Martial Arts?

[ryanwh]

What if you fight people missing arms and legs? Also there are many MANY body TYPES, so that little quote is bollocks. There is no endall martial art to delfect other martial arts. A gun can deflect all martial arts, though, cus like you said we all have a head and not too many of us fair well with a hole through it.

 

[Professor Yoshi]

What if you fight people missing arms and legs? Also there are many MANY body TYPES, so that little quote is bollocks. There is no endall martial art to delfect other martial arts. A gun can deflect all martial arts, though, cus like you said we all have a head and not too many of us fair well with a hole through it.

I think the point has eluded you.

 

[flames_torpy]

I have trained with karate for 10 years. I am now 16 years old and only got my black-belt last year, but I still find the experience very enjoyable.

 

[Roman Candle]

My dad almost became master of Snake style, before he accidentally injured his knee, which is apparently an extremely important join for snakes. Which is odd, because snakes don't actually have knees :P Frankly, I see too many really nerdy people getting really into martial arts to take it seriously enough to actually do it :lol:

 

[BlackStaticWolf]

I think the point has eluded you.

Well, your quote was fairly oblique. The first sentence seems to imply that there is only one style worth using, while the rest argues for incorporating the strengths of multiple styles into your personal style.

What if you fight people missing arms and legs? Also there are many MANY body TYPES

Then they're at a disadvantage. Despite the lack of clarity in Yoshi's quote, it is right. All humans share the same anatomy. Some will be larger or faster than others, but the exact same thing happens to everyone when you say... poke them in the eye.

There is no endall martial art to delfect other martial arts. A gun can deflect all martial arts,

That's actually exactly what Yoshi's quote said: "Forget the belief that one style is better than the other"

A gun can deflect all martial arts, though, cus like you said we all have a head and not too many of us fair well with a hole through it.

I guarantee you that if you answer an attacker using a non-lethal type of force (martial arts) with a firearm (lethal force)... you're the one who's going to end up in jail (at least in any state in the US). That's why I said there are situations when you don't want to use a knife or firearm to defend yourself.

Of course, if you're the defender and the attacker has a gun... honestly, even if you're capable of disarming them, the question you should ask is: "Is whatever he wants worth risking death to fight for?"

 

[m_artist200]

What if you fight people missing arms and legs?

Then...don't do anything that requires going for arms/legs? The reaction will be the same if you say...hit them in the stomach or throat or face.

>_> legal reprecutions aside, if your looking for the "best defense"...guns are the way to go. Just the sight of a gun is enough of a detterence against most would-be muggers.

<_< Speaking of legalities, aren't there countries in Europe where if you possess a blackbelt rank, isn't beating up someone with unarmed techniques considered assualt with a deadly weapon? (vauge memory)

 

[Despain v.1]

Then they're at a disadvantage. Despite the lack of clarity in Yoshi's quote, it is right. All humans share the same anatomy. Some will be larger or faster than others, but the exact same thing happens to everyone when you say... poke them in the eye.

What about those of us who wear glasses, eh? If you're aiming to poke in the eye, that gives me a slight advantage over other people.

 

[Chaosg1]

I pratice judo, karate started just a before hoildays, and now I think i will go to jujitsu(If i ever can afford that)....

 

[BlackStaticWolf]

What about those of us who wear glasses, eh? If you're aiming to poke in the eye, that gives me a slight advantage over other people.

Now you're just being difficult. :P

 

[Atnas]

I've been fencing since I was 10. Next year I will have done enough to move on to rapier. Yay! I want to learn dagger and buckler alot, because I need something to defend myself when I go in to attack, as when I do attack I am quite ruthless and end up usaully disarming my opponent before I can hit them O.O If I go slower though, I fear I will be hit myself...

 

[m_artist200]

I've been fencing since I was 10. Next year I will have done enough to move on to rapier. Yay! I want to learn dagger and buckler alot, because I need something to defend myself when I go in to attack, as when I do attack I am quite ruthless and end up usaully disarming my opponent before I can hit them O.O If I go slower though, I fear I will be hit myself...

Sorry, but I have to ask....what the heck fencing are you doing?

