Martial Arts Questions and Answers
Can anyone recommend a honest and not too expensive Martial Arts School/Classes around Central London?
Question:The style is not particularly significant as I'm doing it for fitness, but I also like the practical good point of being competent to learn something which could be adjectives in day-to-day existence.
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Try Choi Kwang Do out.
Practical street defense and one month free.
check it out at:
http://www.choikwangdo.com
try choi kwang do in attendance are a lot of school in inside london. You will get adjectives details from the choi kwang do website pil sung!
Try shorinji kempo. There are numerous dojo in London.
http://www.bskf.org.uk/venues.html...
There is a Style call Samurai Jui Jitsu, which has heaps clubs in internal London ( see www.,jitsufoundation.org for exact locations) Most of these are based surrounded by Universities but are open to non students. The cost is around lb2 a session ( 2hrs) . This is excellent for both fitness and self shelter. Usually your first session is free, so just turn up and see if you similar to it.
Take up the free lessons at the begining of your traing afterwards move onto a different school, okay you will run out of free curriculum eventually but you can stick with one style you similar to
Tae Kwon Do exercises?
Question:I've started Tae Kwon Do and i'm a bit lost with adjectives the different punches and kicks, I be told by my instructor that I'll pick it up over the next few weeks, but i'd similar to to get the bubble rolling a bit more.
Is there a website where on earth all the technique for Tae Kwon Do are shown with diagrams? or is it best if I a short time ago get a book from the library?
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Hi,
Your instructor is right. You don't want to shift to a website and perhaps swot up the techniques unbecomingly. If you want to learn the technique faster, go to more classes per week. That will expedite the process.
Bob
Start with the ones you do know. Practice them on your time. That route, you'll get more and more confident near them and will become able to do them lacking thinking. You will then know how to concentrate more on the stuff that is giving you trouble.
your instructor is right..it best to cram with instructor guide and suggestion rather research your self by reading some text..train every daytime for 1 hour..and you can see the differences with surrounded by a week.. you can still do your research to gain more knowledge of teak kwon do..try to purcase teak kwon do cd/dvd from warring art shop. try to get cd that come from korea, because this is where it come..you can email to me and i can sent to you a few clip video of teakwondo..nantaqoud(a)yahoo.com
A book might help, but the prime thing is to listen to your instructor & maintain practicing. Every beginner feel like you do.
the best entry to do is to take your time and practice. the problem beside books and videos are every one have thier own opinion on how to do things.
Just relax and practice the technique that your instructor has skilled you. You will eventually get it.
Martial Arts for Fitness... Oxymoron?
Question:I just thought I would share this...
i be watching the weakest link as i be getting changed for work... and i saw a lady contestant...she be being picked on as usual and when she be asked where she be from and what she did... she replied...
"im from Bradford and i teach Martial Arts for Fitness"
zilch wrong with that im sure...its when she be asked wht Martial Art it was she qualified she replied.
"jujitsu"
i was flabbergasped! i close-fisted...
if im not wrong then jujitsu is "the meek art" translated from the japaneese...
so isnt her job a touch...fake?
only curious about what you contemplate about the statement...
i know just about the whole warm up...but she said it was purely around the technique... im just... surrounded by disbeleif!
thanks alot! il rate the best answer
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Many general public in America inculcate martial arts for fitness...whether they accomplish that purpose is a very different cross-examine. Look at the sad state most Tai Chi classes are contained by nowadays! Also, due to abundant instructors working a "real job" to rate for living expenses, sometimes the staff at the schools are not really the resident experts, a bit they are some shmoe with some dedication who the instructor give some basic training and a special uniform to. So, adjectives that being said, possibly the lady on TV be a lower belt (or just pushe dthrough the ranks) that didn't really hold itnimate knowledge of her system, and be simply put in charge of the "KardioJitsu" program so the college could make a expeditious buck. If the shoe fits... ;-)
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Since when is Tai Chi a gentle art near only kick and punches? Maybe the way the hippie at the gym does it. Most Chinese arts include what is prearranged as Chin Na (seizing and locking), much of which is similiar to judo, sumo, jiujitsu, etc, with the added stress on knowing and utilizing the weaknesses of the human anatomy via locking and tear tendons, ligaments, nerves and muscles in the process of the takedown. A system such as White Crane or Tai Chi probably have more locks and throws than many grappling systems.
I wouldn't enjoy thought it would be an oxymoron as such. If she said it was for fitness consequently I understand, surely it's a virtuous way to save fit?
