Karateka_latino

hey! Thanks good info. lol

Of course it could be good to join to a school. Most Martial arts share the same basics, just try to get related arts. example, if you want to learn Muay thai and theres no school around, then try boxing or kickboxing, not the same, but close enough want to learn kUng fu. No school, well, take taekwondo. Kung fu , taekwondo, karate, they all share similar basics. Want Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, no school, take Judo or wrestling instead. You may do that, until you have access to a school of the style you want to learn. Hope this helps.

Get some books, video tapes or Cd's about the art you want to learn. Make contact by internet with instructors or practitioners so you can ask for advices. Then whenever you have chance. Go to seminars held by masters of the particular styles you want to learn and have them to correct your moves or plan a trip to the nearest School and join them for a week or so take the info and work by yourself. I advice to focus only on the basic moves, make no sense trying to learn the advanced ones under that conditions.

Close guard, your ankles are crossed on the back of your oponent and your arms around his neck and you squeez it against your body. Defensive guard to wear down. Open guard. you have your feet on the oponents hips and your arms holding the sleeve or collar of his gi, for control and you can plan your attacks, armbars, chokes and sweep. Most of the guard techniques can be performed in this position. Spider Guard, one foot on your oponents Hip, the other foot on your oponents biceps, both hands holding the sleeve of his Gi. Control your stand up oponent trying to pass your guard, Lots of attacks can be performed as well. hope this helps.

Hello, I did a little Seven Star Praying Mantis Kung fu with a friend of mine which have been training on it for 20 years now. At first, we did traditional chinese bow, then we started to warm up (jogging, jumping jacks, abs, flex, etc..) After that we started to train our kicks and punches (with the aid of heavy bag and focus mitts) One step sparring and self defense techniques using traditonal chinese strokes (eye of the peakock, dragon tail kicks, Horse kick, moon punch, etc..) Then Forms, not as much as i thought i chinese style train on it. that was because my friend is more toward combat and self defense than forms training. And then Free Sparring. Nowbody sparred in bow and arrow stance with his hands in "mantis" guard lol Mostly boxing style stance or cat stance if you wanted to be defensive. After that we used to do an exercises of meditation like Tai chi, bow and hand chake. In the time i was there, i didnt saw any weapons training or anything like that. It was a fun class.

I had a friend who taugh me some Seven Star Praying Manits Kung fu. it was cool. lol I also had a chinese friend who was training Pak Mei Kung Fu from another chinese friend of his. But he refused to teach me because i wasn't chinese. lol Can you believe that??. lol

Jet Li In the Bio i've read says that his styles is Wushu,some boxing and Internal Styles. In the Movie "Tai Chi Master" he did Chen Tai chi chuan. In the Movie "The One" bad Jet Li used Hsing-I(xing-gi) and Good Jet Li used Pa kua Chan (baguazhang). In the Movie "Fist of Leyend" you can cleary see his Boxing Skills. And In the rest of his movies is Pure Wu Shu.

WOW!!! 12 hours of training A DAY!!!! I mean, i thought that training 7-8 hours was so grueling and only reserved to gifted persons. lol Just by training 8 hours a day for some important even like the Olympics you are saying "No" to have a private life, training 12 hours is like saying "No" to any kind of life you may Have lol

Yes, I agree. Peking Opera School used to teach Kung fu for Stage performance, not as a combat art for self defense per se. In the Jackies Bios and interviews that i have read says that he trained in Pak Mei kung fu, Wing Chun, Karate, Boxing, etc.. But that the only formal style that he studied and archived ranks was in Hapkido.

Hi! If you take a base style and start to change things around and add things from other styles, you HAVE a NEW system and you are just borrowing the name of your Base style. Its like being on the middle, I do my stuff but i don't face the responsabilities of it.. People do that and there are several reasons for it. 1."Respect" to the Founders , Sensei, Organizations, etc.. 2.Don't feel prepared to have your own style. 3.Avoid problems with the martial arts community. Specially with the traditionals. 4."Too much responsability".. 5.Fear And All that is Fine. I depends on what you want. If you really and trully want to be a complete martial artist, you definitive need to do some reserch. I don't see anything wrong doing that. If just want recreation, one style may be fine. Many people WANT to explore but are affraid of there Masters and Senseis. I don't worship any Masters I Respect them, two diferent things. I Respect everything they have done for martial arts, but that doesn't mean i have to stop there and think "that's it". When i started in Martial Arts i did Shotokan Karate. I felt Good and it fit good on me but it wasn't until i started to train with a couple of friends from other styles that i stopped and thought that there's so much to learn around to just stay in one place. Remember also that styles are more about cultural and regional diferences than other things. As Bruce Lee says " there's no styles, we all have two hands and two legs" . At the ends it depend on the individual. Creating a New style It's not a responsability that everybody is willing to carry. Its not only about fighting, but train the next generation of martial artists, lots of traveling in order to let people know your new style, create something that have a philosophy, a Reason , something beautifull that you can feel proud of it. And that requires a leader and not all people are leaders. So if you want to give your style a name, Good, if you don't, Good too. but I personally fell that everyone that its seriously into martial arts MUST have the experience of explore the other styles and have fun doing it. Thanks.

I dont know. but i thought to the topic was about street fighting , Not UFC lol I have been in a couple of streetfights when i was much younger. Im a very small person so i was the perfect target for bullies lol Just Once i went to the ground and it was because I Took the guy down for gound and pound. For ME, clinching is even more common than ground, thats why is so importan to work on the clinch.

Kensai, All the styles we train NOW came from modification of the older styles. Taekwondo (karate/taekyon); Aikido and Judo(daitoryu aikijujitsu); Shorin ryu Karate (traditional chinese martial arts); Kyokushin karate (shotokan;goju ryu); etc... So I think the styles created today, will be the traditional arts of the future

I think that all martial artists have there own style. Specially people who train in more than One art. The diference is that some people name it and go on there own, and other stay with there original instructor and organization.

I'm actually training in a created style. My intructor trained in karate, taekwondo, kickboxing, boxing, aikido, Hapkido, jiu-jitsu. and He named his style "Freestyle Jiu-jitsu". because its a name that covers all the aspects of fighting.

Mata leon!!! Sweep, take the back and lion kill choke.

Besides the spelling difference, if you watch carefully, you'll notice that the Brazilians like to use "jiu jitsu" and the Traditonal Japanese method is called "ju jutsu".

Thanks friend. That's what i was looking for.

In weight training.. which moves are consider Compound movements?? Thanks

Hello, I do modern Freestyle jiu jitsu which try to take the best from both worlds and works very well for street situations.

There are diferent Shotokan karate organizations here, every with there own requirements. Its around 2 to 3 years to move from Shodan to Nidan..

Hello, Are you going to compete in that tournament??

It depend on which rules the figthers use. Almost all the time kickboxers have won against Thai boxers with kickboxing rules the same works for thai boxers when they fight against kickboxers with Thai Boxing rules.. In the streets , its not style is the Man..

Yes.. you mention favorite "KARATE" style. and neither Aikido or Hapkido are consider karate styles.. My favorite karate style is Shotokan.

I wouldn't take the "One Punch one kill" thing to the letter. To me its more an ideal than a fact. i think the idea is to finish the fight quickly.. that's all. Not actually Killing a person with one move...

I would try both.. Why? because i think Aikido Locks are more precise and clean, but Hapkido have punches and kicks.. So i'd say Both are good to learn.