I have been into martial arts my whole life, I started taking Karate at age 7. Then when I was 12 I took up Jeet kun do and ever since have indulged myself in several fighting styles. Jeet kun do is still my favorite mostly due to the philosophy involved. Absorb what is useful and reject what is useless. It's good to know how to take care of yourself in a fight, you never know when some guy is going to try and jump you or start shit or whatever.

I took some classes when i was about 6 or so then i quit because i moved. I stayed with my cousin over the summer and he takes classes so i went to 3 of them for the hell of it. Its pretty fun but i wouldnt do it all the time.

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I agree, it's good to know how to take care of yourself in a fight.

I'm not into martial arts, my older sister is a teacher though at a gym, I don't know exactly what she teaches, but she did learn a lot of Arasaka-Te, Ninjutsu and specialized in Choi Li Fut. I think she mostly teaches karate and basic judo for kids.
it does keep her in shape and shit, she's 26 but looks way younger. I know girls here age that just look like shit, I guess it's a good thing to sport anyways.
I guess it never interested me that much, allways too busy and shit. school, bands, friends, girl, that shit. at a younger age I just didn't give a damn because I was allways big for my age. But yeah, now that I look back, I should have done at least something.

drinking beer on a daily basis and sitting my ass down in a car doesn't do any good for my shape. I really started to notice it when I passed 20. now I'm just breaking down, haha.

i took tae kwon do for a long time i tought myself how to use the nunchucku really well, then for some reason i started getting chubby even though i was working out almost every day, and doing hundreds of pushups a week, so i quit cause i got to lazy....yea it sucked, and it was weird, but i can still kick ass with nunchucks

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Thats odd. I just basicly sit around and eat all day and i dont gain any weight at all. I try to do about 20 push ups everynight and i play the drums alot so that must have something to do with it.

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i used to back in the day, when i was like 8 or somethin.

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I used to watch the tv show Kung Fu all the time...does that count?

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only if you still remember some of those badass moves!

I took karate lessons when I was seven... but I quit after two weeks because it was boring as hell.

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I took karate lesson at 8, and then realised it was bullshit for kids, and quit. (It was also really boring, and we never got to fight) Then did Judo, quit that.
A year ago I started Jiu-Jitsu, that was pretty cool, and from the first lesson I was taught how to kill someone (heh, but I wasn't paying attention! Damn!) I quit that, and now I found European Martial arts, basically learning from fighting manuscripts from the 15/16th century.

Grasshopper...... Nawww, I don't remember any moves except for the episode when he walks on rice paper...oOOooo

EDIT: Well, and there's also those "gay" moves at the end of Karate Kid III. Man, that would be funny as hell if I pulled that shit on a bully

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I don't know kung fu but I know crazy! lol

Everyone should just learn how to play hockey a la Canadian style.

I done some karate fir about a year. I got to orange belt [about half way] but just for the record, I could have made it to blackbelt in a year and a half

I did Taekwondo for 5 years when I was younger, I got to Cho Dan Bo (Its balck belt for juniors, a Red Belt with black stripes, they don't let young'uns have a black belt where I did it). I was state champion at one stage in my age/weight division, but that means fuck all. I did beat the shit out of an albino to get there though, that was funny. Except, unknown to me at the time, he was national champ and had a nasty spinning backkick. Still beat him though.
But for fighting in real life, Taekwondo barely helps at all. Mainly because most of my fights since then have been drunken boxing matches with friends where we'd wrap our jumpers around our fists.

Fuck That. Australian Ice Hockey is the way to go. I went to a state match between Victoria and NSW about 18 months ago. The fight started when one player reached over and hit another player in the head with his stick while they were both in their respective sinbins. There were fights in and out of the rink, and my dad and I were watching joyfully, about 2 metres away from the action, eating our fried dim sims. Every single player was fighting, all in all 6 players were suspended for 15 matches or more. A couple of players even used sticks, it was really violent. But awesome. Amateur Hockey Brutality!!!

