username9 Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 Where is your MA "home". I am a Japanese kind of practitioner. As in I have studied Karate and Ju Jitsu....I did TKD but didn't stick with it. Whereas I have friends who only like studying Kung Fu and Chinese arts! Do you find silimar ideas or do you just train in anything?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorinryu Sensei Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 My "home" is Okinawa...where karate is karate. My nightly prayer..."Please, just let me win that PowerBall Jackpot just once. I'll prove to you that it won't change me!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username9 Posted March 14, 2005 Author Share Posted March 14, 2005 My "home" is Okinawa...where karate is karate. Fair enough! So would you not try any chinese arts or anything like that!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Orstrom Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 (edited) My 'home' is definitely Japan. I train Aikido and Karate, and I feel that the Japanese MAs value the traditional values and history much more than chinese, korean and similar arts. My experience is that where I live, arts such as WT, TKD and BJJ are targeted at a whole new audience that, put very bluntly, just want to learn how to fight. (Again, I must emphasize that it is my own personal experience centered around where I live. I am not bashing these arts.) Edited March 14, 2005 by A. Orstrom The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence,but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred, Lord Tennyson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorinryu Sensei Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 My "home" is Okinawa...where karate is karate. Fair enough! So would you not try any chinese arts or anything like that!? I've watched countless other systems practice in their schools and in tournaments where I've judged/ref'd from China, Japan, Korea and just about everywhere else, and no, I have no desire to train in anything other than what I have been doing for 30+ years now. Why? Because I haven't seen another system that I like as well as what I do, nor any more effective in what I feel is my idea of what the arts are all about. I like to watch other systems though. Very interesting to see what they do, and why they do it. My nightly prayer..."Please, just let me win that PowerBall Jackpot just once. I'll prove to you that it won't change me!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaz Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I respect the chinese arts much more than most out there. Kung Fu is the ancestor of most all other arts, and my art is much more comprehensive than JJ and Karate... I've tried these others and nothing compares thus far... I also like the fluidness more than this straight line stuff, it generates more power. My home is in the chinese arts... "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." - Will Durant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aefibird Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I've trained in both Japanese and Chinese arts and I have to say that I like them both equally. It's a bit of a "cop out" answer, I know, but I do. Maybe it's because the instructors that i've had in my MA 'career' have all been excellent individuals with a real desire to teach their art, rather than just to make money from it. Plus, I've learned differing things from Chinese MA than I have from Japanese MA and vice versa. It's not that those aspects wern't in Japanese MA and only in Chinese MA, it's just that various systems and styles have ways of emphasising certain aspects of their training. However, I'd consider training in any style of MA from any origin. There's always something you can learn - even if it is only how not to do it! lol I'm just a martial arts junkie.... "Was it really worth it? Only time and death may ever tell..." The Beautiful South - The Rose of My CologneSheffield Steelers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran-Lilith Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 My "home" is in the Japanese arts, most especially Eugue-Ryu and Aikido. I don't like TKD. I never tried it. All I know is I got a concussion from one of it's practitioners yesterday with his instructors cheering him on. Okay, take that back. The art is okay. But I don't like that kid. He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful Lao-tsu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taku-Shimazu Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 I am Japanese, Karate, Ninjitsu. But I have also learned Tai Chi Yang form and are learning Tai Chi Chuan, From China. Ninjitsu is an interesting one, It is said (By Stephen Hayes, a man who trained with a real ninja school.) that Ninja come from the mountain people known as Tengu, which are said to be half man and half crow. The cool summer breeze passes me by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangepair03 Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 Okinawa is the home for me. A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve. It should not be used indiscrimately.Kyan Chotoku Sensei Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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