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CrayZemon
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Hey all. I eventually couldn't resist this question as many times I waste my time practicing my martial arts instead of wasting time programming in DB.

Just post why you do/or don't study martial arts. If you do, say which art. I'm not going to start rambling unless I have someone else to ramble with.
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Solidz Snake
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i know kungfu lmao@Keanu!

nah, i'm more powerful than that, i know lots of martial art techniques, been studying them for a long time. I'm so good and so fast, i just need my fingers to do all the necessary moves i need! lmao@joypad!

Okok, enough of rambling, the only thing i know is just plain ol' boxing! (not really a martial art)

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Ian T
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I'm so-so at Karate and Tae Kwon Do. I'm not currently studying anywhere, however. I highly prefer Tae Kwon Do to Karate.

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CrayZemon
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I know many to consider "just plain old boxing" a martial art, especially when it somes to non-kicking, non-grappling methods of self defense.

I study a TKD (Tae Kwon Do)/Karate hybrid (Americanized TKD, or "American Karate" - official name). I enjoy the sport/nature of the art for tournaments and competitions. I also enjoy the exercise and a set of self-defense abilities it supplies. However, until I learn "Hadoken", I know better than to think I can defend myself from a gun-man at a distance over three feet.

@ mouse

I prefer the kicking art as well. Primarily because I'm 6'4'' and people seem to think that my legs are abnormally long - lol.

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MrTAToad
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I learnt all mine from Mortal Kombat...

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CrayZemon
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lol...

Before I started American Karate, I thought I learned all my martial arts from Street Fighter and One Must Fall. When I came to the dojo/dojang, however, my instructed had a few words about my roundhouse kick:

"It's not a slow and sloppy inner crescent kick, you moron. This is a roundhouse..."
<WHAP>

Me: "Oww!"

Okay that didn't actually happen to that extreme, but you get my point.

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Lol, that's just about all I can say.I went to sign-up at a karate place about 6 years ago, but my parents thought it was too expensive or something dumb like that.



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Hamish McHaggis
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I know a bit of Phillipino martial arts, and grapling.

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CrayZemon
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Do you study Arnis, McHaggis. I think that's a Philipino stick-fighting art.

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hexGEAR
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if i was gonna study any martial arts it would be either the Brazillian "Caporia" or the Japanese "Ninjitsu"

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I have been taking martial arts on and off for the pat 10 years. Most of the time has been spent with Tang-Soo-Do, which is Tae-Kwon-Do's older brother. Tae-Kwon-Do branched off of Tang-Soo-Do, and became more sport based. It uses more flashy kicks and such, while Tang-Soo-Do sticks more to self-defense. Other than that, they are VERY similar.

I had also taken a grappling class for about 6 months. It was a mix of anything that works: Judo, Ju-jitsu, wrestling, and Aikido. That was a GREAT class and more suited to how I prefer to fight. The class was about 2 hrs long. We would spend about half the time learning techniques and the other half killing each other on the mat. While I enjoy Tang-Soo-Do, I proably learned as much good fighting abilities in the 6 months at the grappling class than I have all together at Tang-Soo-Do.

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Oh...
And I believe that the Philipino stick fighting art is called Escrima.

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I believe Lee Bamber does Ju-Jitsu

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i have previously done Tae Kwon Do, Saikedo and Korean Karate

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Well all i do is american states karate, i've been enjoying it except for that a few days ago i got beat up by a 3rd degree blackbelt but then i guess thats what u get for being a yellow belt.

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I've done Judo - but that is about as far as it goes. The great thing about Judo is that the lill' guys have the advantage for a change.

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Well, based on all the computer games I've played over the pass 2o-odd years, I should be :

An expert Apache helicopter pilot, who is also experienced in flying Stealth Fighters (but unable to land them). Able to drive fast cars with all the latest weaponary, and an expert in all martial and non-martial arts...

