Martial Arts!

[WaRpEd]

A few months ago I came across this site, and have read about how people are always looking for confideince boosting, physical fitness, etc.

Well I think I may have something to help a few of you. Karate!

Lets look at some things karate can help ya out with here...

After you've been at it for a while you get confidience in yourself. You meet alot of people. Your Physical fitness has no choice but to shoot sky high. And for some reason or another chicks just seem to like the idea of their man beeing able to fight.

Of course don't expect to be like Jackie Chan, or the people of Crouching dragon hidden monkey (whatever its called)

Some places offer one or two free classes, try looking into it!

Later-WaRpEd

 

[mahon83050]

Originally posted by WaRpEd
A few months ago I came across this site, and have read about how people are always looking for confideince boosting, physical fitness, etc.

Well I think I may have something to help a few of you. Karate!

Lets look at some things karate can help ya out with here...

After you've been at it for a while you get confidience in yourself. You meet alot of people. Your Physical fitness has no choice but to shoot sky high. And for some reason or another chicks just seem to like the idea of their man beeing able to fight.

Of course don't expect to be like Jackie Chan, or the people of Crouching dragon hidden monkey (whatever its called)

Some places offer one or two free classes, try looking into it!


You don't live in the Norteast do you? Well if you do, do not go to Tiger Schulmann's karate. They teach you good stuff, but they are all about marketing. It will cost you around $10,000 to go from white belt to black belt. They also pressure you to rejoin like it is almost extortion.
Later-WaRpEd

 

[WaRpEd]

Nope... I live in the south (tennessee)

Yea, their are some interesting karate studios out their, you need to be careful, some charge alot and ain't worth a poopoo. While some are very good!

It only costed me about $100 to get my first black belt, then i think about $50 for my second degree black (lucky huh ...but their is a min. of about 4-5 years to achive your first first )

Later-WaRpEd

 

[Enduro]

There is already a thread on this.

http://www.sosuave.com/vBulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39926

And I prefer MMA.

 

[The Click]

I used to be in Taekwondo.. is that kinda like the same thing ask Karate? I got a black belt in Taekwondo.. but I wanna go through.. and do it all again..

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[WaRpEd]

Taekwando (or however you spell it) is a form of japanese martial arts (a.ka. karate).

If you wanna go through it again then cool! go for it, but I'd recomend taking another form of martial arts. Just think of the look on a chicks (or just about anyone else's) face when they find out you have black belts it TWO styles of karate...something thats rarely achieved , and it's something new to take another one! (altough I wouldn't know, I took Wado-ryu and that was it)

later-WaRpEd

 

[Custaz2004]

Taekwondo uses more kicking than karate.

 

[Nocturnal]

how can you expect people to devote so much time to something from just one post, especially when there are other people saying that other easier things will have the same results?

 

[RIchardo]

A. Taekwondo is KOREAN

B. Most of the time karate will get your over confident ass beat to a pulp.

 

[HollowHorizon]

I see it as karate is confidence. but more of along the lines of dont **** with me pal..Yeah a girl might like it but does that give you balls to say hi im fred would you like to go out sometime...

No it dosent just do that..

The kind of confidence karate offers when it comes to women is

Your tone fit witch is good with the women.

You are less intimidated by others ( Including women)

You feel good. How can you be in dj mode if you feel like crap?

If these seem like solutions to any of your answers then karate is for you.......


~Peace~

 

[WaRpEd]

Well, maybee I was wrong about it beeing a form of "karate" whatever the heck it is, it's a form of martial arts. I was just going by a fuzzy memory of someone talking of a few common martial arts and whether not they were karate, kungfu, or whatever.

To all of you apposing to this martial arts things, you must have gotten a sucky school that was all about the money instead of about the karate (alot of them nowadays are). You have to have the ambition to get anywhere in this or else you will be beaten to a bloody pulp, If you go in their expecting the belts to just come to you and to be a tough guy after even the first YEAR you're an idiot. What I was getting at is it can help you get fit, get confident, a GREAT place to meet people , and if you get a good school (which some of you apparently didn't) be able to defend yourself.

If it wasn't for karate, I would be a fat little computer geek, I would have NO confidence, etc.
-Later WaRpEd

 

[RIchardo]

I have been to "good" karate schools to spar back in my kung fu days, in fact one of them had a teacher that was 3rd in the world in point fighting competition, ive sparred nationally ranked people too.

Maybe if you do it for 20 years you might be able to fight...... but if you box or kickbox , any type of actual FIGHTING art.... you WILL be respectably tough after even 1 year. ****, a guy i box with won state golden gloves his 3rd year and turned pro....... IN 3 YEARS .... and i bet he could probably **** up most karate masters.

I would only call a good karate school one that does full contact and lots of padwork instead of all that form and weapons crap....... there are many good ones like that in europe and japan, but very very very few in this country.

