[quote]cycobushmaster wrote:
mavrcksurfer69 wrote:
OMG! This is exactly what I’ve been talking about. They give badges to THE WRONG PEOPLE!!! Steven Seagal is a documented bully. He’s the king of all small man syndrome people!
and lastly two things I’d like to point out.
Aikido is bullshit and fake
Steven Seagal runs like a faggot.
uhhh…he’s 6’6"
and he’s pretty well known in the martial arts community as a hell of an Akido instructor ( Black Belt instrucor of the Year '79?), and Akdio is actually pretty damn good for controlling people, like something cops might do…
but i could be wrong.[/quote]
I don’t think you’re wrong about aikido, but I think the way 99.5% of people practice it is bullshit these days. I’ve known both kinds. There was a guy I knew pretty close during college that was extremely good, and very quick. I frankly would not like my odds with him, or his instructor. All the other people in that school i could beat silly though based simply on my previous striking martial arts experiences. They were all posers and none of them practiced hard…except those two.
This all goes back to my distaste for how the traditional martial arts are practiced these days. I don’t have a problem with them. EG–I think Karate and TKD can be very good arts. But you have to practice them like the old schoolers did, long periods of time every day with lots of actual sparring, not point bullshit and 2x a week dojo lessons.
I don’t think the problem is the art as much as I think the problem is how people refuse to work hard at them.
[quote]bartonmlee wrote:
he’s been cop with them since the 80’s [/quote]
Yes, ever since he starred in Above the Law. Just kidding.
If he’s been a cop since the 80’s, then that’s the first I’ve heard of it. Actually the first I heard of it was when this thread was posted. I even went as far as to google ‘Seagal police work’ and all I found were references to his new show, and how he’s been a deputy for twenty years. Nothing whatsoever reported during the 80’s. Or 90’s come to that.
If it wasn’t a secret, the media would’ve leaked it way before now.
Why would Seagal be open about his involvement with the CIA, but keep his work as a deputy on the hush-hush? Surely it would be the other way around: I find it odd that he would blab about participating in highly covert missions (between movies, no less) but only go public with his deputization now (coincidentally with the release of his new show).
I’m aware that he trained police officers in self-defence, but not that he was an active officer himself. I could be wrong, though.