Protoman7000

Mine's somewhere over 100, which is bad I know, but I like to think I make up for it in some fighting skill. I've been working out lately so as to improve my athletism (made a thread for help on that) but since all my friends are big and tough, it's kind of intimidating being as small as I am, but since I'm a good fighter they don't look down on me or anything for it.

Wow, thanks. I'll look into both of what you said. MizuRyu seems to know a good deal about working out, but I'm just afraid that all that extensive weight lifting would make me bulky and slow, rather then still kind of small and lean. As much as I'm embaressed so say this, I'll begin trying what I see works in about two weeks, cause Im about off to court, and will most likely have jail time. (I'm no criminal, I simply didn't go to school alot, and since I'm court ordered to go to school..Yeah, contempt of court) Thanks alot though, Jason T.

What I think of Jeet Kune Do is this, the reason it is Martial principles, rather then it's own style is because. Jeet Kune Do is the very most effective way Bruce Lee could use everything he knew to the best of his ability, given his height, strength, speed, cardio, it was specifically developed for Bruce, and as we know bruce didn't believe in limiting yourself with one style (So some call him one of the inventors of Mixed Martial Arts) So people who claim they can teach you martial principles, like If someone punches at you, you can do this, or you can also do this, teaching you different principles on what to do. But as said, it was Bruce's style, noone elses. If you train in Muay Thai, Karate, and Taekwondo for example, and you have trained well in them, and can fluently combine them in actual combat, go from using a TKD block, to a Muay Thai clinch, then this combination of what YOU know is practically your own form of Jeet Kune Do, because noone else is you, so noone else can learn the exact same style, therefore, JKD is not a style. It's also called a mentality because JKD is based alot about Bruce Lee's principles and philosophies.

I'm seventeen years old, And I'm not in the greatest of shape. Tall and lanky, small arms with not alot of muscle, and a small pudge belly (But despite the bit of flab I have on my stomach, I've had people tell me I look crackhead skinny) Anywho. Could anyone help me with a workout regimen that someone who is just starting to lift and stuff would be able to easily adapt with. I'm not great at push ups, and I can't lift alot of weight, which is a matter that needs to be improved (going to China in September to Train) Probaly my best exercise is sit ups/crunches. Underneath that flab I can feel pretty well toned stomach muscles. My Cardio vascular is poor so I run out of breathe easily. The only equipment I have is mung bean bag for iron fist type training. I have a bar and weights that only goes up to 125 lbs (which I'm not sure if I can lift that much even, haven't tried) which is okay, cause I don't want alot of bulk anyways. Stairs in my home, which running up and down could build cardio and strengthen my calves I believe. Two 5 lb weights I bought so I could punch with to try and speed up my punches. And a 25 lb bar for curling. So, I was wondering if someone with the expertise and kindness to take a little bit of time to try and think of a good way for me to build up my muscles with these limited resources, while also not pushing my weak body way too much (Like expecting me to run five miles straight when as I've said I've got bad cardio, it would help, but I definetly wouldn't make it the entire way and would be painfully striving for breathe by the time I'd get through) Anyways, to anyone who even reads my problem, thank you for your time. -- Jason T.

Yes, you should continue doing both. Though it may seem a little disrespectful to your teacher, he has no right to try and influence your personal life.

Definetly not, you hear of most of the Martial Artist people admire starting at a very young age (Example, one of my idols, Jet Li starting Wushu at So myself, having admired and wanted to become a great martial artist almost all of my life was a little bit discouraged when I started at 16, rather later then alot of other great martial artist, So starting now you are definetly not too young.

though it's effectiveness has been questioned, I very much love Wing Chun, Even before starting martial arts and reading about lots of different ones did I have high interest in it.

It's laughable, and anyonyste who believes in that crap, or his ABC fighting system that claims to teach you to master martial arts in weeks needs to be slapped. I gotta hand it to him though, as laughable as it is, it makes you wonder "what the hell is on those DVD's?" but Im not going to waste the money to find out, hahah, any of you guys want to, then please, feel free to fill me in.

hm, it seems like Bruce Lee was way over rated for a while, when you hear about Bruce Lee, the complete best, however, now, it seems he is much too under rated. He was small, but Bruce Lee had alot of power in those small arms, and could most likely dish out a punch just as strong as say, Chuck Liddell, and I've seen some of his videos of real life stuff where he's displaying his speed, even if he couldn't hit quite as hard, the speed in which he would be hitting times the number of hits he could quickly land, then dang! However, what gets alot of us on this is the ground game, we've seen some awesome ground and pound in the UFC now days, and it really is hard to say whether or not Bruce could withstand, not to mention, some of his methods for that were for actual survival, such as what we all know as his biting trick. Because of this 1 fatal error, maybe he would do poorly against a big hulking brute rolling him around on the ground, maybe not, but hey his stand up would be very great, I believe someone said "his side-kick was like getting hit by a car." Maybe a little exagerrated but it goes to show you, powerful.

Ler drit, or Le Drit, whichever seems to be a relatively interesting style, from the little bit of info I've seen, nick named "Military Muay Thai" From the little bit I know (Searching for it gets you alot of results about M. Bison from Street Fighter.) they attack with the palms and don't mess around, but other then that well...I know nothing, any of you have a good site or intell to share?

Unfortunately, I do not know Wing Chun, Wing Tsun, or any of the styles, but I'd like to say that it is a style I was/am interested in, but unfortunately for me, I'm underage, (16) and live in a small town, the only martial arts available here are Taekwondo and Mixed Martial Arts, then Karate at another school, so being hungry for martial arts, I'm stuck with Taekwondo, but switch up every now and then and do the mixed martial arts classes which I enjoy alot, since Grappling is my worst skill, I've learned alot from the classes I went to. as I said I'm underage, and can't drive to Memphis, which is two hours away to learn Wing Chun, or one of the Kung fu styles that same school teaches, =(

Well the way I see it is, if you want MMA then if there is ANY way you can find classes you can afford then do it. However, if you are stuck between doing Karate, and not doing Karate and getting no training what so ever, I personally would take the Karate just so I am getting some training rather then none of all, but if you don't see the value in it, then the hell with it. I believe in martial art practices and such, so I believe that if I continue training that, my skills will expand, I'm a begginer in TKD, and the begginer stuff I'm taught I don't see the point in and I somewhat doubt the style every now and then, then I look at the people who've been in it longer then me and see their skills and even kids who have much better kicking then I do, but also the Dojo/school if you will I go to, offers TKD or MMA, and a great MMA instructor, Max Bishop.

Hm, for my first post on this forum, allow me to give a crack at this. Jeet Kune Do is definetly a good style, however how people get misguided is in the fact that "Bruce Lee created this style, it's got to be the best." Jeet Kune Do is great for expanding your universal martial art prowess since yes, having been built by Bruce Lee is has strong self defence advantages. You wanted the healthy physically fit benefit from it as well, ay? Well, though it was not primarily all because of Jeet Kune Do, since Bruce Lee did alot of excersizing, and even weight lifting, Bruce Lee was not only a great martial artist, but a great athlete, even though he had a smaller build, which he worked to have a greater advantage then large bulk, so I'm sure that JKD would be a good physical performer, but this, is assuming that its real JKD you are being taught, like the owner of my school, Max Bishop, he was taught JKD from a very reliable source.