Ok, lets hear em, who practices what..

Cool stuff...are you thinking of getting back in the ring anytime soon?
 
I would love to. My present manager is mostly into boxing which is not what I am into. I have been offered some alternate positions in those matches but I really need to stay where I can use my legs and hopefully my submissions or throws. Not that I am great with those as much as that they are habit.
 
I take Mu-Shin-Karate-Do for 7 years and I just have been ranked to Shodan Sempi. My Kancho's name is Mike Gianci who has trained under the great Mas Oyama In Kyokshin and started this school.
 
Hello

Hi everyone, I have been studying martial arts for about 3 years. I am a 1st degree brown belt in Shaolin Kenpo Karate (preparing for black belt testing coming up the end of this summer). I have also been cross training in Kung Fu, both Nan Quan (southern style) and Chuan Quan (northern style) for about 2 1/2 years. I have learned various weapons forms, including forms for the bo staff, kamas, broadsword, and chinese spear. I'll probably start cross training in Taiji Chuan as well, after my black belt test. I became an assistant instructor recently, which is also part of my preparation for black belt. Not only do I have to know how to do it myself, but I have to learn how to teach others to do it! Not that easy! Martial arts is just a part of my life now and I don't see myself ever stopping until I am physically unable to do so! I hope to own my own dojo in the future.

(Oh yeah! And I'm a girl!) :D
 
I've been practicing Tae Kwon Do for about a year now. I am currently a blue belt. I remember being in grade school and walking home past a dojang near my house. I wanted so bad to join, but when I would peak in the door and watch the students, I thought "I could never do that." Boy, I wish I would have started back then.
 
Hi!

I own a martial arts school with my husband. We teach Kobushi Sessen Jutsu my husbands combatives system that has been recognized as a martial arts. Also we teach Brazilian Jiujitsu.

I have taken many years off and SLOWLY getting back into it.
I hold a blue belt in Okinawa Te Karate and blue belt in Japanese Jiujitsu.
 
Okinawan Goju-ryu, and starting up BJJ soon. Like JeetKonDo wrote before me. I think the the combo of a standup and a ground is a good idea. I do however think that too many people are overdoing it with learning 5, 6,and more styles. I always say "I don't know a lot about anything , but a little about everything" I think in fighting this doesn't work so well.
You don't need to know a thousand different ways to apply an arm bar, just two or three ways really really well. I fight people all the time that only know how to do a few moves really well, and they still get me. I know it's comming, but then bam!! they just do it really well.

I mean you can know that a Thai fighter is going to kick you in the leg but then he does it and guess what? it Fu#king hurts man!!!
 
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I am a folkstyle and Greco-Roman wrestler. I have been doing other martials ares on and off throughout my life including Kung Fu and a form of Karate that I cant quite remember the name of. I have a little bit of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training, but barely enough to survive anyone who actually knows what their doing. I was going to take up Muay Thai a few months ago but my friend's dad who taught it for a great price moved away. I'm considering joining a Boxing/Muay Thai/ BJJ club after this upcoming wrestling season is up.
 
I've studied Aikido for coming on 6 years now and competed in Judo as my varsity sport in high school (Iolani back in Honolulu). I also dabbled in greco and folk styles of wrestling.

I go for anything grappling. Strikes haven't ever been my thing (hence the emphasis on Aikido).
 
gxinfinity said:
I've studied Aikido for coming on 6 years now and competed in Judo as my varsity sport in high school (Iolani back in Honolulu). I also dabbled in greco and folk styles of wrestling.

I go for anything grappling. Strikes haven't ever been my thing (hence the emphasis on Aikido).
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Come to think of it I never really liked striking when I did it either.

Judo as a highschool sport? That's awesome. Is that common in Hawaii?
 
martin said:
Judo as a highschool sport? That's awesome. Is that common in Hawaii?
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Yeah, most of the private high schools had varsity teams, and it was extremely popular at a club level in the others and the public system.
 
jds said:
I think in fighting this doesn't work so well.
You don't need to know a thousand different ways to apply an arm bar, just two or three ways really really well. I fight people all the time that only know how to do a few moves really well, and they still get me. I know it's comming, but then bam!! they just do it really well.

I mean you can know that a Thai fighter is going to kick you in the leg but then he does it and guess what? it Fu#king hurts man!!!
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That's a great point. Boxers know like 5 or six strikes and utilize them very well. Simplicity is devastating.
 
LeiYunFat said:
That's a great point. Boxers know like 5 or six strikes and utilize them very well. Simplicity is devastating.
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BJJ is another example. I mean, untill Matt beat the hell out of him, Royce couldn't lose, and he was doing the same damn thing over and over. He was just so good at it that it couldn't be defended against.

Now things are different of course, everybody does a lil' grapplin'. But what he was doing in the mid 90's was so different (element of surprise, and confusion) and efficient (only afew elements put together seamlessly), it made him unstopable.
 
Muay Thai and Ju jitsu in the same dojo for about 5 years now, started when i was about 12-13ish, and we dont get ranked...

also did karate for like 3 months but quit cause all the dude taught were katas and i can remember one...

TAKIYO SHODAN!!!
 
You mean Taikyoku Shodan?

If my sensei only taught kata I'd quit too... Kata is only one part of the equation, Kihon and kumite must be mixed in.
 
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