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Tapout shirts, the douche bag tag?

#101
ThunderbirdJ said:
There is an MMA gym 2 doors down from my tattoo studio, it is a douche factory.....Tapout clothes, they all carry fancy equipment bags, pay $60 a month membership dues, all to let the owner, Rob, beat em up. I mean really, If you are paying a dude to teach you to fight in your late twentys and early 30's, do you really think your not a douche?
and those are MMA fighters (at least according to them)
double douche to anyone wearing em who doesn't train

or...if your wife bought it for you, it's okay. She didn't mean to make you look like a jerk........maybe not

and hell is reserved for anyone with any Ed Hardy stuff and no tattoos
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why does training in MMA in your late twenties and 30's make you a douche?

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i agree with your other points though, and im from the Philippines. its the same thing... these ppl who wear tap out shirts, EVEN if they train in MMA (i know too many douchebags who actually are good fighters - the thing is, knowing how to fight makes them even bigger egocentric douchebags)
 
#102
6jase5 said:
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I'm man enough to know when I've been bested.

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#105
IncX said:
why does training in MMA in your late twenties and 30's make you a douche?
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I was kind of wondering the same thing, especially since I'm in my late 40's and am studying BJJ and Shaolin Kempo along with my similarly middle-aged wife and 7 year old son. At first, I thought, "damn... I'm a douche!". Then I started to consider that perhaps this pronouncement was not exactly written in stone. At the dojo where we train, I have never seen a "Tapout shirt" or anything remotely resembling one, and the DQ (D-bag Quotient) there is no higher than I see in regular everyday life. On reading this thread, I had to google "tapout shirt" to discover what the subject was about.

This thread is very entertaining. :) I'm with JT on most of his points about haters being part of the trend.
 
#106
It's not that training in mixed martial arts makes you a douche. It's the insecurity behind some of the guys that do train. In fact, that's the reason why some of those guys get into that stuff, IMO at least. If you're not secure in who you are as a person, you'll go above and beyond trying to prove to others that you're someone you're not. I see it all too often.
 
#107
ThunderbirdJ said:
There is an MMA gym 2 doors down from my tattoo studio, it is a douche factory.....Tapout clothes, they all carry fancy equipment bags, pay $60 a month membership dues, all to let the owner, Rob, beat em up. I mean really, If you are paying a dude to teach you to fight in your late twentys and early 30's, do you really think your not a douche?
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lol. so now age has something to do with it too?

when we get to hair color, i'm pulling the plug.

:rolleyes:
 
#108
capnsandwich said:
It's not that training in mixed martial arts makes you a douche. It's the insecurity behind some of the guys that do train. In fact, that's the reason why some of those guys get into that stuff, IMO at least. If you're not secure in who you are as a person, you'll go above and beyond trying to prove to others that you're someone you're not. I see it all too often.
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This. Nothing wrong with MMA or any other kind of training per se -- it's important to take care of the physical plant.

It's the superficial, "look-at-me-I'm-such-a-badass-now-and-I-can-beat-your-ass-down" vibe that takes it into douchery. It's antisocial, pathetic and sometimes even pathological.

We discuss this a lot at our Mensa meetings. ;)
 
#109
dalkowski said:
This. Nothing wrong with MMA or any other kind of training per se -- it's important to take care of the physical plant.

It's the superficial, "look-at-me-I'm-such-a-badass-now-and-I-can-beat-your-ass-down" vibe that takes it into douchery. It's antisocial, pathetic and sometimes even pathological.

We discuss this a lot at our Mensa meetings. ;)
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This.
 
#115
john turner said:
you guys realize, of course, that an integral element of every trendy fashion is the "General uprising" against it and what it "represents", right? by working to explicitly create a population of "haters", the perpetrators and perpetuators of any style attempt to give it traction to gain recognition and identity among all the other styles competing for attention space among consumers. this helps the "style" last longer than a style that has some passive fans but no active detractors, since detractors do way more advertising of a style than any fan does.

you guys are all practically wearing tapout shirts yourself, by proxy. :).
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I see... You wear Tapout shirts, don't you? That explains alot! ;)
 

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