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  • Martial Arts
     OP - March 24, 2011, 02:28 PM
    Who's into it? Practice it, watch the movies, or just appreciate it?

    Here's a cliché, but I stumbled across a Bruce Lee flick when I was little and got really hooked (even to his woo-woo philosophy in his Tao of Jeet Kune Do book and started wearing Asics and all). I took up Thai boxing in the end, but bloody hell is kung fu beautiful.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF_vh8RRXoU

    Also, gotta plug the music:

    Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit (Tiger Style)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oIzXDlpetk
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #1 - March 24, 2011, 02:31 PM
    I ve done Sambo(Russian Military Martial Art) Ive started bodybuilding as well.

    I was a brown belt Karate as well, I also had many street fights in my past, but I am abit more mature now.

    Kung fu wasnt my kind of thing, I am more a simple straight fighter, I dont like the jumping around and making noises.

    Thai Boxing is all about getting hit, I wouldnt recommend it much, Try something that combines grappling like vale tudo, Brazilian Jui Jitsu,

    over 90 percent of fights end up on the floor.


  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #2 - March 24, 2011, 02:49 PM
    About 2 years of "Choi Kwang Do"
    About a year of Aikido
    A few years Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (About 5 in total I'd guess)
    About a year of vale tudo
    About 4 years Filipino knife/stick fighting
    About 6 months wrestling
    About 6 months Judo

    A lot of these overlapped obviously Smiley
    I don't come here any more due to unfair moderation.
    http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=30785
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #3 - March 24, 2011, 02:53 PM
    You did all that? You must be very experienced.

    Good on ya lad
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #4 - March 24, 2011, 02:53 PM
    I didn't say I was good at any of it Smiley
    I don't come here any more due to unfair moderation.
    http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=30785
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #5 - March 24, 2011, 02:58 PM
    A agnostic has to be careful now a days, the Sword is dying to strike our necks hahaha

    With so many years of training, you must be good at something.
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #6 - March 24, 2011, 03:02 PM
    Quote from: Pashtun on March 24, 2011, 02:58 PM
    With so many years of training, you must be good at something.


    Thinking I am hard Smiley  What I lack in ability I more than make up for in denial Smiley
    I don't come here any more due to unfair moderation.
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  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #7 - March 24, 2011, 03:04 PM
    There are pills for that.  Talk to your GP.
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #8 - March 24, 2011, 08:06 PM
    Took tae kwon do for a few months. As a kid was into Mighty Morphin Power Ranger. Watch martial art movies.
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #9 - March 24, 2011, 08:31 PM
    I'll be grading for 2nd Kyu in Jujitsu soon (purple belt). They say you don't start learning Jujitsu until you attain your black belt, so not long to go hopefully. Hope to see black belt summer of next year. Did Aikido before that for a while, tried Kendo too briefly. I also do Tai Chi most days.

    Martial arts worked wonders for me, chilled me out a lot, helped put a lot of things in perspective. Not only do I have physical confidence and fitness but also a better attitude in general. I'd recommend martial arts to anyone, regardless of temperament or physicality. It can enrich all aspects of your life, not just body conditioning. I have a great teacher, though, which is the most important thing.

    I also have a complete nerd crush on martial arts movies and culture.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #10 - March 24, 2011, 08:34 PM
    Quote from: Pashtun on March 24, 2011, 02:31 PM
    I ve done Sambo(Russian Military Martial Art) Ive started bodybuilding as well.

    I was a brown belt Karate as well, I also had many street fights in my past, but I am abit more mature now.

    Kung fu wasnt my kind of thing, I am more a simple straight fighter, I dont like the jumping around and making noises.

    Thai Boxing is all about getting hit, I wouldnt recommend it much, Try something that combines grappling like vale tudo, Brazilian Jui Jitsu,

    over 90 percent of fights end up on the floor.





    PASHTUN MARRY ME I WANNA HAVE YOUR BABIES. ALL NINE OF THEM!!!

    One of Pashtun's childhood bedtime stories:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh-QUh69MCg
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #11 - March 24, 2011, 08:34 PM

    You have all done well, grasshoppers.

    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #12 - March 24, 2011, 09:35 PM
    Quote from: Pashtun on March 24, 2011, 02:31 PM
    Try something that combines grappling like vale tudo, Brazilian Jui Jitsu,

    Dirty work, not as pretty as some of the arts, but still beautiful in its own way. You a fan of Nogueira? Strong heart and one of the hardest bastards in the world. The real life Rocky, inside and outside of the ring:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3gWV8Myosw

    "The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward."
    ~ Nogueira

    ^ Thats the kinda stuff that lights me up.
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  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #13 - March 24, 2011, 09:38 PM
    Quote from: QueenIsabel on March 24, 2011, 08:06 PM
    Took tae kwon do for a few months. As a kid was into Mighty Morphin Power Ranger. Watch martial art movies.


