battousai16

if you go into hwarangdo.com and go into video clips, you can see all sorts of stuff in quick times, from forms to sparring. very cool stuff

yeah, in hwarang do you work with nunchaku as well, only we don't call them that or jul bong, we call them ssang jyel bang. identicle to nunchaku. only difference is if we call them nunchaku, we have to do pushups

my last fight, eh? it happened a little less than a week ago. I work in a library, and my library is right on top of a food pantry. one of my close up duties is to go down there, make sure no ones in there, make sure the lights are off, make sure the lights are off, etc. well, i go down there, and i hear this guy run behind the counter (there's a small kitchen in the back corner, we allow other people in the city to hold party's there ). so i'm like, "hello, anyone back there? " and he dosen't respond, but i can hear him breathing, so i go to the back and look, and he jumps at me. i really wasn't expecting it and he nailed me straight into the wall. i kicked him off and back hand-punch-back hand combination. he dropped everything he stole and ran out the door. turns out he stole about $40 from the donation bin.

my cousin is autistic, and she's a martial artist; she loves it. she'll practice for hours a day, even though her dojo kind of sucks still, she takes it more seriously than a lot of other people i know, and rarely loses control. when she does (and believe me, when she does it HURTS), all you have to do is remind her "no, that's not ok" and she'll apologize, give you a hug, and offer to try again. simply amazing.

hey, i love you too, buddy!

if by nasty you mean comprehensive and amazing, then yeah, i agree whole heartedly and that's what i was getting at.

well, i'm no expert on bruce lee. i watch his movies, i read his book, but it's not like i ever knew him. but in protest to your "there's more to martial arts than just kicks and punches", no one ever said there wasn't. i'd be able to make this more clear, but i lent my copy of the book to someone and he hasn't return it... blasted nate . give me a day or so until he returns it i don't know, i totally had a point when i started this, and i completely forgot it

"It's just curiosity not ignorance cuz not a whole lot of people can do it good. It would be like if u met someone who could fly... of course you'd ask em to prove it just out of curiosity." ...hmmm, good point....

quite a bit of it is about money and ownership, i've found, and the history has a bit of scandal in it. something about joo bang lee not actually inheriting the art and one of joo bang lee's former students being disloyal and a fraud and spreading false rumors. i dunno, i myself am a member of the world academy of hwarang do, so i'm probably fairly biased. i didn't find out about the scandal thing until after i joined, else i probably would have dug a bit further before i'd chosen a side. however, i can tell you that there are very high standards for progressing in the art; they don't let you pass until you know ALL of the belt material and know it WELL. this means with FLUIDITY and STRENGTH. i dunno why i'm randomly capitalizing words, it just feels RIGHT on top of that the style its self is very interesting, due to the fact that, as previously implied, it works on a perfect blend between fluidity and strength; hard and soft. very neat stuff, super cool to watch. i personally enjoy studying. so to answer you question ICE, yes, it does exist

at my old school, when i was a wee one of about 7, we used to play a game called "duck duck dodge", in which my sensei would have a foam bat and he'd either swing it horizontally across our heads (thus having us duck) or bringing it down to the mat (thus having us dodge), one of a time, inside of a circle. it was entertaining and kept the ones who had trouble focusing in order. and if it came to be to bad, he'd pick up the speed until the kid was so exhausted he couldn't move

wow, y'all are pretty morbid. as the guy/girl in question is throwing a haymaker, the attackers fairly inexperienced. thus, maybe it's best not to do some crazy spinning-back-monkey-coil-death strike at lightning speed to the poor guy, and instead step out side the punch, direct it inward, and run away. as i see it, the martial arts aren't to hurt others, but to defend them/yourself; you can do this without killing the poor dope. be a pascifist. make love, not war

the only dillema i see with running, which in all fairness is what i'd do (i'm a cross country runner, after all ), is that if the drunk/stoned guy OR girl; so as not to gender bias, is just looking for a fight with anyone, the waisted person's next victim could very well be someone signifigantly weaker then your self; say a cripple, an elderly person, a child, or someone with just plain no fighting spirit. thus, if i turned on the 10 o' clock news only to find that on the street i was on that night some person got beaten within an inch of his/her life by the person who attacked me, i'd feel quite a bit guilty.

