Where is your Martial Arts "Home"??

[username9]

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?!

[Shorinryu Sensei]

My "home" is Okinawa...where karate is karate.

[username9]

My "home" is Okinawa...where karate is karate.

 

Fair enough!

 

So would you not try any chinese arts or anything like that!?

[A. Orstrom]

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

[Shorinryu Sensei]

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.

[Chaz]

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...

[aefibird]

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....

[Kieran-Lilith]

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.

[Taku-Shimazu]

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.

[strangepair03]

Okinawa is the home for me.