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Kanzure
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I study the ancient art of The Monkey Ninja. Pheer my wrather, or else my monkeys will get yah


Eh..but I also know Ta-Kwon-Doe..I quit when I was a purple belt because i didn't pass the first time, and then it got VERY boring. My brother is now in it, and god damn..they teach it entirally diffrent. When I was in TKD they actually told you to HIT, not just move your arms and act like your using force. I've spared with my brother recently, its just freaky. Isn't fighting about force? About power? Not about crisp moves. I can trip him in an instant and then crush his lungs....*sigh*

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Ya? I'm a professional hitman.. I once killed a man taking a leak...with a wire...and he didn't even see it coming...

oh wait.. no never mind..i just own HITMAN 2... I forgot..as for Martial Arts...eh..I have not the slightest idea of where to find any

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Go to the news papers. They have ads sometimes. Then, if not type in your town/citie's name on Google and type martial arts aftwer that. That should work XD!

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Walk around your local downtown. I have 5 in the area, and it's not a big city, I'd be really surprised if there were none in your locale.

IMHO, although martial arts is good to know, the most important step is always learning how to properly punch and kick. It's horrifying how many people throw their arms back and then hurl their fist forward, or sort of dive-kick, without knowing what they're doing at all..

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Kanzure
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Thats also pathetic. If I was ever confronted by somebody, when it was a bad situation, I would simple do one of those hand-slit-throught (sp) attacks. Then, I would take the mans wallet and walk off fast.

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Im doing karate and judo in Jap and it sucks, kills the legs and the kicks are crappy. Yet the punches are powerful. You have to know all your patterns at whitebelt and we just keep on doing to same stuff 20 time over and over.

I like the tiequando kicks, the arate punches and the judo throws.
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CrayZemon
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@ mouse & morph

Amen! People like that should be reminded that the martial arts is also about fitness and power - more than just technique/speed.

Morph, if you were confronted in a situation I thought you'd just sick your monkeys on the punk and his wallet - lol.
On the serious side, I didn't know that Japanese arts could emulate the fighting strategies of animal base philosophy (ninja is Japanese), I only thought Chinese Kung Fu styles did that. I just got educated today!

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i decided to enrol to the Jedi Academy next semester

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I've been doing Brazilian Jiu Jitzu for about two months or so. I'm learning under a purple belt (that's 2 down from black - and 2 up from white, hehe) I get a 2-hour lesson once a week with 2 of my friends.
I haven't learnt nearly enough to be able to defend myself from a guy my age and build, let alone a gunman.

From games i've learnt how to be a minesweeper and how to blow up worms with a bazooka.

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Kanzure
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Yes..my monkeys..they were lazy at the moment and told me, "You do it you jack @$$ we always do your work" >.<!


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Quote: "
I learnt all mine from Mortal Kombat...
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I learnt mine from Karate Kid so don't you mess with me and Mr. Myagi ... Mind you, through out the whole movie there must have been a couple of moves they showed and now I wear a black belt ... now back to training ... wax on, wax off, wax on, wax off .....
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lol... ya'll are insane
i'm sure there are a couple here who take real martial arts rather than just that you can bullet time with.
i study a form of Ju-Jitsu, and Tae-Chi ... have also done a little Tai Kickboxing - prefer legwork alot more, but the Tae-Chi gives me a good range with my arms it might be boring to learn but it certainly as hell gives lets you learn howto block attack very quickly and even more to actually speed up how you react and fight as a whole

but everyone has thier own preferances for fighting, brute force of wrestling and boxing seems to be what dominates around here alot - even the martial arts places have alot of emphasis placed on physical strength ... to be honest i'm not sure that is such a good thing.

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eww brazillian ju-jitzu, thats like brake dancing and martial arts molded together in one ball.
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Martyn Pittuck
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I have done Jikishin Ju-Jitsu under Sensi John Hunt 7th Dan. I was studying Sho-Dan and helped in training the World Sparing Champion

But i stopped going, i do archery now, and a lot of cycling. I may go back then the weather cools a bit and get me black.

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Are you crazy, summer is the best time to work out. There is nothing better than to beat on the heavy bag until you work up such a sweat that you step out of the school to wring out your tanktop. You gotta love the way some of the kicking arts make you sweat big time!

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Martyn Pittuck
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Well erm, when i go back it will take a few sessions for me to get back into the routine, as i am already in shape.

Thing is, after a while i will take lessons, actually teach others. Thats what takes it out of you.

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I'ld like to get into Kendo, and not the crap Amwerican-ised version. Just a pipe dream for now considering my current location.

