Online Martial Arts tecniques

[Matt85]

I'm new to the forums, and was wanting to know if there are any good websites with tecniques for self defence (free).I would like to see some tecniques from different forms of martial arts to see what I like. Also I dont have the time to joins a school, so good material to learn at home is what i'd like to look into but don't know what to get(form or author.

 

Thanks!

 

Matt

 

Edit to add: Ohh yea , any sudjestions on what style or styles to look into? I want to learn self defence not sparring, if you get attacked on the street the attacker wont follow sparring rules. Also i'd like to learn to use a staff what style(s) include that? I might learn self defence from one style and staff fighting from another (if there is a better self defence style that dosn't include staff training) is this a good idea? thanks agian.

[delta1]

...wanting to know if there are any good websites with tecniques for self defence (free). ...see what I like. I dont have the time to joins a school, so good material to learn at home is what i'd like to look into.. any sudjestions on what styles to look into? I want to learn self defence not sparring...I might learn self defence from one style and staff fighting from another is this a good idea?

 

http://www.ltatum.com/TipOfTheWeek.html

 

Also, do a search fo Dog Brothers Martial Arts for FMA techniques.

 

Rule 1: Nothing is free.

 

Rule 2: If it is free, it's probably worth the price.

 

But no matter what style you choose, I don't think you'll get very far, or learn anything very well, if you don't get good personal instruction. There are several video courses out there- look in any issue of Black Belt Mag and get out your credit card. But even with those, you'll need a training partner and you'll need to spend time, regularly, just like in a regular class.

 

Sparing, in a reality based style, is an important tool in developing fighting skills. But there are rules, otherwise you'd loose training partners pretty fast.

 

Mixing styles at a begginers level, especially without a good instructor to guide you, is not a good idea. You don't have a good enough grasp of principles to make that work. Weapons are just an extension of basic empty hands fighting, so without a good grounding in basics you won't be able to make the staff work for you, and in a different style it would confuse you.

 

If you can't go to a regular class, I'd recomend an abreviated video course in some reality based art, like: Combat Hapkido, IKCA Kenpo, SCARS, Krav Maga. But plan on later getting to a good school.

 

If you just don't want to go to a regular class, then forget the martial arts and start running with a bad crowd. You'll learn to fight- and none of that sissy sparing with rules and all !

[cross]

have a look at https://www.fightauthority.com << it has alot of stuff about different arts.

[G95champ]

Nothing will ever repalced a good teacher

[aefibird]

If I were you I'd try and join a martial arts class, even if you only go for a couple of months or so.

 

Even if you buy the greatest martial arts video/book/CD-ROM in the world it will still not replace a good teacher. A video can't correct technique or tell you if you're doing something potentially dangeous but an instructor can.

 

If you wanna go ahead and train without a teacher, then I wouldn't advise trying to follow a free course over the net. With stuff like that you get what you pay for - if you're determined to do an online course then it's worthwhile forking out a bit of cash for a decent course rather than just following a useless 'ultimate self-defence' style programme just because its free.

 

There's nothing wrong with learning self-defence from one style and staff techniques from another, but, again, you really need someone to physically show you the basics. Learning martial arts on your own at home is a difficult thing to do. As G95champ wrote

Nothing will ever replace a good teacher