The Martial Arts Thread

[keroberos]

I've noticed that neither the old message board or this one has a thread for karate or anything like that, so im gonna start one!!!

I've been doing it for 4 years and counting now so i know my stuff, but is there anyone else who is a total master (or a total loser it doesn't matter) on this board cos i think it is probably the most hardest to learn and to keep up and be dedicated to, so i'd be impressed if there is anyone!

Also please reply if you do any other martial arts kick boxing etc.

EVERY BODY IS KUNG-FU FIGHTING
 [beer]

[Laura]

I Love martial arts... ive been doing karate since i was 6... i have my black belt with 2 dan... i did tae kwan do for 4 years and got my red belt with black stripe and i'm going for my black belt in aikido in about a month!!!!! martial arts rule!!!!

[MR.BROWNSTONE]

I don't do martial arts, but I like to say to the ones that do martial arts, I give you all the credit in the world. I love to watch Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris movies.  

 

[keroberos]

well went for my pre-grading and it went a bit pearshaped as far as i'm conserned. The fact is that i remembered everything for everyone elses syllabus, exept my own.
Sensei says ill be fine, yeah right.... [no]

[keroberos]

YEAAAH I'M A HEADLINER!!!
this is better than a black belt!!!!

[Dragon]

I've been training Shootfighting for 2 years but then my trainer moved to London so I started Ashihara Karate.
I only got a blue belt so it's a long way to get the black one.
Wich style of Karate do you all train?

[AxlisGNR]

I have studied a few arts, the longest I stuck with one was about a year of Jeet Kune Do (2001), that was my favorite, would like to start again my teacher lost his gym and I havent found another situation I liked yet.

[Dragon]

I have studied a few arts, the longest I stuck with one was about a year of Jeet Kune Do (2001), that was my favorite, would like to start again my teacher lost his gym and I havent found another situation I liked yet.

I've always wanted to try JKD but there is so few clubs in sweden. And no one is near where I live. Doesn't they hava that philosophy about adjust the technique for the person and not the person for the technique.

Did you get to learn grappling and submissions to?

[keroberos]

i train in kyokishinkai style. I'm on my way to yellow! (i grade in march, can't wait)
Its more a mix of kickboxing but my master likes to teach technique and kata. Hopefully i will be fighting for britain (knock down)soon as i get my yellow i'm gonna train even harder. I'll be the first  female from my club.

[AxlisGNR]

I have studied a few arts, the longest I stuck with one was about a year of Jeet Kune Do (2001), that was my favorite, would like to start again my teacher lost his gym and I havent found another situation I liked yet.

I've always wanted to try JKD but there is so few clubs in sweden. And no one is near where I live. Doesn't they hava that philosophy about adjust the technique for the person and not the person for the technique.

Did you get to learn grappling and submissions to?

Yes, to all your questions and it was a great experience.
Bruce Lee wrote an excellent book if you want to learn more about it.

[Dragon]

i train in kyokishinkai style. I'm on my way to yellow! (i grade in march, can't wait)
Its more a mix of kickboxing but my master likes to teach technique and kata. Hopefully i will be fighting for britain (knock down)soon as i get my yellow i'm gonna train even harder. I'll be the first  female from my club.

Ashihara is based on Kyokushin, it's like  a full contact style. But instead of going head on we try to avoid being hit by moving around our opponent(like boxing). We also have some throws/takedowns that resembles aikido.

Them knock down competitions looks painful, especially for the looser.
But you won't loose, right?
I guess that you also aim to go for that 100 men fight that Kyokushin is famous for. [ok]

[keroberos]

100!? i could take on 1000! I'm pretty tough, but so are alotta people. I'm a little smaller than most too but i shouldn't lose too many fights....i hope not anyway!

P.S I always try to concentrate on moving from the opponent, which is obviously your best bet from a self defence point of veiw, but i think because my master has trained in lots of styles, we learn kyokoshin his way (i think he might of done Ashihara and a little aikido too)!