Jujitsu unlike other MA teaches holds and grapples as anti strikes, so it looks gentler, but you are still very involved, and as long as you are burring calories and getting up your heart rate it is a good work out, if you would a bit sit on a bike or run in place jump for it, I would rather do something more similar to this.
Yea, that's a little crazy. Jujitsu is a grappling style so to say-so it's for fitness does come cross a bit odd but later again, a lot of individuals take warring arts just for fitness because going to the gym get too routine. Martial arts mixes things up and there is other the goal of delivery the next belt or stripe. If she said taekwondo or karate, it would of made more sense but I agree near you that jujitsu for fitness does come across as odd.
I ponder you may be getting mixed up with 'tai chi'. ju-jitsu is not lenient at all, Japanese jujitsu systems recurrently place more emphasis on combining throwing, immobilising and pinning, joint-locking, and strangling technique than Chinese systems that emphasise punching, striking, and kicking. However, tai chi can develop and promote good vigour and fitness, many of the stances bring time and practise to get worthy at as they do require strength, especially in the legs.
If I followed you correctly, your press is how does ju-jutsu training equate to fitness?
Coming from an art that is derived from ju-jutsu, I can transmit you that the general stride of the training is, at the minimum, a very honourable aerobic / cardio-workout. When you start training against resistance, you get into more anaerobic exercise. To train contained by any martial art is to occupy in a physical amusement and a philosophy that encourages physical and mental fitness.
Currently, at most minuscule in the States, in that is a big push to be "fit", to exercise, and to "be healthy". So when she claimed to "teach Martial Arts for Fitness", she be probably using a truthful marketing phrase that appeals to a broad audience.
it includes fitness obviously, i could see how a student would with the sole purpose do it for fitness but i cant see how an instructor would only tutor it for fitness. but you are a bit confusing because in another sentence you read out she said it was purely going on for technique.??
I spent 4 and a half years surrounded by the Army Infantry. A normal PT session would be running 3-6 miles and 30 minutes of a variety of exercises(push-ups, pullups, situps, etc.) every day. We carried 100 pound rucks contained by the field and moved at tiniest 10 clicks a night when we be in the enclosed space with full fighting rattle. I be sent to an Army combatives course where they qualified us the basics of BJJ. We would spar for 5 minutes at a time on the ground. No stand up punches or anything a moment ago the techniques they qualified us. For those 3 weeks i was within the course my body was sore everyday. The foundation why that is such a apposite art for fitness is because when you're doing it correctly even going half force you use more muscles surrounded by your body then you would doing any single exercise. Juijitsu is great to clutch if you want to get contained by shape.
idk why u would teach it for fitness. fitness should be a biproduct.. but contained by those sparring matches it get 2 be like wrestling within the way it tires u out (sept its not a sport) and ppl train 2 find in devout shape 4 wrestling... and wrestlers tell me it totally wares u out... i guess that deminishes near tecnique tho.. .cas when i used 2 mess round with friends (they do kung fu) ego be in a niggle full hold and just lay nearby in it and relax and believe of a way 2 catch out... then they would put me within sum thin els.. and ego relax again. soooo. i guess it depends
Names can be deceiving. Jujitsu is anything but gentle. That said, I can't conceive how you would structure a Jujitsu class for fitness. It's a war system that will improve your fitness height, not the other way around.
Yes unsurprisingly it will be about fitness.
Martial arts is not more or less fighting, contrary to popular belief, it is going on for the mastery of the body, mind and spirit. The perfect trinity.
So yes, principle jujitsu for fitness is normal, but what is confusing, is that the "sensei" said for fitness, but not the other two, Mental attunement, and eventually, when you master and match the first two, spiritual enlightenment. This is what martial arts have been around for a long time.
I don't believe that it should be only for fitness, next it is not an art, this is the distinction. Jujitsu is compleate in abundant ways, it is a path to mastery different from those of karate or the other rude martial arts. Like aikido, jujitsu is vastly defensive and have a lot more to do near the feel of the creature, and grappling with them. The impolite is much more to do with watching and react or anticipating.
Both sides of the martial art ying yang are demanding physically and head towards physical mastery and a focused and calm mind, If you use them right and school all the parts of the arts and the essence of the philosophy.
So law for fitness seems wierd to me because it is defeat the purpose of the practice. If students are only going to classes for thier fitness, after wonderful, maybe they will be interested by the philosophy as economically and then they do indeed become apt students. But if nobody is training the other half of the art, consequently nobody will learn and it will be lost, close to in boxing or this UFC stuff you tell about.
I wopuld prefer to see tradition styles against other traditional styles, for example, Aikido againt Tae kwan do or karate. That would be fun.
