So I went to my university’s martial arts club. Man it lacks so much discipline unlike my old Judo club. It tripped me out that they didn’t know break falls or Ukemi rolls. Granted I have a Judo background, I always thought in any martial art you learned how to fall. Anyway it looks like I have resorted to doing self training. If I started maybe four months ago I would have entered this years Arnold Classic Judo tourney. All I know is that when I go back to test for my BB, I want to be ridiculous. I need a body like Baki but strength like Sergio Oliva (Biscuit Oliva to my Baki fans). Anyway I start my Judo specific training tomorrow. I may sit in n some of the martial arts club practices soon, but I was highly disappointed with the lack of structure.
I would rather be trained to fight, than throwing limp wristed slow punches and low kicks
You grab a pipe ok, so that trained guy is faster and has better reaction time than you do. Get your own pipe used on you
Like i would take a fat or skinny fat guy with no training over mike tyson
Good luck! I went to my school’s Jujitsu club last semester once. Didn’t come back because I felt the instructor was annoyed by the fact that I couldn’t get down the break falls and ukemi very well. I eventually got it down, but it was recommend that I take the class instead.
In other news, I found a Kumdo dojo in Columbia. It’s a ways from Glen Burnie, but I’m glad to find it. There’s a dojo in my area however that teaches Thai Boxing, BJJ, and Muay Thai I recall.
Have any of you all ever had to use your martial arts training in real life situations? I had to several years ago. I got in a fight with someone being disrespectful to my gf at the time. I knew he didn’t know how to fight the moment i caught him with a right hook. He tried to tackle me, so I let him. And for those of you who don’t know me, my martial arts background is Judo, so the moment we went to the ground I already had him in an arm bar. Needless to say that I broke it and I broke his jaw. The worst I had was a rug burn on my arm. I know it was less of me thinking about what I was gonna do, and more so instinctive, like I just reacted. I guess getting my ass kicked by all those black belts during practice really paid off.
Not for fighting, to my memory.
Just the occasional fall or stumble where I am able to save myself a lot of damage by either being well balanced and not falling in the first place, or falling correctly.
You didn’t get jail time out of that?
edit: It’s also difficult to tell if I’ve avoided fights completely by leaving situations (intelligence rather than training in this case).
No jail time. Basically I didn’t want to fight. He kept on and I used every sort of reasoning even though he was in the wrong. So when he put his hands on my gf it was a wrap. Can’t have that, especially since it was right in front of me. When it comes to falling and stuff like that, I still remember all my break falls and stuff. Its funny because I always felt that learning martial arts was teaching you how not to fight. I love training and learning the methodology, but I was never into looking for a fight or anything like that.
An old pic of me doing a Judo demo at my home town’s college (I’m the green belt throwing the other guy).
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I have done 2 years of Shotokan, 2 years of Judo and 1 year of a heavily BJJ influenced MMA school. This was about 5 years ago though. I haven’t done anything since then until about a week ago. I joined a 10th Planet Jiujitsu school (Eddie Bravo’s system) that regularly competes in “until submission” grappling tournaments and have several fighters getting ready for amateur MMA. I have to ease myself back into it as I’m completely out of shape and I’m still sore today from the class on Saturday. Down the road, assuming I can find the time and funds, I will also take wrestling and muay thai at my school.
EDIT: Didn’t see the recent question. No, I haven’t used my experience in a street fight. I always find a way to talk my way out of a fight because I hate street fights (and I’m a pussy), you never know what could happen if you lose. I would be more than happy to go at pretty much anyone in a ring though.
I never used martial arts in a real fight before, but that’s because I haven’t trained long enough to know how. It’s been years since I’ve done Aikido, and the only I’ve gotten into a fight was before I trained in that style. I won, because only because after side kicking him several times in the back he did nothing but shield himself. I didn’t stop until security came onto the bus and broke us apart.
Didn’t you use aikido on your girl cousin though? Dramatix why don’t you just take capeira and eddy gordo out since you want to be all gay and graceful
Also i have used my wrestling and tkd in a real situation. Meh. Wrestling to a takedown and just whatevers. Tkd is redic though. Side kicks to get away and stuff
This was high school. I am smart enough to stay away from conflict though
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Only the gay side of me wants to be graceful, but more likely it’s just that I want to learn how to be quicker and move better. I don’t want to be this massive giant whose only advantages are strength, reach, and size. I’m basically a stone wall, and that’s boring. Capoeira isn’t something I’d be able to do, seeing I’ll most likely not be able to do all of the crazy stuff, so typical striking arts like Karate and TKD are supposedly in my alley. However, I was told to go into Jujitsu. I just want to take Kendo/Kumdo or Aikijujutsu personally.
