martial arts

[hapkido]

that girl on your sig can probably "take out" any guy

 

[Manji]

Not to hi-jack this thread, but for all you that saw Pride on Sunday, I really miss Bas' play by play. He's got so much personality and is like a little kid (in terms of excitement) when doing the commentary.

Yeah, I miss Bas too.....He had great insight on the fight game and was pretty funny as well.....

Trigg is kind of a goof.....Kind of Pride's version of Joe Rogan.....
Hope they pick someone else......

 

[Manji]

Interesting. A couple weeks back I was watching some K1 matches on the fight network. One had a former wwf/wcw wrestler who thought he'd try his hand at the real stuff. Forget his name but he goes around 6'4" and about 280 lbs. He lasted about a minute into the second round before he got the crap kicked out of him. He was in against a japanese kickboxer that goes by the name of Musashi. Manji likely would be familiar with him.

btw .. The arm action used in a bench press isn't much at all like a proper karate punch.

Its not Brock Lesnar is it?
I know he has signed with K-1 but I don't think he has his first fight until October......He's training with Pat Miletech and Royce Gracie.....

His stats say that he is 6"2" and 285 pounds.....
Could be a force in MMA.....Has a solid wrestling background, moves well, looks extremely strong.....With some solid MMA training, Lesnar could be a force in the sport of MMA.....

Don't watch too much K-1 heavyweights but I do know Musashi (he's a popular in Japan but he's over-rated - gets a lot of calls his way because he's Japanese).....Prefer K-1 Max - 155 pound fighters = more technical, better conditioned and faster action....

 

[Manji]

Checked around on the fight that revolver saw and the WCW guy that Musashi fought was Sean O'Haire.....Happened in Dec 2004.....

 

[foiegras]

Systema

I have been really wanting to try some classes with Ex Spetznatz (sp?) Vlad up in Thornhill. I think his stuff could be relevant in a street mix up.

 

[LancsLad]

I have been really wanting to try some classes with Ex Spetznatz (sp?) Vlad up in Thornhill. I think his stuff could be relevant in a street mix up.

When you get to the entrenching tool bit get ready to be hurt if you miss a defensive move.

 

[revolver]

Checked around on the fight that revolver saw and the WCW guy that Musashi fought was Sean O'Haire.....Happened in Dec 2004.....

Yeah, that was him. I think most of the fights on the fight network are from a couple years back. The ones I see anyway.

 

[revolver]

If he was 6"4' and 280 he was at least 60 lbs overweight.
All that extra weight would slow him down no matter who muscular he was.

No, just well muscled from weight lifting and likely steroids, who knows.

A few years ago some 5th degree black belt guy in Judo, Karate and who knows what else thought he could take on Ken Shamrock, he was all cocky and really thought his martial arts degree made him invisible (I forgot the guys name but he was on Inside Edition).
To make a long story short the guy got his butt kicked so bad it was almost laughable. Reason being he didnt have the strength to back up his skill.

Shamrock at the time could bench almost 500 lbs and squat 650 lbs (or so the rumors go).

So yes its good to have fighting skills but if you dont have the strength also it means little

Read what I wrote, I said the bench press action is the same as throwing a punch

The difference is Ken Shamrock has the training to back it up. He's not strictly a weightlifter. And no, the action is not the same.

Oh sorry, I forgot you were outta here.

 

[hapkido]

Yeah I noticed a wee bit of difference too hihiihii

 

[Manji]

Kali is more then a knife fighting The techiques it teaches you are useful regardless of size, height, weight or weapon, the basic moves are applicable with sticks, swords, knifes, bare hand and apparently even a pen. It's not as much an aggressive high energy martial art like Capeoia, it a lot of deflecting and unarming your opponent and it's originally fought with two short sticks (about foot long each) in your hand.

I think for you to choose a martial art you have to ask yourself first, what are your strengths? What martial art is more suited to your personality/body type and what kinds of technique's draws you.

www.sphereofinfluence.com is the only one I can think of in the west end. There's a lady by bloor and landsdowne who teaches Kali, and there's a big studio somewhere near the bathurst area that does a bunch of different martials arts training.

In theory, Kali is more than knife fighting....but in reality its really only an effective weapons martial art....yes, I was aware of the stick fighting aspect but it origins are bladed weapon based.....

As an open handed martial arts, it not definitely not as effective as boxing or Muay Thai.....

Kali is a traditional martial art and can be compared to martial arts such Kung Fu and Akido....These traditional martial arts only work well when you're fighting someone in the same style.....But if you match a Kali practioner against a grappler or a WingChun practioner against a boxer...the traditional martial artist will most likely get his ass beat....

Muay Thai was originally a bladed martial art but it evolved into unarmed combat.....Modern Muay Thai actaully works well with Modern Knife fighting and you can see that many Military Hand to Hand Combat Systems (such as Krav Maga) have combined some Kali and Muay Thai into their tactics....

Although some may say Capoeira is a martial art, in my opinion it should be labelled more a dancing art than a martial art......