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So there are martial artists out there that do agree with me. That's cool.

Thanks a lot. I have never seen this website before. I've seen https://www.zgstunts.com and https://www.zgaction.com but I haven't seen this yet. Cool. Thanks.

I like planes the best.

I write books. There don't seem to be a lot of people around my town that do that.

I require an alarm or I will be asleep until lunch time

Fans Archury Throwing knife Shuriken 3-sectioned-staff Sai Spear Knife Daggar Nunchuck Bo-staff Katana Tonfa

This is very true.

In Kuk Sool Won I have yet to touch a weapon because only black belts are the ones who are allowed to practice weapons. They even tried to tell me not to practice with my weapons at home (like I'm doing that) and told me to only practice spinning with my nunchucks (didn't follow that too well either). That set aside. I like practicing katanas, nunchucks, and bo-staffs a lot. I've been trying to teach myself how to use my sais, but I haven't even figured out how I want to hold them yet I would use tonfas a lot if I had any.

I believe that one should not totally clear their head during a fight. I often get discouraged by other martial artists for this. But there is a method to my madness and I'm wondering if there is anyone here that my agree with me or give me some advice. I use sparring to develop reflexes and an ability to take hits. But I try to keep my head clear of everything else but my thoughts on my opponent and what he is going to do next. My reflexes work with my knowledge of who he is and what he might do. For example, everyone except me and maybe 20 others (out of 1,500+) are boxers and/or wrestlers. I know they're probably going to punch me in the head and their swings are going to be strong as hell to be frank or they're going to take me to the ground. Now that I know this, I can easily tell when someone is going to swing or when they're going to make a jump for my legs and as soon as I see them even suggest they're going one way or the other I react and coutner before they can do anything. I do the same thing against martial artists. I try to absorb basic fighting techniques of as many styles as possible so that I'll be able to identify one in a self defense situation and be able to know what they are most likely to do before they do it. For example, I fought a Tae Kwon Do black belt once. After his first kick flashed and the next thing I knew I was on the ground and my neck was sore, I was able to tell what he was using and he didn't touch me again the rest of the fight because every time he swung his leg up I knew what kind of kick it was and that he was going to do it in the first place and I'd have that leg in my grasp. That has helped me a lot in the past as well. In a nutshell, I use my physical reflexes and speed as well as my mental understanding, strategies and thinking in fights and they work together like Yin and Yang. Do you agree this can be an effective style? Or do you believe that I should not be thinking at all during a fight and if so, please explain what you think.

I heard of this group last year. It's a college group that makes martial arts films and I hear it's one of the biggest resources for martial arts stuntmen in the movie making buisness. I can see that being true as well. Lateef Crowder, one of the members, was the Capoeira fighter in "The Protector" 2006 starring Tony Jaa. Aaron Toney is the blue ranger in "Power Rangers: SPD" and some of them have done motion capturing for the video game "Jet Li's Rise to Honor." How awesome is that?

I usually go twice a week unless something happens. Once I get money, I'll probably end up going 4-perhaps even 6 times a week. But I'd be going to two or three different schools.

The Buddhist monks invented Kung-Fu if I remember correctly and in Japan, the majority of the Samurai were Buddhist. So I'm sure you can do martial arts if you wanted to. It all boils down to what you believe. I'll leave you with that because I don't know enough about Buddhism to say much more, I may say something disrespectful. Best of luck.

Sorry for laughing. But if you're interested, just do it! How can you be intimidated? Anything that you may have trouble with (so long as you pick the right school) the martial arts will help you with. You're too fat? Go in for the exercise, put in a lot of effort, keep at it, don't kill yourself, and you'll drop those pounds. Trust me I was in your shoes once when I was 15. I joined martial arts and now I'm 175 pounds and looking darn good if I do say so myself And 23-years-old? That's prime! You can work it into your daily life and daily schedule easy! As for looking for a school, I don't know anything about Illinois. But I do know that somewhere in that state is a Jeet Kune Do school. Try there. I wish you best of luck.

I agree with Rainbow_Warrior. Muay Thai may be a good choice for you if that's what you're looking for.

I see a lot of Tae Kwon Do and Tang Soo Do. But what about Kuk Sool Won? Does anyone else in this forum practice or know about it?

