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9:00 pm, Oct 19 2007
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My dad owns a Tae Kwon Do dojo.
He's been training me ever since I was 4 but I stopped when I was 12.
So yeah.. I was a 3rd dan black belt.. yadda yadda yadda.

My dad's going to the Olympics to coach next year, so I hope Canada wins something in the Martial Arts section. eyes

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When I was 10 years old, I did Jujutsu.

But I only did it for a year and a half... bigrazz

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Polite bump.


I haven't started any, simply because I don't have any interest in them. Also, what will techniques give you when you're in a dangerous situation? If the mind is weak - you can have a black belt for all I care - it would mean nothing. Focus your mind. Know how to fight. How to escape holds, and aim for the weak spots... All that, I learned from scuffling with my brothers. embarrassed


I don't need no martial arts shabam.
You're either good or you aren't.

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Unpolite bump and comments for some ages old posts. I hope you don't mind (cos I don't care).

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Giving up Tae Kwon Do was one of the hardest things I ever had to do.

If I was still practicing, I think I would have made it to 4th Dan black belt by now. Ah well, one can dream, right?

Why did you quit? How was it disgracing your school? I don't understand your way of thinking, perhaps you might enlighten me?

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but does it teach you how to fight? hmm.. maybe if you practice it for.. 20 years..

If the style is meant to teach you how to fight, I'm fairly sure you know at least to some degree how to fight in few months if you work hard and have a good teacher (unless you're especially weak and have bad sense). But it's stupid to expect every single person who trains some sport martial arts to be able to win in a real fight. They don't even train for fighting in the first place, of course someone with fighting experience wins. I think you're a bit simple minded, or perhaps you've just never seen real martial arts.

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people with muscle mass >>>>>>>> people without muscle mass. dont pick a fight with some big kid just cause you think you can win. especially if you're skinny... lol.. you have like.. 0 muscle mass compared to him. he'll own you physical strength wise... I'd just run away or kick him in the weener and then run away.


bah to first sentence. BAH i say

And I second that. I'll never do any weight training (except for strengthening my joints). Big muscles are good for physical work and to show off, in fighting they're hindrance—how you look in a fight is also very important (it's true!), so no ugly muscles for me, thank you. Also, it's not easy to kick people who are used to fighting in the groin, they're used to it (at least should be). About the muscle mass, I've seen a lightweight guy floor a heavyweight by one punch in the stomach.

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I haven't started any, simply because I don't have any interest in them. Also, what will techniques give you when you're in a dangerous situation? If the mind is weak - you can have a black belt for all I care - it would mean nothing. Focus your mind. Know how to fight. How to escape holds, and aim for the weak spots... All that, I learned from scuffling with my brothers. embarrassed


I don't need no martial arts shabam.
You're either good or you aren't.

These days anyone can give martial arts classes, so it's not always easy to find real martial arts. Martial arts is supposed to build your spirit too, not just give you techniques. I don't have very deep insight into Japanese or Korean martial arts, but in traditional Chinese martial arts there's really not that many different techniques. Even Taijiquan with over 70 moves form is just repeating the same techniques, really. Then there's different applications for each technique.

When people have trained for long time, they should find a few techniques that fit themselves the best, and concentrate on them (though also train the other techniques). Besides that you should also do some pair training, first some simple techniques, eventually free form light sparring (light as in the contact being light, because it's no sport and you'll get hurt if you do it like boxing spar).

Experienced martial artist should be able to avoid getting hit in the weak spots and do holds that you can't get out of without martial arts experience or beat you up without doing holds.

You're either good or you aren't? You mean like some talent thing? 'Genius' is just a good excuse to say when you lose: "that guy's a genius, of course I'd lose". Sure, some people have better sense than others, but no one is born strong, and if you've never even exercised you'll be weak no matter how good sense you got.

It's easy to take inexperienced person to the ground, and if he has a knife or some friends to kick you in the head while you're in the ground you're as good as dead.

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Taikondo! WHITE BELT! *woops i thinks its, Tae Kwon Do*
I quite because i saw my black belt budy beat by the wind mill arms of a newbie! laugh

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I ended up an orange belt(the third) in one of the many Karate-variants. We mostly did forms and I was sick when they demonstrated the one we would be working on for the next few months so I ended up getting yelled at a lot and eventually dropped out.

And now I'm doing Fencing, which isn't really a martial Art but it's good fun.

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Started Tae Kwon Do when I was 4 got my black belt when I was 8 it was back in the day when they had real tests and by real tests before whiny/wimpy children and over protective parents ruined it. Right now I am doing Muay Thai, and Brazillian Jiu Jitsu with a little judo thrown in no aspirations for MMA(yet). I have also done other things like seminars and such but I don't have a solid enough background to say that I have studied them.

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to all those who think martial arts are bull my personal belief is that people shouldn't knock the Martial arts because it is part of someone's culture it would be like me( full blooded Korean) talking down on baseball or your religion and where you come from.


