Martial Arts

[Itchy]

Ummm... i play hockey and get into fights. Does that count? lol

It\'s really easy...
Step 1: Square off (don\'t let him to your side)
Step 2: With your non hey-maker arm, grab his jeresy at the shoulder
Step 3: hold his arm back so he can\'t punch you and punch him instead... watch out for the helmet (good way to break your hand smacking it into a helmetlol)
Step4: when his knees hit the ice, let go and back off

 

[Tony Manero]

no injuries received...













many \"offered\" lollollol

it\'s pretty difficult to hurt me... honestly i\'m kinda big

1.93 (hope to grow more..) x 95 kg of BBuilding Martial Arts and ..........


food

 

[Naukhel]

I had a private sensei. Don\'t know what belts I\'d qualify for.

Started with Tae Kwon Do.
Did some karate. Some aikido. Some Tai Chi. Can handle many weapons without embarrassing myself... except the three piece rod... which I knocked myself out with, twice... so you get my injury, too, there. Heh.

 

[pitynoman]

1year of Krav Maga
1year of Vale Tudo - no gi jiu-jitsu/MMA
6 months boxing
2 years Muay Thai-still doing it.
MMA - still doing it.
Injuries- Torn rotator,broken rib,broken nose - all separate occasions.
Bulging discs,pinched sciatica,torn bicep,punctured knee -courtesy of the Marine Corps.(not bitter,just stating the fact)

 

[Evil Dave]

Injuries:
All knuckles in each hand broken at least once some twice.
both arms broken
collar bone broken and pinned
at least 3 concussions
too many stitches to count

and in each case the other guy was much worse off.

When I was in elementary school I was smaller than pretty much everyone else, so I was the bullies target, they soon came to realize that bullying me wasn\'t worth the pain they were going to recieve.
What\'s really funny is that my reputation carried right into high school and beyond.
When my little brother got to high school he became a target and all he had to do was mention my name and they\'d steer clear.

 

[Hoblit]

Originally posted by Itchy
Ummm... i play hockey and get into fights. Does that count? lol

It\'s really easy...
Step 1: Square off (don\'t let him to your side)
Step 2: With your non hey-maker arm, grab his jeresy at the shoulder
Step 3: hold his arm back so he can\'t punch you and punch him instead... watch out for the helmet (good way to break your hand smacking it into a helmetlol)
Step4: when his knees hit the ice, let go and back off

I was thinking the same thing except mine was for Field hockey. The only problem is you can\'t be quite as blatant, so you learn subtleties. Things like, the quick strike to the kidneys and the mistaking the ankle for the ball. I swear I have never seen as many stitches needed and teeth knocked out as I did in my last season of hockey.

 

[darkartminiatures]

Wow..some pretty serious injuries there

It looks like Hockey is the way to go if you like pain.

I love watching ufc but you wouldn\'t find me in that cage. Its a horrible sight when you see a newcomer to the sport get wasted by some veteran.
I do martial arts out of interest. I like the movement involved.

Hey Tony, your even luckier than me

 

[sebrushworth]

Originally posted by Ritual
I practiced ninjutsu when I was younger. I loved it, but I stopped when we got a new teacher who, on his first class as teacher, hit me so hard on my neck that I collapsed and nearly lost consciousness. I didn\'t dare continue with him as teacher and I never got around to pick it up again.

Hey Anders, your girlfriend told me what they do in her Kung Fu class, like breaking their wrist bones and reshaping them to be more useful in a fight. I guess that\'s what you should expect when your trainer used to train with Bruce Lee. Insane!

 

[peteh]

Interesting thread.

So for me it\'s :
2 years ju-jitsu
12 years wado ryu karate

As for injuries the worst I\'ve suffered invovled splitting a toe down to the bone - lots of blood.....

 

[sebrushworth]

Originally posted by darkartminiatures
Wow... so many people that have practiced ninjitsu. You folks should know where my signiture has come from then .

Yeah, Hatsumi Masaki is a pretty cool old fellow

I trained SCA fighting (medieval fighting in armour) for a while, but quit after getting knocked unconscious at a tournament. Two hand swords should be banned, far too dangerous.

 

[Hoblit]

Quick listing of the injuries incurred in my team in one season of field hockey.

Three people had teeth knocked out.
One broken ankle (This was mine)
two broken fingers (different people)
One guy tore all the ligaments in his knee
And 2 guys needed stitches, one to his chin, and one to his forehead.
This is to say nothing of the various concussions and sprains.

Remember this is a team of only 11 people and the season is about 20 games.

This is why I never felt the need to do Martial arts, although I still think they look cool.

 

[Modderrhu]

Judo many, many years ago. I quit about a year into it, because I\'d turned into nothing except the brown and blue belt punching bag. Don\'t learn a single thing that way.

Did fencing a couple of years ago. That had to stop because it had to become my main passion and take top priority or I\'d never get any further with it.

Originally posted by darkartminiatures
I do martial arts out of interest. I like the movement involved.

A mate of mine wants me to do Tai Chi. And your reasons are the exact reasons I\'m thinking about it. If I want combat, I\'ll go back to fencing.

Archery isn\'t a martial art, is it? It doesn\'t involve close-combat, so I doubt it.

 

[darkartminiatures]

Yep, its an Martial art.

who needs martial arts when you do Hockey eh...bloody hell i need to start watching hockey.

