shotokanwarrior

First of all, I am 30 yrs old, out of shape and have martial arts back ground. I have really been thinking of competing in a mma event. I wonder if I am to old to even be thinking of this. Any thoughts on the matter? I know that I will need a lot of training and I live in sacramento CA. If anyone knows of a good school let me know. thanks

just wondering, did the old masters with big knuckles and hard hands complain about this condition when they were older?

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I was always told that if you are faced with a trained knife fighter, you will never see the blade until its to late.

You will not know your enemy, so how can you predict what technique will be used? I know that I cant tell the future.

These are hardly Facts, just opinions.

Be afarid of the man who does one technique 10,000 times, not the man who does 10,000 techniques once.

I have tried both, but i choose to master one art at a time, ( shotokan )

Ok from what I have heard judo has better throws and bjj is better on the groung. I will accept that, but this is how I look at it. The two meet on the street and since they are standing up and not laying in the middle of the road , the judo player throws the bjj to the concrete, fight over ...I will choose judo to learn.

I have two questions. 1 any one here do combat hapkido, what is it like? 2 any schools near saceamento calif?

TMA have been around far to long to just disapear even if it is not popular at some time, there are still dedicated people to keep it alive. If you join a TMA school just to fight you are missing the whole picture.

The only water in my shotokan class is the bottle that I gulp down during the hard training that I endure. Yes kids get a little less because you dont want a 8 year old beating on other kids and seriously hurting one.

The best martial art is the one that knocks the other guy out cold.

I recently saw a police video where an officer was trying to controll two guys, he threw one and mouned the other. to make a long story short the other guy got up and was punching the officer in the face while he was mounted on his buddy. he could not controll the situation by himself by grappling and had to get back up and draw his gun. Anyway I would not grapple just because of that kind of thing can happan and also police are well traind to know what going on around them. I personally train to get out and back up.

From what I have seen all fights look like crap, nothing like the movies. It is very suprising when someone is sucker punched and the reaction, its like all technique goes out the window. You must train to take a hit and how to deal with a surprise attack.

to all wc people: I am going to start soon. from what I have saw so far in my area ( sacramento calif ) there are schools with no belt and no uniform, to a calss with a uniform and a grade system that uses colored sashes.

Thanks drunken monkey, since my last post I have talked to an instructor of wing chun and there was nothing neg. about my shotokan experiance, but as far as im concerened I wont make it public knowledge. speaking from experiance of a bjj school I worked out in, they do poke fun at other styles but it is from a lack of understanding. Anyway the class is 5 days a week for 2 hours. What is considered a good price since it was not discussed yet, but i gues that does not really matter if the class is good.

will it be hard for someone like myself who has done shotokan, cross over and do wing chun?

I do not disrepect the gracies they are great. I to took bjj and followed them greatly almost blindly like most. Then I met a fourth dan karate guy with 35 yrs experiance and who traveled to many countries, He opened my eyes. All arts have something to offer you but you have to admitt that saying bjj is the greatest is tooting your own horn. I do need to get back to my JKA dojo kun, the holidays are boring.

One again I have proved my point that no one listens. Does anyone know what self defense is? Its not FIGHTING.........I know there are people here who are mature enough to know.

You must not read very well or you do not know the differance between fighting and self defense. And yes if a gracie walked up to my instructor in a bar and grabbed his shirt, gracie would not be here. Must be someone who can back me up, I drill to death in self defense and it does not matter who the other guy is.

I will agree that in a fight the grappler will have a better advantage. Fighting is different than NHB and both are different than self defense. I would like to see a new gracie challange video like all the ones where they beat all karate, kung fu people, but this time have someone well trained in self defence sitting in a bar. Have a gracie wearing street cloths walk into the bar and walk up the the self defence man, grabs his shirt and threatens him. Keep in mind gracies knows nothing of this man...My bet is that gracies is out in less than 30 seconds...That is how I train in self defense.

Way before the gracies came along we had judo and other grappling arts, judo gene was cranking necks before i was born. What do think was the main reason for bjj becoming so big, almost no one knew about it but now it is wide spread, If the UFC never happened would we still be in the dark?

I agree it is evolution and they made it popular.

no I was trying to understand what you were saying. In my opinion they took the guard that you said was from judo and tweeked it and came up with the spider guard. So the original guard was looked at as a basic technique and they applied some modifications and created a different technique. in a way it is new but it still came from something old. People do this all the time and say they invinted something never seen before, but I say once you reach a certain level you can tweek a move on the spot to apply it many ways, even if it looks different that the original move.