    ^This.

    I also went to Aichu Jiu Jitsu session and had aches and pains for about 2 weeks! Funniest part was because I was so crap at punching they recommended that I try slapping to start with. That pretty much killed my confidence.
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #14 - March 24, 2011, 09:39 PM
    Sensei Jeremy Corbell showing off some spectacular (if a little impractical) Quantum Jujitsu:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjRpTNWv7dY
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  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #15 - March 24, 2011, 09:48 PM
    Quote from: Eliphaz on March 24, 2011, 09:38 PM
    I also went to Aichu Jiu Jitsu session and had aches and pains for about 2 weeks!

    You'd love my instructor. He's like a sadistic Mr Myagi. He made me practice forward breakfalls for a month. A month of agony. I was in tears at some points, had to sleep on my side. But damn, it's a lesson I'll never forget.
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  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #16 - March 24, 2011, 09:51 PM
    I would still be doing it, but I've renounced violence unfortunately.   cool2
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #17 - March 24, 2011, 10:00 PM
    It's not violence and besides I'm a pacifist with a severe distaste for violence.

    There is nothing violent about a left right hook combo, two quick jabs, duck, body shot, right knee, left, clinch, keep kneeing, push away, go back, block low kick, fake left knee, and come in with a high kick, smack to the temple, fucker should have had his guard up and bam KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT ON THE MAT.
    BlackDog pants

    No really there is nothing violent about martial arts.
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #18 - March 24, 2011, 10:04 PM
    "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
    ~ Gandhi
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  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #19 - March 24, 2011, 10:08 PM

    I do tiger-claw, praying mantis fist, drunken master, wu tang 8 sword, snake in the monkeys fist, whirlwind kicking foot, Shaolin cobra style, and chinese burns style.
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #20 - March 24, 2011, 10:14 PM
    Your style is obsolete. My origami bonsai style is superior in every way.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #21 - March 24, 2011, 10:20 PM
    If I used my Monkey Combat style I could kick all your asses seven ways til sunday.
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #22 - March 24, 2011, 10:21 PM
    I did Viet Vo Dao for some years
    Do not look directly at the operational end of the device.
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #23 - March 24, 2011, 11:27 PM
    I can't throw a punch straight at all. One slap and I'm down on the floor.
    Fake friends flatter you. Their compliments are made up. Nasty enemies criticize you harshly. They pick on you unnecessarily. Neither of them help you improve yourself. The best critic is honest and knows you exactly and the best person you can choose to follow is someone closest to you.
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #24 - March 24, 2011, 11:41 PM
    Quote from: billy on March 24, 2011, 10:08 PM
    I do tiger-claw, praying mantis fist, drunken master, wu tang 8 sword, snake in the monkeys fist, whirlwind kicking foot, Shaolin cobra style, and chinese burns style.


    I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times
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  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #25 - March 24, 2011, 11:41 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on March 24, 2011, 10:04 PM
    "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
    ~ Gandhi


    Heh, nice. I was actually joking. Trust me, I can be violent, it just looks rather awkward. I call it the "blind man fighting away killer bees" technique.
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #26 - March 24, 2011, 11:53 PM
    I haven't done any!

    Ishina did reccomend some, but I wouldn't know where to start.

    I do have some fire in me .  bunny
    "If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #27 - March 24, 2011, 11:57 PM
    Quote from: Eliphaz on March 24, 2011, 11:41 PM
    Heh, nice. I was actually joking. Trust me, I can be violent, it just looks rather awkward. I call it the "blind man fighting away killer bees" technique.

    Nothing personal. I just wanted an excuse to post a cool quote and appear cultured.

    It's never impressive or clever to glorify violence, but it's a lucky person who goes through life without having to resort to it.

    Besides, a true martial artist walks away from a fight.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #28 - March 25, 2011, 12:34 AM
    Did Karate for a few months. A lot of fun. really gets the confidence up Smiley I wanna get back to it.


    Martial arts are good but when u need to whoop  ass the simpler the better. Anyone try Muay Thai or just plain kick boxing ?
    Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. - Voltaire
  • Re: Martial Arts
     Reply #29 - March 25, 2011, 07:17 AM
    Quote from: Ephemeral on March 24, 2011, 11:53 PM
    I haven't done any!

    Ishina did reccomend some, but I wouldn't know where to start.

    I do have some fire in me .      bunny


    ROFL

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