Year Round The Martial Arts thread

[vanguardx]

I boxed for 4 years, and attended my uncles Shotokan karate dojo every other summer when I visited California. As for boxing, I believe anyone can do it, so saying you can do it is no big deal because whateva', but I've trained under Emanuel Stewart himself; and for those who don't know, he's trained 2 heavy-weight champions and countless other famous boxers. He has a gym in the middle of Detroit, MI. called Kronks Boxing Gym. He's a really goofy old man. But tough to please for sure.

Anyway, Kronks has closed actually this February, Emanuel wanted to retire and he donated the Gym to the goverment which turned it into a rec-center for a a couple months but then decided to close it to renovate it into a Library. Sad, really....

I have a 75lbs. boxing bag, speed bag, and jump ropes at home so I like to train a bit a few times a week, and I workout a few hours a day, 5 days a week at another Gym i'm a member at: Lifetime Fitness.

 

[white silver]

Wing Chun, although I haven't practiced for a very long time, I began taking lessons again, this time with some grappling, and other street self defence techniques

 

[eQuek]

3 years of aikido and about a year of kung-fu
I quit aikido because we never did anything new and kung-fu because I got bored :/

 

[rabiel]

i have practiced Bujinkan for about three years too, my grade is 6th kyu
but as Bibichan wrote earlier it's not about the grade's personally i think it's about, but the feeling,
calmness or the amount of controll you have over your opponent.
That is what bujinkan is for me anyways, controll and also as great-master hatsumi said "bujinkan is the martial art of distance".

 

[Verena]

Ninjutsu on and off since I was ten and kickboxing for about 9 months.

 

[Daioten]

Martial Arts!

Do you practice martial arts? Talk about Styles, weapons, Ranks, or favorite Martial Arts Practitioners.

Personally, I have a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, I've also Studied Karate, Jujutsu, Kung Fu and Boxing. My preferred martial arts weapons are Nunchucka. I'm also a big fan of Japanese swords and I hope to study Kendo when I go to Japan next semmester.

 

[Ichimaru Gin n Tonic]

Re: Martial Arts!

I have a black belt in runkido. It's an ancient form of martial art. When u see the enemy, u start taking faster steps. If the opponent gets closer, u concentrate on your strength while thinking: "Run, kiddo!" And so you ran...

Just kidding, I used to study aikido for several years. Nowadays I practice martial arts using joysticks.

 

[Aimoo]

Re: Martial Arts!

Wushu for acrobatics as i am a street tricker (Matrix kinda stuff flips, kicks etc) and an acrobat so it helps alot.
Tai Chi to help with my Qi and Qigoong
Kung Fu for an understanding in old martialarts
kick boxing and Muai Thai for practical street fighting
thats all the martialarts im doing at the moment used to do tae kwon do a while back and absaloutly hate karate.
Sorry :S

 

[lee-nus]

Re: Martial Arts!

I have a black belt in runkido. It's an ancient form of martial art. When u see the enemy, u start taking faster steps. If the opponent gets closer, u concentrate on your strength while thinking: "Run, kiddo!" And so you ran...

funny you should say that, as 'runk' or 'runka' means 'to jack off' in swedish... so what you're practicing is nothing other than "the way of the masturbating hand" or something! xDxD[br]Posted on: June 20, 2006, 03:52:35 AM_________________________________________________Daioten: when i lived in japan (moved home to sweden, three months ago) i practiced kendo.
other than that, im a black belt hapkido instructor, and i've participated in the haidong gumdo world championships... sorry, couldnt resist... but it IS true...
my favorite weapons to practice with are bo, nunchaku and whatever japanese swords i come across...

 

[august roa]

Re: Martial Arts!

my absolute fave is the tai chi sword

 

[Predator]

Merged two identical threads.
If it's possible, before making a new topic, check, if there isn't one already made.
For that purpose we have a "Search" function on the action menu.

 

[Daioten]

Sorry, i actually did try searching it, but i didn't see the thread.

 

[white silver]

Merged two identical threads.
If it's possible, before making a new topic, check, if there isn't one already made.
For that purpose we have a "Search" function on the action menu.

The problem with the "Search" function is that it doesn't give the exact results that we want. Now I'm trying to look for the comic section, the search didn't help at all!

 

[nixuboy]

Karate fo 6-7 years. I quit when I was 13 (I quess.. can't really member that well ^^')
so it's been for a while since I last time do some ass kicking
At that time I got upper bluebelt, but I got bored fo doing that same stuff every day.. So jeah.. I quit it

 

[conan]

Mind Body and Kick ass moves, Martial arts madness on a tv series.