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I'll agree with that, Amateur hockey does have the best fights lol.

Well as i am a short girl who looks vunerable i decided to take up karate at age 8 i think. i did it for 4 years and reached my brown belt two black tabs aka one off my black belt. and i never even got my last certificate because i left because my favourite sensei was fired for a stupid reason apparently he was hitting a student too hard during sparing. The thing that really bothered me was that once i joined all of my sisters wanted to be like me and join too. (i have that impression on people ) I wanted to look at other martial arts but moving to different countries and school kind of disrupted it.
But now i can at least take care of myself

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I'll say. You sure can beat the shit out of andrew!

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she can kick 10 times more arse than i can

I took tae kwon do for 13 years, and was taught Judo from my grandfather after he came back from vietnam, and yeah it feels good to know you have intelligence when it comes to a real fight.

Honestly though, i've never really used any moves in a fight. I've been in 3 real fights provoked by anger and in those 2 of them I only used a block to catch his fist and then I slammed his elbow joint with my forearm, and the other one I punched someone in the stomach before he could move. but the last time I did actually use a move where someone from the side was coming in with a low punch and I moved a little to the side and kinda propelled myself off his momentum and struck him with an open palm right in the solar plexus, THAT was when I noticed my training had become second nature.

but all in all, I'd say when it comes to reaction time and how I analyze someone's movements, I would say its because of karate,most definitely

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hehe, i don't feel i need to have training, no amount of training could beat the moves i picked up off deMANU in far_beyond_sayn's "punch-in-the-head" thread. (headbutt, then smack his face into the concrete a few times) or headbutt then, while he's on his stomach, pull his head up and hold it, thus leaving his neck exposed, but i'll merely make him beg for mercy, demand an apology then walk off.

me a tuff little kidlet-ski. :fists and ridiculous facial expression:

Well when it comes to being ballistic its pretty hard to keep an insane guy from jumping on you

Considering I hate 13+ years of training, I think its funny I barely use it.
I've got this thing where I pretty much just make up my own stuff on the fly, but it seems to work, I spar a lot with my friend ( Ie: kick the shit out of each other ) and whenever he gets close to me its pretty much over cause I have a lot of, by nature, force to my moves.
He likes to grab my face and throw me though lol. he's a big guy.

My favorite thing to do is pretend I have no idea whats going on so someone thinks i'd be an easy target.
being tough has its qualities though, being able to take a hit to the head with a bat will really pay off when they dont understand why you didn't go down.

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I took martial arts for about 4 years, and then I quit. I was gonna earn my brown belt, and I decided to quit because I got sick of it and thought "Hey...why take martial arts when I can just be a complete pascifist". So then I quit and I can't fight any bit anymore, lol.

I like to pretend I know drunken boxing.

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I didn't read any posts here but the first one. But I'll say this... DRAGON is one of my favorite movies and I love the fucking culture. I keep telling myself I'm gonna learn the shit but the closest I've got is some Tai Chi. I fucking dig Yoga too. It's pretty fucking cool and makes me feel...I dunno -- chipper and shit in the morning . Oh well, I have four sons, would love for them to learn martial arts. If nothing else because they can kick some ass when someone at school inevitably fucks with them... as they did with me. Ever hit a guy with braces in the mouth? FUN! Well that's the highlight of my high school fight club experience. I can tell more 'bout my fight experiences, but first.. anyone else have some fight experiences to share???

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Judo. Really funny to throw your opponents into the wall(though we never do that).

I spend 12 years of my life doing fighting sports

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I was in karate for six years until last year.I got up to a 2nd degree black belt before i quit.

i train mixed martial arts,i do it once a week so im not that gung ho about it. muay thai,ju-jitsu,wrestling greco roman style, all i have to say about it is anyone taking normal karate or kickboxing should learn a grapple technique at some point, judo is excellent, ju-jitsu for ground game,greco roman good for stand up clinches and throws,takedowns, aikido is a little light but definately effective. i took strip mall style kempo for years when i was young, its a good starting point but karate never prepares you well when you're on the ground and the sparing they usually do is way too light, you gotta learn how to take hits and keep going. i punched out a junior blackbelt with a wild overhand left hook at 12, never reterned to the strip mall, took aikido for awhile,now im training for free so i get beatup or choked out every sunday

Muay Thai, BJJ and wrestling is a fugging potent combination.

