Martial Arts

[rockinfreak09]

I started trying various different styles of Martial arts but now Im doing Kung-Fu (chinese people prounounce it Goh-ng- Foo)

Its really great well its tougher than most other types but its cause you get more exersize of it. My arms are sore!

[PonyOne]

kung fu is the only major martial art I haven't tried yet... I love Tae Kwan Do, basically I ended up sort of combining the kicks from TKD with the punches from karate.

if you like kung fu, after you've gotten the hang of it, see if you can find a jeet kune do instructor... now THAT is fun (and painful). I also found hopkaido cane fighting to be fun.

[rockinfreak09]

well Kung fu makes you sweat twice as much as Karate thats for sure (I tried karate out).

Well Kung fu is basicly all about stance so your balancing in a squat position for a couple minutes straight.

Well its better than Judo cause I mean you in kung fu you actually fight and learn kicks and stuff. Judo is just flipping and submissions.

[PonyOne]

The nice thing about TKD is that it's much mor eadaptive than most martial arts.

Wheras karate is primarily defensive and kung fu is primarily offensive, karate can be used for either with much more ease. Jeet Kune Do is one of the most exhaustive things, martial art or otherwise, that you can possibly do.

I remember balancing squatted on one foot for five minutes, then alternating and doing the same... and then you had to do that and have someone run at you and try and delfect them without being knocked on your ass. Hard as hell.

[Lordathestrings]

I found Karate to be very stiff and posture-specific. Guhng Fu is much more fluid, and very adaptive. It incorporates some of the Judo priciples, like using your oponent's strength against him, with ways to make use of situations that favour you, and redirect conditions that don't. Balance is very important, but its a dynamic kind of balance. Tai Chi is very much like slo-mo Guhng Fu. At full speed, its more like dancing. I haven't seen such a contest, but I suspect that a fight between a Shaolin and a Karateka would would look like Rudolf Nureyev and a robot.

PonyOne, after Jit Khun Do, you would find Guhng Fu very rewarding. Like learning the practical applications after absorbing the theory. And with all the other disciplines you've sampled, Guhng Fu may just feel like 'coming home'. :)

[Benoit]

I did karate for four years, then pumped the weights and went on with kickboxing. Then I went to college and got lazy... and a degree... but still lazy...

Not a lot a good teacher in my small town.

[pstring]

I have my own style called "Grouchy Tiger with a Hidden Shotgun", the grouchy part I practice everday. I have boxed, wrestled, practiced various martial arts, I think the most important concept I learned was from a Gung Fu instructor, maintain the proper distance from your opponent.

[Purple_Person]

Hi there.

I do Shotakai Karate and it's just as good as Judo, etc only you don't do as much screaming and shouting and you practice control mostly and slightly less force(but stil some lol).

[Purple_Person]

I forgot to say, Pstring, I agree. (about hte distance thing that is)

[kingdavid]

So you guys can kick butt as well?I didn't know.I'm sure it would help a band,in case some "fan" wanted to be an ass,he (you never hit a girl,remember?)get's his kicked.
Martial arts is onether of those I hope to do eventually but have never really gotten into.The others are learn tha bass,drums and sax,perfect my german( I did some in high school,and I was ok-I got an A- in the final exam),learn french(it's the national language in most of francophone africa-like you couldn't infer that from the word francophone-and I'll be an influence in africa one day,hence the need for lingual skills),learn spanish(it's sexy,or so I think),go to the gym(I weigh around 56-58 kg,for crying out loud,and I'm about 5'8" or 9",it's probably why I fancy that I have a big willie,there's nothing else competing with it for mass,LOL)
But I will do them eventually,I know I will.

[Lordathestrings]

Originally posted by kingdavid
So you guys can kick butt as well?I didn't know.I'm sure it would help a band,in case some "fan" wanted to be an ass... The slickest move I've personally witnessed was a bass player slapping some idiot up side the head with the body of his bass. And he didn't miss a beat. (The bassist, I mean). :D

Originally posted by kingdavid
...(I weigh around 56-58 kg,for crying out loud,and I'm about 5'8" or 9",it's probably why I fancy that I have a big willie,there's nothing else competing with it for mass,LOL)... I'm sure that's quite problem.. I mean you must get all faint and dizzy from redirected blood-flow, 'n all.. :eek:

[pstring]

Originally posted by Purple_Person
[B]

it's just as good as Judo, etc only you don't do as much screaming

I once made the mistake of asking a friend that was a brown belt, to throw me just like he would if we were in a tournament, I really "thought" I knew how to fall, I wasn't quite ready for the impact of what felt like falling out of an airplane onto a concrete sidewalk, I never asked him to do that again, Thank God I was young and healed quickly.

[Purple_Person]

Ow! thankfully i'm not a high enough grade for that in karate! I'm only the third belt up. That's yet another thing i'm a near novice at!

[Lordathestrings]

I always found the green-belts were the most dangerous for sparring, because they knew enough techniques to cause some real damage, but had not yet developed the degree of control that the browns and blacks have.

[PonyOne]

I was a brown in TKD and Karate. In JKD it was basically like "you're a brown in Tae, so, that means you're pretty good." You generally don't do Jeet Kune Do unless you already know some stuff.

I ended up being friends with a kid I got into a really vicious fight with, and he later described fighting me as one of the scariest and most painful things to happen to him.

[kingdavid]

Originally posted by kingdavid
...(I weigh around 56-58 kg,for crying out loud,and I'm about 5'8" or 9",it's probably why I fancy that I have a big willie,there's nothing else competing with it for mass,LOL)... I'm sure that's quite problem.. I mean you must get all faint and dizzy from redirected blood-flow, 'n all.. :eek: [/B][/QUOTE]
I swear to God you're a mean basttard.
But the people sitting next to me in the cyber cafe I'm reading this from are starting to stare at me,no doubt wondering "what's this kid laughing about?"