[BassAddict]

I like a few throwdown, keiko raca, and warrior shirts. Even though its not an mma company, i would like to see RVCA sponsor more fighters and maybey even get a fighting line because there stuff is pretty legit.

[millasur]

Originally Posted by fightfan500

Only people who train MMA should wear them???
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard......

QFT. This topic is beyond retarded. All sports fans wear sporting clothing. Anyway - what difference does it make to you if they're wearing it or not. You don't care bout 95% of hte population (eg the average person in the street), so them wearing an MMA shirt doesn't make a difference lol. (cos they're jus an average person in the street.) Whingers.

[MadBodhi]

How exactly will the worthy be diffrentiated from the unworthy?You going to challenge everyone on the street and if they hand you your ass they get to keep the shirt?Funny story,I had trained at a local school for some time and then had stopped for about a year but still wore the sweater with the logo on it.At a bar some guy was kinda eyeballing me and then came up and tried to play 20 questions.What's the color of the boathouse type shit.Well I was busy trying to console a good friend and didn't much appreciate the interuption or attitude and told the guy to piss off.He gave me a hard look and sauntered off.A few weeks later I bump into my old instructor and he tells me that it was one of his newer guys who had told him about flushing out a poser at a bar and when he described me (i'm a rather unique individual) the instructor told him that not only had I actually trained there but that I was singularly gifted at wrecking people and he was very lucky I didn't take offense.(Stroked my ego abit before he said that he overexagerated abit in order to dissuade future stupidity)-
For the record I don't much care for any of the clothing lines brought up.I'll wear shirts from schools iv'e attended,a few from shops I buy gear from and the occasional generic muay thai or BJJ shirt.

[Green Monkey]

In my experience, most of the MMA sites pretty clearly differentiate between performance or training wear and street wear.

Isn't that enough of a distinction to separate the active participants from the fans?

If someone is wearing a gi or some tarzan grappling shorts in a bar, you can call them a poser whether they train or not - otherwise, just be glad that people who don't train like the sport. That's where the money comes from, not from people who are in the gym bathing in other people's sweat.

Every sport has gear whores as well - take a look at all the wanna be Lance Armstrongs wearing full-on Tour de France getups when they do their biking on the weekend. Nothing like a beer gut in spandex!!!

Posers are guys who:

• Wear handwraps to shadow box in a non-MMA gym.
• Have their hair cut like their fave MMA guy.
• Talk loudly about starting bar fights when the rest of their latent homo frat buddies are there to back them up.
• Wear a rashguard as a fashion statement.
• Expect some sort of recognition that they train - the honor comes from the action, not from other people.

What the Hell is next - People who aren't surfers wearing board shorts?

[BassAddict]

Originally Posted by Green Monkey

Posers are guys who:

• Wear handwraps to shadow box in a non-MMA gym.
• Have their hair cut like their fave MMA guy.
• Talk loudly about starting bar fights when the rest of their latent homo frat buddies are there to back them up.
• Wear a rashguard as a fashion statement.
• Expect some sort of recognition that they train - the honor comes from the action, not from other people.

What the Hell is next - People who aren't surfers wearing board shorts?

That post was Money!

Whats next- People who don't box aren't aloud to wear boxers!

[rock44]

Honestly, what can give the sport a bad name is not those that may not follow the sport but wear a t-shirt, its those that wanna call them out and fight be/c he's wearing a t-shirt. Know what I mean? Lets relax people.

[fightnut]

Originally Posted by jmarion

i think mma clothing should only be worn by people who actually train in some sort of martial arts... i mean its a clothing line made for us, not douche bags with blonde highlights who play the guitar* and think it's "cool"

I think the exact opposite. Look at all the FANS of other sports that wear clothing that reflects there particular sport of choice, football, baseball, nascar, etc, etc.
Just because they wear the clothing supporting their sport of choice doesn't mean they drive in nascar or play pro ball. They're FANS.

I'm a huge fan of MMA, that doesn't mean I have to practice it!. I'd like to see more shirts/clothing that are for FANS to show support for the sport or a particular fighter.

I hear what you're saying about the douchebags that are "fake fans" wearing the stuff, but to suggest that it should only worn by actual fighters is absurd.

[fightnut]

Originally Posted by alaskajits

for one i dont like the posers who wear tapout and affliction, normally because they are douchebags and try to look hard at the bars, but when you ask where they train, they look clueless.

Well why would you ASSume they train? So if I see a guy wearing an Eagles jersey, I should go ask him what position he plays for the Eagles???! He's a FAN of the sport and supports his favorite team.

Where's the problem?

[fightnut]

Originally Posted by alaskajits

i think the annoyance here is that the posers who wear mma clothes and who try to look tough, airbox, want to pick fights with people yet dont train. thats my only issue, and yes i do really see posers at the bars who airbox w/ their friends, and yes i have gone up to them and ask where they train and find out they dont.

Well come on, even real professional fighters who walk around air boxing all the time look like idiots! LOL!
On last nights WEC, Clay Guida (who is a fighter I really enjoy watching in the cage) was in the audience air boxing each time a fighter was being prepped to step in the cage! I see guys doing it all the time on the various shows, how retarted. Yeah, we get it, you're a fighter! LOL!

[NougatMcCrunch]

well, yeah, tapout is right it helps the fighters to some degree. and i do own an affliction shirt, i mean, cmon, theyre pretty nice, ill admit it. but i KNOW THE FIGHTERS! i see people in the mall and such wearing affliction/XC shirts and ill screw with them like "who's the name on the back of your shirt?" (Randy Couture) while waiting for the cash register, and i got "oh, i dunno like the designer or something?"...LOL. and btw, i play guitar, and own a few shirts hahaha....but i train and fight though. guitarists/mma fighters FTW