I seem to have had a lot of variations of this conversation over the years. I think it would make a good meme.
Traditional martial arts teacher: The point of martial arts is to walk away from any encounter, and if possible win!
MMA/BJJ fighter: OK! [chokes out much larger opponent in a cage match with very few rules]
Traditional martial arts teacher: No, not like that.
So here goes š
The Tai Chi Notebook 
Funny meme and the last panel reminded me of the year of tae kwon I did back in the 1980s, the instructor was a big, scary-looking ex-Korean military man who had moved to Canada. At one point in a class with him, one of the students asked him if he had ever used his tae kwon do in a real fight. His answer was “sort of”.
The student said “how so?”
The instructor replied “It was in a bar. I hit the guy with a chair and he went down.”
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