[Kazan]

stryke 9: actually someone with a grow bar going after a martial artit is just raising the probability that THEY get injuired no the martial artist -- any good martial artist knows the principle of redirection

[Stealth]

and any better martial artist that sees someone coming for him with a crowbar will just pull out his glock.

[vyper]

[q]with weapons and fireballs[/q]

Could be useful if ur ever caught needing a light...

[Solatar]

Yeah, eat enough shrooms and you'll be able to through fireballs.


wheee.....

[Kazan]

stealth:you';re out of ammo, now what do you do

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Kazan
stealth:you';re out of ammo, now what do you do

then the martial artist will rely on skill, and hopefully he knows how to redirect force (as you said), such as in Tai Chi or Bagua... if all he knows is Karate or TaeKwondo, then he's most likely screwed

[Carl]

i personally want to learn how to fight with a sword. cause it's cool.

and, just to get it out:

"Making movies, making songs, and figh'in 'round the world!"-Russel Crowe

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Carl
"Making movies, making songs, and figh'in 'round the world!"-Russel Crowe

I hadn't watched South Park for a while before I saw that ep, but it was damn funny.

[pyro-manic]

Roight, here goes:

I've been fencing for nearly 6 years. Welsh U18 champion twice, 16th in the British U18s, and won a few other competitions :thepimp: . It's good for fitness and reflexes, but it's useless for self defence. If you want to kill people with swords do Iaijutsu.

I've been practicing Lau Gar Kungfu for about 18 months. What others have said is true - you won't get incredible skills overnight, but give it a decade and you'll be rather hard.
It's good for general fitness, flexibility and strength/stamina, and at medium/high levels you learn knife/stick defence, and then advanced weapons such as the broadsword (like a large machete), spears, butterfly knives, etc.

Lau Gar is quite different to Wing Chun. Wing Chun is based on very fast, hard-hitting strikes (including high kicks) and avoidance of attacks (AFAIK), whereas styles like Lau Gar use more blocks and hand techniques.

It depends what you want to do, really - if you're huge, do Judo. If you're tiny, do Wing Chun or Flower Fist Kungfu. You might also want to look at Jiujutsu or Aikido, which share elements of Karate, Judo and Iaido, and give a broad range of techniques to choose from (strikes, locks, grappling and weapons).

[diamondgeezer]

I suspect, without saying the word 'Stealth', that certain people in this thread are talking out of their arses. No offence

[magatsu1]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Dan Insanto (one of Mr. Lee's students)
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In the original Game of Death, Uk release, his whole fight scene (in the tower) was cut. Probably cos' it involved weapons.
So he appears in the title credits but is only in the film for like 5 seconds, and doesn't do any fightin'.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
Roight, here goes:
Lau Gar is quite different to Wing Chun. Wing Chun is based on very fast, hard-hitting strikes (including high kicks) and avoidance of attacks (AFAIK), whereas styles like Lau Gar use more blocks and hand techniques.

[color=66ff00]Wing chun is the martial art of hand techniques. The entire principle of the art is to stick to, redirect and control the opponent. As such there are three 'forms' better known as 'katas' for those who know japanese m.a. seeing siu lim tao form will give you a taster for what the art is all about. There are of course leg techniques including the fairly famous 'sticky leg' techniques, kicks are almost always waist height or below.

In wing chun it is said that defense is in the legs, attack is in the arms.
It is worth mentioning that wing chun is a shaolin invention, it was designed to turn an untrained person into a proficient fighter in less time than the other existing shaolin forms required. In that respect it was and still is successful.

In wing chun the arms and hands block, redirect, trap, grab (though never utilising the thumb) strike; order of precidence is finger jabs, knuckles (bottom three knuckles, unlike the more traditionally used two top knuckles in most other chinese and japanese m.a.) base of the palm (numerous areas around the palm actually), elbow and finally shoulder.
Almost all strikes aim for the centerline of the body where most of the sensitive points lie and almost all of the hand and leg techniques guard this line on the practitioner. Fighting is generally very close quarters, very fast and immensly subtle at times.

I consider it to be very clever.
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[diamondgeezer]

Went and watched a beginner class just now. I'll be starting a new course in a couple of weeks.

Interesting mix of people, from middle aged men who couldn't keep up with the kids to schoolgirls who looked like they had the skills to kick my arse. The instructor dude was cool - he was flinging his arms around so hard and fast his suit kept making a whiplash noise

Tell you struck me was they way off the mat everyone was laughing and joking and trying to slap each other around the head, but as soon as they stepped on to mat it was instant buisness-like concentration. Seems like a good work ethic.

[magatsu1]

I was always told to remember you fell like, proper daft throwing clumsey kicks etc and struggling, but everyone else was like that to begin with. Even kick-arse 5th Dan black belts who've been training for 20 years or whatever.

Good advice that.