Treebranch Posted April 24, 2003 Posted April 24, 2003 If your training for competition think about Muy Thai, BJJ or American Wrestling, Budo Taijutsu to teach how evade and use your balance effectively. You'd be very prepared for just about anything. "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.""Lock em out or Knock em out"
FlailingLimbs Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 SFMS, no kidding. I do both as well. I do the exact thing because the freakin' kihon katas are WAY too basic. ===================When cornered, kick 'em in the spetznats. If that doesn't work, run around acting like an epilept + flail your arms about while whizzin' in your pants, then fall down foaming at the mouth. They'll be so disgusted THEY will walk away from the fight....
SevenStar Posted May 4, 2003 Posted May 4, 2003 But i think it is a very good idea to cross train in similar arts however i have found crosstraining to totaly diff ones will give u a better overview of MA's.If they are similar, it shouldn't be a problem. Say, Tang Soo Do and Tae Kwon Do. As long as you have an instructor that can point out the differences or help you discover them yourself. TSD and TKD are actually the same art,TKD derived from TSD because the name sounded too much like a chinese MA so the koreans changed the name to better fit a korean MA. SRRY to go off topic ciao and good luck in your search They aren't the same. When they changed the name, they also changed the way it was taught, and what it focused on. TSD was "too japanese" and the high kicking added more of a korean flair (a flair that actually shows more similarity to more of the northern chinese influence they had in old korean styles like tae kyon) There has been bad blood between korea and japan. I've got a korean friend who says "God created the Japanese, then he realized he could do better, so he made Koreans"
SevenStar Posted May 4, 2003 Posted May 4, 2003 If you train two similar styles, determine how similar they are - if they have similar techniques, but different ways of generating power for them, or slight differences in the stances, then you may be easily confused in class.
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