I am curious to see what everyones background is. Mine is wrestling/BJJ with a little Muay Thai thrown in.
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I am curious to see what everyones background is. Mine is wrestling/BJJ with a little Muay Thai thrown in.
BJJ/Boxing
pipe and knife. ;D
seriously, just been working the heavy bag on my own for a long time. Hit pretty hard but no true training other than shaddow and mirror, emulating what I see on tape and in books. Whenever I see something new I do it over and over in slow motion to develop coordination until it feels natural. (Example, my left hook was shit for a long time. Very weak. Then I slowed it down to almost nothing, rep after rep, concentrating on form, now it feels as natural as my right.) Then I pick up the pace little by little and then I've developed natural power. Good technique first, power follows naturally.
That's why I asked the question "if you had to pick one..." Would love to take something formally but can't decide what. So many great disciplines to choose from...
I'd like to take some freestyle wrestling and muay thai but there isn't much offered on the post where I'm at. I take an Army combatives course weekly and they mix it up with lots of different stuff.
Rex Kwon Do
Network SouthEast ('train -ing ..... geddit) ;D
Amateur boxing and 7 years TaeKwonDo
psh X and his Tae Kwon Do
I repeat, Rex Kwon Do
Haha...some guys I know competed in a JiuJitsu tournament under team name "Team Rex Kwan Do"...good stuff.
I've been training myself in boxing the best that I can on the heavybags at my gym, and other similar ways to the poster a couple above. As soon as I can lose some weight, I plan on entering the local Toughman Competitions. I feel I could easily beat the majority of the guys in the competition, but I weigh about 205 right now, and I'm only 5'10" (theres some fat...I could probably lose about 10-15 lbs easily from my gut and legs, but overall, I'm not really huge, I just have a stocky build). If its enough to get me down a weightclass, that is, otherwise, I'ma just getmy cardio up and not worry about the weight, cuz I'm pretty nimble for my weight, and I THINK I have good handspeed (only done "backyard boxing"[In a ring, but against friends with either just combat training from marines or no real training], and I seem to hit harder and faster than any of them by far).
I also plan on taking some classes from my boss, who learned BJJ from Royce Gracie, plus was a professional kickboxer for a few years.
MMA is mine, I train a lil of every thing. Boxing,Kick Boxing,Muay Thai,BJJ,Tang Soo Do,ect....
What is Rex Kwon Do?Quote:
Originally Posted by raleights
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Originally Posted by raleights
Boxed at school and for a short while in the Navy. Judo, World War 2 combatives.
Chinese Kenpo for about 8 yrs., boxing, Muay Thai, some grappling and Kali. I mostly train in boxing now, usually on my own. I recently went to a boxing class at a local health club. It wasn't bad, but they didn't stress technique too much. It was mostly for cardio, 3 minute rounds with 30 second rest. I made it through the class, but at age 55, was the oldest person in the class. It almost seemed to be too much for me.
Watch Napolean Dynamite and you'll know the wrath of Rex Kwon DoQuote:
Originally Posted by X
boxing at 55??? you a crazy man
boxing still kills me every class and im only 24
My background is pretty simple. I took a bit of Karate as a kid (just like about every other kid these days). I did that for a year or two and got bored. I have about 17 years of wrestling. I basically wrestled year around from grade school into college.
JKD
Silat
Kali
Kickboxing
MT
Boxing
I will kill you all.
No proper ground gameQuote:
Originally Posted by Missy
In short.
ure fooked ;D
JKD covers ground, some specialise in it for instance Marc McFann with whom I've trained.
Silat has many forms & a ground game.
No matter I would have stabbed you with my kali skills, evaded with my superior footwork and ko'd you in the nuts before you had the chance to take me down ;D
Your lack of respect and understanding is your enemy. Now back off before Chuck hears you and roundhouses you to death. :-X
Shame...Ive always fancied laying in your guard :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Missy
mount?
Damn they talk so low of you Missy, as if you're the town horse and everyone gets a ride ;D
Talk is as close as they get to having ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by raleights
In all seriousness, knowing all that stuff I'm sure you're effective one most people walking the street. But against a man whos bigger than you and trained for many years in mixed martial arts how well does it work? I've honestly never met a woman who I thought just had it all over me, but then again I've ran into alot of martial artists (male/female) who didn't have that inner-demon who likes to come out and play ( like I do! ;D ). Size being such a factor in mma competition where both people have the same skillset, are you forced to focus on sensitive areas of the body? Is a good overhand right out of the question for ya? Don't take any of this as condascension I'm really curious as to how effective a woman can be compared to a man whos equally trained, how much punishment you can take ect ect. As I've never met a woman who devoted years to learning how to break someone down so I'm clueless.
Although I did see an episode of Jack Ass where for shits and giggles they had one of the boys fight a female Muay Thai champion, least to say it ended badly for the Jack Ass :)
JKD covers ground game? Anyone wanna post that video of Royce Gracie taking on that JKD guy in his own school? Or the other video of the same thing with a different "master"? ;)
any one calling themselves master deserves to get beat. You're always learning.
ral. What is the point of martial arts?
