Describing his female sparring partners' body parts as being "silky soft," "delicate" and "flimsy" is demeaning and is blatant chauvinism.

In a dojo where men are told to hold back and to pull their punches when sparring women, you are not allowed to refer to women as delicate and flimsy, which they are, because that is demeaning and chauvinistic.

Let us end this "battle of the sexes" once and for all and get back into the true spirit of the martial arts, which is respect, peace and empowerment.

Oh the 90s. The naïveté.

The majority of MMA/self defence courses are trash and thrive on customers who don't know a damn thing about actually fighting to question their poor teaching. Of course they're going to advertise hard at the demographic least likely to have any prior practical knowledge.

This is a nice time capsule.

I can imagine the barrage of letters you would receive (if not lawsuits) if the question had read "Do Afro-Americans Belong in the Dojo?"

Oddly enough both the far right and far left would at least entertain this question nowadays.

I admit that I have been afraid to spar with some of the men at my school because they were more powerful than I could ever be. And I know I may not be able to "defeat even an untrained man."

This is fringe language in 2021. If a man said that about women he'd be unpersoned.