Breaking your wrist bones on purpose sounds a little extreme but it all depends on far you want to go i suppose ...ouch

 

[Modderrhu]

Originally posted by darkartminiatures
Yep, its an Martial art.

Ah, ok. Well, I\'ll include archery with a recurve bow then, not for me those compound bows, no matter how much easier they are to use.

Originally posted by darkartminiatures
Breaking your wrist bones on purpose sounds a little extreme but it all depends on far you want to go i suppose ...ouch

From what I\'ve heard, it\'s done by hitting the insides of one\'s wrists together to create microfractures, or something like that. Rather than actually snapping the bones. The repaired fractures make the bones far stronger. Whew!

 

[Logan]

Did two years of Muay Thai.
At the end of every lesson our instructor used to put his hands together, give a little bow and say \"Muay\".
Me and my mate thought he was saying \"Bye\" so consequently did the same for the first two months. He obviously thought we were a couple of comedians so no wonder he always paired us off with the brutes the following week lol

The last 12 years I\'ve been boxing - if that counts.
Injuries? Well I\'ve just started again after breaking my wrist (on my painting hand!!!), plus too many black eyes, split lips, broken noses, displaced knuckles, bruised kidneys than I care to mention.

 

[Sjakkie]

At the moment I practice Shinkage Ryu Iaido, and ZNKR (Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei) Iaido. So far I haven\'t had any real injuries, just a pair of really sore knees There isn\'t supposed to be any real contact during practice, but if there is it will be a lot of trouble (think about two people in our dojo practicing with shinken -> real sharpened japanese samurai swords so to say) :wow:

 

[vincegamer]

My worst injury was a broken wrist in SCA when a sword glanced across my dista ulnal process - just a crack, but very painful at the time. Pain went away though and I didn\'t realize it was broken but when I noticed I couldn\'t move my hand all the way any more I had it x-rayed.

Only 2 fencing injuries to speak of. One was in my big tournament winning match against Harvard when I fell and jammed my toes but didn\'t realize it until the match was over because of the adrenaline - sort of \"Yay! I won! Now someone carry me off the strip because for some reason I can\'t stand up!\"
The other was just a scratch but very dramatic. I had to ask the ref to call a halt because I happened to glance down and see a long stream of blood running down my hand and dripping onto the piste.

 

[Starfall]

My Goodness, I wouldn\'t have expected so many people around here to be fighting! However those Budo Sports really are to be appreciated since they teach not only technique but respect and soft skills and stuff. And so many sword fighters! Looks like painting swords also makes people want to handle real swords.

sebrushworth, you mean you were fighting in a real shining armour with a real sword? This must\'ve been incredibly expenisve!

Did two years of Muay Thai.
At the end of every lesson our instructor used to put his hands together, give a little bow and say \"Muay\".
Me and my mate thought he was saying \"Bye\" so consequently did the same for the first two months. He obviously thought we were a couple of comedians so no wonder he always paired us off with the brutes the following week

Sounds like real fun! But what does Muay mean?

Has anybody got experiences with Capoeira?

 

[Rodnik]

I\'m old now...and suffer a bit of pain because of years in the martial arts.

Started when I was 10 (to help solve a \"confidence problem\"). Stopped when I was 35.

Many various styles (both hard & soft. 1 meter & 3 meter)---but most of my training was in Hapkido, Shorin Ryu, Tang Soo Do, and Ryu Kyu Kempo.
The highest rank I \"held\" (out of training now, so they really don\'t count) was Sandan (or third black, if you will).

I spent 10 years of that time as an instructor.

5 years of that instructing children with ADD/ADHD as a means to help them concentrate and such.

Spent alot of time competing----some at a national level, and at one time (all politics aside) was referred to as an \"olympic hopeful\". Although I never pursued it that far.

Now, from all the beatings I took----I have problems gettin\' outta bed in the morning...


Traumatic bursitis in both shoulders. Tendenitis problems.
Arthritis problems in my hips (cane-bound for a period of time, but I recovered somewhat).
Broken toes (all of \'em at least once). Broken and dislocated fingers (just a few).
A \"somewhat\" crushed thumb.
I\'ve broken my nose about 6 or 7 times. One cracked eye socket.
A broken tail-bone.
A hyperextended knee.
Broken ribs so many times I lost count---the most was three at once.
Two or three minor concussions.
Minor cuts, scrapes, and bruises beyond counting.

I intend on teaching my daughter when she comes of age----but in a soft style that isn\'t so hard on the joints as most traditional hard styles.

Would I recommend it? Yes--definately. Would I recommend the path I took? Probably not. 8)

Kev

 

[sebrushworth]

Originally posted by Starfall
sebrushworth, you mean you were fighting in a real shining armour with a real sword? This must\'ve been incredibly expenisve!

No, we used sticks made of some kind of bamboo wood. In Swedish it\'s called \"rotting\", don\'t know what the English word is. But those sticks are damn hard (and if you don\'t hit someone hard enough it doesn\'t count as a hit )

It can be very expensive, but most people get away with spending around 500 dollars, by making most of the armour themselves. You only really need steel for the helmet, neck, elbows and knees. The rest of the armour can be leather and cloth. The most expensive part of my armour is the helmet, which cost 300 USD, and now decorates one of my bookshelves