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Deinonychus
Joined: Dec 31, 2007
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Location: Berkshire, UK
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| gekitsu wrote: |
so, ultimately, its the question whether any publicity is better than no publicity at all or rather have no publicity than crappy publicity. |
Given the current very low level of public knowledge of Muay Thai I'd say it's certainly better than no publicity. Most people I speak to think it is just like Kick-boxing or even worse like their Tae Bo class 
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Anyone know who Denis Kang is? He is an MMA fighter who fought in Pride FC and K-1 Hero's. I got to train with him on Saturday (he did a seminar at my gym), then he went out with us and we saw UFC 82 together... it was great! |
That's awesome Space! Dennis Kang is a legend. That's pretty cool that you got to watch UFC 82 with him. Do you know if he has any plans to fight in the UFC? I've heard he's a nice guy, he certainly comes across that way in the interviews I've seen him in.
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roboticalien
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Dec 01, 2007
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Black belt in Tai Kwon Do, some Tai Chi Chuan, and currently taking Aikido.  |
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opal
Sea Gull
Joined: Jul 23, 2007
Posts: 247
Location: Australia
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I did karate in my 20's. I got to 1st Dan. It gets a bit harder when you get old and creaky, but it was fun.
P.S. Also good for meeting guys...  |
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Sally
Pileated woodpecker
Joined: Oct 30, 2007
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i got orange belt in jujitsu last saturday, unfortunatly got knocked out in the process!
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LeKiwi
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Joined: Nov 27, 2007
Posts: 1923
Location: The murky waters of my mind...
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I did Kyokushin Karate for about ten years... got to 'the one below black' but I think I'd probably get pretty badly slaughtered doing my black belt as I'm so small and female, and although for my size I'm tough, I'm not particularly strong!! Plus it's a huge commitment that didn't sit well with schooling. I haven't done it for about 2 years now though and I miss it... I love martial arts, I'd happily take another up. They're the only thing I've ever excelled at in terms of sports - I love the discipline, self-awareness, mental AND physical strength, stamina, fitness, and coordination that come with it. I hate team sports but I'd take up karate again in an instant.
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Whisperer
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Joined: Oct 14, 2007
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| Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| LeKiwi wrote: | | I love martial arts, I'd happily take another up. They're the only thing I've ever excelled at in terms of sports - I love the discipline, self-awareness, mental AND physical strength, stamina, fitness, and coordination that come with it. I hate team sports but I'd take up karate again in an instant. |
Same here. I've never been able to come to terms with mainstream sports but I seem to do rather well in whatever martial art I take up.
I've spent entire basketball or soccer games without even touching the ball - in martial arts I often tend to get complimented as I make progress; I sometimes even get a social life out of them. . .  |
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tybald
Raven
Joined: Feb 08, 2008
Posts: 115
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| I've done wing chun and shaolin kung fu as an adult and judo when I was younger. I've also dabbled in TKD, ninjutsu and kickboxing but never got into them for some reason. I'm currently training in Krav Maga which I love for its directness (i.e. out and out violence!). I like the fact that a lot of the moves are adaptations of the body's natural reaction to an attack which makes it easier to learn. Its also fairly complete in that it has striking, grappling, multiple attacker defence and weapon training including firearm disarmament if you do the military style training. Its one of the few martial arts I've learned that I'd feel confident using to defend myself in the street without having to put in years and years of training. |
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Space
Phoenix
Joined: Apr 03, 2006
Age: 25
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| I love martial arts like boxing and kickboxing, but eventually it gets so intense and violent that I don't enjoy it any more. That is the nature of the sport though. You need the killer instinct and viciousness to be really good, and not many people have that, even if they have good techniques and training. This is something most people wouldn't understand unless they've done it themselves. I might try going into judo or braziallian jiu jitsu again, they are both rough sports but are pretty tame compared to boxing. |
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SuperSteve
Blue Jay
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Age: 20
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Location: Sweden
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I'm a second-level practitioner of Wing Chun Kung Fu, equal to about 2.5 years of training. Awesome art!
before that, I did 2 years of boxing.
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wu_wei_lion
Butterfly
Joined: Jan 22, 2008
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Location: Northeast OH
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I studied Uechi-ryu karate for about 4 years and got to the 1st degree brown belt, one level below 1st dan. Then I studied longfist kung fu/sanshou for another 4. I'm currently too poor to attend a school but I still train on my own as much as possible. I'm surprised at the number of aspies who study martial arts. Interesting thread.  |
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AussieBoy
Phoenix
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Location: Australia
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I do tae-kwon-doe and i'm an 8th gup.
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Sedaka
Searching For My Catcher in the Rye
Joined: Jul 17, 2006
Age: 26
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Location: In the recesses of my mind
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i did some random kind of kempo for 8 yrs... age 10-18
then i went to college and got into aikido, hakutsuru and grappling... did those roughly 4 yrs.
went west coast and did some judo and grappling for a couple yrs.
now i'm back closer to my old aikido schools and go when i have time... which sadly isnt too often.
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ouinon
chemical reaction
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My son does karate. He's been doing it since last september and loves it. I did some Tai chi years ago.
The karate master is good, calm, grounded, serious. My son loves the sessions.
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Veresae
Putrescent And Flummoxed
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Age: 20
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Location: California
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| I tried doing kung fu for 3 months. I found it incredibly difficult and uncomfortable, and I would spend days dreading the next session of it, even though I think the idea of doing it is cool. |
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gekitsu
Phoenix
Joined: Apr 05, 2007
Age: 25
Posts: 745
Location: bavaria/germany
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veresae, if you like the basic idea of doing a martial art but didnt like the lessons you took, maybe it was just the wrong art, wrong instructor, wrong whatever FOR YOU. trying around is key, really.
depending on what you found difficult and uncomfortable, you could always look ouf for an art or sport that focusses on other criteria. if, for example, endless drills of this-punch-that-kick in the air werent to your fancy, you could try boxing, for example. if the physical conditioning part of your course gave you the creeps, boxing would be just the wrong thing to do, as conditioning takes a huge role in boxing. just read around abit, take looks here, tryout lessons there... find what suits you. |
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