kung fu

[la Huerta]

Dai S...now i'm all emotional...can you still walk around or is it really hard, what's your balance like...

[kiwigeo]

Yes.
Bricklaying is an ancient art.

Al

Brick throwing the martial arts offshoot...

[namtrak]

2nd Dan? That's pretty impressive. Is that the one with 30 two minute bouts with a bunch of black belts? Hat is off to you if it is!!

SWMBO trained in Albury through the late 70's early 80's. Has a photo of herself dining with BJ.

Cheers

[kiwigeo]

The funniest part was I was stabbed in the neck by a crim once and all I did was kick him in the cods and smash his face in a wall and never even thought about the finer parts of 5 years training.

No rules in that sort of situation......aim of the exercise is to take out your assailant in quickest possible time. Even with years of martial arts training when you finally find yourself in a situation such as the one above you've got about 3 seconds to decide what to do....you don't get a second chance.

[ozwinner]

what's your balance like...

$4.70 in credit.

Al

[kiwigeo]

hey , i'm impressed, shame though you guys don't keep it up...it's never to late to start training again...


la H

La Herta,

In all honesty...martial arts is a young person's game. Take a trip along to a martial arts dojo and the first thing you'll notice is there are two groups of people......people below the age of about 35 who are actively training and people above that age who are marching around barking out orders but not actively training.

The sad fact is Martial arts is hard on your body and once you get into your 40's it all starts to take its toll....lower back pain...arthritis in the hands...and in my case every rib broken at least once.

All that said.....if you feel the urge to give martial arts a go then by all means give it a try. I'm 48 and still doing Shotokan style karate...it'll probably cripple me if I keep it up but while Im still enjoying it so I'll keep doing it.

Cheers Martin

[Gra]

Does ecky thump. count.




Goodies rule...

[kiwigeo]

Does ecky thump. count.




Goodies rule...

If youre into the Goodies it definitely counts. Ecky Thump a very under rated but deadly Welsh martial art.

[ozwinner]

If youre into the Goodies it definitely counts. Ecky Thump a very under rated but deadly Welsh martial art.

Sorry Martin but the ancient art of Ecky Thump is from Yorkshire.

Al

[Studley 2436]

Some years ago I had a Japanese mate called Takashi. He was doing a job photographing the tourists at Circular Quay and there were some Australian kids, "saying bad things about me but I can't say anything back to them because my english is no good" so he said to them, "hey boys, you know Karate?" they looked at each other and go &&&& and run away. Takashi told me they don't know Karate but he doesn't know Karate either but they think all asian know Karate! I thought that was pretty good

Studley

[la Huerta]

La Herta,

In all honesty...martial arts is a young person's game. Take a trip along to a martial arts dojo and the first thing you'll notice is there are two groups of people......people below the age of about 35 who are actively training and people above that age who are marching around barking out orders but not actively training.

The sad fact is Martial arts is hard on your body and once you get into your 40's it all starts to take its toll....lower back pain...arthritis in the hands...and in my case every rib broken at least once.

All that said.....if you feel the urge to give martial arts a go then by all means give it a try. I'm 48 and still doing Shotokan style karate...it'll probably cripple me if I keep it up but while Im still enjoying it so I'll keep doing it.

Cheers Martin

yes this is the point, what they teach in the dojo's is to much based on muscle and brute strenth, no wonder people get tied of it and suffer pains latter in life,it's to rigid. the answer is in the soft free flowing form and internal developement...the ancient ones new this and trained into the 80's and 90's as it does'nt require muscle energy or strenth, just air...



la H

[Iain]

No rules in that sort of situation......aim of the exercise is to take out your assailant in quickest possible time. Even with years of martial arts training when you finally find yourself in a situation such as the one above you've got about 3 seconds to decide what to do....you don't get a second chance.

I can laugh about it now but there was blood pissing out of my neck and I thought I was dead, I figured that if I was on my way to the pearly gates I wanted some company and told the little swine this, 3 seconds, no, about 1/3 second.
To top it all off the little bastard had me charged for assault but an interview with some of Victoria's (take note DanP) finest had him change his mind fairly quickly.
I was presented with a Valour Medal and he got 5 years
Another gong for the collection but I do get a bit cynical, not a footy player so I'm not a hero for saving a lot of lives for my efforts..............the little prick was armed as well.
Would I do it again, no idea, I have no idea how I would react in a similar situation if confronted again, and I get really off when people say 'if it was me I would have blah blah blah' Bullshyte, you have no idea how you will react until the pressure is on, unless it's in a Hollywood script.

[China]

Tae kwon do (Moo Duk Kwan) 15years 3rd Dan

[la Huerta]

China...cool !

Iain...you speak words that only a wise man would...


la H

[dai sensei]

Dai S...now i'm all emotional...can you still walk around or is it really hard, what's your balance like...

The legs still work, balance has always been my downfall

2nd Dan? That's pretty impressive. Is that the one with 30 two minute bouts with a bunch of black belts? Hat is off to you if it is!!

SWMBO trained in Albury through the late 70's early 80's. Has a photo of herself dining with BJ.

Cheers

Yeh 30 rounds of full contact where they can hit you, but you must show restraint. I ended up with broken nose (in the 5th round:mad: ), 3 broken toes, 2 broken bones in my hand, shins and forearms a mass of bruises. Puts it in perspective why they call it the "blood grading". I was on such a high though, I didn't feel the real pain till hours afterwards. I have a photo taken 2 weeks later, and I still had the black eyes.

These days, because of liability, they fight a punching bag for 30 rounds - not quite the same.

I met BJ many times, he hit on my wife one time when we went out:eek:

Cheers