I take Kuk Sool Won which the name litterally translates in English to "Korean Martial Arts"

Kuk Sool Won: A relatively young style invented in 1956 by Grandmaster In Hyuk Suh. It is a combination of 31 different Korean martial arts. As a matter of fact, it's name translates litterally to "Korean Martial Arts." Styles incorperated into it including Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, Tang Soo Do, the martial art of the Korean Buddhist temple, the style of the royal palace, and several others. It trains in streatching, kicking, pressure point strikes, some grappling but not much, punching, palming, and meditation. It enforces respect to everyone in daily life and if needed to be used in a street defense situation, teaches how to win with minimal force so little real damage is done. However, I don't have much faith in my school because the teachings and classes are so irratic and we never learn any way of applying them to a street defense situation. I'm sure it's a very complete style but my school as a school by itself is not very good. Especially because I get disrespected a lot by the upper belts but get in trouble when I retaliate (I've almost been kicked out on a number of occasions) and I am only a yellow belt but in sparring, despite their strict rules, have still beaten some second degree black belts, and given a heck of a lot of trouble to a third degree. I have another style but I'm not sure if I should talk about it just yet because it is not taken very seriously in the martial arts community.

I don't believe you should have to ask a sensei for permission to train anywhere else. He/she is your sensei and you obviously have some respect for them if he's good but he/she does not have much right to deny you training in another style. Of course there are some exeptions but I'm not sure if those exeptions happen often enough to be considered too seriously.

I used to jump all over conversations and debates like this. Then I thought to myself and developed a theory. I don't believe it's possible for any particular style to be superior or inferior to another. And I don't believe it's possible to create the "perfect" martial art because the things that use martial arts (humans) physically, mentally, morally, everything are anything but perfect. But I'll tell you what I believe we can do is research as many martial arts as possible and learn to incorperate what we can to make something worth while. But in the end, all factors included (all factors are extremly hard to list) it will end up just as good as anything else out there.

I would think generally it means you're as powerful as a typical, what most people would think to be a "black belt."

My worst injury actually happened during sparring with my older brother a few weeks ago. Before I tell you this story, allow me to tell you a side story. I have trained the ability into myself to run and slam my head into metal lockers and doors as hard as I can and not feel pain. This skill has come in quite handy for me because everyone at my school aims for the head during fights because that's all they think to do (I'm one of the only martial artists there). I've gotten hit in the head quite a few times and all that's happened is they hurt their hand. That being known, one time I was bandera sparring with my friend David (6'5, 200 pounds at the time, 90% muscle). He slammed that thing on the top my head as hard as he could and I just kept coming like I didn't even feel it. It did hurt but not bad enough to stop me and it only lasted a few seconds. That being known a few weeks ago I was sparring with my older brother who is 6 inches shorter than me and weighs 140 pounds of pure muscle. He got me to the ground and started punching me and as I was trying to get him off of me my guard losened and he, full forced, slammed his elbow down on the top of my head. The first thing that happened is it was actually lights out for me for about 10 seconds. Then I open my eyes again and I can't feel my legs and can't move my arms. A few seconds later I can move my arms enough to roll myself over on my stomach. Then as soon as I can feel my legs again about 10 seconds later I stand up. But I wasn't standing for very long. It was a full 3 minutes before I was in one piece again. Then I had a bad migraine for the rest of the night and the next day. That was my worst injury.

I am not going to tell you how to raise your son especially because I'm a kid myself. But I would suggest showing him the importance of applying his training to the real world in his every day life and show him how. May I ask what his dojo is like, do they spar, and what the sparring is like? Also I would like to suggest maybe training him to be ready to fight yourself? I was your son once and my older brother taught me himself and it did without a doubt come in very usefull.

If I could train Karate and study writing at the same time at a college and get a bachelors' degree for all of it. Dang I can't wait then.

I did not know one could catch an infection from training with bare feet. I'll do both. If I'm at the school, I usually have bare feet or socks on. But it's a reletively clean place. When I'm training by myself, I'll do bare feet or shoes, whichever I am in the mood for. Training with shoes is more realistic to a defense situation. However, training with bare feet can condition the parts of your feet better. So I do both and get the best of both worlds. However that is interesting how you can get an infection from training with bare feet.

How I got into martial arts is a long story. I'll give it to you in a nutshell. I think I got a push start when I was 7-years-old from my older brother. To "beat the stupid out of me" and get me away from the television he'd make me practice with him. We'd spar and he'd teach me some fighthing techniques, things like that. But I never really took an interest to it until I was 12 and I was getting picked on a lot at school. So it was for the most part self defense is why I got into it. The next thing I knew it became a full out hobby of mine and I take a lot of interest in the martial arts.