Anyone here into martial arts??

[eXampuL_oNe]

Just wondering how many of yall are into any type of martial arts?? I just signed up for tae kwon do on tuesday... I used to take it a long time ago but i quit ( i was too young to know the good, just wanted to whoop someone's ass)... I already had my first session and i loved the shit... Anyone here ever enter any kind of competitions?? Boxing, Martial arts??

 

[Kevin A]

Mind Boxing!!

 

[J Rilla]

I use to be into martial arts heavy when i was younger....I took Kempo and i got up to purple belt...my grades started to slip though so i had to quit....I want to pick up boxing sooner or later...hopefully sooner

 

[x-squizet]

we just got our first boxing gym here but i always wanted to take up mixed martial arts fighting we have a school down here that trains for ufc and other tournements like that

 

[Greg Savage]

< Tae Kwon Do since the age of 6

 

[eXampuL_oNe]

< Tae Kwon Do since the age of 6

That's dope man, thats like the age i quit.... SO you still take it?

 

[orpheus]

Yeah i did Shodokan Karate for a while when I was younger -- had enough experience to be a black belt but stopped just before at brown with a couple stripes. Thats one thing I always wish that i kept up tho. Maybe someday I'll get back into ti

 

[x-squizet]

damn since the age of six and how old are you now

 

[JP hardboiled]

Mixed Martial Arts. MMA baby all the way.
Anybody that wants to learn boxing, wrestling, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Muay Thai, and a plethora of other martial arts should check it out. Its not as expressive an art form as Wu shu, which is used in movies. (think Jet Li). But If you like to scrap or just like to train or just like to learn varying martial arts this is hands down the Illest martial art that is always evolving. New submissions new moves from other martial arts new fighters all day every day.

Bruce Lee wanted to take what works and said F tradition and black belts and forms. He trained with boxers, wrestlers, and submission experts like Karl Gotch and was the predictor of MMA. Bruce Lee also stated that it is an art. So one person may like the art of Wu shu and fancy flips, but if you like to train hardcore MMA is the meat and potatoes of martial arts.

The only drawback is you get a lot of ignorant suckas that just want to fight and don't respect or give a thought about how the sport has evolved. But every sport like boxing has bums in it. Right now MMA is still in its growing stages. Like when boxing came out people were like that's barbaric, which people think bout MMA. But look at the light heavyweight champ 45 yr old Randy Couture who is in top condition only 1 death in all MMA history as opposed to hundreds in boxing. I just had to defend MMA cause I love it. So yeah I go to schools and learn out here in Chicago.

 

[x-squizet]

yea i love mma i want to go train at the one we got here, and i loved that show ultimate fighter, that was raw, i just wish they could show some ufc matches on regular cable i really don't like paying to watch them

 

[JP hardboiled]

I know...they get 2 expensive... I heard Dana White(pres. of UFC) has a deal with foxsport or Spike for UFC's to be shown on there, which would be 2 sweeeeeet!! Where you living X? I know some good fighter and where they train.

Anyhow the finale of Ultimate Fighter this past saturday rocked!! Forest and the "american psycho" almost killed each other, but I love Forest's demeanor. He was telling Psycho right after the fight " one helluva fight" and wasn't concerned bout the actual decion of winning or losing.

I remember watching UFC with Ken Shamrock vs. Royce Gracie in my friends basement like "why the hell dont' they fight?" The sport has come a long way since then. How'd you get interested in it X?

 

[classic]

Brown belt in judo and i used boxed for a good while.

Was interrested in graci ju jitsu but school got in the way

class....

 

[Chrono]

I won 1st place in Grand Nationals for both Sparring and Forms in Tae Kwon Do. My mom was a 3rd degree blackbelt in ATA (American TaeKwonDo Association) and so she brought me since a little kid. It was pretty amazing - Grand Nationals is the biggest tournament in America so for the year of 1988 I was the Champion for my age and rank for the entire US

 

[Greg Savage]

damn since the age of six and how old are you now

Now im 21 one i started when i was 6 with the West Coast Karate Team in Oakland was owned By Ernie Rayes Sr and Mr. Young Some of you from Ca might know what im talking about.'


I Still Practice the art yes

 

[Cleverwon]

1st degree black belt Tae Kwon Do.

 

[Carpe Diem]

yeah i used to do ju jitsu a lonnnggg time back...

martial arts is bananas, the dudes are crazzyyyyy...

 

[x-squizet]

i been in ufc for a while i got into it right when ken shamrock left wwf and thats when i got into it,

i live in huntsville alabama

 

[Formant024]

eskrima, kali stickfightinh, filipino martial arts in general. Also Pencak silat, all asian streetfighting basicaly. Also attended to shotokan karate for 9 years, great for boxing.

 

[AMG]

"Shaolin special technique...'Shadow Boxing". I love that movie. I was in Tae Kwon Do when I was younger, but quit(more like moved to another state). I've always wanted to get back into it. Tai Chi, Tae Kwon Do, also you can study with real Shaolin monks too, see it on the internet somewhere. That would be dope!

 

[JP hardboiled]

I study Dim mok so watch out!! I will kill you with the touch of my finger, which has been conditioned by MPC pad pushing!!!

That's cool X. Don't know too many cats in Alabama. Sorry...so you gonna join the MMA place or box?