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cross_trainer
07-30-2007, 02:48 PM
There seem to be several on here who learn and/or compete in various martial arts and combat sports...everything from conventional MMA to Taijutsu. So...what martial arts do you do, and have you done in the past? What do you think of them?
doefler182
07-30-2007, 02:48 PM
boxing
wrestling
judo
Dostoevsky
07-30-2007, 02:50 PM
Just Muay Thai and western Boxing.
Both are great.
I think I am slightly better at Western Boxing.
I'd like to learn the ground game like in sambo or BJJ, but there are no gyms in my area at all.
alewaboy52
07-30-2007, 04:29 PM
boxing and jiu jitsu
Amsterdam
07-30-2007, 04:39 PM
Taijutsu
Krav Maga
Swiss Military Combatives
Jiu Jutsu(traditional)
Boxing
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu(recently started training in it)
younghypnotiq
07-30-2007, 04:40 PM
Boxing, wrestling(3 basic types), kickboxing(K-1 style), my freinds taught me ghetto boxing, extreme boxing from tapes, and litle 52s. i want to learn a little crazy monkey boxing.
ravtrav
07-30-2007, 04:58 PM
Wreslted For 7 Years
And When To 45 Classes Of Bjj
Amsterdam
07-30-2007, 05:12 PM
Boxing, wrestling(3 basic types), kickboxing(K-1 style), my freinds taught me ghetto boxing, extreme boxing from tapes, and litle 52s. i want to learn a little crazy monkey boxing.
You really annoy me with your material.
younghypnotiq
07-30-2007, 05:15 PM
y? not a wrst;ling fan?
ufoalf
07-30-2007, 05:15 PM
3 years wrestling.
8 months of BJJ now, 3 times a week. Its a college club so its not official or anything.
Went to couple of MMA practices but they were at 8pm... so i never had the time to fully commit.
Did all kinds of kiya martial arts when i was little dont even remember what they were called. One was Tae Kwon Do.
Shpion
07-30-2007, 05:34 PM
At the age 11-12 was on a Judo team, participated in some regional comptetitions, but was not quite succesful. From age 19-22, as I was an infantry man in the Israeli military practiced Krav Maga and was trained in Kick-Boxing by a good buddy of mine who was a silver medalist in Europe. Now I am too old to do any of the above.
Raggamuffin
07-31-2007, 08:01 AM
I did judo as a kid, boxing as an juvie and adult and muay thai as an adult
Half-Dane
07-31-2007, 08:29 AM
First Taekwon-Do then Budo-Jutsu (Self-Defense consisting of techniques from Shotokan, Judo, Jiu Jitsu and Aikido), Boxing and latest Shootfighting. Havn't trained any martial arts since I cut open my hand in a bar fight but it's all healed and with physical therapy it's almost as good as new again. Thinking about getting back to shootfighting
theunderdog
07-31-2007, 09:31 PM
tae know do when i was a kid but judo since then
USMCGixxer6
07-31-2007, 09:38 PM
karate when I was 8, lol
Boxing now, in the future might try to do incorporate more styles
USMCGixxer6
07-31-2007, 09:39 PM
You really annoy me with your material.
hes a moron
USMCGixxer6
07-31-2007, 09:50 PM
I am on the same page with you, nothing better than jiu jitsu on the ground and boxing on your feet.
that is a motivated Eagle Globe and Anchor in your AV
cpnasty
08-01-2007, 02:06 AM
Isshinryu
USMCGixxer6
08-01-2007, 02:13 AM
Hated my tour of duty but love the fact I am a devildog for life. I still have my oohhraaahhh tatoo on my right arm.
im sure ill be the same way, lol.
1.5 years down, 3.5 left, lol
younghypnotiq
08-01-2007, 02:50 AM
never heard of os of them. but i do yoga aswell
Beebs
08-01-2007, 09:02 PM
Boxing, Judo, MMA. BJJ occasionally.
BewareofDawg
08-03-2007, 12:51 PM
Kickboxing
EL BULLY
08-03-2007, 03:03 PM
I practice Wan - King.
Standing up and on the ground. Even sometimes on my knees.
I fit in about 4 sessions a day.
Boxing, wrestling(3 basic types), kickboxing(K-1 style), my freinds taught me ghetto boxing, extreme boxing from tapes, and litle 52s. i want to learn a little crazy monkey boxing.
That stuff is garbage.
Taijutsu
Krav Maga
Swiss Military Combatives
Jiu Jutsu(traditional)
Boxing
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu(recently started training in it)
Step up your regimen man, or your there for the taking. :hey
don owens
08-10-2007, 11:27 PM
Shotokan Karate. Boxed. have a school and teach. [Only registered and activated users can see links] martial arts if trained well can and are effective. if not trained well, and i mean realistically as a boxer trains or someone interested in the realities of actual combat, then most of them are worthless and dangerous. unfortunately, most people that come into a martial arts school have an unrealistic idea about what they are going to encounter. most think they will learn some sort of secret way to power or not have to work hard. most lose interest when hard work starts and contines or they get hit.
don owens
08-10-2007, 11:28 PM
meant can be and are
used to train boxing and kick boxing but mostly for fitness, no competitive reasons, judo from age 6 till about 20 yrs old, 1st dan...now mostly weight training and mma when i can fit it into my schedule....used to run judo clubs and ran an mma style mixed club for a year or so about 12 years ago!!
