What Martial Arts do you practice?
If there is already a thread for this somewhere then I apologize. Any way, what are you currently practicing or have you practiced in the past? What do you like and dislike about it, and have you ever used it?
Right now I am training in Jeet Kune Do, we tend to stick a little bit more to the Wing Chun structure than some schools, we also borrow some things from Xingyi and a couple other arts, our line comes through Larry Hartsell so we have quite a bit of grappling, most of it standing or clinch grappling. Honestly I really don't have any complaints about the art it suits me, real straight foward, plus I don't have to throw away anything I have learned in the past I just have to modify it a bit to fit within the structure of the system. My only complaint is that I can only train one day a week, but that is due to lack of transportation. I can't say I've used it in a fight per say, but I have used it in sparring both inside and outside the school, stop kicks and stop hits tend to give people who aren't used to them fits, as does trapping if you remember to keep it simple and use it as a lead in to something else.
Right now I am training in Jeet Kune Do, we tend to stick a little bit more to the Wing Chun structure than some schools, we also borrow some things from Xingyi and a couple other arts, our line comes through Larry Hartsell so we have quite a bit of grappling, most of it standing or clinch grappling. Honestly I really don't have any complaints about the art it suits me, real straight foward, plus I don't have to throw away anything I have learned in the past I just have to modify it a bit to fit within the structure of the system. My only complaint is that I can only train one day a week, but that is due to lack of transportation. I can't say I've used it in a fight per say, but I have used it in sparring both inside and outside the school, stop kicks and stop hits tend to give people who aren't used to them fits, as does trapping if you remember to keep it simple and use it as a lead in to something else.
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Here are the weapons
http://www.earthworks.com/martialart/canes/canes.htm
Note you can take this weapon on a plane hehehe.
Now if anyone, even older people, if they refuse to back down and lay a hand on me, I have the discipline to hold back - and then unleash hell which usually results in them slumped against a tree or bench like the last few times. My main concern is that if i get hit in the gut, I'm a gonner, hence why I am always slightly on edge and do my best to keep calm, cool and disciplined.
6-7 years of Shotokan Karate and 1-2 years of Fung Yang Sau (hard fist of the wind) Kung Fu. Shotokan Karate was great, and I loved every second of it. It was a club that taught your respect and discipline (which is more important than fighting), and gave you a very good knowledge of the fundamentals before moving on to the trickier stuff. When I was younger I did have a temper and I was hyper. I do believe that Karate calmed me down considerably and gave me both physical and mental strength that I would not have had otherwise:) Kung Fu was great too for the very short time that I did it, as it had alot of sparring and dealt with alot of grappling which I felt slightly lacked in Karate.
In summery for me I felt that Karate gave great knowledge of strikes, blocks, and kicks, and Kung Fu gave me knowledge of throws, grappling and the idea that an opponents force can be used against them. I got to compare the both fighting styles and realize that they were drastically different.
http://imgur.com/a/nTnTH
I consider myself a MASTER