attonbitus
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Post by attonbitus on Feb 23, 2008 12:26:14 GMT -5
Yeah in this day and age it's not uncommon for a martial arts of any sort to be committed when in primary school, but drop it once they hit secondary school. I know I dropped all MA when i hit college cause I'd rather be hanging out with friends. Did take Kendo for a bit for giggles, but it didn't really have the attraction to keep me in it. After i graduated again I jumped back in when I realized how weak I had gotten
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Azula's Flames
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Post by Azula's Flames on Feb 23, 2008 14:38:06 GMT -5
Im in my final year of secondary school and its just so much its hard to find the motivation and it sucks when you notice all your muscles youve built up are vanishing. And when i do go back it will be really hard becasue my fitness has decreased even in a few months
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Post by Zen Sarcasm on Feb 23, 2008 23:10:40 GMT -5
I used to do Karate, got my black belt in 1998, but after the next year, things kind of went downhill, since the instructor seemed to be preoccupied and the teaching was starting to become... lacking, to say the least. We found out that he was having "relations" with one of the other students, and he was married... I think you can see where that went. He still teaches it, but I'd rather not go back.
Now, I'm not so much "in shape" as I am "a shape"... I'd like to get back into martial arts, but take a different style. I've been doing some research, but I can't really decide on anything, that, and I'm not sure what else is available around here.
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Azula's Flames
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Post by Azula's Flames on Feb 24, 2008 8:17:24 GMT -5
^woo that sounds scandalous my instructor has been slacking off recently too he only teaches 1 out of 2 classes a week and gets random black belts who have only just got it to teach on saturday. I think i might like to try karate next year when i start university in september it wont be much different but will still be a change and will be cheaper.
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attonbitus
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Post by attonbitus on Feb 27, 2008 10:14:37 GMT -5
Having instructors "having relations" with student isn't as uncommon as it sounds. I think it was last year but here in Dallas there was apparently a TKD instructor that taught at many differnt schools and gyms having "relations" with several of his students even though he had been diagnosed with AIDS. He was arrest and has had criminal charges brought against him.
back to Martial Arts in general, I think once you hit a certain point you should take a step back and looks at other styles to see what's out there. To me all the martial arts out there are like components that a practitioner can choose from to create their own personalized style. Of course its good to have traditional styles but ultimately it's about you and what you want from it.
One thing that I learned from Shotokan which helps me solidify my learning is being able to create my own katas/forms. These aren't for show, they're to help me train certain techniques in sequences that I would use. This is/was the original purpose of forms to begin with.
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Post by Master Pakku on Feb 27, 2008 16:32:01 GMT -5
You guys have really trained a lot of things. I've been trying to decide about a martial art for some time lately, but couldn't find anything unorthodox except a few. I decided to try capoeira, but changed my mind when I started learning as much as I can about Tai Chi (after I saw Avatar lol) and I fell in love with it. I've been training it ever since, because I finally think I found a martial art that is synchronized with my character and my needs. The thing I'm most happy about is that the club I'm training in has a teacher that knows martial applications of the art, so it surpasses the health and meditative component and bring us to what it was mainly created for - combat.
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attonbitus
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Post by attonbitus on Mar 17, 2008 11:14:20 GMT -5
I started Judo last week, it's very different than other styles. My dad is a black belt in judo was it was kinda inevitable that i'd learn at some point. Oh, i'm not learning from him. He had both his knees replaced about 15 years ago so no more judo for him. I'm learning from this 4th degree black belt near where i live. Actually he teaches the sister judo school to my wing chun school.
Right now i think if you're serious about martial arts, one should take a soft style (tai chi, ba gua etc) a hard style, (muay tai, karate, shaolin kung fu etc) and some sort of grappling (judo, brazillian jujitsu, sambo etc). The styles are rather divergent but as you study them you'll see common themes.
What amazes me is when you figure out how the themes come into play and see how they all interact with each other, it allows you to transition freely from style to style without conscious thought.
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