Martial Arts

[TKD01]

Interest sake - who on the forum is practising martial arts and which martial arts? How do you find it?

 

[Nanfeishen]

Interest sake - who on the forum is practising martial arts and which martial arts?

Taijiquan

How do you find it?

Slow

 

[shadow_man]

Wing Chun Gong Fu

I love it been doing it for a number of years although I've been off for a month due to flue etc - sickness

Done BJJ (Brazilian Jujitsu) and Escrima/Arnis (Philipino stick fighting) although my main focus is Wing Chun - its one of the quicker forms of gong fu in terms of learning - its hard, fast and one of the versions (forshan wing chun) even has internal so it makes use of energy like taiji or qigong.

J

 

[gregmcc]

Shotokan - been doing it for a number of years. Also with some ju-jitsu thrown in.

 

[Picard]

Martial arts? ... Running. I'm very fast. No one will catch me.

 

[nic777]

I just started this year with Kyokushin Karate in Cape Town with Hennie Bosman. Im enjoying it, very varied and lots of fun actually. Great exercise.

 

[Nanfeishen]

Watch SABC 1 Sat about 5.30-ish there should be a bit on Kung Fu and Taiji, if its the program featuring the CMAHC, The Taiji guy is yours truly

 

[AstroTurf]

I practice AiKindle.

It involves me trying to read whilst parrying conversation from my wife and defending myself from the onslaught of a 3 year old that has decided that I am a jungle gym.

 

[xrapidx]

necro spam.

 

[Nerfherder]

Wing Chun Gong Fu

I love it been doing it for a number of years although I've been off for a month due to flue etc - sickness

Done BJJ (Brazilian Jujitsu) and Escrima/Arnis (Philipino stick fighting) although my main focus is Wing Chun - its one of the quicker forms of gong fu in terms of learning - its hard, fast and one of the versions (forshan wing chun) even has internal so it makes use of energy like taiji or qigong.

J

Where do you go ? I'm looking for a school in the SS

EDIT: necro fail

 

[fewl]

Krav

 

[Nicodeamus]

I'm doing Jui Jitsu, it demands a helluva lot more fitness that people give it credit for.

 

[SLAQ]

Did JKA Karate for 11 years. Was only 8 when I started. Karate is brilliant at such a young age. Learns you a lot more than just self defense. But once you reach higher level kyū the learning curve is too slow and physically it fails in comparison to more aggressive Martial Arts. Dan (black belt) evaluations are challenging but Senseis put pure focus on these gradings and it becomes tedious. A friend who did Karate with me started doing Kung Fu during 2nd year. He has surpassed the combat skills that we learned in 11 years in 2 years.

The key I realized is that the training group should not be too large. Smaller, dedicated groups train harder and learn a lot faster.

Another friend has been doing Jujitsu for 8+ years, but even he cannot match the guy doing Kung Fu with grips and subdue techniques.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

I practice AiKindle.

It involves me trying to read whilst parrying conversation from my wife and defending myself from the onslaught of a 3 year old that has decided that I am a jungle gym.

LOL, I think I just wet myself.