Foo - Martial Arts Roll call: Whos training?

I have been training in Tae Kwon Do for the last 5 years and Dan Zan Ryu Jujitsu for 2. I was curious who else trains and in what style.

I find my training helps me with the mental side of road cycling. Having that mindset not to quit when it gets really hard. Kinda helps push me through and enduring the pain.

So who else?? :rolleyes:

:)

Hapkido 3 years.

My own ninjer skillz. Life.

I have been training in Tae Kwon Do for the last 5 years and Dan Zan Ryu Jujitsu for 2. I was curious who else trains and in what style.

I've trained in a bunch of styles over a dozen years and really enjoy aiki-jutsu stuff. I think there's a Dan Zan ryu near me. Is it more wrestling, grappling, joint manipulation, throws...?

All of the above. It's start with rolls/falls, moves into locks, to takedowns, throws, then finishes. It is a samurai based art for when the sword play is done or before it can begin. Very much a "Do" art.

TKD for about 5 years minus the year I took off for a broken tibia sustained in a freak sparring accident.

Tai Chi and Yoga

Tai Chi. That one is so deceiving until you see it done quickly. Then you know it can be quite a devastating art. How long have you been at it Tom?

Tai Chi. That one is so deceiving until you see it done quickly. Then you know it can be quite a devastating art. How long have you been at it Tom?

About a year.

Yeah, your right, my teacher is a little 98 pound Chinese man and he tapped my in the middle of the chest with a fingertip and put me on my butt! I had a small circular bruise and it felt like I'd been hit with a sledgehammer :eek: Chi energy is quite an awesome thing, properly focused! When he does his Kata's at speed, you can hear the air hum from his feet passing through the air.:eek:

Awesome. I threw my back out once trying to breath and relax. LOL explain that!

I wish. This town is more into snowboarding, general fitness and biking to be any good for that kind of stuff.

About a year.

Yeah, your right, my teacher is a little 98 pound Chinese man and he tapped my in the middle of the chest with a fingertip and put me on my butt! I had a small circular bruise and it felt like I'd been hit with a sledgehammer :eek: Chi energy is quite an awesome thing, properly focused! When he does his Kata's at speed, you can hear the air hum from his feet passing through the air.:eek:

Recruit him for the Tour de Cure team. :D

I got a Tai Chi video, but I feel rather like a dork standing in front of the TV and copying. :o

After playing football yesterday, I feel like I was someone's practice pell.

Awesome. I threw my back out once trying to breath and relax. LOL explain that!

It can happen....improper position can really hurt you. Poor balance and ground contact makes for a foundation built on sand. ;)

I play with BIG STICKS and sharp edges: I practice/teach the Estalilla-Bansuelo style of Kabaroan Eskrima. I was recently honored with my Certified Master Instructor Certificate under Grandmaster Ramiro Estalilla, Jr and Associate Grandmaster Ed Basuelo. (www.kabaroan.com). I've also done a little of Serrada Eskrima under Ed Bansuelo, too, (the lineage is Angel Cabales - Anthony Davis - Ed Bansuelo) but am definately a novice in that art.

Pic of me in my backyard several years ago, playing with a 30" baston (stick) and a 60" bankaw (staff)
http://www.nikonians.org/dcforum/User_files/3f354df156606f89.jpg

I wanted to do a little more "classical" MA training and have about a year of TKD. Definitely fighting the muscle memory learned in FMA when doing TKD, but that's part of mixed training, right.

Recruit him for the Tour de Cure team. :D

I got a Tai Chi video, but I feel rather like a dork standing in front of the TV and copying. :o

After playing football yesterday, I feel like I was someone's practice pell.

Don't worry about what you look like. ;) Instead, fall inside yourself away from your body and merge with the flow.

Your fundamentals should be breathing from the belly, and balance. Start simple and master a form. You'll feel the Chi rise from your feet upward, by the way :D (I'm not kidding!)

