Martial Arts

[DomainMagnate]

Anyone here trains in any martial arts, or does any fighting? Post what you do and for how long!

 

[jasdon11]

Taekwondo - about a year and a half.

In my younger days I went through a self defence course which was great - one of the best things I've ever done. In any real life situation this beats martial arts hands down IMO.

The Taekwondo is mainly to keep fit and flexible and I started most of my kids doing it too, for various reasons.

How about you?

 

[hunnam]

I teach self defence for security officers, mainly Krav Maga.

I have been trained in Krav Maga for 2 years now.

Its unreal how many people are now trained in a martial art that shouldn't be, too many McDojo's around now.

 

[DomainMagnate]

I teach self defence for security officers, mainly Krav Maga.

I have been trained in Krav Maga for 2 years now.

Its unreal how many people are now trained in a martial art that shouldn't be, too many McDojo's around now.

Yep I see people getting a black belt in just a few years at some places. I also train in Krav Maga and it takes people about a year to only get the yellow belt here. I tried a few traditional martial arts before, but always had a strange feeling that it's not something that can be useful in a real life situation.

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

I am a practitioner of Taekwondo's for years, great work out for me. I will practice with my children this fall because they don't want me to teach them. I'm too serious for them, so I have to pay someone to teach them.:lol:

I'm also interested in grappling and aikido, but on and off.

 

[Theo]

I practice the ancient art of tongue-fu. The ladies love it

 

[hunnam]

Yep I see people getting a black belt in just a few years at some places. I also train in Krav Maga and it takes people about a year to only get the yellow belt here. I tried a few traditional martial arts before, but always had a strange feeling that it's not something that can be useful in a real life situation.

Your right, not many martial arts are for real life situations, thats why I feel Krav Maga is more about training you to deal with real life situations.

I work at a nightclub and I have seen people use martial arts to attack someone for no reason, its sickening to think people use training to attack rather than self defence.

 

[acronym007]

It's funny, I trained in few different Arts and took wrestling back in HS. I would tell anyone, any Martial Artist to consider a course in wrestling/Judo. Most fights up on the ground. No ground techniques is recipe for disaster IMO... Watching MMA, it's good way to see that there is no one right way, sometimes it's strength, other times it's technique, sometimes it's dumb luck.