MantisWarrior

to SaiFightsMS, i think you ment albums if so saddly i haven't been ale to find any pics of him and he died a very very long time ago and i only know about him b/c of my grandma who is now dead so really i only know that i am kin to him.

well its not my fav but its still a pretty good move

welcome to the forum. you seem to have a really bright personality thats great.

jest go for it man. jest a little story one of the students that use to go to the school i study at started at 300 pounds when he left ,im still not sure why, he was 210 pounds. im not sure how long he was there but i know it was less then a year.

im not famous but im related to Lon Chaney(The Master of Disguise) he was the hunchback in the first hunkback of Notre Dame and he played in other movies.

Love and Peace it might sound cheezey but i beleave it.

welcome my brother or sister in Christ.

welcome to the forum. keep up the passion to train.

well what i study doesn't really have what i would call powerful kicks, but i do wish you luck in finding a style and school u like. my style is northern 7-Star mantis. any questions about it i will gladly try to answer.

well i guess i was wrong thanx for the correction. but i know i wouldn't be the same without my teacher but thats jest me.

thanx for advice Kensai

hey jest wanted to know if anyone out there takes mantis dosen't really matter what style. southern northern Chi Xieng (Seven Star style)<--(thats the one i take) Mei Hua (Plum Flower style) Guang Bang (Shinny Board style) Chang Chuan (Long Fist style) Fan Che (Chariot style) theres not really a question jest wante to know.

i like this topic. umm snake in the eagle's shadow rush hour 1 and 2 once opon a time in china 1 and 2 didn't really like 3 and haven't seen 4, 5, 6 last hurra for chivalry all the Bruce Lee movies drunken master (old one and the new one) and a million more but thats all i feel like typeing

i take northern 7-star mantis. pros. well in our style we practis jest about everything(grappling, strikes, ect.) cons. takes long time to get really good, it works best close to the other person(s) so if a good distence is put in between theres a much better chance of the other person winning but we do a lot of techniques to close the space. im not trying to say my style is superior so please don't take it that way, im jest saying that theres not type of fighter(grappler, kicker, ect.) that would have superior advantage. it would all depend on the skill of both fighters.

here is some info about it its a type of karate. What is Bushido-Kai? Bushido comes from “bushi” meaning warrior and “do” meaning way. Literally it is the way of the warrior. Bushido-Kai means “school of the way of the fighter”. Bushido-Kai is not a style – it is the name of schools which have a direct heritage under the Kyokushinkai system as taught by Sensei Holzbauer. The Bushido-Kai schools are both pragmatic and traditional. Pragmatic in that they have incorporated many techniques outside the Kyokushin, and traditional in their adherence to basic tenants of the original system which are timeless and absolute. The organization of the Bushido-Kai Karate schools and certain other black belts from other martial arts systems is the American Bushido-Kai Karate Association (ABKA). This association is for the ongoing promotion of competition, fellowship, and learning. The Bushido-Kai schools will always maintain the integrity of karate do. What is Kyokushin-Kai? The Truthful Way Kyokushin Karate was founded by Masutatsu (Mas) Oyama, who was born 27 July 1923 in South Korea. He started his martial arts training at the age of 9 and excelled in many styles. By the age of 24 he was already 4th Dan (in Shotokan Karate). In 1946 he trained for 14 months at Mt Minobu, then emerged in 1947 and won the Karate section of the Japan National Martial Arts Tournament. He decided to devote his life to Karate, and once again went to the seclusion of the mountains to train. There he perfected his skills, training for 12 hours a day. Eighteen months later he emerged, ready for any challenge. Mas Oyama traveled to America in 1952 to demonstrate Karate. There he toured for a year doing demonstrations and accepting challenges from boxers, wrestlers, etc. Through all this he was never defeated, and usually won in the first minute of the fight. His first Dojo was behind Rikkyo University. This was the beginning of Kyokushinkai-Kan. In his quest to make Kyokushin the strongest Karate, he began the 100 Man Kumite tradition, where a person must fight 100 challengers in a row, all on the same day. Sosai Oyama did this on 3 consecutive days (300 fights). Since 1975, Sosai Oyama and Kyokushinkai have staged the most successful Full Contact World Tournament every 4 years. Sosai Oyama died on 26 April, 1994 due to lung cancer. Kyokushin style stresses both the need for a realistic approach to combat and the necessity of mastering self in terms of spiritual discipline. It has become a world wide and highly respected style. Particular emphasis is placed on hard fighting, hard forms, and breaking has given the Kyokushinkai Karateka the nickname of hard bodies and their dojo – “the school of hard bodies.” Kyokushinkai, true to its name ”the truthful way” strives toward integrity in its teaching and application that its practitioners might strive toward truth and discipline in both body and spirit.

Welcome

well im not a parent but my kids will learn MA and i will inspect the school there going to learn at. if u told some of that stuff to my younger aged Kung Fu brothers and sisters they would laugh.

im with Sub on this one, not imposible but more likey not gona happen. jest for example i know i wouldn't be that good with out my teacher. im not saying all ppl feel this way but i feel the relationship between a teacher and student is a large part of being a MA jest my thoughts.

i know there are different styles to both but jest as a hole i want to know what all of you like better. i have a couple friends that take a type of bushido kai and i have a chance to go to there dojo and spar with them and i jest wanted to know a little info on how bushido kai fighters spar and maby a little of what to exspect. and if u take mantis maby a few pointers to help me out. i don't really care if i win or not i would jest like to know a little about what im getting into. thanx.

you sicken me kickmaster i think you need to jest quit talking you disgrace the memory of Bruce Lee with your words

i agree kensai thankfully all the ppl at my school get along but i dout anyone of my kung fu brothers or sisters would challenge our sifu because i know they wouln't win and they know that too

hello everyone this is a nice forum very divers and educational i guess i will tell a little about my self im a Christian i study Northern 7-star praying mantis, i did at one time study TKD but very long time ago, im a big fan of snake-fist and i know a little but jest what i have picked up from studying others and from the internet. i like jest about all martial arts though i like kung fu the best, not saying its the best its jest what i like. im not say its true but i beleave that the more divers you are in martial arts the better MA you will become. im also open to any training ideas.

if train hard enough maby you can but suspension is very hard to do because your center will be lower then the rest of your body but hey good luck to you

i take kung fu so naturally like kung fu better but u cant really say karate vs. kung fu because both have many different stlyes one stlye of karate could beat a stlye of kung fu and to kensai theres no reason to beat down magikchiongson jest because he used a term u have never herd

i did practice tkd but it was a long time ago