Have you done a martial art before?

[sherper]

Just wondering, how many of you guys on revleft do, or have done a martial art? If so which one? how long did you train for, and what's your opinion of it? I personally do Aikido, have done so for the past 2-3 years; and i am also starting Krav Maga.
I really enjoy Aikido for its ideology of harmony with your opponent, yet it is also fun to go in fists pounding lile in Krav Maga.

[ВАЛТЕР]

I box, I have been doing so for about 6 years. I have won a few tourneys and when I lived in the US I even place in the Under 19 national rankings when I was in High School. As well as won the regional golden gloves, and state championships.

I do currently compete in the amateur ranks, although I have been busy lately so my last match was in February at a two day tournament in Montenegro. I won both fights the first one with a 2nd round KO, and a the second fight with a 2nd round TKO.

If you knew my real name you could find two of my matches on youtube and probably some reports on the google.

Buuuuut I can't let you do that starfox. I'm Valter here. :cool:

[Sasha]

Long time judo when I was a kid/teen, a few years muay thai, a few lessons kravmaga/specialised bouncer training.

[mrmikhail]

When I was a youth/teen (for around 5-6 years) I practised combat SAMBO, it's a lot like modern mixed martial arts but much more combat focused, and somewhat like judo...but I haven't practised in years, still remember some of the moves through which are quite useful in self-defense

[Susurrus]

Taekwando for about a year, good for kicks.

[kashkin]

I practiced Judo for a few years, now I'm practicing muay thai (though the club I go to is more focused on kickboxing)

[RedSonRising]

Boxing for about two years now. People will criticize it as a limited fighting style, but I've studied a few styles and while it's good to have variety, boxing in my opinion gives the best collection of skills for learning the most essential technical fundamentals of fighting and adapting your body to the most reflexive-based zones of combat.

[Commissar Rykov]

Tang Soo Do for almost 6 years but I took up football in high school and had to choose between the two as my parents didn't have the money for both. It was pretty fun learned a bit of Korean as well not that I remember any of it.:lol:

[REVLEFT'S BIEGGST MATSER TROL]

Long time judo when I was a kid/teen, a few years muay thai, a few lessons kravmaga/specialised bouncer training.

What would you say was the most effective method of self defense?

I mean, I used to do judo, but that was years ago, I have a feeling it would be not as useful as something like boxing now. And as embarrassing as it sounds, i'd feel perhaps worried about just tossing someone to the ground or hodling them, what if it went wrong, it'd be very embarrassing, would rather just punch them and learn to take a punch.

[Quail]

I used to do judo. Was really fun, but I couldn't really do it too well when I lost too much weight and I kind of stopped going. I'd like to start again at some point. It's not really any good for self-defense though. I'd rather run away than try to throw someone who was trying to attack me!
I did taekwondo for a bit too, but that just seemed to be a massive rip off. The gradings and equipment were well expensive, and the club I went to made me sign a thing saying I would only buy stuff from the club.

[Ele'ill]

BJJ and Muay Thai

[Sasha]

What would you say was the most effective method of self defense?

I mean, I used to do judo, but that was years ago, I have a feeling it would be not as useful as something like boxing now. And as embarrassing as it sounds, i'd feel perhaps worried about just tossing someone to the ground or hodling them, what if it went wrong, it'd be very embarrassing, would rather just punch them and learn to take a punch.

Kravmaga is without a doubt the most complete and useful one if you have time to train so much it becomes second nature but I never did so I have what you describe to feel about judo, I'm too conscious about it.
So I must say my muaythai experience that makes me most feel secure

[kitsune]

Kravmaga is without a doubt the most complete and useful one if you have time to train so much it becomes second nature but I never did so I have what you describe to feel about judo, I'm too conscious about it.
So I must say my muaythai experience that makes me most feel secure

I've been wanting to learn Krav Maga for quite some time. I really do need to look into it.


BJJ and Muay Thai

Excellent combination. BJJ is great for grappling. Muay Thai is one of the best for striking, though I really like kickboxing, which developed from Muay Thai and a few other disciplines. Taekwondo is also very good.

[Bandito]

Krav Maga is tha shit.

I'm loving it so far, absolutely the best all-round martial art there is. I thought it was just kick boxing with some MMA features, plus sticking fingers in opponents' eyes and kicking his balls, but there is much more to it than that.

Best martial art for antifa, really.