To see the grace of the fighter, likew we emulate within the movies, rather than a street come to blows in a coop between two animals.
but this is another topic that wil require some time.
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i do mainly for toneing up and self security
I would suspect that her reply may have be said in a modest attitude,although not have seen the programme i couldn't say-so for sure, jiu-jisu by definition is indeed described as being "the docile art" but is anything but gentle during training,not putting jiu-jitsu on a dais but I've encountered ,street fighters, boxers,black belts within various styles of karate coming into class to train and not long-term a week mainly due to break falling as the toughest chunk of jiu-jitsu in the commencement is learning to cope beside and endure never-ending break falling which is hard going surrounded by the beginning hence why so abundant people quit regardless of experience surrounded by other martial arts that don't do break falling,fitness is a by product of training and not a prerequisite for starting to train.
I doubt most empire would say they started jiu-jitsu to save fit
If you seriously want to keep fit after do ,running swimming aerobics etc its much less sensitive
If people are honest next to them selves jiu-jitsu is purely started for self defence reason and nothing else.
Unless the woman be being modest later she's clearly talking codswallop I'm afraid.
Hope this helps
Don't miss interprate the translation. JuJitsu or JuJutsu surrounded by Germany and BRazil it is JiuJitsu, is defined as a soft art meaning the intent is to use your attackers force and energy against them so if someone grab you and pushes you back words you would turn and throw them to the ground using their momentum. Where contained by a hard style approaching Tae Kwan Do they teach you how to see the attackers arm as they try to punch you.
I have over 13 years of Judo training which is vastly similar to Jujitsu only next to throwing. And 5 years of wrestling. Both got me within better shapoe than anything else I ever did.
She probably didn't want to get into a big long explanation as to what her class is going on for. Maybe she is a Black belt who wanted to create a fun mode of learning self guard and getting into shape. Or maybe she is purely another loser using the hype around the UFC to get society into her health club. Either course I work out with alot of ancestors who only train for the robustness aspects of it and couldn't care les almost fighting or man graded. I don't do it but I get into Judo for fighting beacuse I love to compete.
And as far as clich¨¦ JuJitsu is not good for fitness. Go spend 5 minutes on the mat doing randori and see how much it wear you down. In randori (sparing) you don't go out to flay your uki (opponant) you go until you achieve the hold on then stop and start again. Trust me it is a better work out than any Karate or Tae Kwan Do one. And no push-ups and other excercises don't count. Sorry but kicking the atmosphere and grappling on the ground for an hour don't compare as far as work outs go...
Students secure my club for many reason , fitness being one of them. It could be that her club is not a competition institution , but one where member join first and foremost to be fit.
I was just about to say that she (the contestant) be probably just dumbing it down for the listeners, but as 'Curious George' said "she be probably using a truthful marketing phrase that appeals to a broad audience". Pure marketing strategy, rather than the rugged line transport on the tradition from far flung region, well if that her living, ardent business sense and all that
i would twig brazilian jiu jitsu cause its complicated work but traditional jui jijitsu has zilch fitness involed though there apparently is over 700 forms of traditional jui jitsu around the world and possibly she made one up her self
If you can do taichi for fitness ...? then why not
There is seriously of fakers and money-makers out at hand.
Well, judo is really considered the gentle military art but I can assure it means to be placid on yourself, not your rival!
Jujitsu was truly a combat art. You do inevitability to be in shape surrounded by order do much jujitsu properly or effectively. I've studies several warring arts and in broad if you get two practitioners at duplicate skill level and more or smaller amount the same plane and weight, the one contained by better shape will usually be victorious in a disagree.
Martial arts classes are normally a clad way to stay surrounded by shape but some are better than others. The thing is that oodles folks who won't go to the gym to work out will come to involve yourself in in a militaristic arts class as they make friends and will habitually find the want to achieve something near. I think to really be surrounded by good shape that you hold to do additional workout though. Most classes ultimate only an hour and like mad of that is instruction and practice. Often times you are and so not doing strenuous activity during a class. But it adjectives depends on the type of art and they way the instructor like to teach it.
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Didn't see the show but know what you mean. lol
Think see probably works at a Gym and teach X attack or Tae Bo but got her language mixed up! Either that or another Black Belt wannabe and believe me there's quite a few of them out within! lol
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idai
Not devout for fitness?
Participate in a military arts class (a real class, not this not genuine stuff) and you will know about fitness. I want that I could start training regularly again because I am getting out of shape.
