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Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 7:45:38 PM

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So anyone else do involved in martial arts? My father was a martial arts instructor and I spent most of my childhood bouncing from dojo to dojo.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 7:53:29 PM

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Freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling and Jiu Jitsu. Spent about 13 years competing and then coaching. Now, I have no knees.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 7:57:28 PM

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Ouch. That's why I strongly prefer arts that let me remain standing, although grappling is a weakness of mine.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 8:09:26 PM

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I've wanted to learn... just never made the moves to join a class.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 8:10:57 PM

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Ouch. That's why I strongly prefer arts that let me remain standing, although grappling is a weakness of mine.

If you depend totally on striking, you won't remain standing long LOL.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 8:12:24 PM

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I've wanted to learn... just never made the moves to join a class.

Then start. Tae Kwon Do is great for flexibility and cardio.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 8:23:36 PM

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A dash of Tae Kwon Do, a week of Aikido, a couple of a "San soo" style of Kung Fu, and a few months of Choy Li Fut Kung Fu. I'm not very flexible these days and though Choy Li Fut was my favorite so far, it was too much of a hybrid. I'm looking for a decent Wing Chun school and curious about Tai Chi. I'd like to follow in Bruce Lee's footsteps.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 10:01:07 PM

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A dash of Tae Kwon Do, a week of Aikido, a couple of a "San soo" style of Kung Fu, and a few months of Choy Li Fut Kung Fu. I'm not very flexible these days and though Choy Li Fut was my favorite so far, it was too much of a hybrid. I'm looking for a decent Wing Chun school and curious about Tai Chi. I'd like to follow in Bruce Lee's footsteps.

Jeet Kune Do was Lee's style but good luck finding a decent instructor.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 10:20:08 PM

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Jeet Kune Do was Lee's style but good luck finding a decent instructor.

JKD was the style he created, but the styles he was taught originally were Tai Chi and Wing Chun Kung Fu.

Finding an instructor here is easy. There's one right down the highway. But Wing Chun classes (in the main school I've found) are at weird times and don't mesh with my schedule.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 10:21:50 PM

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Must be something to have fucking CREATED a martial art style. Too bad he died so young. Could you imagine if he had lived and had a whole brood like the Gracies of Brazil?

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 10:22:28 PM

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I know a bit of tai kwon do and street fighting. But, I also carry a gun.
If I were going to join a school I'd go for Krav Magra. (sp?)
That looks like the absolute best! The Israeli Defense Forces use it.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 10:25:09 PM

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Must be something to have fucking CREATED a martial art style. Too bad he died so young. Could you imagine if he had lived and had a whole brood like the Gracies of Brazil?

Most MMA fighters regard him as the father of modern MMA.

Though, to be more accurate, he would say his style -- JKD -- wasn't a style at all. It is commonly called the "style of no style." It was always meant to augment a style, not be one on its own. That's one of the main reasons he's regarded how he is in the MMA world. His influence is still felt heavily even today.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 10:26:41 PM

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I know a bit of tai kwon do and street fighting. But, I also carry a gun.
If I were going to join a school I'd go for Krav Magra. (sp?)
That looks like the absolute best! The Israeli Defense Forces use it.

When I was skydiving, one of the guys that jumped with us was ex Israeli special forces. Nasty lil bastage too. Fun to spar with. I think I STILL have fucking bruises from that.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 10:28:46 PM

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I know a bit of tai kwon do and street fighting. But, I also carry a gun.
If I were going to join a school I'd go for Krav Magra. (sp?)
That looks like the absolute best! The Israeli Defense Forces use it.

Krav Maga Was on my list too. However it's purely for defense. One of its main tenents is causing disabling damage to an attacker with minimal damage sustained by the user. It also focuses on using everyday items as weapons in a pinch.

It sounds (and is) effective for self-defense, but I wanted an effective art that also has beautiful movements.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 10:30:36 PM

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I know a bit of tai kwon do and street fighting. But, I also carry a gun.
If I were going to join a school I'd go for Krav Magra. (sp?)
That looks like the absolute best! The Israeli Defense Forces use it.

, but I wanted an effective art that also has beautiful movements.

Tai Chi for this. It's almost like a dance instead of defense.

Great for flexibility maintenence as you get older too.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 10:37:17 PM

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Tai Chi for this. It's almost like a dance instead of defense.

Great for flexibility maintenence as you get older too.

That's why I want to follow in Lee's footsteps. Start with Tai Chi until I'm more in shape, then move on to Wing Chun for the pretty, yet effective defense ability.

The other "dance-like" art that is effective was used by the "good guy" version of Jet Li's character in "The One." It's called Baguazhang. You can really see the "dance" nature during the final fight scene.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/23/2011 10:41:59 PM

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I've done judo and ju-jitsu in my teens and twenties, but now my joints find it just too stressful.

Instead I do tai chi - it's my way of maintaining flexibility and meditating while moving.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/24/2011 2:52:02 AM

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Studied karate as a kid. Tai Chi and Tae Kwon Do as an adult.
The no style style is brought up in a tongue
in cheek way by Bruce Lee's character in
Enter the Dragon.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/24/2011 4:55:18 AM

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The no style style is brought up in a tongue
in cheek way by Bruce Lee's character in
Enter the Dragon.

That may be, but it's also in his book and interviews on the subject. One of his more famous interviews is one in which he talks about being "like water," as water can adapt to fill any shape, yet if it hits you, it will hurt.

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I have not invented a "new style," composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from "this" method or "that" method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds. Remember that Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which to see "ourselves". . . Jeet Kune Do is not an organized institution that one can be a member of. Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.

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RE: Martial Arts - 11/24/2011 5:30:44 AM

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Six years of Hapkido and then four years of USMC h2h followed by two years of MCMAP

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