Just do tkd, you do the spinny kicks and you won’t get hurt at most mcdojos
Kendo lol
Kendo doesn’t suit me?
Kendo is cool (one of my good friends has been studying it his whole life). But it would be good to start somewhere more basic. What do you want to learn? Do you just want to learn self defense or do you want to learn the other aspect of martial arts? My dojo not only taught the techniques but they also instilled the principles. I suggest reading Morihei Ueshiba’s (the founder of Aikido) book The Art of Peace. Also just start reading on different martial arts. when it comes down to t, its all about discipline.
Most likely the latter, as in the other aspect of martial arts. Before passing my final today, I read some Bruce Lee quotes, and one that really helped me was, “Optimism is a faith that leads to success”. Seeing my passing grade really placed a smile on my face. I will have to look in Ueshiba’s book and see if they have it anywhere. I’ve heard that was a book written by Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”. Do you have any other book recommendations or places where I could read up for other styles?
For learning, strikes would be beneficial, though I have grown attracted to joint locks and submission holds so I would say that those are what I want to learn. Aikido seems to be the only style thus far that attracts me so far. My martial arts professor owns a dojo and teaches Tai Chi and Sanda (Chinese Boxing), but I’m learning towards Tai Chi. I tend to contradict myself because I want to learn something offense, yet want to learn Aikido. How silly of me.
While I’ve never learned Kyokushin, this test seems unnecessarily brutal. Lower belts get the crap beaten out of them, particularly in the head which is just too much. I can understand adults getting hit, but the kids getting hit seems overboard.
Seeing this video reminds me one reason why I never stayed in Shotokan for very long. It’s just to strict in movement for me.
I’ve only used it for falls in various situations. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I slipped in the shower one time and I just curled my neck to my chest without so much as a thought.
I don’t know if I’ll ever use my training for fights, but I do keep devising ways to use them. Ironically, I have this big fear of killing someone with it.
Bored as hell at work and came across this.
Can’t let a good thread like this go to waste.
This past Monday was my first time in about 5 years participating in a martial arts class. I decided to check out Tang Soo Do/Karate and see what it was about. I really liked it and was happy with the training (just because it was my first day didn’t mean anything to the instructor). I must say that spending most of my martial arts training under the Judo discipline, this is a complete 180 from what I am used to doing. I learned that I have really good punching power and now he is helping me refine it (He already gave me a small training menu for when I am not in class).
I found it funny how winded I was after the first 10 minutes. All that weight lifting and cardio, I thought I would have been in better shape. But it’s all good, I had tons of fun. Tomorrow is day two and I have to make sure I have some of these forms down.
On another note, is there anyone who does TKD? I am wanting to get better with flexibility and kicks, as well as my footwork. So anyone who knows some good training methods for footwork, then it would be greatly appreciated.
IMO, punching power + speed will come from bag work and weights really doesn’t help much with that. If you want to punch hard you need to practice punching hard, lol. Which is why I think point sparring is such a waste of time. IMO if you want good footwork you should look more toward kickboxing/boxing because TKD is too sport focused and tends to have absolutely terrible footwork. Point sparring tends to reward silly movements low power moves that will score you points but will never really hurt anyone, and they tend to leave themselves wide open because they get in the habit of not being hit after scoring a point. If you find a TKD school that kickboxes full contact, that might be a little different story, but most of the ones I have attended have been Mcdojo black belt factories that focus on point sparring. FYI I went to an ATA TKD school for 3 years in my youth before, switching over to a boxing gym made me realize how little technique for protecting my face/body I actually knew.
There’s your issue man. American Taekwondo Association sucks. They don’t teach you real Taekwondo, they teach you AMERICAN Taekwondo. I personally learned ITF Taekwondo with a bit of WTF Influence, and we learn power and technique in all kicks. We’re not here to score points, we’re here to knock a man out because he was dumb enough to fuck with us.
Not ragging on Kickboxing or taking away from it, just saying, ATA is Ass.
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