Martial Art's thread.

Jujitsu is better and more practical than Aikido. I took Aikido for a while. It's a little too fancy.

@seagod: Yeah I really enjoy the sense of flow/zoning out that practicing martial arts gives you. It's a great way to get outside of ones own head.

@seagod:

Which exercises are you recommending?

Muay Thai is one of my personal favorites. Also I'm trained in regular boxing as well.

Sounds like you're developing your own unique style or martial arts. Great work.

My style is based of being able to launch every attack from the same stance, but I can switch in between orthodox and southpaw.

@jagernutt: Yeah I'd add boxing to my list of Martial Arts that I would to love learn more of. The best punching power IMO of the lot.

@doofasa:

Just sign up with an MMA gym. They usually have a boxing coach in there.

@jagernutt: Yeah there are plenty of options for it in my city, it's just a matter of time/priorities at the moment.

@jagernutt:

I wana do Aikido for the dance and flow. Not for fighting.

I would Choose Judo for my 1 fighting art because it is the "Gentle Way".

@spareheadone:

@doofasa: yeah I need my martial art classes so I don't go insane from the stuff I go through on a daily basis at work.

@doofasa:

My stance that most resembles yours, would be the forward bow stance from Chinese Kempo which I have named "Plane"

@seagod:

Ah.. them kind of exersizes.

Good idea.

I major in Karate. Chidokan is the name of the style I did. It is an offshoot from Shotokan.

@spareheadone: yeah I'm goju ryu myself. Those excercises should help give your attacks an explosive power. You should also look into wing chun. It has nice close combat attacks that do good damage and it will give you the ability to shift your arms and hands faster to switch up your technique quicker.

@seagod:

The last thing I did was Go Kan Ryu which has some Goju kata in it. I left coz I met a woman. Heheh

Thanks I will do the Wing Chun practice : D

@spareheadone: make sure you find a reliable wing chun teacher that isn't scared to leave tradition

my preferred martial art is like - Hee yaaa then throwing potatoes everywhere.

@doofasa: Yes I can walk, but yes I'm in a lot of pain and junk. Pretty much put an end to my martial arts and hand to hand combat training though. It's alright, I had a good run. I'm sorry for your wife though, I hope she's getting some good physical therapy.

Yes, though I wasn't taught it from MT (I did learn some great improving techniques from it later on though) since I hadn't learned much formal boxing, and honestly I have a pretty weak punch...I've trained my punches endlessly there's just something physical about me that makes my punches not have that much power...elbows became my "power blows" go to. I love them. Your elbows are also one of the three parts of your arm that can still be used as a weapon if broken (assuming you can stand the pain...which is a big assumption).

When I was in the Ega mountains of Japan, I became a ninja. I was chosen by the Ega clan to spy on the Shintaro Samurai who are hired to protect high profile political figures. I spied on them but I couldn't get in to their office to find out who they were protecting. I had to infiltrate them.

Step one- join a karate dojo and practice until your Taijutsu style is masked.

Step two- join a kendo dojo

Step three- get noticed by the Samurai scouts.

Step four- accept your offer to join the Samurai.

This took me four weeks to achieve.

I finally gained access to the inner sanctum of the samurai grounds. Training was fantastic but I quit all that once my mum bought me an Xbox for Christmas.

Once day I'm gonna travel Down Under and just smack you WITH an Xbox. ;)

did you hold your punches after punching instead of just bouncing off them? Just bouncing off gives you very weak punches instead of pushing into the target which gives you strong punches.

Oh dude, You don't understand. I trained for years with some very tremendous punchers. Guys who could LITERALLY knock people out with one or two punches. Boxers, Army Special Forces, Corrections Officers...guys who KNEW how to punch and how to TEACH people how to punch. I know the techniques, follow through, recoil, snaps, hip drives, everything. I mean I can throw OKAY punches, but I just can't hit very well, I can do the techniques right and I wore myself sore and ragged training and practicing. It was more or less concluded that there's something off physically, possibly my spine or back muscles, that won't let me throw a really good punch, However, I can throw a devastating elbow and I can kick a hole in you. (Okay, rather I should say I COULD...lol I tried to CHAMBER a side kick a few years ago and I felt the fusion I had...the surgery I had to fuse three of my vertebra together...lock and grind and it felt like a lightning bolt struck me in the small of my back lol so yeah, I couldn't properly kick a hole in a donut now)

Fortunately what I lacked in punches, I made up for in speed, grip techniques, locks, chokes, forearms, elbows, knees, kicks, and frankly VERY dirty stuff I won't get into because I won't be responsible for disseminating that kind of thing to kids and casual people to either seriously injure others without REALLY good reason or to get themselves arrested.

@heroup2112: maybe try making up for weak blows with precision. If you can throw punches with good accuracy into weak parts then you can open up the opponent to perform the more powerful blows that take a bit more windup.

@spareheadone: @seagod: @heroup2112:

Some people are just naturally disposed/talented in different ways. I've always been a good striker/wrestler. But more in the classical sense. I've never submitted anybody or actually performed anything too fancy in a real fight besides my basic boxing/Muay Thai and Wrestling skills. I think my punch power is around 800 psi.

@jagernutt: mine is stranger. I'm great at adapting martial art techniques that I see from fights online or in my classes and even martial art movies but sometimes when I'm being taught something it takes me a while to learn it but I can pickup on techniques just from seeing them outside of a lesson just fine.

@seagod:

I grew up fighting. I've taken about 7 different Martial Arts through my life. But I'm still not all that technically skilled. I do decent with Muay Thai/Boxing and Wrestling partly because my basic adept fighting skills seem to be similar in the first place. Hit harder and overpower my opponent. The technical skills I've learned are really just a supplement to that.

