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weight training for martial arts, what to do?
what type of weight training should i do to help my martial art?
high reps low weight, or low reps high weight? or all bodyweight exercises? on websites they all say different things, does anyone have links to some famous martial artists weight training programs? except for bruce lee iv seen his already
there is no grapling just punching and kicking
any ladies who do martial arts?
if you do, do guys a favor and STOP! ok, here’s how it goes. i’m a guy, average height and weight. i went to the gym and saw this 1 girl doing stretches. cute! well defined tone and like 5’6. turns out she’s 19, a sophomore at the junior college. i asked her what she was doing and she said stretching as a warm up for some martial art i can’t remember. i busted up laughing!!! i was like "yeeeahh, right, you’re a fmeale, that crap won’t work on a guy!’ and she’s like "oh, really?" and she asked me to make a friendly bet, 20 bucks on a little sparring session until 1 of us said enough. i kept going on and on, so i couldn’t say no, now i had to do it. so we put on the protective gear they have there, gloves and headgear, minus shoes. she really wanted me to go at her and take her down. ok! so the first thing i do is go straight at her, but she does some cute fancy HIGH karate kick in a circle motion from the outside in with her right leg and BAM! karate kicks my face, and i’m like sh**! but before i could react, she drops down QUICK and BAM! her right foot gives me this HARD kick right behind my knee and i dropped on my a**! so i get up and i have my hands up and she pivots from one foot to the other foot, doing these really fancy HIGH karate kicks at my face, BAM! BAM! left leg, right leg, left leg, and i’m like what the f***??? her flexibility on those karate kicks KILLED me! so i try 1 last thing, and i go forward to try to hit her and i had my hand down ready to throw a blow, and her left leg does a straight kick BAM! and karate kicks my hand away because i hadn’t swing it yet, and then she does some cute spin and with her other leg, ANOTHER high karate kick in my face, BAM! and i fell down. OK, ENOUGH! I CAN’T BELIEVE her karate worked as easily as it did on me! she told me a lot of females are taking it now. THEN STOP! At least unitl i figure out a way to beat it. She was too damn good. I know 1 thing, if I ever need bodyguards, now I know! I’m taking 2 of these ladies that know karate, you can’t beat it! At least i couldn’t!
Was my taekwondo place a Mcdojo?
I don’t practice the art anymore, but I reached the rank of 2nd degree black belt at around the age of 15. I started when I was 5. I will answer these following factoids which are accepted traits of a mcdojo:
1)there is no sparring, as they clain the art is "too deadly to use"
2) There’s a fee for belt testing.
3) A contract.
4)The instructor mastered 3-5 different martial arts, and he’s 25 years old, or even younger.
5) Kids with black belts.
6) Advanced students who lack technique.
7)Some sort of "quick advancement" program, for a fee.
8)Many different (excessive) colored belt ranks.
9) A black belt club (guaranteed to have one in a fixed time)
10) They offer "cardio kickboxing" and claim you learn martial arts from it rather than overall fitness.
11) Children classes that pretty much are a daycare center with a martial art twist.
12) They force you to buy equipment from the school, or a particular brand.
13) The master or instructors’ claims or ranks cannot be traced or confirmed. e.g. "winner of 400 no-holds-barred matches"
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1) There was sparring every class, for about 1/4 of the class.
2) There were no additional fees for testing.
3) I really don’t know if there was a contract as my parents paid, but I do know it was 70$ a month.
4) He started in 1980 and is a 6th degree black belt at the moment. I’d say he’s around 50.
5) Youngest age i’ve seen was 12.
6) Not really
7) No
Every colored belt had 1 stripe you had to get to move onto the next belt. Black did not.
9) No
10) They never taught the students "cardio kickboxing", but they did offer it as a program for adults to get in shape (not learn the art).
11) Nope, it was very structured
12) I had to buy my own gear (not from the school) and the brand didnt matter. They supplied me with a dobok.
13) Um nothing about winning fights
Martial art with most sparring?
I’m interested in starting a martial art that is extremely practical in real world fights and involves lots of full contact sparring.
I tried Krav Maga a while back and enjoyed it. My only complaint with Krav Maga is instructors don’t have people spar with each other in low level classes. Subsequently you don’t do any real fighting until you’ve reached higher classes, which take 6 months to a year to reach. What students mostly ended up doing in low level classes was practicing strikes and kicks by hitting thin air or simulating strikes by hitting cushioned bags that partners held. While the actual fighting style seems practical and "no nonsense", I felt the training in lower classes fails to prepare you psychologically for a real world fight where a real opponent is moving around and fighting unpredictably.
