I am getting out of high school and heading out to college. I have been wrestling for a long time
and have loved it, but I don't plan on wrestling in college. Rather than wrestling in college
what kind of martial art is out there that is fun to learn and will provide me with the same skills
as wrestling? I think martial arts is a fun thing to do. I have a friend that is a black belt, but
I could never be up to his skill....

I'm not sure if it's Kaedo but it looks pretty weird (or was it Kendo?) with the black
suits. I want to learn the martial arts where you fight with a stick, what's the most done
sport where you fight with a stick? Preferably an ancient one /smile.gif"
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This is one game you will have to buy. It's better than ever and the battles are different. For
more info on this game, check out ign.com to view the reviews and more. /biggrin.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />...

I have studied martial arts for self defense only. French Savate was too deadly to be
practical in anything but a fight to the death. Tae Kwon Do provided great exercise and could be
effectively used in a fight. Tae Kwon Do provides great tournaments. I was surprised how safe
tournament fighting was. Movies sensationalize to the max, of course. But, the best form that I
found for walking away, unscathed (without killing anyone) was Chinese Kenpo . My sefu (master) was
a total maniac, but the students were great! Has anyone studied an unusual fighting st...

Hey anyone here knows Ninjutsu??? sorry but i searched the forum, and didnt found any topic stating
that! I am a Ninja...

Well im 14, so i dont have alot of mone, so i was wonderin if their is anyway that i can learn
martial arts of sometype throuh the internet( my g key is not working) i have seen people defending
themselves and, i am not the strongest person in my school and im going to high school net year and
incase i ever need it. Please And thanks...

I'd really like to start some kind of martial arts.. do you guys recomend Karate or TKD??...

Is It Really Possible To Teach Yourself Martial Arts? Well, it's a good question,
and one which is often asked by those that want to master the skills of either sporting martial
arts, or combat martial arts. The truth is simple, and the answer is quick : No. It is not possible
to teach yourself martial arts from scratch to a good level, how ever, this does not mean that you
can not teach yourself to fight. You can quite simply teach yourself to fight, but to fight to a
martial arts standard without the help of self help dvd's, instructors or aid is a...

Contrary to popular belief, gaming does not turn people into anti-social recluses unable to adapt to
the real world. In fact, gaming can help sharpen your survivial skills in the dog-eat-dog corporate
jungle. Here are some skills you can pick up in gaming and potentially add to your resume. Lead
by example Game examples: Team tactical types like Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Rainbow Six
True leadership is about saving your entire team from being massacred and not getting a word of
thanks when it's over. In team titles like these, you stick your neck out to ...

Afternoon all! Further to my last post about starting a martial art ive found a local promising
club that teaches Shotokan karate and seems ideal for me/ Background info on me: Im 18, male not
fit as it were and looking for a class to go to where i can learn fighting, self defence, get
exercise and have fun. I'll be going with a female friend who is also 18, not athletic but not
obese either, she has no experience of martial arts and ive only been once before for about 6 weeks.
I explained this on the club's forum and organizer emailed me with more info ab...

Hi. I read on a site that the brand new Tekken 5 is out in USA ( According to TekkenZaibatsu.com
! But me I live in Canada and I wanna know if some of you have Tekken 5... Me I have the old
Tekken 3 . I'd like to have your opinion about the Tekken games too....

I am a big fun of ninja gaiden with Xbox. I also used to enjoy old NES ninja gaiden (ninja
ryukenden) about a few years ago. I felt like real ninja while I was playing those games. Who like
ninja gaiden?...

Hi, I am asking people to wish me luck again. A week today I am taking part in the TISKA Karate
championships in the disciplines sparring (fighting), Kata and team Kata. Really excited but also
pretty nervous about it all. /ph34r.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ph34r:" border="0"
alt="ph34r.gif" /> /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0"
alt="blink.gif" />...

Ok, so I want to know everyone's viewpoints on martial arts... What do you think? Is it a sport?
Is it an art? Is it a thug's game?? Let me know what you think please.. Ok so personally, I
don't see how it could possibly be a thug's game, in all the time of training in both Karate
and Judo I've never seen an essance of anything that we see in the papers being preformed by
groups of youths (just to say I'm not targetting teens, I'm a teen myself.. but you know the
dudes I mean), and to me it is an art, just like dance or anything else like tha...

im sure that most of you are familiar with this game due to its great story, graphics game play and
sound, you can do all the moves with This Ninja guy, he is amazing doing all these jumps and
exciting moves that can hardly be imagined. i had beated all of story mode on normal and hard as
well, unlocked almost everything. and i would like to know your opinions about this game, becouse
it is the best game that i have ever played and i want to know what do you guys think about it. ...

