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haha i find it good for fitness and i enjoy reading martial arts books with the history and philosophy, as for the resemblence i find my self downloading videos all the time comparing differnt styles with others, im must have alot.

I started 6 months ago becuase i had to do a award called the duke of edinburgh award and I have now passed it now, i'm still doing it becuase it is my favourite thing in the world (my old hobbie was computers), but i have always loved martial arts since i was kid watching all those martial arts movies .

well american martial movies are differnt than hong kong movies that is what i ment

well i like the old style american martial art movies.

yes I will enter the future tournement's but next time i will train more for my kata's .

Van Damme's fight scenes are so damn corny. Anybody with a week of martial arts experience would die laughing watching the final fight in Kickboxer. He flexes and yells, flexes and yells, flexes and yells, shows off his split kick and flexibility, flexes and yells. End of fight. http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=320 read the article he is just a martial artist just like all of us here.

thank you for your replies, I came first in sparring(white to blue belt catergorie), im not sure what I Came in kata because I didnt stay for the award ceremoney thingy and I did one step sparring, it was a great day thankyou all for your tips.

I didnt read the whole thing but im sure ive read that article somewhere before, to tell you the truth it sounds alot like those guys trying to sell you videos of a martial art thats that they say is unbeatable and you go on the website and it has heaps of peoples talking about how good it is. eg "this new style is unbelievable I cant believe i wasted 40 years of my life doing these useless martial arts" jedimc , some place in the USA. lol

I found kill bill 1 very boring, all my friends loved it but i just dont see why it is so special one minute shes trying to wiggle a toe and the next the screens gone black and white and she's killing a millions guys.

well i like jessica alba in dark angel there was alot of fighting in that , even though i dont know if she does martial arts im always happy to see her in anything.

yes they look like the real thing like say they do an axe kick it looks exactly as i do it, as for angles and distance , when im in a fight im not going to think in my head that im going to do a 95 degree to the opponents head im just going to do it the i feel is right.

Hi im having my first tournment this weekend and im doing sparring in karate it will be non-contact point sparring, if any of you guys have any tips please post it will make me very happy.

ive seen games with very acurrate technique but when they fight the opponent, the opponent goes flying off a cliff or something , this makes the game more exiting for the gamer , thats what games are for making a fun enviroment for the player. lol. i remeber playing killer instinct on the olde nintendo 64 and to annoy my little brother i would juggle him until he died, he hated cos he didnt get a chance to hit me.

dead or alive 3 has real looking fight styles and im sure the karate fighter is kyokushinkai style.

I just got Dead or Alive 3 on xbox (xbox classic) and its really good thier are many true styles a these ares some thier is a karate fighter, a few ninjustu fighter's, tai chi qaun fighter, jeet kune do fighter, drunken monkey fighter , varous kung fu styles, 2 russian martial art fighters, 2 wrestling fighters, yer its a great game and realy cheap 2.

He lied to me, but when started to question him about his techniques he couldnt lie any more cos he knew i was on to him, anyway i know hes not lying now cos he said he isnt (and i believe him) and he offered for me to come watch a class, i didnt but anyways he said he gonna quit soon cos its getting a bit pricy, he said he'll do kickboxing.

have you played it. if you have is it good, and i think they might be real styles and made up styles but they change the names.

wesley snipes did shotokan and steven seagul did shito ryu (hes a shodan) and also done Kenjutsu , Judo, Kali, Kendo, Eastern Philosophy, Shinto Religion, and the Holistic Arts i love the fight scenes in steven seagal movies how mixes karate with aikido.

hey what about the martial art movies with the big explosions and bullets everywhere like the vann dammes and and movies like the transporter(brilliant),has everyone forgot these beautys.

I saw a really good rpg martial art game its called jade empire, you learn martial arts and magic and stuff i love rpg games, Players begin the game with a single fighting style, but over the course of the game they can learn more than thirty (30) fighting styles. These include martial arts styles (Centipede, Mantis), magic styles (Paralyzing Palm, Fire), and weapon styles (Twin Axes, Halberd, and improvised weapons like chairs). Each fighting style is a package of up to seven moves, each with their own speed, power, and form that ranges from punches and kicks to weapon strikes, mystical powers, and even transformations into supernatural monsters. if anyones played knights of the old republic (kotor) then this game should be good cos its made by bioware.

yer very true when i see the brown belt sparring or doing thier kata you know they have been trianed properly.

Thanks

yer i see that in a few bruce lee movies but thats probaly because the chinese and japanese werent that good friends back then, in kiss of the dragon jet li takes on a whole room of karate guys .lol

Us Martial Artists are a more wiser group of people, our art have made us more disiplined and we see life a different way as others because this is the way of the martial artist.

maybe older styles of kata were much longer and todays are very short and remember todays styles dont have as much attacks as some of thier older ones because the instructer have picked the most effective ones , dpeneds on wat style you do.