And I sincerely do recommend that you try a war art.
interesting... I've been practicing jiujitsu for pretty some time now..it's ALL grappling. It's base on leverage, joint manipulation and using your opponent weight against them. it's markedly close contact with the fundamental position known as the 'guard"> I don't know give or take a few any license, but if I were researching an instructor I would without a doubt want to know who trained THEM..
Agree with you. It seem like she have no idea of the subject. Jujitsu is grappling, so I'm stunned as you are.
Does tae kwon do work within the streets when conflict ? simply an inference ? any type of tkd?
Question:Do you all presume TKD is effective when warfare on the streets ? newly an opinion ? Thanks so much.
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It wouldn't be my first choice of military arts. If you're looking for a practical martial art that will comfort you in TRUE life situations (not karate tournaments) I would rob a look at Krav Maga. It will teach you how to protect against people next to knives, and guns, as unwilling swords and nunchucks (when was the ending time you heard of somebody mortal killed beside nunchucks?).
Probably not against a good street warrior. There have be a lot of black belts wearing toe tag in county morgues.
Yes , see their head past its sell-by date. is what I tell my daughter.
People no longer confrontation on the streets. they use guns. so the answer is no unless you can use your TKD skills to stop bullets or have artifice wonder woman bracelets.
I heard the military art Kali is best for street fighting
No. Only kung fu is adjectives.
No one can block you if you jump 15 foot in the heavens and do a tornado kick.
As contained by all Martial Arts, nouns are of great importance. One can look at individual nouns, treat a fellow-man right, or one can look at social ethics, as cut of a whole.
Ethics essentially all comes down to one point, the difference between 'good' and 'evil'. We practise taekwondo, repeatedly seen as an aggresive sport, but does this mingy that we can be aggresive? Do we want to be aggresive? The answer is NO!
We wear protection, because we don't want someone else to be injured, nor do we want to get hurt ourselves. Taekwondo is not a destructive and aggressive sport, but a sportive one. As I see it, taking chunk in a competition is not to hurt your foe, but to test your strength, within both physical and mental ways.
Taekwondo students can improve themselves physically, and mentally by training. The final desire is to achieve chord with moral fibre and oneself. Balance is gained by controlling both evil and apt forces (Yin vs. Yang): A true Taekwondo student knows how to behave within all situations.
In my feelings, Taekwondo (and I guess this goes for every Martial Art) is not solely a way to restore skills of self defence, but it's a course of life. Practicing Taekwondo give the student more self-confidence, but this should not result in a false sense of superiority.
Because of the military surroundings, there is a broad code. These codes are reflected within the so-called 'Commandments of modern Taekwondo' and is strongly influenced by the Buddhism. These commandments are influenced by the HwaRang Do code of honor:
Serve your lord with loyalty
Serve your parents next to filial piety
Trust your friends
Never retreat from a battle
When taking natural life, be selective
The commandments of Taekwondo are used as a guide for the moral development of students and art. No student who does not fully make out these tenets can ever hope to master the true essence of the art.
Street fighting would not be allowed as a situation of ethics.
There are 4 most important ranges of unarmed combat. From farthest to closest it go.
Kicking
Punching
Clinching
Groundfighting
Most fights progress through kicking especially fast, within many cases you will not even be attacked until they are competent to grab you (Clinch) or punch you. So the assailant will punch you till you jump down, or throw you down. They rob you or continue to pulse you. There is very little time spent contained by the kicking range, i.e. why TKD is not very impressive. If someone is unskilled in kicking they aren't going to stand rotten and kick beside you. I suppose that you could use your skills to help prevent someone from closing the distance, but that can be especially hard against a determined party.
I think it's great if you are at a wearing clothes distance or perhaps defending a 3rd entity. If the attacker gets close to you, TKD is useless. The likelihood of a street fight going to the ground are extremely high.
no its not, unless you are 14 years elderly or younger.
anything that you do that practices punching, kicking, footwork, evasion, blocking etc. will be effective surrounded by a street fight. A obedient quick roundhouse see or jump rear legs kick to the body will do wonders within stopping a street fighter.
Unfortunately, most TKD school now educate Olympic style TKD or tournament sparring and have smaller quantity emphasis on the self defense aspect of TKD.
No militaristic art is worth a look at. Martial arts is pathetic it is for little kids who wonna play ninjas and for displays and is not a hint true form of self defense. Boxing is the best fighting style be a concrete man.
How about not combat. But if you're attacked which shouldn't happen unless you budge to the wrong place or say somthing dumb I guess your training and your track training would be best. Oh and after the other guy kicks your *** be prepared to receive another *** kicking from your sensei when he finds out you were combat outside the dojo
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