Does anyone still take Frank Dux seriously?

Discussion in 'General Martial Arts Discussion' started by Jocky Balboa, Dec 9, 2008.

  1. LCC

    LCC Valued Member

    The "journalist" conducting the interview is a twenty something guy, who after nine years of informal training and some SERIOUS research, has gone off and invented his very own martial arts system. Um... obviously the only people who take frauds seriously are frauds themselves.
     
  2. ap Oweyn

    ap Oweyn Ret. Supporter

    I wasn't aware that anybody had ever taken him especially seriously. My folks got me the audiobook of his title "The Secret Man." It's kinda ludicrous. And by "kinda," I mean "completely."
     
  3. Kwajman

    Kwajman Penguin in paradise....

    Only for a good laugh.....
     
  4. Knight_Errant

    Knight_Errant Banned Banned

    I take frank dux seriously, Avianraptor. He's a very serious headcase :)
     
  5. Jocky Balboa

    Jocky Balboa Valued Member

    Frank Dux is comedy gold. :cool:
     
  6. ChangNam

    ChangNam Valued Member

    seriously or not i really not have a answer to that.. But i was a big fan of him. Not only from Bloodsport. But from many other movies. Forx Kickboxer 1,The Quest and many others. I think him have done a good job.
     
  7. ap Oweyn

    ap Oweyn Ret. Supporter

    You're a big fan of Frank Dux? Or Jean Claude Van Damme?

    Van Damme is a more complicated answer for me than Dux is. Van Damme was a hero to me in the 80s and early 90s, a joke for a while after that, and a pleasant surprise in later work like JCVD.

    Dux has been much more reliably awful.
     
  8. Jocky Balboa

    Jocky Balboa Valued Member

  9. KAMAU

    KAMAU innocent bystander

    good on you for the bump jocky:cool:

    didnt realize dux was full of sh**8 thats really spoilt fond memories of bloodsport....one il stick under the science fiction dept by all accounts
     
  10. Jocky Balboa

    Jocky Balboa Valued Member

    I thought it was a good film when I was a kid, but then I realised it was based on such BS, so the illusion was shattered... I stick to Kickboxer and Universal Soldier instead.
     
  11. ShadowBoxer

    ShadowBoxer Valued Member

    I don't know if this has been mentioned already or if this is possible with whatever Dux has said but surely a recognised martial artist of a similar age could simply challenge him to either spar or a duel and see the outcome if he was truly as talented as he claims he would at least show signs of this skill but for it to be even plausible to me he would have completely destroy this individual.

    As a side note until I read this thread and the Wiki page I thought Bloodsport was classic Van Damme fiction, Is someone going to say kickboxer is real as well now?
    Still a good film though :D
     
  12. Jocky Balboa

    Jocky Balboa Valued Member

    Wouldn't happen, because Dux is so deadly, he'd kill any-comers with minimum effort. ;)
     
  13. ShadowBoxer

    ShadowBoxer Valued Member

    Do you mean nobody will or he refuses to?
     
  14. Jocky Balboa

    Jocky Balboa Valued Member

    I've no idea. Maybe the journalist who did the huge two-part feature on him in MAI magazine 2yrs ago can shed some light?
     
  15. Hannibal

    Hannibal Cry HAVOC and let slip the Dogs of War!!! Supporter

    Zane Frazier spanked him around UFC 1...as he then went on tinkles to Kevin Rosier in a nappy I think that is revealing about Dux
     
  16. Jocky Balboa

    Jocky Balboa Valued Member

    Got any links?
     
  17. Hannibal

    Hannibal Cry HAVOC and let slip the Dogs of War!!! Supporter

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zane_Frazier

    Although largely conjecture, it is said that Art Davie witnessed the fight and that was what prompted him to invite Frazier to UFC 1. The other view is Frazier's fight with DUx was HEARD of by Davie.

    Either way Frazier himself has always downplayed it as "no big deal". If memory serves he stated that Dux tried to sucker punch him and Frazier dealt with him pretty quickly.
     
  18. Jocky Balboa

    Jocky Balboa Valued Member

    OMG, that cannot be true! I thought Dux was invincible! He was trained by the Demigod Tanaka, don't you know?

    lol
     
  19. Hannibal

    Hannibal Cry HAVOC and let slip the Dogs of War!!! Supporter

    Yeah and the Millenium Falcon can make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs...lol
     
  20. Jocky Balboa

    Jocky Balboa Valued Member

    Incidentally, if it wasn't some fabled Japanese Master like Tanaka who trained Dux, then where did he learn his MA and with who?
     

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