1. For fun or curiosity
2. As a hobby
3. To find it a career on the future!
Bullies often are effected by background. Or family lack education. Through time I'm a dojo we realized one fact about belonging. Get a job or go to college. I'm some number my school are sensei or sifu.... "instructor"
It may not be every body who does martial arts. But some numbers are instructors and grand masters!
As a guy who's trained in an MMA environment for years, and visited several gyms with MMA fight teams, I really don't see this. No beginner is going to think, "I can beat anybody in my way". That's because they're getting beaten too bad in the gym, usually by the unassuming, skinny guys.
I don't know who you're encountering. Your average MMA fan is simply a fan, and has little or no interest in training. Most of the guys who actually train don't go around acting like douchebags.
You sometimes see this also in other fighting arts as well as in martial arts even. Its because some of them become drunk with their new found confidence, limited skill, and limited ability and now want to test that out or maybe get some payback sometimes against someone who maybe wronged them in the past.
Usually if they exhibit this type of negative behavior outside of the gym or school they will then exhibit it at some point there then as well. So I never put up with it or would keep training, teaching, or coaching such individuals because sooner or later it would lead to problems for me in some ways and having to deal with them. At the first indication of it I would take them aside and counsel them to knock it off or find a new place to study or train at which usually worked.
So, how do you think this is different to a Bruce Lee fanboy or someone who's still enthralled by the Bujinkan?
Fan is either short for or a nicer way of saying fanatic and fanatics are nut jobs and far from isolated to any particular culture.
I agree with u ... Alotta ppl wanna be hard asses and act like hard asses ... Most people r just posers an arnt real fighters.. I as well thank this is disrespectful to MMA or martial arts i general
Those are not real martial artists. They are bullies wearing t-shirts. While they are the extreme minority, they do exist, no matter what the style. Ignore them.
They think that just because they watch UFC, their 'guy' is the champion of that division and take MMA classes at their local gym every so often that they can go around picking fights. Intimidating smaller people with ''I know MMA I can beat anybody in my way''.
Seriously just because of all those things they do, they automatically think they're Fedor or Cain Velasquez and think they have a right to go around and act like a hard@$$.
I personally think it's disrespectful to MMA and Traditional Martial Arts to use either one as a tool for bullying and intimidation. Most of these 'fans' are just buff, Tapout wearing teens with buzzcuts. I do train in martial arts (mostly TMA) but don't go around boasting about it and walking with my chest puffed out and with an angry face 24/7.
