Martial Arts...

[Blonde kid on Morphine]

Hey guys was just a bit bored and decided to see how many of my fellow farkiners activly do some form of martial art?...so just getting and interesting thread going .........and a poll..........

Thanx for your Time and replies.

Tim.

If your isn't up there feel free to post it up ..

[Ride_Guy]

Did Karate for 6 yrs got up to brown belt with only knowing the first two combo's lol 8)

[S.]

I did karate for 5, also got to brown belt, but I sucked. I should never have gotten that high!

[DEVLIN]

I have two mates at work that do Kendo. Very stylish.

I did Judo for two years when I was 13-14. Won the Metropolitan under 15 years under 55 kg championship while I was still a white belt. That was funny. Beat a blue belt in the finals. They were all spitting because I was doing moves that I shouldn't have learnt yet. Suckers.

[floody]

No poll option for drunken bar brawling?

[zac]

i did tae kwon do for about 7 years and got my black belt, and i did hap ki do for about two and got up to red belt but i left because the instructor/owner of the school was a farkin sadistic prick. hap ki do was pretty cool as a martial art though, and our school was supposed to be about the most advanced in australia (with respect to what we had to learn for each grading). also had some of the hardest gradings around - my white to yellow grading was around 4 hours (around 80 techniques repeated 10 times each side!) so when fari salievski came up from sydney he was a bit shocked that there were students on yellow belts who knew more and were more controlled than a lot of the black belts who were working for him as instructors.

[danv]

No poll option for drunken bar brawling?
That be an art, but it not be martial...

[peachy]

ive got my black belt in tae kwondo, karate and judo. been kick boxing for 4 years, got my black belt in u.b.e.r bs

[BiG BirD]

i did tae kwon do till i was in brown belt and got over it. it was the same old thing and if you haven't done it for a life time it isn't instinct.

and let me ask you a question who honestly in a fight asks the person to stop and let you get your feet in the right postion to defend yourself? really? (that did happen)

i can bet you that at least 90 percent of individuals wouldn't remmeber their moves in a fight too. i sure as hell didn't. so i move to kick boxing and that is some cool shit. :twisted:

[ride4fun]

i do a combination of different styles put into one but i cant remember what it's called :?

[S.]

and let me ask you a question who honestly in a fight asks the person to stop and let you get your feet in the right postion to defend yourself? really? (that did happen)

i can bet you that at least 90 percent of individuals wouldn't remmeber their moves in a fight too. i sure as hell didn't. so i move to kick boxing and that is some cool shit. :twisted:

"the moves" is a load of shit really, the only thing that transfers to *real* fighting is your sense of timing and reflexes IMO (and the practice DOES help there). Like what is the chance that somebody is going to come up from behind you, on your right side, and put their hand on your shoulder in such a way that you can grab it, turn around, break their arm, then sweep their feet out from under them? etc etc

[Blonde kid on Morphine]

Yeah,
I agree with S. I do Karate, Kung Fu and have started Kick boxing in the last 3 weeks....and MOST of the rehearsed self defence techniques wont work in a "real" fighting sense but still having the knowledge of being able to break some ones arm or knee when they kick or punch at you does help in a big way.......the only problem I have in todays martial arts like kick boxing .....( the class I have anyway ) with my experience in karate and Kung Fu I don't believe kick boxing focus's enough on defending kicks and punches......and I'm not saying its total crap ..it has wicked combo's and all that but just a bit more emphasis on defence......( whats the point of saying I can do awesome combo's and I'd be able to deck anyone....but if you get hit once you pass out?? or just constantly get hit....)
lol you guys prob didn't want to hear that but anyway....

Yeah I have a mate that does hap ki do, he rekons its sweet ..and I do like the look of it.

[floody]

ive got my black belt in tae kwondo, karate and judo. been kick boxing for 4 years, got my black belt in u.b.e.r bs

I've got my black label in brawling :lol:


On a serious note, I'd like to learn some sort of actual martial art though.
I've done a little Judo but it was so long ago I wouldn't remember any now....
I'm about 5'8" and 110kg at the moment, I've got a bit of extra padding on but I have a solid build in terms of muscle(lightest I've ever got to was about 90kg and that was with stuff all fat on), and I'm not especially flexible - would Kickboxing suit someone like me?
Basically I'd like to get a bit fitter, improve my flexibility, and learn to be able to punch/kick etc faster (I can deliver a pretty big hit but I can't do it fast) and with some consistency and control.

Oh and I'm not actually stupid enough to get into drunken fights, that was just a joke...

[ellemenophee]

Yep...i'm another of the Tae Kwon do people.
I throughly enjoyed it at that stage of my life.
I am athletic in shape & i was a " tournament fighter ".
I still did all the other " patterns " , but my specialty ( from special training 3 times a week) was fighting . I never got into a fight outside the ring that i couldn't dissolve with my head or talking ability.Tournament style contact involves pads & is not a place you want to have a ugly type of day.
Did the nationals & sTate stuff until my knee was taken from me.
He got disqualified for that elbow-

It was great, occasionally i feel the need to return to sometype of fighting discipline but i prefer to spend the time elseways.
Truth be known- my anatomy, physiology, biochemistry type of knowledge is just as useful.
Fights dont interest me.
Martial arts are known for teaching you discipline. Discipline is like a horse. It takes you many places & is useful in all facets of life.

