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Old 03-08-2007, 02:36 AM   #4 (permalink)
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LOL.

I met Tony on stage once during one of his seminars. He is very tall, 6'7" I think. I'm 6'0". His hands are enormous.

Tony is supposedly a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, but my old TKD instructor (a 4th degree black belt) told me he doesn't give that much credibility, since it's easy enough to buy your way to black belt if you so choose. Tony claims to have trained in TKD for 8 months. I trained in TKD about 3 years. If I earned my black belt in 8 months, I'm certain I wouldn't be much of a black belt... unless maybe I was training every single day for hours at a time. I seriously doubt Tony has the skill level comparable to most black belts in TKD.

I have a red belt in TKD (one rank below black). I'm currently training in Shaolin Kempo, which is a Chinese martial art, taking both group classes and private lessons. I'm only a purple belt in kempo so far (3 ranks above white). Unlike TKD which is mainly a sport, kempo focuses on techniques that could be used in real street fighting. In TKD it's illegal to punch to the head, so that's not too realistic. I'm learning to stop relying so much on my kicks and integrate more hand techniques and strikes. I'm good at kicking to the head, but Tony's head would be pretty hard to reach.

Kempo is a bit more violent than TKD, since we try to make the fighting more realistic. A couple weeks ago, I got caught in the face with an errant backfist during some knife-fighting drills. It split my lower lip with a 1/2" gash. It's all healed now, although the lip is still a bit lumpy.

I'm not sure who'd win in a fight between me and Tony. I probably have more martial arts experience (unless he's done more training than I'm aware of), but he definitely has a significant size and reach advantage. I don't have much experience fighting people who are taller than me. Usually I'm the one with the height advantage. I would definitely need to get in close with him, and close fighting is what kempo is all about.

Tony is also 11 years old than me. He just turned 47, and I'll be 36 in April. So I'm not sure how spry he is now.

It would probably be a fun fight to watch.
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