It was a breathing exercise. I had to stand, hands in a "prayer" postion and try to warm different parts of my body. Controlling my Chi. Anytime I felt tension I had to relax that spot. Needless to say I naturally had alot of tension. It's something you have to get good at recognizing and getting rid of. Anyway when your body is use to functioning a certain way and then you go changing it, it tends to not response well. My back was sore for a days. LOL

I play with BIG STICKS and sharp edges: I practice/teach the Estalilla-Bansuelo style of Kabaroan Eskrima. I was recently honored with my Certified Master Instructor Certificate under Grandmaster Ramiro Estalilla, Jr and Associate Grandmaster Ed Basuelo. (www.kabaroan.com). I've also done a little of Serrada Eskrima under Ed Bansuelo, too, (the lineage is Angel Cabales - Anthony Davis - Ed Bansuelo) but am definately a novice in that art.

Pic of me in my backyard several years ago, playing with a 30" baston (stick) and a 60" bankaw (staff)
http://www.nikonians.org/dcforum/User_files/3f354df156606f89.jpg

I wanted to do a little more "classical" MA training and have about a year of TKD. Definitely fighting the muscle memory learned in FMA when doing TKD, but that's part of mixed training, right.

Ahh Stick play! I love it! Note to self: Dont offend that guy!:D

All of the above. It's start with rolls/falls, moves into locks, to takedowns, throws, then finishes. It is a samurai based art for when the sword play is done or before it can begin. Very much a "Do" art.
Do they teach shime waza? If so, is anyone proficient at kappo?

Yes they teach the whole Shime list. I am not familiar with Kappo. Unless I know it by another name.

Yes they teach the whole Shime list. I am not familiar with Kappo. Unless I know it by another name.

What happens when a student goes unconscious from a choke hold?

It was a breathing exercise. I had to stand, hands in a "prayer" postion and try to warm different parts of my body. Controlling my Chi. Anytime I felt tension I had to relax that spot. Needless to say I naturally had alot of tension. It's something you have to get good at recognizing and getting rid of. Anyway when your body is use to functioning a certain way and then you go changing it, it tends to not response well. My back was sore for a days. LOL

Yep, I remember that well. ;) My first breathing exercises flat out HURT!:eek:

Oh your talking about the medical training end of it. Yeah I'm not there yet. That that whole cross their feet, whack em in the back thing. Right? yeah definately not there yet!

What happens when a student goes unconscious from a choke hold?

What are they too stubborn to tap out?? :eek:

We had one guy who did that. Passed out right in front of us. We were yelling at him to tap out and he wouldn't. He wasn't going to give in.

He woke up right away as soon as the blood went back to his brain. :rolleyes:

Oh your talking about the medical training end of it. Yeah I'm not there yet. That that whole cross their feet, whack em in the back thing. Right? yeah definately not there yet!

correct, but is an instructor who's properly trained in the technique ALWAYS there? CPR almost always fails and a student who's gone unconscious can get brain damage as the arteries have collapsed and need to be re-opened.


PS: Go up to your head instructor and say, "Sweep the leg Johnny!" :D

What are they too stubborn to tap out?? :eek:


Sometimes, stubborn and desire have absolutely NOTHING to do with it.

My head instructor was demonstrating the technique to my students on me and since he has been doing it for nearly 30 years, he's VERY good. I started to lose consciousness before I realized that his subtle, no effort technique was taking me down. Fortunately, he's such a good teacher that he stopped, held me standing while the blood went back and only he and I knew about it... good laugh later.

Sometimes, by accident or skill, it happens just too fast.

www.sweeptheleg.com (http://www.sweeptheleg.com)

A must watch!

www.sweeptheleg.com (http://www.sweeptheleg.com)

A must watch!

Isn't your instructor's name "Johnny"? Come on, go say that to him ;)

I have been training in Tae Kwon Do for the last 5 years and Dan Zan Ryu Jujitsu for 2. I was curious who else trains and in what style.

I find my training helps me with the mental side of road cycling. Having that mindset not to quit when it gets really hard. Kinda helps push me through and enduring the pain.

So who else?? :rolleyes:

I've been training in bike-fu for the past two years.

I can take on 3 wanna-be gang bangers in a Walmart parking lot and end up with them fleeing my wrath.