[toodles]

Ha ha. I nagged my parent into taking me to ninjitsu when I was about 12. 1st week they taught me to eye gouge, break a collar bone and break a windpipe. I told my folks and they pulled my out of class for some reason.


I'm now a 4th Dan in thumbwrestling.

[Misplaced]

Blackbelt (matt) in Origami

[BiG BirD]

I don't believe kick boxing focus's enough on defending kicks and punches......and I'm not saying its total crap ..it has wicked combo's and all that but just a bit more emphasis on defence.

thats crazy talk :roll: how do you think people survive up to 10 or more rounds in a ring. yeah they may have protection but they have to know how to block a punch and worse a kick to the knee. :wink:

[genie]

wing chun isnt there so i put kung fu

[Instinctual]

^ Wing Chun is just a style of kung fu.

I did Wing Chun for a while ages ago, then I did some Tae Kwon Do with my friend who was a red belt and taught me a few things, then I honed those skills in Cho's Red Dragon Tae Kwon Do, however the school shut, and that sucked. Then I went back to training at home and at my friends place, utilising Tae Kwon Do and Kung Fu and a bit of Thai kickboxing. Then after doing nothing for aaaages I started going to Hapkido and I am now a green belt (not that I think belts matter, I'd wear a white belt if I could). I wonder if zac went to the same Hapkido school as I do? was your Subumnim Kiwan Kim?

Oh, and I just put Tae Kwon Do in the poll because I've done it for ages and it's the brother art of Hapkido anyways. Pretty much the same except Hapkido is more circular and utilises flips and breakrolls etc.

Interesting reading responses, and seeing how many of you do/have done a martial art.

[Joel O]

i used to do tae kwon do for a while ages ago and it was cool but then last year i tried to get back into it and i found it really boring. and the fact that a kid with a yellow belt was beating the shit out of the instructor made me think it might not be the best training either.

[Rexy]

i do taekwondo, have done for almost a year, im a yellow two as ive missed some gradings because of riding and races as mtb comes first. Im mopre interested in the exercize now than going up belts, half the people at my club are little kids that i could beat the crap out of if they were red belts, so im all good, some interesting forms of martial arts here

[Wattsy]

put in another poll for other, uve made up the main stream but thats only like less than 5%. so add an "other" option, i know cauz i did a different 1

[Malfuctioning Eddie]

I do "kik-yo-az"

I have done this since I could walk..........

[Blonde kid on Morphine]

Hey wattsy,
yeah I tried to put in another poll option called Other but for some reason it wouldn't let me.... :? but anyway ..yeah its good reading all the different experiences with martial arts ...and.....when I said what I did about kick boxing ..keep in mind I'v only been at it for 3 weeks....and yeah kick boxers may have endurance, but you can't claim that it involves such indepth blocking such as the soft blocking ( in kung fu, kung fu also has hard blocking as well) and Hard blocks in karate...thats whats I was saying It just seems to me that they take alot of their hits through their bodies or like blocking really close to their chest or such ...and it just doesn't look right to me ............but yeah kick boxing is still wicked.

[zac]

nah, instinctual, i had matt schofield.

of all the martial arts i have come in contact with (at tournaments and demos and shit) i'd say that hapkido seems to be one of the most useful if you got into a situation where you had to use it. i found that tae kwon do really let you down if someone got closer enough to grab you as there's pretty much no grappling skills taught, but things like brazilian jujitsu and stuff like that are oriented the other way around - you just seem to grab and lock without trying to avoid the situation first. THIS IS MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THEM AND AS SUCH I DON'T EXPECT IT TO BE TAKEN AS GOSPEL SO DON'T START BITCHING THAT I AM TALKING SHIT.

to me, hapkido seems to be the best combination of striking and grappling and locks and stuff, although this could be just the way we were taught.

with respect to whether this stuff is useful in the real world or not, i think that anyone who does martial arts has a couple of techniques that are pretty much instinctive, so that if something does happen there is always something to fall back on that you know works for you. even if it's just knowing a few pressure points that can disable someone for a few seconds so you can get the hell out of there, that's still gotta be better than having the crap beaten out of you or being robbed or whatever, isn't it? i know a few pressure points, non-pressure points that are enough to irritate you, and a few techniques (eg arm bars, defenses from a punch and grabs) that i can do pretty much instinctively, and i am confident that should the situation arises where i have to use this shit i'll come out of it in not too bad a shape.

[Instinctual]

^ dude, you should come to brissy and train there! We've got a Master from korea at the moment as well as our Subumnim, and he's an absolute legend. Also the Grandmaster is visiting soonish I think.

Yeah, I like my club, it focuses on good areas.

[dlwd3w]

Iaido and Kendo, I like them, I'm good at them, nuff said...