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Quote: "work up such a sweat that you step out of the school to wring out your tanktop"

:-s ... what freaking time are from? i thought the tanktop was extinct, if not it bloody well should be

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Well, I thought sleeveless t-shirts were also known as tanktops. Sorry ...

And no, I wasn't born any earlier than the 80s.

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sleeveless t-shirts are vests... or Arco-Shirts, depends if they've actually got a shoulder & colour or if they've got a strap.

Tanktops are a sortof wolly or sweatshirt jumper kinda of vest lol
:: blankly stares at what he just wrote and wonders if he needs to start hanging out with the girls less ::

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Dagnabit I'm stupid...

No, I wouldn't be caught dead weaing a wolly-sweatshirt-jumper-vest-thing-a-ma-bob that sounds like something Conan would wear.

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Before I embarrass myself any further... Are there any good martial arts themed games made in DB. I haven't played Warrior's Mind so I don't know if it's any good (screenshot looked like Virtua Fighter 1).

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@ Arrow - Go for it, kendo is great!

I'm not actually any good with no weapon. I seem to blunder around most of the time
I've been broadswording for a while now, which is fun. Hopefully soon I'll join a reinactment group.

As for fighting games err well. I really despise beat 'em up games for some reason ... I just have no interest in them. But severance ! Now there's a good fighting game.

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Bashido Sticks, Nunchuku, Katana, Katani, Kato & the Nasty three prong daggers thingies (i know the name i just have a pissy memory lol)

i'm qualified to used them all ... i specialise in Katana Kojii Style - thought is it a bit of a shock when you use the real blades for the first time and the actuality that they bloody hurt when they slice you up, you learn ALOT of skill that way.

ya know the dojo i goto is pretty cool, i don't actually take lessons or anything - just joined because i have a friend (well sister of a friend) who works there, and she's about the only person who can still show me that i've got alot to learn ... so its really for the challenge

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It certainly is a bit of a shock ...

There was one bloke who bought a really nice full sharp blade and when he first drew it he sliced right into his fingers ... nearly taking the tips off all of them! so you can imagine his face then. But you don't have to imagine the finger bit ... I won't mention fingers again.
Just make sure you don't all chop your fingers off. Yeah. *look at his own fingers and tries to imagine what they would look like if they were just stumps*

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I wouldn't mind too much if I lost any fingers but my index and thumb on my left hand, or my 4th and 5th fingers on my right hand. I could learn to live with that pretty easily.

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Hmm..donate the fingers! Organ Donations! Located at Pain Avenue and Death Lane.

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You tell 'em Morph, It's always wise to put your monkeys where your mouth is.

Let's face it. Thanks to Morph we are never going to look at ninja the same again.

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hey Raven, getting weapons quaified is not too hard I just asked my sensi (the second top Jikishin Examiner) if i could. He said yes. I am weapons qualified. Yippee.

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what weapon quaalifications?
*moved his lightsaber from the kitchen sink to his hand using the Force*

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lol... its not hard its just bloody dangerous is all
i've never had a fingers incident - and now i've been practising with a real weapon for a good 15months i'm getting pretty good, especially with the weight differences.

its good to know howto fully use a Katana ... because understanding each side of it as an offensive and defensive weapon is quite a challenge. When you just start out normally they give you a wooden version thats made of oak carved in a similar shape but blunt. they still hurt one hell of alot when they hit, but atleast they don't lop anything off

i've gotta train with Feena again tommorrow lunchtime, i'm not sure if i should look forward to it or not cause she's been in a mood with me and alex the last week lol - have a feeling she might want some blood ... so thankfully its not a weapons match ... well perhaps end up using Bashido Sticks.

i saw that she got some new weapons the other day, which are blades that look a bit like half swords... and they have a baton like handle and an edge that is shaped for the wrist. looks pretty leathal

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Quote: "Im doing karate and judo in Jap and it sucks, kills the legs and the kicks are crappy. Yet the punches are powerful."


AFAIK, Judo doesn't have punches as such. It relies on getting people into holds where they cannot move. So you have a sweep of the leg to lift them off their feet rather than a kick. This is certainly true up to brown belt level, and from what I have seen of black belt and above on sat. TV, this seems to be true of all levels of Judo.


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He also said he was studying Karate. That's probably where he's gettin' his punches in.

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