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That's like saying that after you start an engine it's idling for a while and consuming very little, if you could just get you your destination while it's still

That's like saying that after you start an engine it's idling for a while and consuming very little, if you could just get you your destination while it's still idling you could save so much fuel. You opponent will not wait for you to bend the rules a few times before they react unless the first bend knocks them out. Pushing people off the fighting surface might work once, maybe twice. If that's the only weapon in a fighter's arsenal I see a fractured skull in their immediate future. :)

quickthrower2 6y ago
Caveat is I’m talking about the Tim Ferris claim! Yes it’s definitely a once only trick.
- buran77 6y ago
  I understand but what I meant by "once" was "exactly once", meaning the first round of the first fight in the championship. It's easy to spot a one trick pony because that's all they try. The second time the opponent would just overwhelm him with superior technique and physical force, we're talking about a national championship, there's no shortage of those. There's only so much pushing you can do when you're met with a kick to the head. And the weight advantage is meaningless once you realize weigh-in tricks have been used since forever, he'd just meet another guy who did the same. No, the more I look at this the more I realize the story of the regular guy exploiting loopholes to win a championship is a good "how the little guy won" story but also a complete fabrication. It's only good for the circle-jerk media, he gets to sell himself as special, they get to fill their pages with something. All of his claims in general seem to always reference some "evidence" that's never available in any form. A con-man using his cons to sell his cons. His old [1] and new [1] bios are pretty telling, his achievements tend to come and go. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070308133948/http://fourhourworkweek.com/ferriss-bio5.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070308133948/http://fourhourwo... [1] https://tim.blog/about/ https://tim.blog/about/
  - quickthrower2 6y ago
    Absolutely agree. That's why I said "claim". Pretty unbelievable, and not really applicable to real life. I guess his point is "think out side the box".
  - gowld 6y ago
    He copied his martial arts "technique" from the climax of the Karate Kid movie (crane kick trick)? > Wired Magazine’s “Greatest Self-Promoter of 2008” Certainly
    - krapp 6y ago
      I don't know anything about Tim Ferris but the crane kick and "crane style" are actual martial arts techniques. It being some kind of unblockable kick is BS of course.

quickthrower2 6y ago

Caveat is I’m talking about the Tim Ferris claim! Yes it’s definitely a once only trick.

buran77 6y ago
I understand but what I meant by "once" was "exactly once", meaning the first round of the first fight in the championship. It's easy to spot a one trick pony because that's all they try. The second time the opponent would just overwhelm him with superior technique and physical force, we're talking about a national championship, there's no shortage of those. There's only so much pushing you can do when you're met with a kick to the head. And the weight advantage is meaningless once you realize weigh-in tricks have been used since forever, he'd just meet another guy who did the same. No, the more I look at this the more I realize the story of the regular guy exploiting loopholes to win a championship is a good "how the little guy won" story but also a complete fabrication. It's only good for the circle-jerk media, he gets to sell himself as special, they get to fill their pages with something. All of his claims in general seem to always reference some "evidence" that's never available in any form. A con-man using his cons to sell his cons. His old [1] and new [1] bios are pretty telling, his achievements tend to come and go. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070308133948/http://fourhourworkweek.com/ferriss-bio5.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070308133948/http://fourhourwo... [1] https://tim.blog/about/ https://tim.blog/about/
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  Absolutely agree. That's why I said "claim". Pretty unbelievable, and not really applicable to real life. I guess his point is "think out side the box".
- gowld 6y ago
  He copied his martial arts "technique" from the climax of the Karate Kid movie (crane kick trick)? > Wired Magazine’s “Greatest Self-Promoter of 2008” Certainly
  - krapp 6y ago
    I don't know anything about Tim Ferris but the crane kick and "crane style" are actual martial arts techniques. It being some kind of unblockable kick is BS of course.