This is a martial arts entertainment program presented by chris crudelli, a kungfu sifu himself, it has the weirdest things you will ever see or experience in the world of martial arts.


http://www.budovideos.com/shop/customer/product.php?productid=21648&cat=&page=1
This is the description of everything on the series, read the related titles to know what your going to see in the links I provided.


• Japanese:

Enshin ryu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJmQXqXpuEA

Kiai:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FZjHAijc0k

ogasawara ryu Archery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InKmjTJzUGs

Komagawa kaishin-ryu- master Tetsuzan Kuroda:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InlQtTMK5Ys

Ninjutsu- soke hatsumi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhhkgMu7adk

shintaido:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61YjdHOzPIg

samurai hidden weapons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i9jCw3Uxbc

• Bei jing:

Dim Mak ( death touch):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs8mblcgTsk

• Hong Kong:

Praying Mantis Kung Fu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdlvgIc5hgk

• Taiwanese:

Hard Qi Gung ( chi kung ):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZST7CE7v-M

Taiwanese SWAT team:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8qMZqMJpyI

• Phillipino:

Pekiti Tirsia Kali:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXfZ9C9vJso

Balitok Escrima:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81xAaa4dCc4

Black Eagle Escrima:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIt2NI54qBA&mode

Doce Pares:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MvarVr0ouU&mode

well this is the ones I could collect, if you want to see more you can buy the DVD of the series, or look for more on youtube.

Please inform me if there are any mistakes or any links that don’t work and I’ll od my best to fix them.

Have fun watching these.


this a modification, I've got contributions on an art called juko kai, thanks to whitesilver for providing the information on this and one of the links ( modifiefd on 23/november/2006)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1416IQdci6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-5SVkgRTVs this link is in japanese but is worth the watch anyway.



[nami] Merged here. [/nami]

 

[WinterLion]

Re: Mind Body and Kick ass moves, Martial arts madness on a tv series.

This is a lot... it's going to take me a while to get through it all, so I'm going to post a thank you first. I'll post comments after I've had a chance to go through it all.

 

[conan]

Re: Mind Body and Kick ass moves, Martial arts madness on a tv series.

This is a lot... it's going to take me a while to get through it all, so I'm going to post a thank you first. I'll post comments after I've had a chance to go through it all.

take your time, they are quite good and informative, at the same time they are entertaining so dont rush through them and see them at your own time, each video is between 2-5 minute long, could be a bit more at some points.

have fun watching them.

 

[kyubisharingan]

Re: Mind Body and Kick ass moves, Martial arts madness on a tv series.

i took Isshin RYu a while bak....but i was taken out[br]Posted on: October 26, 2006, 03:44:02 PM_________________________________________________I wish i could protect my balls like that dude. [br]Posted on: October 26, 2006, 03:53:21 PM_________________________________________________DAMN!!! i saw another, and an old dude was pretty buff. AND he can move HEAVY objects with

Spoiler

his "wang"

 

[kiddo7]

Re: Mind Body and Kick ass moves, Martial arts madness on a tv series.

hmm... am I the only one seeing parralels here? Does not the dim mak look strikingly similar to the hyuuga's Juken? And the way how the shin taido practitioners can project killing intent does not that sound a lot like the time orochimaru attacked team 7 during the second part of the chunin exam? and let us continue the analogy shall we?

This might be a little bit of a streach but I can see how using Komagawa kaishin-ryu- as a basis you could extrapolate to explain such phenomena as shyunpo in bleach.

 

[conan]

Re: Mind Body and Kick ass moves, Martial arts madness on a tv series.

I wish i could protect my balls like that dude.

dont we all

DAMN!!! i saw another, and an old dude was pretty buff. AND he can move HEAVY objects with

Spoiler

his "wang"

yeah I saw that one, there are many more in the series but I put those I thought are most interesting to people here.

hmm... am I the only one seeing parralels here? Does not the dim mak look strikingly similar to the hyuuga's Juken? And the way how the shin taido practitioners can project killing intent does not that sound a lot like the time orochimaru attacked team 7 during the second part of the chunin exam? and let us continue the analogy shall we?

This might be a little bit of a streach but I can see how using Komagawa kaishin-ryu- as a basis you could extrapolate to explain such phenomena as shyunpo in bleach.

I dont think its a secret that mangaka actually borrow from martial arts, and kishimoto openly admits that juken is a copy of hakkeshou, hakkeshou is the japanese name for the chinese internal art BA GUA, which is similar to tai chi or hsing yi chinese internal martial arts.

hope you guys enjoyed seeing the videos.