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My dad's going to the Olympics to coach next year, so I hope Canada wins something in the Martial Arts section. eyes
That's f*cking awesome

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6:30 pm, May 15 2010
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I have practiced and still practicing "Wu-Tang" Taichi Kung-fu. Not related to the rap group at all. I am practicing "traditional" martial arts. Today, most people learn Modern "wushu" where it's more about exhibition rather than traditional fighting.
I have learned and am learning :
Long Fist (Oldest Style practiced by the shaolin monks) traditionally, this style has been modified time and time again.
Taichi (Came from the Long Fist style) Don't get confused with those old people in the park practicing "taichi" Most likely they are practicing QiGong. Taichi is a very old style but still quite newly developed, where moves come from Long Fist. Traditional style was meant for fighting.
Praying Mantis, the wu-tang praying mantis is based on it's advanced teaching called Ba Ji. Ba Ji is a very HEAVY and STRONG fighting style. So you can expect our praying mantis to be more about power and speed rather than fluidity. Speed is still very much applied.
BaGua, Currently Still practicing this one. It's a style based on that your enemy is out of your circle. In Taichi the "Center" is you but in bagua, the Center is your opponent. Ba literally means eight in chinese and there are eight stances.

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Iv never done much very seriously, I dont follow any but I do love MartialArts and wish I had invested more time in one thing from back when I was younger.

Iv done some Judo, for about 2 years. Didnt like it verry much and remember little to nothing.

Some Fencing (Dont think it counts, lol) for 2-3 years. Was fun but people my age posed no challenge in competitions so it was boring. Rather liked it and glad I took it, learned a few things about how to handle a blade.

Following that I was at a Boxing Gym (The Hilton Boxing Gym in Mtl) for a short period of 6 months (Cause then they relocated their Gym and it was too far). I learned ALLOT and really liked it, but I wasent pushed hard enough for my lyking. I would have wanted to go pro, but my dad didnt want to. Been thinking of picking it back up, someday...

As it stands id love to get into one MartialArt. A few are apealing, like Boxing and Karate. Getting into MMA would be pretty neet too. Iv got a decent body build for sports, so I really dont have much of an excuse I supose...

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Yeah if there was a gyme around me that taught drunken master style i would be there in a snapshot.
Too bad, huh? Anyone else think drunken master style kicks ass?

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@Fr33noob
lol. the Drunken style is very hard to learn. Honestly, the best way to learn drunken style is to learn Shaolin Kungfu first. then you apply those moves by strongly using your center gravity. it's not easy without foundation training.
Just because it looks cool, doesn't mean it's effective. It's how you use it. If you have no center balance, just be prepared to be beaten up a lot.

Here's one of the legends of how drunken style came to be, A Shaolin monk, after 20 years in a temple, he finally leaves the temple, and finds that his family is dead. So grief stricken, he becomes drunk at a tavern. Two official guards saw the monk and tempted to mock him. The monk insults them in a "joke". Then the guards became angry and drew their blades, and told the monk to prepare himself. the guards swung and the monk drunkenly avoids. He began to fight in a motion the guards could not predict and got their asses kicked. One of the people in the Tavern was a martial arts master. He saw this and was impressed and decided to learn the ways of the "drunken(Long) Fist"

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I do taekwondo. A bit of wingchun too.

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I got up to a first degree black belt in Shotokan Karate, but I quit because I couldn't keep it up with the amount of hours I was working... I also took fencing for about a year before the instructor had to go back to Europe. Right now I just started taking Tae Kwon Do and am looking forward to get my yellow belt in a month or so.

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Quote from Dr. Love
Also, what will techniques give you when you're in a dangerous situation? If the mind is weak - you can have a black belt for all I care - it would mean nothing. Focus your mind. Know how to fight. How to escape holds, and aim for the weak spots... All that, I learned from scuffling with my brothers. embarrassed
You're either good or you aren't.


That depends on where you train!
Some clubs are honestly useless, and others are invaluable.
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I've done Taekwon-do since I was a kid, and started Jujitsu later.
Jujitsu feels much more 'real' - nothing like throwing someone twice my size across the floor.

My TKD club is very family oriented, and I teach there sometimes for the lower belts. It's perfect for learning practical self defense, but it has to be taught very properly.
I never go easy on a partner: if the little yellow belts can't break my wrist grab, how will they fare IRL? Of couse, they have to be shown where to hit and how to distract and grab properly; my club is having a small issue about badly taught defence at the moment.. ugh.
ICTF, by the way. I used to train WTF until it posed threats for my body.

In jujitsu I always feel like an idiotic beginner. Always learning, always learning... My instructor is incredibly tough and I never leave class without sore muscles.

I've also done bits of Karate, and Judo (which I suck at) - in addition to training with weapons and teaching practical self-defense.

It used to be really hard to fit into my schedule, and my dance instuctors hated it (I got told off by the director once), but now I can be much more involved in training and teaching.

I'm such a fanatic roll eyes

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