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i am drinking from time to time - not too often.

its always good to have additional experts around! welcome

good to have u with us

since i dont study a weapon art, dont take this too serious, but i like swords best because they look very noble.

these are good ones

when ur instructor has to show u what u can do better than he as well could just spar u once or twice instead of using a stick or something. it'll teach u things better than the stick and probably is even more painful

so what exactly is "paediatric yudansha", one of the minusses of TKD???

it is often the same kind of plot...

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arent korean arts famous for their flashiness?

so what is actually wrong about that??

could we say it, in a very very simple way, that WTF training makes u a good tournament fighter and ITF makes u better at self-defense and mental values? its not my opinion, i was just wondering how we could bring this into a more simple shape.

i just wondered whether "every" martial studend is going to achieve training, if they attend class for several years. is it just training at the dojang and/or at home that makes u fit for in a far away future to become a black belt? a little hard to believe for me... i think there has to be put some more effort in it, but because i dont even attend class yet i dont have any clue about this. just wondered where i as a hobby martial artists am going to end up. whether it is one of the intermediate ones, or whether it goes on and on with the ranking and its just a question of time. sry for this since it might be a very stupid question but i was just curious.

i as well agree with pmh1nic. for me the martial arts are a hobby and not my entire life. i wouldnt call cross training "essential"... but pmh1nic pointed out the main aspects...!

cool stuff

i myself am 17 and like having peers as well as very expierienced martial artists around in this forum...!!

and btw: tkd is well suited for me so there aint any need... grappling might suit me well but i am satisfied

since martial arts are only a hobby for me and not my entire live i dont bother myself with a 2nd style.

always interesting though

i dont consider myself able to perform such posts

since there nonetheless are some cops that beat up a black man more likely than a white, this sympathee thing is somewhat difficult. probably its the police that is not very much liked and not the arrestee that are held in high esteem. as for the street fight situation: in germany there are very few cops that make their round alone. in pedestrian precinct or something, there are always two of them. as for "special occasions" like the "oktoberfest" in bavaria, there often are teams of 5 to 6 policemen to be able to handle any situation either it's crime or drunk or whatever.

kind of ridiculous... hope they didnt ban u from school for ur chopsticks actually we were talking about the UK, where the nunchaku is going to be forbidden. the usa are something completely different.

i am from germany and probably it is just forbidden, dont know. i could get it for Xbox, Playstation, Game Boy Advanced and Game Cube, but i didnt see any computer versions yet. the fighting styles caught my interest the most...! some of the fatalities have been crap even earlier in MK series so i dont bother...

i'm glad u're with us

welcome to the forum