Well natural aptitude plays a bigger part than most people sometimes like to think. Like I said, I've only seriously studied about five or six different systems and only hold a belt in one. Most of what I know/knew was from just constantly either being in (almost all stupid except the ones when I was a Corrections Officer, and they were mostly still stupid because the inmates were just stupid but it was part of the job) fights or sparring and learning from different people. Believe it or not, teaching people will help you learn too, it helps solidify what you know and it helps you understand what YOU better in an odd way. If you're going to teach someone though it's important to be a GOOD teacher though, that's important and a different discipline than just learning to be a good practitioner yourself. Doesn't mean you have to be a formal teacher, just...yanno...you teach someone what you know while someone teaches you what they know...it can get very competitive and become a pissing contest very quickly. Best to make sure not to let it on your end is mainly what I'm trying to say.

I'm glad YOU have the power to hit hard and over power your opponents because they DEFINITELY was not an advantage I ever had lol. My successes came from being quick, having exceptional timing, ruthlessness, accuracy, and being able survive longer than my opponents. Sadly, I know for a fact that I can take punishment. How I typically, won however, was striking first, effectively, in a surprising, demoralizing and shocking way, and capitalizing on it, and ending the fight brutaly and quickly. If I let things turn into a "slugging" match, which I almost NEVER did...odds were good I would probably lose.

Yep. Exactly what I meant about people having different strengths and weaknesses.

Yup. On the nose.

My System has 16 Technical Series.

8 Arm Series....Pendulum- Bar- Buck- Hammer- Gong- Wing- Hook- Horizon.

8 Leg Series...Whip- Ram- Snap- Sweep- Plane- Blade- Buckle- Lash.

White belts begin by learning the arms as blocks and the legs as stances.

Good stuff, bro.

My first of 8 leg series.

WHIP

STANCE

Front Stance (Zenkutzudache from Karate)

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BALANCE (realising how moving through your stances can disrupt your opponents balance)

Turning Knee Buckle (Imagine the 3/4 turn from Teakyoku Shodan your knee or foot disrupts the opponent you are turning to face)

Rear Cross Step (ready to turn 180 back into zenkutz

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JAM

Reap Jam (this is a knee strike. It is the forward motion of the leg before the backward motion of a reap)

Forward Step (simply moving forward in Zenkutz to jam opponent in a number of ways)

Knee (whip leg check, also can be thought of as the beginning leg raise of meawshigeri (roundhouse))

RoundHouse (using maewashigeri as a jam)

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REAP

Backward Step (I have taken two boxers/kickboxers out with this judo technique. It is a forceful wound up zenkutz back step. One dude from Zen Do Kai nearly knocked himself out when his head hit the floor.)

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BLOCK

Reap Block (use knee kick as groin block)

Rear Cross Step (use as groin block)

Knee (leg check or block)

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STRIKE

Reap Strike (knee kick hits with ball of foot)

Knee (maewashi knee)

RoundHouse Ball (maewashigeri hits with ball of foot)

RoundHouse Flat (maewashigeri hits with top of foot)

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FALL

Strike BreakFalls (breakfalls from judo. Throw out one of the above strikes and then fall as though you were jammed and clinched. Prep for ground or stand efficiently.)

Balance BreakFalls ( fall after having your balance taken. learning awareness of your weak points.

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GRAPPLE

Hip Wheel Throw (Zenkutz (karate) Hipwheel Judo to mount or whatever)

Reap (reap while maintaining a grapple)

Sorry to hear that mate, and thanks for the kinds words. The happy/sad irony for my wife is that she was a Physio Therapist, so she does get the top level care but can't practice it herself anymore. Life goes on though.

Couldn't agree more with this. Natural aptitude and strengths/weaknesses are such a key factor in Martial Arts.

Are you from Australia too? I'm from Perth.

@doofasa:

yeah Im from South Australia. I get all your weather.

Hahaha!!! Did I suck you in for at least a half of the story??

lol No, but you still need to get hit with the XBox for about half the things you say. ;)

Muay Thai is great. The kickboxing I do in MMA class is basically muay thai, in that we throw pretty much everything muay thai guys throw. But it's a different sport, and so the priorities are different. Sacrificing power and leverage so as to not leaving yourself vulnerable to takedowns is the biggie. It's the same with boxing too.

@doofasa: If you don't mind me asking, is it a herniated disc or a broken vertebrae? Back injuries are the worst, so you have my full sympathies.

Anyone here watch ONE Championship? The recent Heart of the Lion card was pretty cool. Best thing is there's no Pay Per View, they stream it on their YouTube channel and their app free.

I'll try to work on a black belt.

@nitelite:

What do you do? Tai chi?

@jagernutt: Karate.

As an eighth dan of Goju Ryu and a thirteenth dan of Shotokan, I had to spar against the whole Dojo at once. The juniors were easy, I gyakazukied little Jimmy so hard that he cried and went home with his mum immediately. I busted lil Sally's teeth. The intermediates were kind of easier as they are generally bigger targets. One boy I maegeried and put his ribs into his lungs. We laughed about that afterward....well I laughed...you should have seen him on the floor groaning. There were 58 black belts in all. I mewashigeried one black belt and knocked 40 of them over. Then I just started performing my teakyoko kata and every time anyone got near me they got smashed by my extra loud kiai strikes and blocks.

Finally it was me and my master a 34 dan. We faced off and to cut along story short I let him beat me, because I just didn't feel like winning and plus my favourite tv show was going to start soon.

@spareheadone: Is this a copypasta?

@leem724:

No. This really happened that I wrote this.

I am also an ninth dan in kokoshin Kai and Cobra Kai..

@jagernutt:

😂