Hi all, i went karate once for about month or two then left because my step brother annoyed me.. Now
a few years later i want to go again, i picked up a leaflet and it had several different forms of
karate listed on it and i want to know which one is best for either fitness or self defence so i can
make my mind up! Ideally im looking for a form that will offer me fitness, as im definitely not
in shape! But also one that gives me practical self defence skills that, if the need arose, i
could use on the street to defend me or my friends who dont go karate with me. ...

I was looking through the topics in this section, and I saw yoga as a form of martial arts. And I
started to wonder what exactly martial arts was. I thought it was the art of fighting, or practicing
for fighting, or it at least had to have something to do with fighting. So how does yoga fit into
that? So, I was just wondering, does anyone have a concrete definition of martial arts? Does it
have to do with fighting, or just motion or something like that? /huh.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" />...

Ok, so I was inspired to write this after a conversation with some fellow boxers from my local gym.
I would just out of interest like to find out how everybody trains, and if there is a trend between
the intensity of their training and their related sport. As a boxer, and also a martial artist I
have to say that I don't really follow a set program. I am very much one of the people that
prefer to just simply train and train, and not make any days off, or set programs, or easy shifts,
or 'rewinds' or what ever else the latest trend tends to be. I prefer to fo...

Well for those who have been reading my reviews and what not about those old school arcade games, I
would fathom a guess that most of you were waiting to see when and if I was going to review the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade games. Well Guess what it turtle time as I review both great
classics in one review; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in
Time. I will admit like the other 80 billion kids during my day of awesome 80's and early
90's cartoons I was hooked on these guys. I watched the TV series I played one of if ...

Greetings, all. I was wondering if there is anyone in the community who is practicing, or is
considering practicing the Japanese martial art of Aikido. If so, is there anyone who would like to
share the techniques involved in it? From what I know, Aikido, unlike the other martial arts, is
more about channeling your opponent's energy against him/herself, rather than relying on a
full-out attack style (punching and kicking), like karate or judo. There's also an interesting
philosophy behind it, as well documented by the great teacher Morihei Ueshiba. So...from h...

Are any of you martial artists? What do you think is the best way to defend yourself? learn martial
arts or go to the gym and do weights or whatever? I think the reponces will be interestng......

Timing your defensive techniques is one of the most basic techniques required to make a good
fighter, but it's also one of the toughest. There are many elements that can effect your
blocking, so to look at this in more detail, we have to brake it down a little. The sub catergories
we will brake these into will be as follows: +Pre-Attack +Reflex Time +Considering A Defensive
Manouveur +Executing A Good Block Pre-Attack Pre attack is the most important of all of them
believe it or not. How well you can intercept an aggressors intentions leads onto how much time you...

For many, it is believed that aggression is the winning element of a fight. They believe that it’s
this rage that overpowers the target and gives you that animal drive. Is this the same to you? Do
you believe that to be truly successful in a fight you must be seeing blood and fuming? Well, if
it is I ask you to consider something else, another possibility; motive. Although when you feel so
angry, that you feel the blood boiling beneath your surface that’s the winning element right? Well,
maybe it’s wrong. In fact, from experience I can tell you that usually when your s...

We ourselves, as freestyle artists, feel that it is important to question our very routes, and take
a look at what we are. This is perhaps something that you never really thought about, as freestyle
is a somewhat modern term, but the actual idea of combining different styles is something that has
been going for many thousands of years. Freestyle is the study of a combination of martial arts,
or an adapted style of fighting. It is not a 'new' martial art, nor is it an 'old'
martial art. Freestyle's routes lie in the 80's, and the development of n...

It's a fairly new question that is becoming more and more common, and it is a question that can
spark some quite interesting debates. I thought of it after I was finishing a piece for my website.
Tell me what you think of the theory of martial science, leave your views plz... (By the way I
really don't know much about it, so it might not make complete sense /smile.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> ) Ok so science plays a big
roll in everything that we do, see or hear. It's the physical proof of a certain theory. So ...

Why is it that everytime I walk down the street in my martial arts uniform I can feel everyone
looking at me, and occasionally you'll get a wise crack from some one around your own age. I
mean -- is it really that odd? You dont stare and put someone into a sureal state of mind because
there wearing a football top, or a rugby kit, or holding a tennis racket, but as soon as you wear
martial arts uniform you'll never hear the end of it. I mean -- people who take the p***... I
mean.. how stupid can you get really?? Taking the p*** out of a black belt, I mean why do i...

Seeing as there are quite a few people aboard the forums that train in martial arts I think it would
be intersting to see what styles are covered. I am currently studying Escrima and Wing Tsun. What
about you?...

Hi, I run a learning martial arts website that is currently rated as a PR5 by google and has an
average of 400-500 visitors a month (from search engines, martial arts based). I'm trying to
get some funds together so that I can promote my forum and website online and help other to learn
martial arts! I'm not going to pocket this money (that happens later when I get 10,000
visitors to my site, /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0"
alt="biggrin.gif" /> ) If you'd like to have a text link on a PR5 webpage (index page) for
$...