XMA Beginner Help...

[Raiden_T15]

Im new here so I'llsay hi first so.... hi.

anyway I've been looking into XMA for a while and I would like to get into it, but I dont know how or where to start. any advice?

btw I'm 15, I have a minor background in shotokan karate (blue belt, quit right before my next test) and I taught myself kempo using my dads notes (he was a brown belt), but im not really muscular at all... I am flexible though so I think that might give me an edge.

Reasons I would like to learn:

-Me and my friends are wanting to get into the major acrobatics, fighting stuff, and XMA seemed to be the closest thing to it

-Add to my bank of self-taught skills

I think thats all so if you have any advice on where to start it would be greatly appreciated and would help me out alot

[DWx]

Welcome to the forums!

You could try to find an XMA school:

http://www.xmarevolution.com/XMASchoolProfiles/tabid/53/Default.aspx

Or you could do what somebody I know does which is to get into gymnastics and tricking. http://www.trickstutorials.com/ is a pretty good site with lots of videos and stuff on how to start doing all the flips and spins.

[Aodhan]

Im new here so I'llsay hi first so.... hi.

anyway I've been looking into XMA for a while and I would like to get into it, but I dont know how or where to start. any advice?

btw I'm 15, I have a minor background in shotokan karate (blue belt, quit right before my next test) and I taught myself kempo using my dads notes (he was a brown belt), but im not really muscular at all... I am flexible though so I think that might give me an edge.

Reasons I would like to learn:

-Me and my friends are wanting to get into the major acrobatics, fighting stuff, and XMA seemed to be the closest thing to it

-Add to my bank of self-taught skills

I think thats all so if you have any advice on where to start it would be greatly appreciated and would help me out alot

Not to rain on your parade, but you don't have the background to start doing the tricking, unless all you want to do is kinda flip around "looking cool". Our school has the XMA DVD package that Mike Chat put together for teaching entry to mid level XMA, and all through the DVD's (And borne out by my own experience), you HAVE to have a solid grounding in basic technique. No offense to you or your dads notes, but it's a very rare person that can learn quality martial arts from a book. (Your shotokan may help you, but I'd be interested in seeing your basic form before anything else.)

I have been certified to teach basic gymnastics, and I also teach TKD, and learning XMA is a real bear (I'd use another word, actually.) Just watching a few videos and trying it out, you could get to the point where you might be able to do some tricks and look cool to someone that doesn't know MA, but that's about it.

John