What is "strip mall style"? Never heard of it. Sounds kind of... well, gay.

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shopping centers in the suburbs where there will be a little karate dojo, sometimes inside of malls, usually run by guys who are out of shape,dont really fight or compete in anything full-contact without riot gear on, who teach ornate chinese kung fu/karate that has little to no application to a street fight. some are better than others, most of them are shit, ive just started my training a few months ago, im still a beginner

There seems to be some vague correlation between Martial Arts and heavy metal ... when you learn that incidentally, your long-haired black metal friend can not only match you in consumption of alchoholic beverages but also high-kick a beer can off the top of your head.


I took Brazilian ju-jitsu, American Kickboxing and Boxing.

i took it last year for a couple of monthsbought all this boxing shit then i missed it 3 days in a row from not being on time so i dint go then iw as to embarrased to go so i said fuck it and all that boxing shit is in my moms storage

We Azns are born with these skills.

what got me back into martial arts was watching pride fc and ufc. guys like kasushi sakuraba,royce gracie,antonio nogiera are kinda the inspiration, ju-jitsu/wrestling masters who dont take growth hormones or steriods and look like fucking neaderthals<they usually beat guys that do>

I took a lesson in Judo once, but I found it to be very homosexual. I don't like putting another man's arm between my legs and squeezing tightly.

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sounds like an armbar joint lock your judo instructor was trying to teach you, most joint locks, submission choke moves involves you being awkwardly close to your opponent, its the nature of the game. those types of moves are a last resort when your outwieghed and outclassed on the stand-up. as homosexual as it seems, an armbar will ruin an elbow joint permenantly, the guy would need pins and a rod placed in to have something resembling an arm after that

i dont go to any martial arts classes. I learnt all the shit i need to know from the teenage mutant hero turtles, He-man, Thunder Cats, Biker Mice From Mars, WWF , i ve learnt the sacred ninja turtles kick lol

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Holy shit watch this! I wished I could do at least half of that stuff.

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They performed martial arts?!....

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I am trained in the art of Bar Brawl

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Who was your instructor?

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Master Dad.

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well not quite but they did perform drunken rockstar fighting

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I kill for fun.

Shut up, dumb ass.

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Muay Thay for 10 years. then i just left. i got tired of throwing elbows at a sand bag.

I Kill For Thrills..... (wasn't that a tour or something??)


I've heard that Dave Mustaine is a black belt, but never heard him mention it in interviews or anything like that. True, not true?

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Dave Mustain reminds me of my aunt when she used to listen to 80's hair metal....

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And what the fuck is that supposed to mean exactly??

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lol, calm now.

Dave does have black belts. I would want him on my side if I ever had to fight, for sure. He just doesn't brag about anything really. He also has a college degree and owns many businesses. His wife breeds $100,000 horses ect...

Dave is a very driven person. He doesn't need metal music but that is what he loves.

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Um, he reminds me of my aunt when she used to be into hair metal?....

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I have been into several types of martial arts for several years. Taught by a guy who beats us with a stick if we mess up. no wonder there is usually only about 7 people in my class.... his name is T.R. mclanahan. He founded a lot of martial arts in the united states and teaches the combat system, as oppossed to the american sport system. I know Judo, ju jitsu, karate, tai kwon do, and aikido.


They all rock hardxcore

Fuck you all! Monkey is the only true arse kicking biped that there has ever been.

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I've been training in Taekwondo for 11 years. Currently, I'm a 2nd dan black belt.

I've been compiling a guide to Taekwondo. I hope you like it.

www.squidoo.com/taekwondoguide

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