Ravencroft

No man about what you said earlier u misunderstood me. ican build my power faster and more easily than i can speed...same with accuracy. im not saying its at all more important im just saying that for me personally my power and accuracy would increase at a greater rate(even with the same hours of training) than my speed. more time and effort would have to go into that to gather the same effect.

Endurance definatley. if u are striking someone you can have technique make up for power. look at the man himself(Brue Lee). only 135 pounds and he could strike way harder than guys who could out lift him. But brute strength is more fun to train haha thats why i do both.

if i had to take one overall i would take speed, not because it is more important than the other two, but because i feel i could build accuracy and power more easily than natural speed. but that said they are all important in the end no matter what you start off with.heh good thesis by the way.

yeah i know what you mean

ive tried using two and i always cower in fear because im afraid i will conk myself in the head...again. double does seem fun but i cant teach it to myself like i did with the single. but i would never take double chucks into a fight because to me thats screwing urself over. it looks cool as hell but traditional nunchaku were meant to be more of a trapping weapon rather than a striking weapon. u have a much harder time parrying and keeping ur focus when u have to control two chucks rather than one.

kali/escrima/arnis do all derive from the same art. i love these styles because they are so complete. theyve taken influences from all over the world for theyre combat practices. and yes, it is a totally combatative art which is why it is the prime style taught to the military. i mean like other styles it has its own divisions. for example if ur interested in the more hardcore aspects fighting, using such weapons as knives and sticks, sayoc kali is where u want to be. but yeah if there were a phillipino arts school anywhere near me i would be all up on that because i only know some and to me thats not nearly enough.

i would love to learn some capoeira but there arent any schools in my area. there isnt much of anything im into in my area but in any case capoeira i believe can be used efficiently in combat if u train in it that way. it seems like it would be pretty hard to counter with all of the fast kicks and twists, this is not to say that i would rely on it and it alone but it has many things that other arts to do not which i believe to be a great benefit. and snipes studied it? i mean i know he holds a 5th dan in karate but i didnt know he studied capoeira.

Heh...are you serious? damn what an *.

Yeah thats true but there are great martial artists who know all kinds of philosophy and have tons of experience with a 5th dan or whatever but if u put them up against a professional fighter with much less formal MA training they might get the crap kicked out of them. it all depends what u are training for. i personally dont consider myself that great of a martial artist and maintain that i am a much better fighter because that past few years thats what ive been training for and the material ive learned is geared more towards that purpose. it really all just depends on the person. "Humility is fine and dandy, but i believe it defeats the purpose of answering this thread if humility would go so far as to override honesty." Yeah i agree

i do about 5 hours of weapon training each week(sword nunchaku and a little bit of bo) as well as going to the gym every other day for about 45 minutes. i go to class for only an hour or two every week but they are very well constructed half hour private lessons at a time so its like the equivalent of 3-5 hours of normal classes easy. so all in all 5 hours of weapon training 3 hours of gym time (running and weights) 1-2 hours of private instruction

well im pretty sure that Steven Seagal was the first to open an aikido school. at least the first well known. but this is just what ive heard.

hmmm. im not gonna be too leanient with myself but im not gonna be overly humble and give myself a crappy rating, honestly as martial artist maybe a 3, and as a fighter id say like a 4 or 5. i think thats pretty fair.

Yeah I am gonna have to agree with everyone else on this one. eventhough the katana is by far the coolest and most deadly, virtually every other weapon can be based in some way around the bo. it just makes sense to start off with it. and of course it is very practical as well.

The Spetznaz actually learn a certain type of sambo, a more militarized version rather than just the grappling moves. i have seen some of their footage in both armed and armed hand to hand and its pretty impressive. and no i do not consider them to be a martial art seeing as how at least 90% of what they learn is derived from other arts. the other 10 %is all mainly how they might apply something a little differently to fit the battlefield rather then the art practice. its so difficult to tell all of the exact arts the SF learn because there are so many. its just what works the best is the best way of describing it.

Personally im not too big on the idea of fighting with weapons because as soon as someone busts out a knife or whatever it just got a whole lot more serious and i think unarmed brawls are better(obviously). however this is not dream world and that kinda stuff does happen. i dont really carry around weapons too much. the only things ive carried before(and this was only a couple of times) were either my pocket knife or butterfly knife but i dont live in that bad of a town so its usually not too necessary.

I would have to agree with WW on his earlier post about muay thai and karate. the style only matters so much the most important thing is how you train(versatilility, intensity etc.) as well as how you are taught. it depends on the person above all else, the style is only secondary.

There is actually a lot of truth there. they usually do train ahead of time to whatever their mission pertains to. but the combat course i know for a fact is the same for all Green Berets. i cant speak for the marines but i do know that the greenies go thru a 6 week course during their long 18 months of training for MA. as for the other stuff like he said it pertains to their mission or region of the world.

Yeah i thought i was getting decent until i saw u whipping those things around. i cant spin them around my hands like that or tie techinques together. heh i guess i better just stick to the weapon i can actually use and maybe one day i will become half way decent and the chucks.

Yeah dude thats really nice handling with the chucks man. i wish i were that good. haha. but i cant get my techiniques that fluent nor am i any good at whipping them around by the chain like that...are you self taught?

Actually you would be surprised, they use many Bruce Lee concepts. they dont use conventional kicks cuz they take to long to get good at. they do use stomps and knees but many of the training exercises involving sensitivity, kicking, jabbing etc were developed by Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto. thats what they use and study primarily, as well as philosphical meaning behind the arts because they were having too much trouble with creating thugs in the military so they delved more into the mental aspect as well as physical.

I agree with that system. im not a big point guy because i like having fun sparring with not that much stress. not having to worry about if someone just got a point..."one more and im out". im more into letting the sparring partners go at it for a set period of time so theres les stress and more sparring time. plus if someone gets mad because he doesnt think that his partner deserved that point then it creates tension. but thats me.

Yeah dude i know what you mean i am exactly the same way. Especially if im new i dont want to be too ballsy. i just try to be kind of defensive and lay back a little seldomly attacking.

yeah kendo was spawned from kenjustu...the art of japanese dueling. also is bushido an actual style i thought it was a code...but yeah another practiced style is Iaido which is the art of drawing the sword which incorporates attacks suchas the battojutsu(yes it is a real attack not just something made up Rurouni Kenshin). kendo is a good practicing art its just like a different type of fencing...if its fun and convenient go for it.

Really? I didnt know that the samurai even studied ninjitsu. i thought that they did kendo(kenjutsu) as well as iaido and jujitsu/aikijitsu. i thought the shinobi were the ones who did stealth and assassinations. where as the samurai were more into straight up fighting. but this just what ive learned.

thats what they used. katanas. of course there are different types but yeah i am pretty sure a samurai sword is a katana... correct me if im wrong.