Why don`t Asians respect Spanish martial arts?

[booniedog85]

Every Asians I met are trashing Zipota and other Spanish martial arts!I bet that most practitioners of Spanish martial arts could easily crush Asian martial artists!

[Oddeye]

I've never even heard of Zipota. But if it's a valid system then it has my respect. Your 'problem' likely stems from general ignorance. I thought that the only thing Spain had was bullfighting and that your fighters wore steel masks and jumped off of chain link fences (Vega? From Street Fighter? Okay. I thought it was funny.)

If you've got such a chip on your shoulder, then maybe you should try to educate other people in the artform. By that, I don't mean go challenging other systems of martial arts, but instead form your own local organization of Zipota, or whatever, practitioners. Eventually, you might be able to fund a school and then you can work to make Spanish martial arts a little more common knowledge.

But hey, if you want to be a little punk about things, I'm sure there are plenty of dojos and gyms out there who would be willing to put you in your place.

[amentkc]

Don't know what Zipota is, but many in the USA didn't know what Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was until 1993 when it debuted in the UFC. I agree with Ray H, and plus I saw you are using numerous post that are similar trying to promote the victim mentality which is counter productive as a martial artists. So this sounds strange to me, people might trash Taekwondo or Judo or Boxing because they have heard of them. Maybe if I knew more about it, I could better trash it?