I therefore feel the only practical martial arts are ones that involve full contact sparring on a regular basis and also condition you "psychologically" to take hits, strike people ect. My question is what would be the best martial art to pickup? Again, I’m interested in raw bare bones practicality, so my interests would be more along the lines of MMA, Krav Maga, Boxing, Mui Thai Kick Boxing ect. As opposed to Karate, Tai Kwon Doe ect where you use a long drawn out belt system that takes years and practice "form" over real world strikes and hits (Note: I respect all martial arts and I’m not criticizing Karate or more traditional marital arts they’re just not what I want). I also don’t care about competition events. I’m only interested using this as a last resort for self defense in the real world.
I’d be willing to go back to Krav Maga if higher classes have more sparring. But I’m wondering if this is the best route, or if something like MMA would be better because it seems to have more sparring. I would appreciate answers from people with real experience doing the above martial arts in one form or another. Thanks in advance.
Bruce Lee,the talented actor who made the world believe he was..?
the greatest fighter?
wikipedia-bruce lee,jack man wong
google search,mikemile joe lewis
google search,realfighting joe lewis
google search,kungfu jack man wong
those are my references,cuz everyone seem to have some’um to say,and doesnt have any accountable evidence to back up the story.here my theory.
Bruce Lee was a struggling actor.He’d been acting since birth,so when he’d moved to the U.S,and had to work to survived,but his only option was working in the chinese restaurant,which is,extremely laborious job,but because of friends recommending him to open a kungfu school, in which, he’d only had maybe 4 yrs of training,but no one knew that.Somehow,his acting talents made his students a believer.So,he’d decided to moved closer to hollywood,cuz a)more fish in the sea,and b)trying to pursued his acting career and that when he got a role as Kato.btw,they’d given him the role not cuz of his fighting skill,but cuz he’d pronounced the leading actor’s name correctly.By this time,Bruce
Lee knew that martial art movie would be the next big idea,cuz there wasnt any back then.So,he’d go back to H.K cuz he’d already has a reputation as an actor,plus he knows the ppl in that line of work(it’s not what u know,it’s who u know),and try to sell this new idea of his.After a couple a movie,he’d go back to Hollywood and try selling this new idea.Kung Fu the episode,then he’d gotten his first Hollywood movie,and the audiences loved it.and Hollywood would continued giving BL more movie role,cuz he was the next best asian actor.
During this time,BL would hang around top karate fighter,and he’d mimicked their moves for his upcoming movie(ETD)and also included the top fighters in the movie with a duelling plot that’d ended as Bruce the winner.(norris,wall,)
In conclusion,it’s a far fetch theory,but my question to the bruce lee’s fan who believed that he was the greatest fighter of all time.
1)Greatest fighter w/o a professional record?
2)Why wouldnt he responded Jack Man Wong..
newpaper article,which,Wong had given his version of the "secret bout" with a public invitation if Bruce thinks he was wrong.why wouldnt bruce lee responded the article,which was frontpage btw,if bruce claims he had beaten Wong?plus,why he’d abandoned Wing Chun after this bout?if some’um work,why would u wanna throw it away?(guess it didnt after all)
3)Why Bruce only shows demostration,why not a real bout?like the one he had with Wong.as for the rules,everyone has to abided to them,why was he so special?(movie star doesnt want their pretty face get bashed)
4)Where was all his fighting trophies or fighting championship belt?man,his only trophy was from doing Cha-Cha in 1958.
You can called me,Bruce Lee bashing,or a hater,but the bottomline,who’s the one being decieved? I just wanted to shed some light.cuz it’s funny when an individual was named the greatest fighter in the world without even stepping in the ring.did hollywood manipulated that?i think so,and so is the MA world.
also,it’s funny how ppl would judge someone’ abilities such as the 2 finger push-up or the one inch punch and concluded that this man is the greatest fighter of all time!wow!basically y’all just judging the book by it’s cover.
to mr.dj,umm..sir,joe lewis just hung around wit Bruce(who wouldnt wanna hang around wit a TV star),pls,sir,reread google search,joe lewis realfighting.
