Martial Arts

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 2:42 pm

I learned nunchaku by watching Maxi.... animation's so damn fluid I managed to learn to use a single nunchaku quite well.

My kung fu is a style developed by a master in my hometown. He calls it "Diamond Body". Not too flashy, but it is certainly effective.

Capoeira is that brazilian martial art / slave dance. It's the most fun MA I've practiced yet.

Unfortunately, it's been a month since I practiced anything, because I got kicked in the fingers and almost broke one of em (looked all twisted in weird places.

It hasn't healed completely, but it will always be a bit bent.

On a similar note, how many people here own a katana? (I have a spanish-made one, but it IS a practical sword)

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 2:46 pm

[quote="El Banana"]It hasn't healed completely, but it will always be a bit bent.

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Ouch!!

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:09 pm

I'm currently taking karate as a PE course through my school. I've been messing with nunchuku for a couple years now, I really like them

After my karate class is over I am going to join one of the martial arts clubs on campus to try and learn some of other styles. Aikido, Judo and Kung Fu are my choices. Aikido is just really cool... Judo I would like to learn the tumbling excercises, because i have this fear of falling down i would like to get over. And Kung Fu... there's a lot of people I know in that, so it would be a good choice as well.
Decisions, Decisions.

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:42 pm

)v(ajin Koji wrote:In which style are you learning katana becuz that would be something that i would very much like to learn (in karate you can only learn the short katana).

In Tai Chi I have also learnt to fight with a Jo, a Bo and a Spear and they are in respective order:
4ft 5
6ft/7ft
and 9ft-11ft

(although these are educated guesses i'm not used to imperial mesurements )

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:55 pm

El Banana wrote:On a similar note, how many people here own a katana? (I have a spanish-made one, but it IS a practical sword)

You mean those SLOs from CAS Ibera or such? The spanish made ones usually have (1) Rat tail tangs, a structural integrity issue (2) Greater than 0.1% Chromium content, NOT good (3) Ground bar steel (not forged)

I'm going to forge my own sometime, but for now I'm printing up fake ones out of CNC machine.

As for martial arts, I just don't have the time for them, and I don't believe I am in the right mindset for them. There are many non-technical things you need to master and learn as well. Additionally, even the technical parts are often dynamic, realtime and non-procedural.

Process person learning martial arts wrote:So WHILE opponent's doing A, do B? And if C, depending on D, I do the E? which is directlydependent on F?
How do I mkae a flowchart of THAT?!

And then, my application for one of these still hasn't been granted:

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:56 pm

I've never taken martial arts. Too poor all my life. So what I've learned is patience and stamina. And also, that "rush and crush" works surprisingly well.

And go for the neck if you can.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:07 pm

I took 3 years of Tae Kwon Do and got my Black Belt around 4-5 years ago.

Now I'm such a bum that I get cramps doing a kick.

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:36 pm

danielwang wrote:You mean those SLOs from CAS Ibera or such? The spanish made ones usually have (1) Rat tail tangs, a structural integrity issue (2) Greater than 0.1% Chromium content, NOT good (3) Ground bar steel (not forged)

Eh, dunno. It was quite cheap, has the nice little wave-pattern-thingy, and is sharp. Ergo, it cuts, although may not withstand use against other swords.

SQ · Post by SQ » Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:37 pm

Almost three years of a multi-Japanese martial arts class which majors in Kendo and Kenjutsu but also teaches(And pardon my bad spelling):

Tamishigiri
Lai
Akeido
Self-defense
Grapling

And I own a bokken, Shinai, and HAD an iaito... Bought it in Carcossone, France. Too bad for me I didn't know it was a wall hanger.. And one sad day it just went "snap" when I was practicing a few cottas... =\

Need to get more money before I can replace it with a legit Iaito, and I'm SUPPOSED to have a live-blade now, too, but... There goes the money problem again.
Lucky for me we have school swords.. =)

And plus school armor..
Good god, if I had to buy my own armor... $1000-$2000 a set...

Ah, yes, and next week I'll be signing up for a new class that's forming -- striking arts, and in a few months, the class will be able to afford a Japanese bow and arrow thing(forgot what it was called), and our class will begin teaching that.

And just in case anyone was wondering, the style I do is Mu Shin Ryu.

Satomi · Post by **Satomi** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:45 pm

I'm a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Still working in that one. I've also begun a little Tai Chi on the side.