I'm training with John Titchen this weekend and you're not. So there. Attending a seminar, training with a senior figure in your association, or visiting the Gracies, then tell us. Doesn't matter is we haven't heard of them, as you are training with them and we're not, so there.
My instructor is regarded as the best martial artist in Britain.... So there. God damn I've set this bar too high.
I'm flying to Berlin on Thursday to do hands on sports massage with some of the world's best ballet dancers.
I just had a week-long seminar (four hours a day) with the senior instructors of IOGKF from all around the world. Mostly 8th dans and sensei Bakkies with 9th dan - all of them knowledgeable and great instructors. It was awesome!
And Smurf And Janno And Unreal Combat And dunc And Steve Brinkman And Ian Rose And Bob Breen And GM Danny Guba And GM Percival Pableo And Master Ian Forster And Guro Lee Banda And Master Sken And Simon Watson And David Arnold And Chadderz And oh so many more, but I'm too tired to remember. So there.
I'll see your list of awesome martial artists and raise you Bill Wallace (100+ times), Joe Lewis, Jeff Smith, Benny Urquidez, Don Wilson, Herb Perez and Cynthia Rothrock.
My summer holiday (last week) was six days of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, with excellent instructors from all over the world, in a lovely medieval town in Belgium with 270 other participants from all over the world. Camp = 225 Euros, travel = £19 return on Eurolines bus from London, accommodation = 100 Euros (flatshare with some of the instructors). So there.
I once grappled with John Kavanagh, Conor McGregor's coach, in a cage. And I lasted at least a minute, so there.