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Yeah...I’m a 4 th dan TKD. Have Jeet Kune Do experience. One year wrestling . One year boxing . Brown belt Bjj. Lil bit musy Thai. I feel like my eye fir combat sports and martial technique is better than most average peeps . That said...some fighters whether in mma, Muay Thai, sport karate , boxing , and I’ll include grappling arts ( all of them ) don’t have the “ prettiest “ technique . Some break the “ rules “. Don’t have the prettiest flowery sweeps . Their katas are awkward . They don’t have the greatest jab technically etc . But they can fight . THEN you have those who look SO PRETTY on the bag . Shadow boxing . Hitting mitts . Drilling takedowns . Drilling Bjj techniques . Perfect kata . Perfect throws .They look great . You’d think they were WORLD CLASS. BUT...some can’t fight a lick. Can’t roll worth a damn . Can’t takedown a resisting opponent . Can’t hit a resisting opponent . And worse ...are afraid to get hit/ outgrappled. Fold under pressure of a RESISTING opponent . Anybody can look good in the air . Takes a special person to use it under pressure against an opponent who’s fighting back AND take damage and keep going . All the rest is bullshit or as Bruce Lee said “ the classical mess. “I’d rather be Wonderboy who’s koed lots of people with his kicks in the octagon and kickboxing with his less than perfect roundhouse than some guy kicking the air with perfect technique who’s never fought even a bum at 7 eleven .