:flexes:

:D

I am, and for good reason I think
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I haven't studied anything in a long time, couple of years. But, I am probably about to do some unarmed, less lethal, and firearm training with former students of Rex Applegate.

judo for a bit
was on my college's shoto khan karate team
tkd for the better part of 6 years
and a form of american kick boxing,
I move around a lot so it is hard to stick with one art.




oh and pro wrestling for 6 months

currently nothing because of the seizures.
did get a guy to tap out with his head once because of a double arm bar :-)
old clip from 03, it stops right before someone taps to an arm bar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw8SdwjZP0E

It's been a number of years since, but I trained in RBWI for about 6 years. It was a great time.

I am, and for good reason I think
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r162/jsharr/hobo.jpg

There's a dude in SF with a sign like that!!!! I wonder if that pic came from an SF hobo.

I used to do Wushu, and I'd like to again. I really just can't dedicate myself to anything right now, though.

I train capoeira regional. It looks like this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=XxCb_1hjBz0). Pretty hard to get, especially the cardiovascular aspect.

I train capoeira regional. It looks like this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=XxCb_1hjBz0). Pretty hard to get, especially the cardiovascular aspect.

If I could master ANYthing, it'd be capoeira. While I question the functionality of it -- as a grappler, I'd take a hit just to get inside -- it is one of the most awesomest things ever. Some of us in my dojo would go to the capoeira school and just sit there with our mouths hanging open when the teachers would demonstrate to the advanced students.

If anyone lives near a school, you must go see it in person

I would say that grapplers would have a difficulty, as advanced students in my group (Capoeira Luanda) are taught how to counter wrestling styles. Remember Mestre Bimba, the inventor of capoeira regional, traveled all over demonstrating his art. He fought boxers, wrestlers, and many other arts, and never lost.

There are techniques to counter throwers, and our groundfighting techniques are still strikes and kicks, elbows and such.

I would say that grapplers would have a difficulty, as advanced students in my group (Capoeira Luanda) are taught how to counter wrestling styles. Remember Mestre Bimba, the inventor of capoeira regional, traveled all over demonstrating his art. He fought boxers, wrestlers, and many other arts, and never lost.

There are techniques to counter throwers, and our groundfighting techniques are still strikes and kicks, elbows and such.

well, let me clarify that one's skill in an art is almost always more important than which art it is. I have zero doubt a/the mestre woud kick my ass all day, every day until he got bored.

Which is why UFC got so popular and why brazillian jutsu jumped up in popularity in the beginning.

All that said, capoeira is simply one of the coolest arts, period.

Tae Kwon Do. 8 or so years. Used to train with a little 5 foot 2, 90lb girl, she kicked my ass every time.

Now it's just weapons, mostly self taught.

TKD ...to a blue belt when I was in my mid-teens....

...about 10 years ago, I found a local guy who who studied under Danny Inosantos years ago.....Jeet Kune Do.....studied for 3 years and it changed the way I thought about martial arts....

well, let me clarify that one's skill in an art is almost always more important than which art it is. I have zero doubt a/the mestre woud kick my ass all day, every day until he got bored.

Which is why UFC got so popular and why brazillian jutsu jumped up in popularity in the beginning.

All that said, capoeira is simply one of the coolest arts, period.

Its a blast, for sure. I'm sorry if I got catty - you'll be amazed when people give me crap like "aren't ya'll just gymnasts that kick to keep their masculinity?" or "who throws a cartwheel in a fight?" I tend to agree - fighter will fight, and art is merely the style of the fight.

And the hotties.. whew! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya__aGng5zY

" I tend to agree - fighter will fight, and art is merely the style of the fight.



I love that quote

Training Is For Wussy!

Kenpo for 15 years.
I also did judo for half a year, many years ago.

There's a dude in SF with a sign like that!!!! I wonder if that pic came from an SF hobo.

is that a BART train in the background? I stole the pic off google.

2 years of Hapkido.

Many years ago.

is that a BART train in the background? I stole the pic off google.

I think that's one of those "Insert caption here" photos making the internet rounds.

In case there are women reading this thinking, "oh, I'd like to do it, but I'm just a girl and it'd make no difference..."

I'm proud to say that there are a handful of women in my school who have 4-8 years more training than me and always kick my ass.

If you wanna do it, go for it!

Combination of Ishinryu and Krav Magra for the last 4 years and MMA for the last 2.