As far as I know, fencing only has 3 weapons: Foil, Epee, and Scimitar (or something like that...). wtf are you talking about....a dagger and buckler?

Edit: its Sabre, not Scimitar. My bad.

 

[Professor Yoshi]

The previous quote was from Bruce Lee, to reiterate it.

"There is no one style of fighting better than any other, the best thing for a fighter to do is to take the most effective moves of any form of combat and self defense and find situations to apply them in."

 

[BlackStaticWolf]

As far as I know, fencing only has 3 weapons: Foil, Epee, and Scimitar (or something like that...). wtf are you talking about....a dagger and buckler?

Edit: its Sabre, not Scimitar. My bad.

There's also the rapier and main gauche (parrying dagger) style. Sometimes the style replaces the dagger with a small wrist shield (buckler). It can be difficult to find a school that teaches the style, but not impossible. The one I first went to actually taught it, I've never been any good at using the dagger to parry (always end up stabbing people with it while parrying with the sword) so I mostly stick to my pistol grip foil and my sabre when I fence (which, unfortunately, is much more rarely than I would like).

 

[m_artist200]

Ah, i see. Never knew they used those....>_<. Sorry if I seemed rude Atnas.

 

[Wings]

I learned some Brazilian Ju-Jitsu in the military (as they teach a bit there), and took Aikido when I was a boy. I began to look into some dojos around here, observe classes and see how the instructors taught their practised styles...but it seemed more like fun and games than anything. Even the main instructor was dating one of his students (very unprofessional).

Eventually I came upon this small TaeKwondo studio taught by a 10th Dan, Korean master. He seemed like a very reputable source to go to for anyone looking to learn this discipline (besides the discount in the phone book). Saw all of his certificates, his 10th Dan doctrine given to him by an official over in Korea (World TaeKwonDo Association)...a bunch of tournament photographs of his students in Korea...ect. I was like "this is the guy I want to learn from"...but his classes ended up being too expensive in the long run (but for good reason).

But unfortunately the lost art of learning martial arts for what is truly is isn't recognised anymore. It's more like "guess what? I'm this colour belt now". If you want coloured belts...go to a clothing shop and buy one. They aren't a valid reason for wanting to become self-disciplined and knowing a bit of last-resort self defence.

 

[ryanwh]

The previous quote was from Bruce Lee, to reiterate it.

Relevence? This is about martial arts people have studied, its not a debate on the best martial art so you're just kind of spamming to close a debate that never existed.
Also blackbeard, the code? The code is buddhism, if you mean the moral code of samurai or something it was INVENTED in the 17th century during peacetime to keep samurai on the payroll since they basically had no purpose anymore. Yeah, THAT code is long dead. Fighting is barbaric regaurdless of curcumstance, attaching a "code" to it doesnt elevate it to a spiritual nobility because the spiritual aspects of it were in meditation, which people can do without learning ANY kind of martial art.

 

[Wings]

Also blackbeard, the code?

Um no...the point in my ramble was that people only care about the colour of the belt they achieve rather than what martial arts was truly developed to be. If this is a "code" you were talking about...it is far from dead. Bruce Lee and other famous martial artists believe in the same thing along with that one TaeKwonDo master I went to (and they are post 17th century the last time I checked). That was one of the first things he pointed out when I went in to visit him.

 

[BlueScope]

^_^ finally!!! something I KNOW i can talk about and not be off!!!

I thought the exact same thing ^_^

I did Kenjutsu and Ninjutsu formerly, but unfortunately, my sensei moved. Since then, I've been learning 'by myself' (I consider myself to be able to do that, hence I got 2nd Kyu in Ninjutsu and 3rd Kyu in Kenjutsu) and therefore somehow created my own style. Well, it's mainly still the same (all experienced martial artists here will know that you can't loose a style that easily ), but I've added some here-and-there... well, I don't have any training partners anymore, which is the worst thing...

Hehe, martial arts will also play a big role in my new game... so if you're interested in martial arts, you might take a look in the (hopefully soon finished) project thread.

 

[Sion]

I do a form of fencing.

 

[BlackStaticWolf]

I do a form of fencing.

Out of curiousity, which one?