What Martial Arts do you do, and why?

Richdog said:
It's a serious art but only if you're willing to dedicate 10 years of your life to gaining proficiency, and then the next 20 years to master it.

Tai-Chi was one of, if not the most feared art in China in its time. It's masters were the most peace-loving of folk, but also the most deadly. It is considered the highest expression of the chinese internal arts, above Pa-kua and Xing-Yi, and was even more feared than Baji-Quan (known as the "bodyguards art".

Tai-Chi is only for the most dedicated of people, and that's why most people think its cack when theyve done it for 2 years and can't fight for **** at the end of it. Not to mention it's increasingly arre to find teachers that not only can fight well and train to fightm but actually teach it as afully-fledged martial rt.

You need to train Chen or Wu to be a good fighter imo, but that's just imo.

It's not a martial art for people looking to get harder quickly, it's a way of life. And it wasn't for me. :)
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Thanks for that :)
 
Acliff said:
Meh:

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

Down a bit it mentions orange and purple belts.

http://www.raynerslanetkd.com/COMP_RESULTS_MAIN.html

References to purple belt as a category.

Not that I have personally come across many. I like the white/yellow/green/blue/red/black scheme a lot.
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Kup Color
10th White Belt
9th varies
8th yellow belt
7th varies
6th green belt
5th varies
4th blue belt
3rd varies
2nd red belt
1st varies

In between the solid colours, a tag is given for the next belt above. eg, 5th Kup will be green belt with a blue tag. This is the official way. I have trained at Rayners Lane with Stuart Anslow and he does not use purple belts (last time I was there anyway).
You may find purple belts within the WTF, but I wouldnt know about that.
 
I'm currently training Muay Thai, Escrima, Keysi and combat submission wrestling. I wanted functional martial arts at a school which allowed full contact sparring and i was looking for as rounded a basis in fighting arts as possible.
 
DanH84 said:
I'm currently training Muay Thai, Escrima, Keysi and combat submission wrestling. I wanted functional martial arts at a school which allowed full contact sparring and i was looking for as rounded a basis in fighting arts as possible.
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Your training in all of those at the same time? If so thats very ambitious. Did you start them all at the same time from scratch of have you been training in one longer than the others?
 
I started the thai prior to the others, i am able to attend class 5 days (right next to where i work and offers unlimited training) a week typically and the thai remains my primary focus.

A typical week includes
Monday Thai - Wrestling
Tuesday Off
Wednesday Thai- Keysi
Thursday Wrestling - Keysi
Friday Thai - Keysi
Saturday Off
Sunday Thai - Escrima.

I'm not training to compete or fight or anything like that it just struck me that if i was going to learn martial arts then i wanted to cover all angles, I'm aware that spreading myself between these MA's may slow me mastering any single art but to be honest I'm not particularly worried about how slowly i grade or anything. I'm enjoying it immensely at the moment and i enjoy mixing up techniques from the different styles.
 
DanH84 said:
I started the thai prior to the others, i am able to attend class 5 days (right next to where i work and offers unlimited training) a week typically and the thai remains my primary focus.

A typical week includes
Monday Thai - Wrestling
Tuesday Off
Wednesday Thai- Keysi
Thursday Wrestling - Keysi
Friday Thai - Keysi
Saturday Off
Sunday Thai - Escrima.

I'm not training to compete or fight or anything like that it just struck me that if i was going to learn martial arts then i wanted to cover all angles, I'm aware that spreading myself between these MA's may slow me mastering any single art but to be honest I'm not particularly worried about how slowly i grade or anything. I'm enjoying it immensely at the moment and i enjoy mixing up techniques from the different styles.
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Where do you train? Sounds like Rob Locks?
 
shotokan karate for 5 years way back


my mate is an acupunture(ist) and is excellent at tai chi.hes done it for ten years.Even when he was learning.The class would practice their tai chi death moves.These are the moves you see in the movies,when you get hit and fly across the room,unable to stand again for a while.He likes to practice on me unfortunately,the more you try to escape the harder he hits you. :confused:
Its really a beautiful and fearsom art

He also uses a butterfly sword in tai chi forms.its amazing to watch how much control he has over it.Makes it seem like its floating on air.
 
Did tae kwon do for ages then worked in Glasgow for a while. Lesson learned? Definitely....... if some 17 stone monster breaks a bottle over your head and sits on your chest once you're down, chew his nose off then run like hell!

Tae Kwon Do???? Useless! ;)
 
Mrchu_ said:
shotokan karate for 5 years way back


my mate is an acupunture(ist) and is excellent at tai chi.hes done it for ten years.Even when he was learning.The class would practice their tai chi death moves.These are the moves you see in the movies,when you get hit and fly across the room,unable to stand again for a while.He likes to practice on me unfortunately,the more you try to escape the harder he hits you. :confused:
Its really a beautiful and fearsom art

He also uses a butterfly sword in tai chi forms.its amazing to watch how much control he has over it.Makes it seem like its floating on air.
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lol... there's an infamous story of a "hard" martial arts artist (ie: practises "external" martial arts) going into a tai-chi class and arrogantly demanding the tai-chi master (who was much older) show him some moves. The journo apparently went about 10m through the air to land on his arse every time he tried an attack.
 
Thought i'd revive this thread rather than starting another one of the same title.
I've been studying MA's for over 22 years now.
My cv of MA's is:
Wado Ryu Karate - 2 years
Goya-ra-ryu karate - 6 months
Togakure Ryu Ninjitsu - 1 year
Kick/Thai Boxing - 4 years (part teaching)
Aikido - 12 years - Shodan (1st dan)
Aiki JuJitsu - 2.5 years - 4th kyu (still studying)
Kendo - 2 years - Shodan (1st dan) (still studying)
Iaijutsu - 2 years - (still studying)

Interesting how the very first poster couldn't decide how to describe the way we train in MA's. I prefer to call it a journey....i've certainly come along way...but i've got the rest of my life to go further. :)
 
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Nothing at the moment, but I did judo for a couple of years, got a couple of medals (gold and a bronze) and got up to 12th mon iirc.

Going to start again when I get a full time job though (probably begining of summer).
 
katana6434 said:
I have been doing Judo for about 20 years, ever since i was 7. I have reached 4th Dan.

I can't stop getting on the mat.....
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:D Know the feeling mate. You judoka are suckers for punishment. ;)

I train with a few high ranking zen judo guys and really enjoy sharing/swapping technique with them.
 
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