My brothers...
please never feel attacked on my side..offended...insulted..or thinking of me being cocky...foolish or young gun..
I respect you all... only love for all of you...
you all are my brothers man.
we all do the same thing- we search our truth- do jkd-wc and so on...

I am PRO all these things !!! I LOVE JKD !!! and WC !!!!and boxing!!

but- is that ALL to me...

OH MY GOD NO !

I just love also to train other arts..and which did I chose..well the stand-up is taken care fo as best as possible..so what do we got left hmmm...

well i can dream or HOPE that a BJJ, Sambo or shootwrestler with never ever mess with me or that my antishootdefence will work at ALL times...or i can go to class.

I have chosen to go to class - and this is why.

here my reason :

what if you have a fight with someone who is a better stand-up fighter than you regardless of his style...he is kickin your ass and not stopping..maybe even wanting to kill you...

now..you have no other option...you totally relied on your stand-up.

why ???

I HAVE an option- I can shoot and surprise him- take it down and turn the coin...he might be totally lost down there against me..

So i have 2 options - stand up or ground game...


why go for one...and ive had some very good taekwondo and karate fighters give me a hell for my money standing up- but when i got them down there were tapping..

I prefer to be a hybrid -not a one sided fighter...

hey mike,

tell me about youre stand up game and tell me about youre ground game to please. what do they consist of?

ā plus!

Hi Marc!

well as you guys know Im all about love and peace... I dont see martial arts really as self-defence but of building my soul to greater levels and learning my body...

MY stand up is sadly to say not being Sifu Lamarīs neighbor to REALLY learn BL JKD - I had to get all I could in germany..

I started off with tae-kwon-do in the states- when I was 13 we moved to the US - I took a little of judo,boxing,karate,kickboxing...and so on...

I always bought BL books and trained JKD out of them with a partner...I taught jkd by myself... I have to admit it that i watered the on guard stance to fit better for me- since I have NO weight on my front right leg...

I then around 25 started to see the UFC..and i had a very bad awakening with a german wrestling champion...so i decided to get also on the mat..

I also went to train WC - here in germany very popular style!!!and boxing...

So after about 10 years of all of that I had my JJ Blackbelt - kick and thai boxing licence..

At around the mid 90 i was the first MMA center in germany and one of the pioneers of MMA..

I had many schools and taught also on US military bases..they loved me and the MMA..

So how would i descibe myself and where would i go from here ?

Im a MMA artist ( not a good one !! ) - where my stand-up is JKD as far as I could teach it to myself and my own interpretation...WC in the infight or boxing...clinch is mostly muay thai or judo..

and then of course all i know on the ground which isnt alot..

to go from here id lock myself up with Sifu- have him throw away my stand-up and teach me ORIGINAL JKD...as id be laying on the mat besides that in a shootwrestling or gracie school...

PS: but I have to admit i see the gym as my major martial art...

You don't have anything to prove here. I am sure you are great multi dimensional fighter, that can submit people based on strength. But even a good a grappler will tell you have to have technique or you will burn up all of you energy.

Now that we got that out of the way.

I'm going to keep it real with you man, and I do this with all respect. I am curious if you ever been in a rough area. Or even more so I am curious how "Hard" the folks over in Germany are.

Over here,(and here me out I am not glorifying violence) I don't care what MMA stuff you are going to pull, someone has a pistol in their drawers. Even if you did get someone on the ground or knock the paste out of their mouths, somebodies home boy, military buddy, frat, associate, is going to jump in, pull out a blade, a gun, or smash a beer bottle over your head. You better hope you can fight multiple opponents. NO fight is ever fair (at least over here).

And no offense, if your to come to states I would to drive you through some of places my old friends used to live. It aint pretty, and keeping it more real if you go through a poor area with a cocky swagger, you don't speak the language, wrong ethnicity, wrong color (yes racism and classism is a problem in the states I have endured my whole life living in the south), someone will mess you because they can. You know why? People aint got nothing to lose and nothing to prove. I am just turned 23 and have already witnessed 4 shootings, someone get shanked, and a dude getting a chair across his esophagus.

So, what am I saying, be a martial artist, and see things for what they are. Fighting is fighting. But in the streets I hope to God you finish it and get out of there.

Peace be with you.

Hi my man Jason !

heres how I see it and you are totally correct. since guns are there martial arts have lost almost all its power nowadays on the streets..they were normally developed by people back in the days that didnt have these nowaday weapons..if they did we might not even have MA..maybe better guns...

Ive had many sparring matches...and had some streetfights since i was a doorman for 10years...and im getting back to that now.

Freinds of mine are dead- shot at the door..they dont mess around here anymore...noone fights fair anymore..its all about destroying...I know that.

They all have knives...buddies...or bats...even guns...

what are you gunna do about it - MA wont save you...your style either..

so tell me what are we going to do about that?

Sure you can say get it quick- destroy and out... but if he is a better striker than you are we get back to my ground game option...

I really dont know what to do nowadays...since every confrontation menas you can lose your life and I have a family..

I always thought i was missing out not living in the US- since there are not alot of american girls here..I hang with russian,polish and german babes..

But here i have my health insurance for free meaning from a dentist to a surgery everything free...and in the US its scary to me not to have that.

so guys you tell me what are we going to do on the streets today ???