Everyday after wrestling practice, our coach would stay behind and teach pankration, so i have five years of that.
I’ve also practiced sambo, to the point where i can be involved in all demonstrations of the art, I would just give the title, but my Russian is horrible, it’s equivalent to a brown belt, I guess.
Yeah, I thought of Taekwondo actually, but, no more time now that I’m in College. Lots of work to do.
It have been like 2 years since i practiced anything, I learned Aikido, Lima Lama, and Karate
LoL. Man traditional martial arts are so fucking lame. Grappling and striking learn them. Spinning flippy kicks and lame ass kung fu forms. Fucking lame as shit.
Guys who train vs. guys who don’t
“oh yeah i trained a bit”
“where?”
“train ufc at that gym bro”
“huh? I go there, what ufc class?”
“oh uh, yeah umm…”
Hilarious
Oh ok. If you can, you should see if your area has a knockdown karate school.
Sometimes I do street fighter moves in my room alone.
I especially enjoy Guiles spinning backfist and bazooka knee.
Speaking of karate, I’ve always liked this video.
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Well, I used to do Tao Kwon Do but I don’t anymore. I plan to resume it soon though.
Glad to see this thread pick back up. So I’ve been using my joint locks lately on my friends while we’re joking around and they never seem to get out of it. I’m pretty strong, so that’s why. However, one of them is pretty strong, a bit more than me, and I can restraint him for a good while. However, he has gotten out of them and has been resistant. I can never get out of his headlocks and sleeper holds, though. Basically, my fighting style consists of what I’ve picked up from Aikido, pressure points, and techniques I learned from my martial arts professor. I don’t have any dojo experience, though, and all of my attacks are in my arms, which consists of holds and locks. I need to get back in Aikido, seeing I’m strong and I have a long reach.
One would be wise not to spit on TMA, not all of them are composed of “Spinning flippy kicks and lame ass kung fu forms”. There’s still some hardcore tma styles in Japan and Okinawa, not so much in China due to…you know…martial artists being persecuted and killed during the Cultural Revolution.
After a few yeras of abstinence of doing any fighting art, I enlisted in a hapkido course, but sadly I’m on the waiting list since it’s already full =/
I did Kickboxing and Muay Thai. I fully respect ground work but people need to stand up to fight.
I wish I knew Aikido
I know right? Damn, dab00g, you have a doctorate and graduated with a 4.0 GPA. You’re better than that.
No i stand by my statement. I have done traditional martial arts. I have a black belt in tkd.
Lame ass forms. Show offy kicks
We had to learn those, but the sparring, technique, and scenarios
Lame as hell, lame lame lame
Especially if you go to a mcdojo.
Big difference in the way i trained in tkd and other kids. I was bigger so i was placed in. The adult class. Lots of teenagers and twentysomethings. It was cool we learned a technique and had thrown in 1000 times before learning a new one. What separated us from the other tkd places was how hard we sparred and all the squats, pushups, legraises, and ass kickings we all were put through
To the point our demo team was 3 dudes who flipped and shit.
Kyokushin, tkd, shotokan. Those are styles i do respect. I mean fuck getting a higher belt through a kumite. Full contact punches to the body. That is some mad shit. I don’t and will never see any style ofkung fu as a legit form of self defense. It is just dancing.
Aikido dudes are hilarious, especially when they come to nogi with their wrist locks. Trying to be steven segal.
Judo, sambo, wrestling, bjj. Those are the hardest ones to Get good at.
Meh i still don’t find tma to be helpful in scenarios. Especially aikido.
Now tourneys were even harder for me, i was placed in the adult divisions sparring with grown ass men.
It was really hard. Lots of training. Lots of black eyes, my nose is flatter than it should be, and i learned a lot.
The problem i have with traditional martial arts are the people who say this style beats that. Fuck
Plus forms and spinny kicks are lame. Aikido doesn’t work applied to real life.
Only things i used transitioning from tkd to muay thai are my roundhouses and sidekicks. My punches are morphing from boxing style, and elbows are stupid at this point.
The kids i knew who did martial arts were usually weak kids who did it at a mcdojo. So it was all fun
Then came wrestling my god that was the most grueling martial art ever. Hardest practices. Drilling the same move. The discipline
I cannot take guys who do a stupid spinny kick, break boards, break bricks seriously at all
Boards don’t hit back
Anyways you want to man up go to a place that spars hard/rolls hard
You have your mettle tested daily it will make you see how lame traditional martial arts is.
Fucking gay ass forms
Imo what would you use martial arts to do? Protect, defend, attack, and exercise
Not even gonna bother.
I’ve done martial arts for a very long time, and I’ve never seen a discussion about them not turn into “UFC braaaaaah” “my style can beat up your style” “say that to my face and not online and see what happens fucker”
I started taking Escrima classes at a local martial arts studio:
http://imsacademy.com/Escrima.htm
It’s really nice because although it’s strenuous mentally, I can do my normal exercise, stretching, bicycling, running, etc routine and still go to this class and not be completely drained. It works well because it’s really only 3 hours between 2 days a week. If I went back to my old schedule with Judo/TKD 6 days a week, either 1.5 or 3 hours a session, I’d basically have nothing else in my life besides my work.
dab00g, you went from ignorance to full on stupidity. So you would be the idiot to roll on hard concrete to protect yourself?
I don’t need martial arts. I’ll just buy a gun. Or kick people in the nuts. I don’t fight dirty. I fight to WIN.