Opinions on Taekwondo
Few years ago I took Taekwondo, and got up to a green belt. I was kind of lazy back then being a computer nerd. I did good at the beginning but I thought my teacher was a meathead and he was always shouting. I was getting bored too so I quit. Then I took wrestling in 6th grade and I became more health concious and started to like fighting and martial arts. I watched bruce lee movies, mma movies. I used to practice just at my home, go to the gym. etc.
Now I want to get a black belt before I want to get stronger. so I’m deciding if I sdhould take tkd again. Though now that I’m more educated in martial arts I’m wondering if TKD would be practical outside the dojo. Whether it would be light sparring with a friend or a life threatening fight. sometimes I’ve noticed that it could be easy to just lay a kick to the balls when you do some fancy stance. I took traditional Taekwon do I think. we had sparring every fridays.
I’m might go to another TKD dojo, I think the guy does WTF TKD. Not sure what the name is. but he is some 4 time champion at kickboxing and does TKD too. so his style might be different than traditional I’m guessing. Can you give me opinions on both and what would be suitable.
The only other martial art in my area is Karate.
any ladies who do martial arts?
if you do, do guys a favor and STOP! ok, here’s how it goes. i’m a guy, average height and weight. i went to the gym and saw this 1 girl doing stretches. cute! well defined tone and like 5’6. turns out she’s 19, a sophomore at the junior college. i asked her what she was doing and she said stretching as a warm up for some martial art i can’t remember. i busted up laughing!!! i was like "yeeeahh, right, you’re a fmeale, that crap won’t work on a guy!’ and she’s like "oh, really?" and she asked me to make a friendly bet, 20 bucks on a little sparring session until 1 of us said enough. i kept going on and on, so i couldn’t say no, now i had to do it. so we put on the protective gear they have there, gloves and headgear, minus shoes. she really wanted me to go at her and take her down. ok! so the first thing i do is go straight at her, but she does some cute fancy HIGH karate kick in a circle motion from the outside in with her right leg and BAM! karate kicks my face, and i’m like sh**! but before i could react, she drops down QUICK and BAM! her right foot gives me this HARD kick right behind my knee and i dropped on my a**! so i get up and i have my hands up and she pivots from one foot to the other foot, doing these really fancy HIGH karate kicks at my face, BAM! BAM! left leg, right leg, left leg, and i’m like what the f***??? her flexibility on those karate kicks KILLED me! so i try 1 last thing, and i go forward to try to hit her and i had my hand down ready to throw a blow, and her left leg does a straight kick BAM! and karate kicks my hand away because i hadn’t swing it yet, and then she does some cute spin and with her other leg, ANOTHER high karate kick in my face, BAM! and i fell down. OK, ENOUGH! I CAN’T BELIEVE her karate worked as easily as it did on me! she told me a lot of females are taking it now. THEN STOP! At least unitl i figure out a way to beat it. She was too damn good. I know 1 thing, if I ever need bodyguards, now I know! I’m taking 2 of these ladies that know karate, you can’t beat it! At least i couldn’t!
Taekwondo or Shotokan karate( confused on which Martial art to learn) ?
Well as the title says I am confused on which martial art to pick. Currently bein boxing for the past 6 months, quite enjoy boxing and will continue to train regularly. Also want to learn another martial art, as thats what I always wanted to do. Well I have two choices. Taekwondo and Shotokan karate. Now I wanted to know which one is better suited to me as I havent tried either of them out and so was hoping for you’re input. The factors which matter to me are
* Which martial art has more sparring involved
* Which martial requires a better fitness level
* Which martial is better for Self defence
* In which martial art is faster to progress through the ranks
* Average number of years it takes to get to a decent belt in either of these of two martial arts
Edit: What about the time it takes to progress through the ranks, which martial art is quicker. I know that speed of progression depends upon the student, but still an approx. answer will help. Thank you all again
who would win Spartan vs roman centurion?
I got this question from watching deadliest warrior with a friend and he asked me who would win between the spartan and the roman centurion.
the equipment they would be fighting with on this 1 on 1 battle is the same as in there match ups in deadliest warrior and they would be fighting in a plain with few trees.
I dont know a thing about the centurion but I do know about the spartan.
for people that don’t know the spartan here are a few things about the spartan they where trained in the Pankration martial art and they started there military training at age 5.
my edge goes the spartan for having more training better armor and in my mind his shield is way more usefull as an offencive weapon than the romans shield witch is square and hard to smash people with.