Gotta find one of them rooms where everyone's the same

+Hisham “Komodo” Abdalla I believe John Daneher taught him.

+Killing Buddha no wonder why he's good!!

Sorry about that my man! Thanks though.

+gal lilos killingbuddha.co/about

Experience over learning from others?

Esa Khan well how can you acquire talent with out the training? Like he said, everyone starts as a beginner

Martial arts out of any sport allows the most room for tactics over genetics

I don't think you can ever produce a champion. If that was the case then everybody would be a champion in AKA. To be a champion means you are top 1% and for that you need to be born with talent. Now AKA is famous and in the USA so most of the fighters with high level of talent go there thus AKA has more Champions. Why would a talented fighter who lives in the USA go to Montreal to train in Tristar than to train in AKA.

You don't know about things,do you?

+haitianxu So you're saying Wayne Gretzky and Usain Bolt were world champion right after they were born and never had to train hard their whole life? Damn, I learn something new everyday...

***** Hahaha,are you really that frustrated with your own failures that you have to hurl generic insults on the internet? Dude, he never said everyone will turn into Usain Bolt if they train hard enough. Yes, everyone has different potential and will progress at different rates but one thing in commmon is that everyone has to work hard to achieve THEIR OWN potential. Imagine if Usain Bolt and Gretzky didn't bother to learn and slowly improve on their skills, they'll probably still be beating 7 year olds and 13 year olds right now. Yes, Isaac Newton was an accomplished physicist at a young age, but did he get there by doing fuck all or spending time on facebook all the time like a typical college student? No, he spent most of his time reading in the library, trying to /make improve on various creations like windmills, carts etc, worked day and night for years on his theories (and failing countless times) before he finally managed to solve them. Some random people who failed multiple times: - Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda: Turned down by multiple companies and was jobless for years, so he spent his time making crappy scooters at home and slowly improving them over time before someone took notice. - Babe Ruth: Held the strike out record. - Henry Ford: Went bankrupt 5 times. - Oprah Winfrey: fired and was told to be unfit for television. - Tom Landry (won 2 Super Bowls, 5 NFC championships, record for most career wins): Didn't win a single game in the first season, and won less than 5 times for the next 4 seasons. - Stephen King: Rejected 30 times and was told to have no talent before publishing his first novel. - Stan Smith (He won Wimbledon, US Open and eight Davis Cups): Couldn't even be a ball boy. Was told to be too clumsy and uncoordinated. - Bill Gates: Failed his first business. - Walt Disney: Fired, went bankrupt and failed multiple times, and was told that he lacks creativity and imagination. - Albert Einstein: Couldn't talk until he's 4, expelled from school. - Thomas Edison: failed thousands of times when trying to invent the light bulb, was told to be too stupid for school. - Charles Darwin: Considered to be a below average student. - Colonel Sanders: His recipe got rejected over a thousand times and it's only when he was in his 60s that he landed his first restaurant. - Vincent Van Gogh: Could only sell one painting in his life. To a friend. - Beethoven: Was told to be hopeless in music. - J.K. Rowling: Lived on welfare and her work rejected multiple times. - Steven Spielberg: Rejected from film school 3 times.

Beef Broth You're so full of shit and you still don't realize it. Again, watch the video, and read my post before you respond with utter nonsense. Did I say world class athletes and geniuses didn't have to work hard to maximize their potentials? No I didn't, how about you stop being a fucktard and present an actual argument? I said nothing about maximizing one's potential, I'm comparing them to the average person, and world class athletes and geniuses do not, in general, need to work hard or experience much failure at all to achieve what the average person can achieve, that's a fact. What did Firas say? He said people only see the results of a black belt, they don't see the building process, and if they did, they'd realize the belt belt was once the same as they are, and had to evolve just like everyone else. Which is complete bullshit. Issac Newton was never like anyone else. He never evolved like anyone else. Who else becomes one of the greatest physicist of all time at college age? Which Asian sprinter breaks the all time Asian record in his early teens? The fuck are you talking about? Gretzky never had to deal with the same hockey failures your average hockey wannabe had to deal with. Newton never had to struggle with concepts and assignments the same way your average college physics student struggles with. Using Firas' own analogy, their "Eiffel towers" look nothing like, and were not built remotely the same way as, the "Eiffel towers" of normal people. You must be one of these deluded retards who thinks he'll become world class at anything by working hard. Isn't that why you cling on to all these anecdotal stories of how great people failed repeatedly? Oh by the way, Edison was never the smart one, Tesla was, do yourself a favor and get educated on their history. Edison was the dumb one

***** But he didn't use a top 0.001% genetic elite as an example, he was using a random black belt practitioner that's been practicing for decades as his example. Having a background in powerlifting, I see this many times. Young people seeing the veterans bench pressing 450+lb and deadlifting 800lb and then asking them what their secret is. The answer was years and years of learning and consistency. Those kids didn't see the vets struggling with just 135lb when they first started out, they didn't see the older lifters struggling to add just 5lb to their total in a year. They only see the end results. You're using the elite among the elite as an example to counter his argument, but in this world there are over 6 billion people, how many of those do you think have the same potential and ability as Usain Bolt? Do I believe that anyone can become world class just by putting their time in, training hard and smart? No, only a select few will. The rest will just have to settle with becoming an elite athlete. Or a millionaire instead of a billionaire. Or a Professor Emeritus instead of a Nobel laureate. Or a professional lifter instead of a world record holder.

***** But Firas doesn't just cherry pick his students based on who he thinks has the best potential to be a world beater, he said he accepts anyone and everyone as long as they are willing to put in the effort in (and can afford the fees lol). There are many black belt practitioners from Tristar that were not naturally gifted but managed to get it anyway due great coaching, hard work and years of consistency. And it's these people that Firas is using as examples. Sure a 5' girl will probably never be able to lift half the weight that someone like Brian Shawn uses, but does she still have a fighting chance to be classified as an Elite lifter in her category? Provided that she's reasonably healthy, not too old and has the time, I'd say yes.

+TheBlink247 He's Canadian. Sorry!

+Killing Buddha Too bad :')