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Ntwadumela said:
My advice: Calm yourself and do not think too much. Spar whenever you can while you take your martial arts courses so you get the feel of it. Helped me IRL and I haven't lost a fight as a result.
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Though I do not practice any course and just read about them like I said, I thank you for your advice and will remember it.
 
I've done MMA for over 5 years now. Still pretty much suck at it but who cares, it's the only sport I've ever really liked. On top of MMA classes I can do boxing and kickboxing and grappling and BJJ or go lift weights whenever I feel like it and it all serves the same end goal, so it never gets boring. And you just meet the coolest people in these sports. I've trained in 3 different gyms in 3 different towns and everywhere the people have been really nice and welcoming. Then they've kicked me in the head and choked me but right after that they were really nice and friendly again.
 
I just lost paying the pizza bill on McGreggor vs Diaz II. Does that count as participating in Martial Arts?

Should've known never to bet against a fucking Irishman in a fistfight.

But goddamn that was a good show. The whole card was tbh other than one or two of the prelims. That said, I like MMA for the same reason I like the NFL tbh . It's on so infrequently that I can get away with being a "hardcore casual" as far as effort going into watching it.
 
Strelok said:
I just lost paying the pizza bill on McGreggor vs Diaz II. Does that count as participating in Martial Arts?

Should've known never to bet against a fucking Irishman in a fistfight.

But goddamn that was a good show. The whole card was tbh other than one or two of the prelims. That said, I like MMA for the same reason I like the NFL tbh . It's on so infrequently that I can get away with being a "hardcore casual" as far as effort going into watching it.
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Kek, I put £30 on him to win by decision at 5/1 odds
 
Went fishing for odds and lost every fight in my triple. The card was still pretty stellar up and down. But my God, I hate Conor McGregor. The fight was awesome but that doesn't change fact that paddy fucker grinds my gears more than anyone, particularly in comparison to how Rumble conducted himself in and after his fight.
 
Best martial arts blog ever: https://sijolarrysanders.wordpress.com/

I love this graphic:

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Taekwondo versus foot sniffer
Unwisely high knee to head
FUCK your knee

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Tag! You're it!
STEVEHOLT!
Boxing with yourself
Dumbest blowjob ever
 
When I enlisted, the Army had just begun to develop & institute "Army Combatives" across the board, as instructors started to filter out of the combat arms schools and into support branches. That system is mainly a rebranded BJJ, with some judo & TKD strikes for added spice.

This time-period was also during the run-up to the '03 Iraq invasion, and there was a lot of training cross-pollination between coalition troops waiting to go over the berm from Kuwait.

That was when we also had a good amount of downtime between training ranges, and queued with a detachment of Ukrainian troops; who had with them the guy who helped develop the Ukrainian hand-to-hand doctine, which is essentially Systema & Krav Maga.

Our own unit training NCOIC also happened to be one of the guys fresh from the infantry's Combatives instructor course, so guess what we did, instead of gas-mask training?

They routinely kicked our asses, until we started implementing elements of their repertoire.

That was enough for me to keep up with it, until I picked up my DD214. Since then, victims to practice moves on have become rather scarce.

Although I do still have a scarecrow/jousting-tree in back that I use for buttstroke & bayonet training.
 
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Resurrecting this thread rather than making a new one. Just getting back into BJJ after ten years of no exercise beyond weightlifting. I came extremely close to vomiting in my first class back from drilling basic upa mount escapes. The two classes since have not been nearly as nausea-inducing. If there's a day where we drill double legs before I've got my conditioning back, I will spew unless my partner is waif-thin.

I'm finding a lot of the positioning and defensive stuff has stayed with me. The finer points of more elaborate moves like sweeps and submissions less so (eg went for a hip bump sweep from guard a couple of days ago but didn't block the guy's knee so he instantly just pressed up and flattened me again). I also did something today I was happy with when after watching a bit of Ryan Hall I started toying around with his Granby roll-type escapes when someone is about to pass guard and had it work on a guy who was probably 20kg bigger than me. He thought he'd managed to get to side control then when he saw me rolling clearly excitedly thought he was about to be able to take my back but nope, I rolled and got full guard. I hope I can keep this up at least twice a week with the pressures of a busy job.
 
I want to learn Kung Fu becasue 1. fuck yeah and 2. Ten-year old me would have thought that was radical. Though I think that there would be plenty of benefits to learning martial arts on top of what I already do (running, lifting). My flexibility is pretty ass, and I've always been of the understanding that flexibility is something you really need to train at in any martial arts dicipline lest you pull a muscle trying to roundhouse kick. So I think that would be a very fun way to improve my flexibility and therefore my overall health.
I'm *assuming* that the way to start out is learning basic stances. The horse stance is the one I've been doing the most, and I think it's a really good alternative to doing squats if you're a person with knee issues. I haven't taken the time to really practice all the stances so that definitely makes it hard to become a master of shaolin tiger style kung fu if you like, never do it. ;)
 
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I was gonna go to the Shoushu place down the road but then COVID happened.
I've dabbled in many styles. Learned a bit of Sambo from a library book. Met Ernie Reyes Sr. (and Tony Thompson, to a MUCH lesser extent) and was trained in judo by an actual fuckmothering Pan-American gold medalist.

I do not consider myself better than anyone else until proven otherwise. I made that mistake exactly once vs someone that claimed to be trained in Jeet Kune Do. Their student was easy. The sifu wasn't. tbf they challenged me after they asked me if I trained.
 
they reopened a Kyudo school close by and it looks good, does anybody know how different it is from western Archery?
 
Ive been doing kickboxing for many years and Muay Thai for a few months.
I like KB better, it's more dynamic and feels a bit like gymnastics, but MT is much better for self defense and to get your testosterone pumping through your body.
 
Based and Cringepilled said:
Ive been doing kickboxing for many years and Muay Thai for a few months.
I like KB better, it's more dynamic and feels a bit like gymnastics, but MT is much better for self defense and to get your testosterone pumping through your body.
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I love Muay Thai. Way more functional and effective. But do what you enjoy more
 
Stoneheart said:
they reopened a Kyudo school close by and it looks good, does anybody know how different it is from western Archery?
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ive seen some kyudo stuff and its a lot more ritualistic in comparison and does stuff like building up breathing and specific poses like sitting on the ground with one knee, it emphasizes a lot more on form and character building rather than normal archery. not my thing personally
 
Canaan said:
ive seen some kyudo stuff and its a lot more ritualistic in comparison and does stuff like building up breathing and specific poses like sitting on the ground with one knee, it emphasizes a lot more on form and character building rather than normal archery. not my thing personally
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I tested their srivde once, before they had to close down again... i like the ritualistic stuff.
 
Stoneheart said:
I tested their srivde once, before they had to close down again... i like the ritualistic stuff.
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ive always been anti-qi and hated stuff like kata because my backround is boxing but lately ive been warming up to the stuff that just looks cool and builds character. ive seen this dude do tai chi and karate moves and then employ it into wrestling and it blew my mind
 
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