Hold your tongue if you see that look in my eye

Time to up my meds...

I’m having a real problem with youtube lately.

About 5 months ago I started putting videos up from my class, first as just an example of my perspective of things, and later I added more at the request of other Martial Artists who liked what I did. People wrote in and expressed how much my stuff has helped them.

So far, so good.

Suddenly, these last few weeks it’s as if someone has pushed the button that opens the moron cages at the zoo for incurable martial arts retards.

I am getting every manner of moron who is either looking for a reason to dog every art other than his, or tell me why what I am doing wouldn’t work “in the street” or “In the ring”. Like THEY fight in the damn ring, and have firsthand experience.

Lately the Space Cadets have overrun Starfleet Academy.

There are two distinct categories I have seen in the last two weeks that are REALLY disturbing: Germans and Serak fanatics.

The Germans are by FAR the worst of the lot, everything about their culture has to have some scientific calculation behind it. If what I am showing doesn’t fend off a horde of Visigoths or have been proven in counter-terrorist ops, it must be bullshit. I always get a good laugh when Hans mit der Glockenspiel Speckenzedeutsch tells me what I do “wouldn’t work on the street”. Makes me wonder which street he lives on, the corner of SE Croatia and Lebanon?

Serak fanatics, to their credit, have been a little better. I have actually scored TWO great people with serious questions and no egos. These people are a pleasure to share knowledge with because they ask politely, for a start.

Unfortunately, I have gotten seven more “That’s not Serak! What’s your lineage?!?” type posts to counter that with, and they all swear that they have the “real” teaching and I am some kind of false prophet of Pencak Silat (oh sorry, it’s PENTJAK silat, cardinal sin, mea maxima culpa, how can you ever forgive me?)

Whatever. I’ve actually LIVED in Indonesia. Tell me about all the world traveling you’ve done. Most of these people haven’t even been out of their own damn STATE.

Steve Perry mentioned a story about ignoring critics, both good and bad, and I suppose that’s true. But I feel if someone isn’t getting the point of what I am saying/doing (or overlooking it completely for the sake of propagating their own agenda) then I should at least point out where they missed it, and what it is they’re missing. Which just offers them more platform to work from to pick a fight with me. Online that is. Nobody ever shows up and puts their money where their mouth is.

Lately, nobody cares. And I’m really running out of patience for the fools.