[OT] as in VERY OT! anyone do martial art of any kind?

I used to do Karate. Then i stopped.

LOL nice and short ;)

every bugger does karate and i looked at it and all the rules and stuff ruined it for me, muai thai (thai boxing) looked good but the club not far from me looked seedy and dodgy so i joined a damn good kung fu place hehe

should be a lot fitter with a couple of weeks of this!

I was young :) I can't really remember anything except the teacher was a tosser, and now i look back, possibly a bit of a peado...

I'm kinda the same 'cept i never used to do it and now i'm not starting

on a running machine :)

did do as a kid.

I now appear to be too fat/unfit to try :o)

I did start running agian this week though, the doctors said I can train without damaging my sholder again so I should be able to shift this metric shitload I seem to have put on as a result of my injury :o(

I still dont think I could be arsed with martial arts.

I prefer marital arts nowadays ;o)

Mason

Come on over to rec.martial-arts. Great bunch of people. Just wear a bit of asbestos for your first few months. I do Brazillian Ju Jitsu 3 times a week. Prior to that Japanese Ju Jitsu and Aikido. Prior to that karate and kickboxing. I love martial arts.

Fraser

Had a couple of Judo lessons as a kid, but then the club I went to (in the local library after hours) closed and moved to the next town and I couldn't get there.

Used to go round to my mates, and his dad was his Karate instructor, so outside of classes they would practice Katas, and I would join in, but no fighting stuff.

Then I got into cycling. Now I just spend days at a time posting in Usenet.

Same here. When I was about 9 or 10 I went along to a local karate class with a mate of mine - I think the first one was free, just to try it out. Anyway, I just couldn't stop laughing at the fact that the japanese for "one two" sounded like "itchy", so I don't think me staying on would have been that productive.

-- Peter

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Heh, that's my problem. Well, that and not particularly wanting to.

I'm now losing weight the Kellogg's way - that "drop a jeans size" bollocks sort of works. Last time I weighed myself I was a fraction under 16 stones (probably within the last 2-3 months). Recently I've been eating not much other than Crunchy Nut (been having it for lunch and tea, and never bother with breakfast, and more often than not can't be arsed to cook anything proper in the evening), and I weighed myself the other morning

- 14 1/3 stones. Rock on. There's nothing like a balanced diet.

-- Peter

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Judo is the most underrated martial art in the world after freestyle wrestling. It also cheap and easy to find everywhere. Great sport.

Fraser

One of my best friends has been in China for the last couple of years, training at the Shaolin Academy.

I have felt the power of his chi when he came back to the UK for a while. It exists and it's weird! He can armwrestle you without touching you, just imagine being in the armwrestle position but your hands are about an inch or two apart. He can force your arm down without touching it, it just feels like a load of static electricity and magnetism. Truly freaky.

Here's the site

And the Jap for 1, 2, 3, 4 is Itchy Knee, Sandy Sea ! (nearly)

LOL

I imagine thats the only the kind of thing that works if you beleive in it.

"DanTXD" wrote

I sure as hell believe in it now! Maybe he was only able to do it because he believed in it? I wasn't so sure until he demonstrated it.

How else do those shaolin monks do such superhuman stuff you see on telly?

Camera tricks? Dunno really, i'm just sceptical :)

"DanTXD" wrote

The same guy, who is a skinny little guy, challenged this MASSIVE (basically all muscle) nightclub bouncer to an armwrestle. They both put £50 in. My skinny friend walked away with the money, having easily trounced the bouncer (nice rhyme eh). He was drunk, the bouncer, obviously sober. It's all in the chi! I tell you it's true!

I'd need to see it with my own eyes, im not saying you're lying, i'm just a cynical old fart really :)

in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, "fishman" slurred :

Bollocksy bollocksy bollocks.

Balsa wood, prestressed ice, camera tricks and sharing the profits :)

Have a look at:

It's all just physics and being extremely well trained - amazing stuff nonetheless, but no mystical forces.

Oh yeah, the couple of lessons I had, basically learning to stretch, fall and roll, were good fun. Just wish they had carried on, instead of moving away.