telling someone I teach Chinese martial arts. I’m not a Sifu, and I never received formal permission to teach. I don’t have a belt or title to my name, and there’s an awful lot I don’t know about Chinese martial arts, let alone the wide, wide world of martial arts in general. You have a BJJ black belt, and a Muay Thai champion belt, you are legit my friend.

I feel comfortable claiming to be a legitimately skilled and knowledgeable martial artist. I'll even go so far as to say I'm probably above average as far as instructors go.

But I'm not going to put "champion" on my resumé based on winning one fight in the novice division of one regional amateur tournament. Maybe if I had been in the advanced division, but even then it might be a little pretentious. I've trained with people who have won championships at the professional level, at national and international levels. There's really no comparison.

 

[Xue Sheng]

I got you beat on that! I went to a Snowboarding Documentary movie and bought raffle tickets. I won 4 times that night and got booed off the stage twice! I got a helmet wired with speakers and a vox for my phone, 2 lift tickets, a set of Yakima roof racks, and a new set of electric goggles.

I got a Harley Davidson sx125

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

I got a Harley Davidson sx125

Ok I submit.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

I feel comfortable claiming to be a legitimately skilled and knowledgeable martial artist. I'll even go so far as to say I'm probably above average as far as instructors go.

But I'm not going to put "champion" on my resumé based on winning one fight in the novice division of one regional amateur tournament. Maybe if I had been in the advanced division, but even then it might be a little pretentious. I've trained with people who have won championships at the professional level, at national and international levels. There's really no comparison.

One side note here. I’ve been reading your posts a while now, I think I have a good read on your teaching style, which is why I’m willing to travel to meet you and train with you.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

My dogs a show dog, and won a "best in show" championship. Just ignore the fact that it was a halloween dog event at a brewery where all the staff obsess over him.

There are certainly some expectations of proof that are incumbent with such claims

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

What just happened in my last post?! It looks like I quoted @Monkey Turned Wolf, but it was my post to make a silly.

 

[Same Trick]

That's odd. Where are you?

Where are you getting this information?

That's another very odd statement. Savate alone has a 2-3 hundred years history. And Belgium isn't Germany.

I live in a city in Anhui province

Yes savate has been around for a longer time than modern kickboxing, but it was the kickboxing development in the US that was brought to a larger public in Europe by the German martial artist Georg Bruckner, there was also influences to Europe from thebJapanese kickboxing development.

Where I got the information ? From the Swedish kickboxing association webpage, it’s a very reliable source

 

[Same Trick]

JCVD competed in Spain ?

 

[Buka]

I remember one tournament season in Massachusetts back in the day. There were five “Mass State Championship” tournaments. Said so on the flyers and the trophies.

My first Jits tournament I was in an Over Forty White Belt division. There were two of us, me and a Little Person.

Oh, man.