Hiya, would you consider me a martial artist.

[shotochem]

Art is in the eye of the beholder. If you train hard and feel you are a martial artist then you are. Who is anyone else to decide the relevance or merit of how or what you train?

When I was asked if I were a MA, I had to think about it. I had never even thought of myself as an artist just one who enjoyed training and when not training thinking about it.

That's when I realized I WAS a MA. Some are Monet, or Rembrant, I consider my style more of a Picasso (abstract, ugly at times, and a little rough around the edges.... ).

[Goju_boi]

can u explain the history of this style u created?

[KF Dude]

If you love what you are doing & it produces results, then why even concern yourself what others think. Put all that wasted effort back in to training.

[ovine king]

what does what i think matter?

[Fairfax_Uechi]

Hi, heres the deal.

me and my friend who is a 1st dan karate have a discussion on what a martial artist really is.

am i a martial artist?

i took the concept of kickboxing and studdied other martial arts alot nearly all my life and created my own rather unique style i call Pseudonaja-Fist because i seem to be very deceptive and its very effective. i know i am a combat artist, because every day i practice it and make it my own.. note this is just by my nature its in my heart. also i can beat my friend in wrestling, sparing with and without weapons. ive been taught safety in kickboxing and through my friends doing alot of karate taught me break falls and original blocks... plus im 6ft and 18stone but not flab but not 100% muscle either but i am nimble. ok but anyways lol give me your oppinion

Others may or may not agree with me, but I say if you think you are a martial artist that's what matters. Do you really care what others say/think? If so why?

[BLueDevil]

Yes, you are a martial artist. Of course so is every white belt in my beginner taekwondo class.

Whether or not you are a martial artist is not important. A better question would be whether you are a good martial artist or an effective martial artist.

--

that is precisely what I was going to say.

[Goju_boi]

what happened to the author,he hasn't replied to any of these posts?

[fighter_not_a_lover]

HEY! finally got back on lol.

the name pseudonaja means Fake Cobra and it just seems good for this art. this constists of so much i wouldnt be able to put it all down in here.

History: i started kickboxing when i was young and seemed to have picked up the aggression, though i think i was born with it. also ive always felt asif elegance can cut the butter better so i always seemed to enjoy moving smoothing when i was fighting, i enjoyed pushing my body to its limits and loved learning techniques from all my friends who do ju jitsu and karate.

my kickboxing instructor then seemed to disapear off the face of the earth which was very annoying! so i started practicing at home which made me practice basically every day and i started wondering why the hell i didnt do this in the first place, and because it was in my own time i was training while my passion for it was at its highest.

i then started following my own kind of spirituality i feel connected with nature and feel it has all the answers. so i started watching things like little fires i started developing styles that resembled it, asin it flickers and gets violent when you move it throught the air so my style based on that has a concept of moving a striking and i started getting really good at these and when i was sparing with my friends it became very easy to beat them and get hits in very clean and easy.

then i started taking other elements. not earth because its just still. but then i started learning about kung fu how they use animals and studdied it for 3 years solid.. im starting it soon by the way . and it went on from there. now i have

wind

fire

water

birch

pseudo

for those of you who want to know about my style.

pseudo<< - concept of fakies, decieving and expressional lies (street wise concept) and ground wrestling.

fire<< - movement while striking, alot of moving right and striking left.. it actually works better than most people would think. ive actually ended up right behind someone on the way round connecting a knee to the chest and being perfectly able to do whatever i want from behind. (takes alot of stamina to keep this up in training, moving while comboing burns energy but is really useful when it comes to someone who does kickboxing or any other stand still kind of martial arts.

birch<< - very drunken boxing with no head guards and no direct blocks just evasive (alot of stretching needed to practice this) and all strikes are dead weight strikes and offen open hand strikes and first knuckle skull crackers . tom socked me with this style right in the head while i was using fire.. who ever said fire could win over wood . not when its birch wood it cant.

wind<< - this is full of personal beliefs i use in preperations stretches slow dances slow moving katas meditation perfecting movement by doing it very slowly, this really is effective after about a week u notice you feel alot more comfurtable with moves you found quite odd to do with you body.

water<< - interception techniques, ONLY defence moves. similar to aikido moves, was actually alot harder to learn than i thought but as usual when your working with your own body and your own art it comes quite quickly. also the moves are singular hardly in any combos over 3 strikes and most are just to twang there nervs a little bit, the pressure points under the bicep kind of strikes .

oh yes, you can mix these styles with each other. and end up with interesting fights. i got tom to try birch and water and i had dead muscles after it, he is really accurate with his freekin fingers then again hes done karate and multiple other styles for over 11 years :Plol.

if you want to know more blackbirds87@hotmail.com

Edited August 17, 2005 by fighter_not_a_lover