 

[ulsterman]

Boys, don't be deluded by martial arts! Women prefer men to be lovers rather than fighters. And in any case, martial arts are often seen as being for wusses who can't fight, not that I am accusing any of you lads of falling into that category.

Let me tell you something... there are guys roaming the streets of Belfast and Glasgow who would kick seven shades of crap out of the average karate kid. I mean, real fighting is not about all those choreographed moves... I'm talking pulling a guy's hair to draw his head toward your rapidly rising knee... kicking someone so hard in the shins with your steel capped shoes that they want to cry for their mommy. A mate of mine once got head-butted in the face so hard that the pain went "right to the middle" of his head, and yes, he cried like a baby, but he deserved worse for what he did to provoke it.

To summarise:

1. Chicks are not overly impressed with martial arts / fighting ability; it's attitude that gets them salivating.
2. Martial arts are a recipe for a good kicking - for the guy who takes part in them, that is, unless he knows his limitations.
3. The best scrapper is the guy who has no fear, for nothing scares an adversary, even an imposing one, than the guy who clearly has no fear of losing the fight.

 

[Enduro]

Originally posted by ulsterman
Women prefer men to be lovers rather than fighters.

1. Chicks are not overly impressed with martial arts / fighting ability; it's attitude that gets them salivating.

Has anyone ever let you know that being a don juan does not revolve around attracting women?

 

[WaRpEd]

I see it as karate is confidence. but more of along the lines of dont **** with me pal..Yeah a girl might like it but does that give you balls to say hi im fred would you like to go out sometime...

Heck no it dosen't give you the balls to do it (in fact if you're not carefull you'll get your balls kicked off ) but sure does give you a huge shove towards getting those balls!

I would only call a good karate school one that does full contact and lots of padwork instead of all that form and weapons crap....... there are many good ones like that in europe and japan, but very very very few in this country.

I somewhat agree...unfortuantly all the schools like those over here are mostly gone (because alot of the teachers were mostly war veterans that learned it over seas, then brought it back here). And now after a few generations of teachers alot of that stuff got weeded out. ... Form is a major part of karate though, after all, if you don't have good form you'll end up just throwing punches blindly in the air without hitting anything

But fortuantly their are still good schools out their!

-WaRpEd

P.S. The stuff on this site actually works, it's so freakin awesome!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ziro]

I am glad to say that my dojo is one of the few that I would consider actually good. It teaches a very useful-non sporty form of Karate. We do a lot of mat work and grappling and also the usualy 'punch, kick, block'. We only use weapons to better understand the bunkai of katas. A few people in my dojo have actually gone to Japan to train.

 

[ulsterman]

Originally posted by Torn Victor
Has anyone ever let you know that being a don juan does not revolve around attracting women?

It DOESN'T? So what does it revolve around? Being a good fighter? So this forum is not really about learning how to attract women?

 

[Enduro]

I hope you're just being sarcastic. Of course being a DJ does not revolve around attracting women. It's part of it but certainly not what embodies being a Don Juan.

 

[DJ Alejandro]

too aggressive!

i think karate and taekwondo are too aggressive.
im studying aikido right now. the one steven seagal falls under.
im still a 1st degree blackbelt but to tell you frankly, aikido instills within you the confidence you need without really being aggressive.

i mean, yeah. not all fights can be avoided but when it does, id rather be the receiver of the punches/kicks. not that they hit me, nope. what i mean is that id rather just 'take the force' of the attacker and throw it back right up his ass.

the techniques are simple, effective and very lethal. even as a white belt, breaking an arm seems so easy.

and besides, the system was designed so that even if a guy faces someone twice or even thrice his size, he has more than a fighting chance.

it helped me even in one issue where i got 'apprehended' by school authorities with some guy. i just said that he threw the 1st punch. simple, i reacted and didn't get any consequences.

u should find a weapon-based aikido style too. so you could learn how to 'use' ur environment. like sticks or stuff like that.

as a bonus, white belts get to try the 'randori'. simply, you get trained to deal with multiple attackers very early on. should be useful in GLASGOW, i think.

still, avoiding fights is still ur best defense.


i took up Filipino escrima/kali once. and it HURTS like hell! hehe

peace!

 

[Serialized3]

Re: Re: too aggressive!

Originally posted by GigaloDJ
What does fighting mean?

Right, so you're saying you've done 4 years of martial arts and you STILL don't get it. I know for a fact that karate, kung-fu, and ninjutsu all preach the "flight before fight" method of life.

In eastern martial arts, fighting is supposed to be a last resort, and, many arts are defensive in nature, rather than agressive. Martial arts are ARTS, not fighting. If you want to learn to fight go to the poor side of town and start yelling ethnic slurs.