 

[Dragon]

I saw our trainer go 50 rounds for his 2:nd dan belt.
1.5 h of fighting, it looked like a lot of pain.
He went out a little to hard so he was very tired the last 20 fights. [hihi]

I'm thinkin about entering for the next contest.
It's full contact to the body and legs, no punches to the head but controlled kicks to the head.
I hope that I'm in shape when the time comes, otherwise it might hurt since I have to fight in heavyweight. [nervous]

[Lineker10]

All these Jeet Kune Do teachers havent a clue, Dan Inosanto is the only guy that was approved by Bruce Lee to teach JKD and so unless you train at his gym or your teacher was taught by him then your not learing JKD. Bruce Lee's philosophy was to make your own style - use varied forms/styles and moves to create a style that suited you best, thats why he studied so many forms of combat. The JKD he would instruct taught to devlop what moves worked for you best - absorb what is useful and reject what is not, because of this every single students style could be differant. It also made it hard for the opponant as they would be trained in fighting set styles and not to have to fight a flexiable mix of combat. These so called JKD teachers are following Bruce Lee's own style - this contradicts and goes against what he fundamentaly taught - which was to devlop your own style and use what is useful and works for you, not someone else.

[keroberos]

while we're on the subject of fighting and styles etc. has anyone entered clicker competitions before? I've come third the first time and second last time i did it, i'm a bit more experienced now so maybe i'll come first out of second blue belts! Yay! Got the dates for my grading March 28th, cant wait, cos once i have my yellow belt i can enter knockdown competitions! (serious ones anyway)

[Dragon]

What's a clicker competition? We had an Ashihara Open competition a couple of weeks ago. But I was sick and couldn't participate, that would have been my first. Guess I'll have to wait for the next one.

I've tried some nunchakus, but I only brused myself.
I guess you need some training before you can use them.
I've seen foamed nunchakus for beginners, that would be something for me.

[Hammy]

I'm a Black Belt in Judo but i haven't trained in the past few months since i got my band together

[dashingshlump]

i did around three years worth of karate when i was younger and reached my purple belt but i had to give that up which was annoying.
anyways i've just started taking kickboxing lessons, which i'm really getting into my only problem is that i've lost most of my balance and a load of flexibility.
anyrecomendations on how i could get these back fairly quickly, pleeeeeeassssssssssseee
i take my kickboxing really seriously and i practice every night i'd just like to do it more and a bit better so if you guys could help it'd be much appreciated.

shlump

[keroberos]

well, when youre older karate and kickboxing is hared to stick to because of work and college and stuff. I didnt grade because of that exact reason so i've got until june to perfect my stuff. You don't have to do anything you don't want to.
I know that when i started doing box splits and the four in one excersise for warm up, i couldnt get my hands to touch the ground but after a while you can..your muscles get used to a certain amount of stretching you can train your muscles to do a little bit furthe than that and so on, now after following that, i'm getting my box splits just three inches from the floor, but i might have to start my stretching again cos i've been out of karate for three weeks!!  
good luck, and remember you are not a salmon

[dashingshlump]

thanks, i'll give the box splits a good going over then
and dont worry i'm not a salmon

shlump

[kj_jive]

I wrestled for 5 1/2 years.  I love it, its my favorite martial art.  any wrestlers here?

[Dragon]

I used to train Submission Wrestling(a big part of Shootfighting), does that count?
My favourite submissions must be armbars and chokes.
But I'm not that good at taking down my opponents.
So I let them take me down instead.
But it's been a while since I did any submissions, I train karate now.

Did you train free-style or greek-roman?


 

[kj_jive]

hahaha Greco Roman, thats such bullshit.  no, i did Scholastic and i'd compete in freestyle tournaments on the side

[dashingshlump]

hey dudes, i just found out that i've got my first kickboxing exam on monday
which means that i will be eligible to enter into a tournament in the white belt category.
oh and i can pretty much do the splits now, thanks guys  [ok]

shlump

[Rosie]

hi everyone! my first post here I said I'd start with this topic as it takes up most of my time...apart from being on the net! I practice Tae Kwon Do, and have done for 6 years. I did Karate beforehand and am looking to go into boxing, although there aren't a lot of females fighting over here (Ireland). Any other girl Martial Artists on here?

[Nicoletta]

I'm new here and am happy to see a martial Arts thread, but was bummed out that it was all the way down on page 2 of Fun N' Games.

So, I'm bumping it up.

I've been studying Kenpo Karate for 10 years and am a black belt.

