A less-than-ideal introduction

I googled Pekiti Tirisia Europe and got a load of them so you might want to reconsider your self-righteousness

 

In Bacolod City or Houston, Texas, I'm fairly sure Grand Tuhon wouldn't be walking the streets without his favourite pistols. But when he's in, let's say, Norway, he's left them at home.

 

Actually, I'm not being self-righteous. It's probably more a case of our different IP locations yielding different google results. I totally see your point, however I will maintain that the people I train with didn't discover the group by way of advertising.

 

Which was never my contention in the first place. But yeah, I think my colleagues have proven my point about imaging.

 

Which, again, has nothing to do with branding. No FMA teacher I know walks around with a kris either. (Or a stick, for that matter.) But they still show up in the branding with regularity.

 

Nothing to see here...move along...no knives at all...that's a big spoon...no other weapons either...that's clearly a Frank Spencer beret rather than anything military.

 

I've heard of a couple, but again, they live in the Philippines.

 

Again, I googled "European FMA instructors" and "Pekiti-Tirsia Europe". Your wording may vary.

 

And I'm still saying that I highly doubt that had any bearing on how people find out about us.

 

Google image search is a patchy thing at best.
I do image searches all the time and all sorts of crazy stuff turns up.
You are splitting hairs to try and make a point when CLEARLY fma is heavily promoted on knife fighting and PTK in particular has a military background and promotes itself as such.

 

No, it has a tribal background. And see my previous post.

 

I can't tell whether you genuinely don't get this or you're deliberately being standoffish.

So, once again, this has nothing to do with YOU. It has everything to do with newbies' expectations of FMA as a whole based on the public branding we do ON THE WHOLE.

 

So Tim Waid in full tactical webbing and fatigues, or Tuhon in a military beret and uniform, those are tribal?

 

Which part of "advertising has little to bearing on how people find the group in which I train" is it that I'm not managing to explain?

 

The point of the observation.

It doesn't matter how he found YOU. The question is how he arrived at his preconceived notions of FMA.

 

Find me pictures of Conrado, Balbino, Theodorico, Francisco and Carino Tortal wearing that attire and I'll attest to the military origin of PTK.

 

Kagete, you're not even attempting to understand the point being made. Or you are, in which case God help you. We're not talking about origins. That's been made clear enough that literally everyone else in this conversation gets it. We're talking about current branding.

 

*YOU* were the one who contested what I wrote about the origins of PTK. That is indeed a side track, but you also chose to head down that road. Berating me for clarifying that issue is not befitting of a mod IMO. My earlier responses to you should also make it clear that I know we're discussing contemporary branding.

 

You're free to report me at your convenience. I'm pretty confident of my position here. And I'm clear that this isn't going anywhere worth going. So I'll leave it at that. I think what's been posted already speaks for itself.