To defend yourself. Not competition. Competition is something we've set up so it's play fighting. Even the stuff classed as NHB has rules. How many fights do you think would end by a kick in the balls or an eye gouge or how about allowing biting? Fact is for me-I've usually been the only woman in the class/gym so most people were/are bigger stronger than me so I'm used to it and the same would be said about men, in training you will face people of different sizes do you treat them the same? No you'd be foolish to not recognise the differences. I don't know why people make this a male/female issue. Would you ask the same question of a featherweight boxer against a heavyweight boxer. So I see it as a moot question.
The gym is not the street and I would have no qualms about kicking you in the balls and legging it or glassing or anything else than equals me being safe when it comes down to it.
Hope this helps 8)
God I love you ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by Missy
Sexy as fook.Quote:
Originally Posted by Missy
Will you marry me?
;D
Brad would get jealous and Lyle would kill himself, I can't have such blood on my hands. Well maybe Lyles.
Well the male/female issue comes into play with hand speed, power, coordination, ability to take more punishment. Once again not trying to make an arguement just pointing out what makes sense to me. If you put a 135 lb male boxer in the ring with a 135lb female boxer, more than likely the male is going to win because there's a physical difference between us. Thats why I ask the question, although boxing and martial arts are so different as one is a sport and one is self defence like you said. Only being 5'10 150 everyone I train with is bigger than me and the one thing that comes to mind is if this were a real situation, this 6 foot 3 250 pounds of muscle could possible steamroll right over me. And as much as I'm aware of striking balls, eyegouging. ripping the ear off, it never seems too comfortable. Maybe it's because he's a fantastic martial artist for a big fucker I dunno. So I figured thats the kind of discomfort a women feels being you're naturally a smaller build. How would you personally deal with a bigger stronger man attempting to just mandhandle you with his body weight?
manhandle in terms of MA/boxing with rules? since when was coordination sexually determind?
ok. chances are being bigger they are slower. You keep out the way. Hit and run. There are plenty of examples of smaller guys beating bigger guys. In these technique is king. Sudo vs Butterbean anyone? This is where your grappling/throwing arts are benefical.
Manhandle in terms of no rules, smothering you not giving you any room to breathe. I do notice a difference in coordination and intensity from what I've seen of male and female fighters in all honesty. Like I said this is just what my uneducated (but perty) eyes are seeing. Yeah the Genki Sudo/Butterbean match was brilliant, how he jumped on the fat guy let him take em down then submitted him, wouldn't feel safe doing that with concrete surrounding me though. But if the big guy isn't a total idiot, wouldn't you feel a bit unsure about trying to give him a judo hip toss? Repercussions for that could be very bad :(
So out of everyone you've trained/fought with who causes the most frustration? Grapplers, strikers with great speed and power, Brad Pitt lookalikes? Like I said I'm really curious, never meeting a woman who could really tango. Well I take that back I met one but she was well over 300lbs with fast hands and a mean streak out of this world, suspect lesbian as well! ;D
I am with you on the JKD,KALI,and I train in MMA NHB fightingQuote:
Originally Posted by Missy
here is the school site
www.psdtc.com
Nice site. Although this is where its at and this is what i train in (in addition to judo)Quote:
Originally Posted by jtrock
www.urbancombatives.com
;DQuote:
Originally Posted by raleights
well first rule is to avoid a fight, check your ego, is arguing over a car park space worth dying for. If it can't be avoided move on to second rule hit first it's better to give than to receive :D against a monster you could leg it, blow out the knee, hit the balls and run, why would you stand and fight and give him a chance for him and his buddies to wail on you?
It's understanding the range. I'm more a stand up fighter so I aim to keep it there, that means using superior footwork against a grappler. The same as if I were a ground fighter I would want to take down a puncher/kicker. Fact is I wouldn't be looking for a judo hip toss.
I still say it's the person not the art ;)
Impact was where I first started training
http://www.impactjkd.co.uk/
http://www.houseofcaledonia.com/mcfann/about_mama.htm
http://www.cassmagda.com/
http://www.mastersken.com/
http://www.warrington-kickboxing.com..._page_001.shtm
sheffield boxing centre
Missy i am not kidding MY GOD that was sexy. You even cited awareness and avoidance as the first part of a self protection gameplan. Then advocated the use of the pre-emptive strike as the best form of defence.You then went on to talk about pre-emptiveness and then the escape/not hanging around. I could talk for hours on self protection/target hardening/awareness/pre emption as its now primarily what i train in. You are 100% right its the person not the art. Arts are attributes that a person can use but once you have no other option you have to have the correct mindset to use those attributes. At our club we train specifically for street confrontation including adrenaline/pain stress drills. (this is all in addition to my judo which i compete for sport..although great in a real encounter when in close...if anything goes to the ground it means you have fukced up in the first place and have got to dig your way out of the sh*t)Quote:
Originally Posted by Missy
You are my SP goddess. Can we get together and talk violence patterns and verbal dissuasion/loopholing techniques? ;D
I am know several techniques. It's a date :D
Kung Fu/Boxing/WWE:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Prometheus
I have several black belts in Origami.