[matt88]

I did Ushinru karate for 2 years when i was 9-11. I moved away from the area and didnt take it up in my new area and i regret it so much

[Nicoletta]

I did Ushinru karate for 2 years when i was 9-11. I moved away from the area and didnt take it up in my new area and i regret it so much

Its never too late!

[Hammy]

I mentioned back on the other page im a black belt in judo and as i said then i had n't trained in a few months now 15 months since that post i returned merely a month ago for a one off appearance and it was good to be back now my exams are out of the way i should be back on a regular basis and hopefully be getting into some competitions

[miminaboo]

First year of A?kido in Kobayashi Shihan's school in France  
 
with another girl of this forum  

[gunsnroses393]

i used to do tae kwon doe, got a green belt. but i have not done it in about 3 years, im planning to get back into it soon though. prob do some private lessions to help get in shape an jog my memory before i get into classes with sparing again.

[Rain]

First year of A?kido in Kobayashi Shihan's school in France ?
 
with another girl of this forum ?

Wow ... nearly a year late ... I'm the other girl ! 

Practising aikido for two years now and really enjoying it ! 

[gunsnroses393]

whats aikido? ive started doing TKD again, ive had two lessons this week and am really happy to be doing it again.

[Rain]

Aikido is a japonese martial art ...

http://www.aikidofaq.com/introduction.html

Aikido is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba  (often referred to by his title 'O Sensei' or 'Great Teacher'). On a purely physical level it is an art involving some throws and joint locks that are derived from Jujitsu and some throws and other techniques derived from Kenjutsu. Aikido focuses not on punching or kicking opponents, but rather on using their own energy to gain control of them or to throw them away from you. It is not a static art, but places great emphasis on motion and the dynamics of movement.

Hope tha helps !! 

I'm reaaallllly addicted to it right now ... 

[gunsnroses393]

well thats cool. jujitsu sounds pretty cool. same with kickboxing

[fesxine]

hi, i'm a blue belt in Wado-Ryu karate - i have been training for a few years and really enjoy it.

i would like to take up another martial art as well, any idea's?

[Sakib]

heya dudes

i iz just wonderin if derez n e martial artists round here. i do Shotokai style karate.

wot martial art do u do and wot style???

[Izzy]

U want the thread in the Fun N' Games section

[Sakib]

thanx
ive dun karate for 5 years now and im a blue belt and 2 brown tabs. Martial arts is gr8

[Rain]

While at an aikido training  weekend, we had the opportunity to practice Karat? ... I don't have a clue which one but we learnt a kata - Pinan Shodan- I kinda like that even if it's rather different than aikido.

[gunsnroses393]

well ive been back in TKD about a month, and even though they say im doing well, the idea of kicking to the head still worries me

[izzyrose]

it hurts at first i find. lol. i just started karate 3 weeks ago. its way coo, dude.




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[Locomotive]

The people I know who train in any martial art tends to think too highly of themselves, have you noticed it?
but it's really cool, especially in movies like Kung fu hustle.

[nesquick]

humm...let's see....Karate kid Bruce Lee Jackie Chan Jean claude van damme

[Sakib]

i dont think 2 highly of ma self. in fact the world wud be a betta place w/out me. but hey, shit happens!!!!!

n e ways, do n e of u guys use shinai (bamboo swords), sai (dagger) and jo's(wooden sticks) and bokuns (japanese sword)?? we use these weapons sometimes in karate. and we also use nunchaku. n e 1 else train with weapons???

shinai/bokuns (techniques the same) are my strengths followed by jo, nunchaku and sai.

[Miss-Aussie]

i have done tae kwon do, and i have been boxing for about 2 years, but have not been for a while as life is just too busy

[Sakib]

i have done tae kwon do, and i have been boxing for about 2 years, but have not been for a while as life is just too busy

poor u gunna_girl. don't worry there'll b a time and a place.

[Rain]

i dont think 2 highly of ma self. in fact the world wud be a betta place w/out me. but hey, shit happens!!!!!

n e ways, do n e of u guys use shinai (bamboo swords), sai (dagger) and jo's(wooden sticks) and bokuns (japanese sword)?? we use these weapons sometimes in karate. and we also use nunchaku. n e 1 else train with weapons???

shinai/bokuns (techniques the same) are my strengths followed by jo, nunchaku and sai.

In aikido we use bokkens, jos and tantos .... I just love practicing weapons?