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hello one and all- i registered here yesterday and keep coming back to this blasted site every chance i get! y'all are so open and friendly and willing to share advice and input. i'm 17, home grown in Verona, Wisconsin. i'm been in the martial arts about 10 years now. i like music a lot, i play percussion and listen to all kinds of stuff, but mostly incubus, rammstein, dropkick murphys, and some local bands like lucid and the german arts students, which y'all should check out if your curious i work in a library and thus read a lot, my favorite authors being kurt vonnegut, stephen king and george orwell, and i play LOTS of video games, final fantasy VIII being my personal favorite, and when i'm not doing one of the previous activities i'm usually watching mystery science theater that said, i'll wish you all a farewell, god speed, and good morrow to you

i guess, but once again, i wear my old gi tops as over shirts all the time and have yet to encounter any trouble because of it. i dunno, maybe it's just the people who live around here...

well, greatest heros of that time, anyway

in addition, y'all are forgetting what he did not only for the martial arts in the us, but what he did for the people of china. in a time with much harrassment coming from japan and the US, burce lee, viewed as one of the greatest heros, gave the people something to be proud of.

wow. just... wow. you people must live in really angry and cynical places. 'round here in WI, if you tell people your in the martial arts, they just say "hey, that's cool, what style" and the subject either continues or it ends there. i wear my old gi top all the time; it's comfortable, it's convenient, it brings fond memories, and i get knowing smiles from other martial artists. i wouldn't call it bragging, just pride. and i don't think ever once has anyone ever provoked me because i was in the martial arts.

i dunno what y'all are talking about. i'm proud to be a martial artist. when i first meet someone and they ask me what i'm in to, i say "well, i like music, and reading, and i'm a martial artist...". a great ice breaker. maybe it's not a big deal 'round WI, but whatever. heck, i wear some of my old gi tops as over shirts, i guess i even litterally advertise. heh heh. as for the street fight, if they provoke you, they're not gonna let you go whether your a martial artist or not. it really dosen't matter if you tell them, the out come will always be the same

i can say with pride that at my school, at every belt test (which i also believe is kind of a scam, but that's for a different topic ), you are placed in front of a full panel of judges where you are not only graded (quite heavily, i might add) on your techniques, but are than given an oral exam on beliefs, philosophys, and general history of the art. as you climb the ranks, your general strength and power is graded as well. and before you can test, you have to take a form to all of your teachers at school (if your still in school) and have them verify that your doing alright and not being disruptive. you get another one for you parents saying your generaly pleasant and cleanly. i've found that it's nearly impossible for someone under the age of about 12 to get the rank of brown belt, and those who do are dedicated and talented enough. it cuts out everyone under 10, really, as they really don't have the mental maturity to contemplate difficult thoughts on philosphy and ethics, and they don't have the muscular development for strength; i don't know anyone who's fully mastered ki/chi.

alright, i have no experience with Togakure Ryu Ninpo Taijutsu, or, well, about 98% of the various styles listed here. but i'd say that none of them can really be more expansive than hwarang do, at 4,000 techniques, 108 weapons, and all of them done through fluidity and power. then again, bruce lee says in tao of jeet kune do that there really isn't a difference in styles, and that to think so is very ignorant. he said something to the affect of "when i first started the martial arts, a punch was just a punch, a kick was just a kick. when i mastered the martial arts, a punch was so much more than a punch, a kick was so much more than a kick. when i understood the martial arts, a punch was just a punch, a kick was just a kick". just a thought.

also, keep in mind that although he never studied most of those under an instructor, he had an extensive library on all of them and new them. it's not like he was just pulling things out of thin air; he read up on them, applied them to what he new, and figured it out.

reverse blade swords were indeed invented b4 the show. i've seen them, i've used them, and it was actually the fact that he used one too that made me start watching the show. very cool stuff. i don't know how or why they were invented, but they were around the 1960's or 70's.

Hwarang do, founded by mr. jo bang lee, is a korean martial art with about 4,000 movements. practicioners study 108 weapons. easily the most comprehensive martial art ever, and it takes a very long time to learn. Lots of dedication. There's a more condensed version of it called tae soo do, kind of a "step up" program to it. Once you get a black belt in that you earn a yellow sash in hwarang do and can work your way up from there. that's the style i'm currently in you can check out the official and, really, only website for it at https://www.hwarangdo.com