Martial Arts

[Ardesco]

Wing Chun is the best unarmed style to learn, maximum damage with minimum movement. The Old Chinese martial arts put all the others to shame

[realityhack]

12 years Judo, international comps, from aged 8 to 19, arrived in London, did about 5 years Tai-Kwon-do (mostly with off duty Met! ), finally gave it all away at age 30, just too bloody injury prone, well not really, more like too lazy to stretch beforehand , but I do remember the fun of a good spar session, and the humility and respect of it.

One of my old spar mates has three olympic medals. and he was a very cool dude, never ever saw him annoyed at anything....ever.... except maybe closing time

Do I know you? I have a mate with the same background. You don't happen to work for a London radio station do you?

[cailin maith]

Best bit is sparring, going tonight and after the day I have had, can't wait to beat the tulip out of someone!

Gutted - too much Kata for me tonight.... didn't get to beat up anyone...

[wendigo100]

Semi contact lol

I wont spar unless it full on, obviously you don't turn it into a street brawl but there no point sparring if everything is pulled.

... (snip)

Which governing body did you learn taekwondo under?

And under which governing body did you compete?

[jubbly]

I do Aikido myself once a week (which is not often enough) and I think its having a positive affect on my balance and coordination, and hopefully will help me disarm the odd wacko coming at me with a knife!
I like it cos it's defensive and does not involve much kicking as I'm a wee bit on the short side, although I'd agree with Ardesco that Wing Chun is probably the most lethal martial art...

[Let-Me-In]

So who on here finds the time to do Martial Arts? I used to do Aiki-Jitsu when I was younger for like a decade-and-a-half and stopped one away from black belt (brown belt).

I was thinking about starting martial arts training again for fitness and the other benefits (more fun than running on a treadmill), so does anyone do a particular form which they prefer? I was looking at Kung Fu or maybe Aikido or Judo.

Aiki-Jitsu...is that like aggressive knitting, but for beginners?

[BrilloPad]

I used to do Aiki-Jitsu in the 1980s. It was quite rare then - only 3 clubs in this country. I was at Farnborough. Think the other were Havant and Portsmouth?

Anything that ends in Jitsu tends to be a bit rough. Although we had it alot easier than the Ju-Jitsu club down the road.

[Weltchy]

2nd Dan Yoshinkan Aikido Instructor. Started when I was 22 and been training for over 10 years, managing to hit 4-5 a week on average.

[xoggoth]

I did enroll at an evening class for karate a few years back and went to the wrong place where they were doing some sort of gay ballet.

[Let-Me-In]

I did enroll at an evening class for karate a few years back and went to the wrong place where they were doing some sort of gay ballet.

Did they all have these coloured belts on?