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2010-09-09, 18:27 | Link #143 | |
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2010-09-09, 18:31 | Link #144 |
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Yeah. Most martial arts Dojos offer the first lesson for free. Some might charge you a fee but others don't. Anyways, try what you will and see which you like best. I preferred Judo because truth be told, I don't think I've ever had more fun in any other martial practice
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2010-09-09, 18:46 | Link #145 | |
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2010-09-09, 23:10 | Link #146 |
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You just gotta go find yourself a mixed martial arts studio. It gives you a nice all round education.
The best class I ever took was a "karate" class offered by my university. The teacher treated it like an MMA class and I learned a lot. I've been dying to get back into a class like that since.
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2010-09-10, 00:27 | Link #147 |
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Yeah there is only one of those near me, i'll get around to checking it out. The aikido place i just rang told me it would be $85 a month....holy cow how much money do they think a poor uni student like me has
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2010-09-10, 05:25 | Link #148 |
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I'd say rather than choose what style of martial arts to learn it would be better to choose on the basis on what the school is like.
My advice is to go to each of the centres near your area and check them out individually, preferably an advanced class. This'll give you a better idea of what you can hope to achieve by learning there, as well as learning what kind of students there are and what kind of atmosphere it has so you can determine whether or not you'll be comfortable there. And yeah, stuff like location and cost will matter as well. No use picking a style then finding out that the closest place that teaches it is a hundred miles away and costs a million a week. Don't be afraid to ask the teacher any questions, either. There's no such thing as a stupid question. And likely the teacher has probably come across every single question beforehand.
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2010-09-10, 06:19 | Link #149 | |
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2012-06-11, 18:08 | Link #150 |
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boxing-I started at the age of 7 and and still currently doing it. I'm a southpaw
taekwondo- I got my brown belt 4 weeks ago wrestling-I wrestled in high school during my sophomore,junior and senior year. the gym I go to has wrestling so I do practice sometimes
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2012-06-22, 11:37 | Link #151 |
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I was watching the Fist of Legend (1994) recently on TV and I realised that there are MANY similarities between Aikido and Taijiquan. So why one is promoted as a martial art, while the other is promoted as a health and fitness exercise?
Also, Wing Chun and Krav Maga is based pretty much on the same concept - dealing the largest amount of damage in the shortest amount of time; no gimmicks, no nonesene. Wing Chun is very defensive, while Krav Maga is more offensive, Wing Chun readies for moves by keeping limbs tense, while Krav Maga readies for moves by keeping limbs at ease. Isn't it funny that despite having different roots, hand-to-hand is extremely similar almost everywhere?
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2012-07-14, 20:39 | Link #154 |
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The "badass", as I like to call it.
I believe the actual name is the Hurricanrana, but there may be a foreign term for it as well. This seems to be a crazier variation too, where it catches a moving target off balance. That's one heck of a move there.
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2013-02-16, 18:53 | Link #155 |
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Necro-thread revival! So while "vacationing" back in my hometown of Vancouver, I went and undertook a few classes in activities I always thought were cool but never had time to do while I lived here, namely Archery and Swordplay.
Archery was straightforward and easy to pick up, albeit difficult to master. The Swordplay was another matter. I went to a Western swordplay academy here called Academie Duello. It was a decent exercise and I learned a lot .. in particular that using a rapier is one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever done. Additionally, one of my friends interested in this pointed me towards this: Battle of Nations
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