Muaythaiboxer

i once saw a match between a body builder and a Bjj guy and the Bjj guy taped him out in under a minute.

i agree i really love the well documented history of the chinese MA and how pretty they are when practiced although i will stick with my Muay Thai for fighting i really like to do chinese MA forms.

to get your legs strong... i really hope people dont plan on fighting that way they will get smashed.

actually alot of the movie people where chinese opera people who did dance although they where also involved with MA. most of the movies where shot in hong kong where it was legal to practice TMA

what your talking about is called "runners guilt" in the athletic comunity because it most oftain effects runners. i have a big problem with it if im not able to practice for a couple days i feel terrible and although im always a nice guy i find it very hard to be nice during these training breaks. if you dont got this when you stop training you arnt training enough. AMITABHA

thats true but they are at a disadvantage in MMA because of there lack of ground work although they still do really well. and what about yaw yan... still no info.

i dont quit understand your post mantis... but yes it was illegal to train MA until the mid 80's and it is still discouredged to practice any traditional MA other than tai chi.

interesting... try this i found it to be very interesting and the guy seemed like he was proficient in his art. http://www.8step.com/

lol the last sentence of your post could be a song those low stances are really good for your knees they make your leg stronger. so next your in horse stance and your knees hurt just remember this little quote. "pain is weakness leaveing the body"

in my experience with tai chi tought in the west is that it is 100% worthless for self defence and you would be better off just swinging than trying to use western tai chi in a real fight. tai chi is good for health however so if self defence is not your thing tai chi might not be that bed.

wow this topic is a diamond in the ruff IMHO all styles need to change with time but the problem is when people chang there style not to make it more effective but to make it more customer friendly. for enstance although most MT classes will give you better fighting skills than most other systems it is not customer friendly nor do the moves look that pretty, and no parent (except mine) would place there child in an enviorment where they would be subjected to full contact techniques, and lets face it if you want to get rich off MA schools you have to make your dojo kid friendly kids are the the MA schools bread and butter. then you have to add all the "extra stuff" to make more money. if a MT school stoped doing full contact and started doing tap sparing and then started to add flashy kicks to make it look cool it would stop being MT and be a watered down worthless system that happens to make money. this has happened many schools i talked to my TKD teacher and he said that 20 years ago most TKD dojongs where doing full contact and that hapkido was more offtain than not added in so then you had sweeps and throws then the teachers realized that americans dident want to learn how to fight they wanted to do forms and show off there flashy kicks and win trophys.

luta lebre is annother. we dont use the word teep in my gym so ill guess its where you grab the head and pull to the side and knee? if not please enlighten me AMITABHA

another good post. you guys seem to have the right idea.

yea i have done a little of both and the thai places seem to be a little better.

yea you could work out with me considering you go to the same gym i do... and yea if you want to take some extra boxing lessens i know a good place. AMITABHA

i personally dont think he will continue muay thai if he gets in a real match but still im happy hes doing something other than drugs.

i love that flying arm bar i think ill try it next time i do some grapling.

very true so that is why aikido is not good for the army, great for police as there job is to take someone alive and unharmed although BJJ or JJJ could do it just as well

kickboxing is basicly thai boxing with no elbows and most of the prokickboxers take muay thai not to mention that kickboxers get mauled by thai boxers when elbows are allowed. dont get me wrong kickboxing is ahead of most styles in training and condishing but the way the muay thai fighters train in thailand i would have to say that there are more good thaiboxers than kickboxers

nice post. if it was a grapling MA (aka judo/jiujitsu) or one of the styles of full contact karate (kyokushin/seidokaikan) then my moneys on the 10 year guy but otherwise i will give it to he MMA guy.

i guess ive never taken one hard enough to have that kind of pain. so i guess i will have to give this one to you as you have more experience with them than i do.

one of my good friends great grandfathers fought in the boxer rebellion against the germans and the british and his grandfather told him all sorts things that happened during the mao takeover (like all the monks in there village including his brother being hung for refuseing to be relocated) he also said that during the mao takeover that martial arts where not to be practiced and if a communist saw you practiceing tai chi you would be beaten, and if they saw you worshiping they would throw you in jail.

i unfortunatly dought this will work but in all sencerity good luck, i really hate it when schools fall apart but if you feel like your not being taken seriosly then leave there are plenty of good schools out there that would like to have an extra teacher avalible.

im ok with armbars on my back but not to good with chokes without a gi my judo doesnt teach the triangle choke and i really want to learn, as for my gaurd its pretty solid not many people can use ground and pound on me, but my real strenth is take down defence and clinch fighting my knees are my best attrabute.

they use the stick and the machete that i know of and i think they use the chain too.