[quote]Professor X wrote:
JohnnyNinja wrote:
Not to defend Sifu, I think he is way out of line (despite being entitled to his opinion) but the moment you all begin to bash him on his size in terms of being an under-achiever, you immediately fall into doing exactly what he is doing.
He isn’t under achieving. He is achieving. His focus is just different than yours. Yeah yeah T-Nation, body building, blah blah blah. I think most of you are intelligent enough to move past that and actually read and have opinions pertinent to the conversation at hand.
Sifu is a martial artist, that is his focus and that is his drive. He by all of his self accounts is very accomplished in this arena and whatever his goals are here, he has stated them; he is accomplished, his weight is appropriate, he is not under achieving.
No reason to debase your arguments and opinions by utilizing the same off-point argument construct that he was using in this very thread to debase women with implants. It gets you no where. If you were attempting to use sarcasm by emulating him, you failed.
There is enough on point and obvious garbage coming from his mouth, you don’t need to validate his point by using the same bullshit he did.
Fact is, it is their choice, their decision. You don’t like, cool. You don’t have to. They don’t have to care.
Please. We have a “martial artist” who just called out BODYBUILDERS. And you don’t think his lack of size would be pointed out?
How many of us have jumped into Combat Sports to degrade martial artists?
I would fully expect for them to ask about my background in martial arts training if I did.
No one was at fault for pointing out that the guy who is criticizing those who like big muscles has NONE of his own making his opinion pretty fucking invalid.[/quote]
My choice of what size best suits me was not restricted by my upper limit of growth. I actually have fairly long muscle bellies, more than a case of mag10 in the freezer, cow pellets are still available and deadlifts are my favorite excercise.
So I could be a lot bigger than I am if I wanted to. It is not a matter of underachieving when you reach a point that you feel is optimum and deciding not to go further.
What has happened is I have challenged the more is better mentality. Which is the cornerstone of all modern physique competitions. ie If Arnold looked great at 240 then Ronnie Coleman looks way greater at 285 even though he looks like he is ready to give birth and breast feed.
The fitness competitions are billed as not being the kind of freak show that the bodybuilding competitions have become, but in their own way they have.