Rakim
08-12-2007, 06:35 PM
At the moment I'm only doing Judo. I recently tried JKD but the place was too far to go every week. I'm also going back to boxing in the next couple of months. The stuff I really wanted to try was BJJ, Krav Maga, and Muay Thai, but there are no clubs at all in my area. I'm hopefully going to substitute the Muay Thai with osme kickboxing, and the Judo will have to do for the grappling stuff, in place of the BJJ. Anyone got any ideas on something to replace the Krav Maga training that I'm missing out on?! Before you mention it, there's no Systema local either.
Diomedes
08-12-2007, 08:18 PM
At the moment, I'm only actively training Boxing. I've done a few months of BJJ and occasionally roll with a flatmate, but I cnat afford classes right now. I did a bit of Muay Thai a few years ago.
Other than that, I've mainly been a practitioner of LLap Goch. ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
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Amsterdam
08-12-2007, 09:42 PM
At the moment I'm only doing Judo. I recently tried JKD but the place was too far to go every week. I'm also going back to boxing in the next couple of months. The stuff I really wanted to try was BJJ, Krav Maga, and Muay Thai, but there are no clubs at all in my area. I'm hopefully going to substitute the Muay Thai with osme kickboxing, and the Judo will have to do for the grappling stuff, in place of the BJJ. Anyone got any ideas on something to replace the Krav Maga training that I'm missing out on?! Before you mention it, there's no Systema local either.
You could buy a couple of combatives manuals for self study and referance while you're searching around.
Judo is good.
Rakim
08-13-2007, 06:36 AM
You could buy a couple of combatives manuals for self study and referance while you're searching around.
Judo is good.
Are there any manuals that you or Cross_Trainer could recommend?
I recently bought a Krav Maga one written by David Kahn, but I got put off when he was talking about sensitive strike areas, he said, 'A strike to the nose from the correct angle can be fatal'. Now I'm pretty sure he's referring to that classic fight myth that someones nasal bone can be forced back through their skull, killing them. This has been exposed as bullshit for years now, so it makes me wonder what other crap is in there.
cross_trainer
08-13-2007, 10:18 AM
Are there any manuals that you or Cross_Trainer could recommend?
I recently bought a Krav Maga one written by David Kahn, but I got put off when he was talking about sensitive strike areas, he said, 'A strike to the nose from the correct angle can be fatal'. Now I'm pretty sure he's referring to that classic fight myth that someones nasal bone can be forced back through their skull, killing them. This has been exposed as bullshit for years now, so it makes me wonder what other crap is in there.
Hmmm...
Fairbairn's WWII combatives--"Defendu"--are still alive and kicking...they were designed to be simple and easily taught to untrained men, so I suppose they would be somewhat easier to learn by book than, say, BJJ. John Ford filmed a combatives instructional film with Fairbairn...if you can find it, I think it has video clips of the techniques he used to compliment the books.
Rakim
08-13-2007, 11:06 AM
Hmmm...
Fairbairn's WWII combatives--"Defendu"--are still alive and kicking...they were designed to be simple and easily taught to untrained men, so I suppose they would be somewhat easier to learn by book than, say, BJJ. John Ford filmed a combatives instructional film with Fairbairn...if you can find it, I think it has video clips of the techniques he used to compliment the books.
Cheers, I'll have to look them up. I think that a striking art would be much easier for me to learn through books and DVD, even though it would only be the basics. I already have a punchbag and room for shadowboxing, so if you could recommened any boxing or Muay Thai manuals/dvds, I'd be extremely grateful.
0.5sj719
08-13-2007, 11:25 AM
Boxing atm, with alot of sparring :!:
Used to train yawara/jujutsu.
cross_trainer
08-13-2007, 02:24 PM
Cheers, I'll have to look them up. I think that a striking art would be much easier for me to learn through books and DVD, even though it would only be the basics. I already have a punchbag and room for shadowboxing, so if you could recommened any boxing or Muay Thai manuals/dvds, I'd be extremely grateful.
USA Boxing has a tape series and manual of boxing out that's fairly decent...Kenny Weldon's DVD's are also pretty good.
Rakim
08-14-2007, 06:06 PM
USA Boxing has a tape series and manual of boxing out that's fairly decent...Kenny Weldon's DVD's are also pretty good.
Thank you.
dwilson
08-14-2007, 07:42 PM
Kickboxing
Boxing
little wrestling
Stone Lion
08-27-2007, 04:55 AM
Hy All!
Let mi say hello to this community by posting what I'm training. I started with karate(shotokan) at age 3. And than I had many many surgeris. And now I'm training kung-fu for 4 years now with as many as possible cross training. Like Kyokushin, Muay Thai, boxing, and now i want to turn to MMA. I started no-gi BJJ about a half year now. And I will have my first MMA match at oct. 6. :bbb
And I'm from Hungary! :hi:
truepwrz
08-30-2007, 03:39 PM
karate 3-10
san shou 10-13
muay thai 16-16
boxing, judo, wrestling 16 to presents
BewareofDawg
08-30-2007, 04:09 PM
Hy All!
Let mi say hello to this community by posting what I'm training. I started with karate(shotokan) at age 3. And than I had many many surgeris. And now I'm training kung-fu for 4 years now with as many as possible cross training. Like Kyokushin, Muay Thai, boxing, and now i want to turn to MMA. I started no-gi BJJ about a half year now. And I will have my first MMA match at oct. 6. :bbb
And I'm from Hungary! :hi:
:hi:
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