[anarchoash]

I did BJJ and MMA for a little while but had to give it up cos I couldn't afford it anymore. But it was great fun and I'd recommend to anyone and if you're looking to train for self-defence you can't go wrong with BJJ, especially if you're not all that tall like me. I mean if for whatever reason you end up in fight with someone twice your size who could throw you round like a rag doll they're not gonna expect you to take them to ground and snap they're arm in half or choke them out are they?

[Red Noob]

Taekwondo from 5-7/8

[Sasha]

I did BJJ and MMA for a little while but had to give it up cos I couldn't afford it anymore. But it was great fun and I'd recommend to anyone and if you're looking to train for self-defence you can't go wrong with BJJ, especially if you're not all that tall like me. I mean if for whatever reason you end up in fight with someone twice your size who could throw you round like a rag doll they're not gonna expect you to take them to ground and snap they're arm in half or choke them out are they?

Except that the last thing you want in a streetfight is taking it to the ground, in the ring or in a dojo you know there isn't a second dude coming to headstomp your brains all over the pavement.

[The Douche]

I can hardcore dance like a beast.

[anarchoash]

Except that the last thing you want in a streetfight is taking it to the ground, in the ring or in a dojo you know there isn't a second dude coming to headstomp your brains all over the pavement.

Haha yeah true, in that situation I guess all you can hope for is that your buddies have got your back

[Landsharks eat metal]

I've been doing taekwondo for more than two years now, but I suck ass at it even though I try as hard as humanly possible.

[The Douche]

Haha yeah true, in that situation I guess all you can hope for is that your buddies have got your back

In my experience, you should never ever rely on somebody else being able to save your ass.

I can't count the number I've times I've asked my friends "where the fuck were you?!" and the answer has been "oh shit, I was in the bathroom", "oh man, I was on the other side of the bar, I couldn't get over there" or the ever common "if I really thought it looked like you were in trouble I'd have stepped in".

[Ele'ill]

Muay Thai / BJJ is the way to go. If you train while listening to lady gaga you're gonna be just fine.

[Crux]

A long long time ago I trained boxing for 4 years, 3 days a week. In other words I used to be fit.

[Threetune]

I could be the best kick boxer you have ever met with, only being defeated by the British national champion in a match in the Leicester UK when he put the heel of his foot in the top of my head and buckled my legs, but what has this to do with politics. Anyone can go to a club and study war art.

[Crux]

I could be the best kick boxer you have ever met with, only being defeated by the British national champion in a match in the Leicester UK when he put the heel of his foot in the top of my head and buckled my legs, but what has this to do with politics. Anyone can go to a club and study war art.
Yeah, I suppose I'll take your word for that. What this has to do with Politics? Oh you must be lost, this is the Sports & Health (http://www.revleft.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=229) part of the forum. Here is the Politics (http://www.revleft.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=14) section.

[pastradamus]

I still do train in boxing a little bit. Used to train the kids (8-13 yr olds). I prefer that sort of role. I was a good boxer (and also muay thai) for years when I was young I used to fight up until recently but just got plain sick of it (between the ages of 7-26). But yeah, its a great sport and id recommend it to anyone interested in a martial art and fitness in general.

[Bandito]

I still do train in boxing a little bit. Used to train the kids (8-13 yr olds). I prefer that sort of role. I was a good boxer (and also muay thai) for years when I was young I used to fight up until recently but just got plain sick of it (between the ages of 7-26). But yeah, its a great sport and id recommend it to anyone interested in a martial art and fitness in general.

I don't know much about you, but I think we could have a few pints together. :)

[Искра]

Karate
Krav maga
Kendo

I like Karate and Kendo more, even they are quite useless in a street fight, because that is art. I makes me calm...

Krav Maga on the other hand is fucking cool if you wanna kill somebody, especially if you train, like me, with army and police and your trainer is ex-cop who killed a guy with single punch (it was in papers)... But then again its too violent and all people who go there are bunch of thugs and assholes.

[Искра]

I can hardcore dance like a beast.
Let's dance. ;)

I have bunch of scars from "hardcore dancing"... I used to do dance of death when I was teen...

Best hardcore dancing of my live was on EU's Arse & Discharge's gig where there were only 100 people and all of them where crazy punx and skins from Zagreb. I got sepsis on that gig because I fell on the ground and got cut by bunch of bottle glass... Also, once I was on a gig in Slovenia and hardcore dancing turned into massive fight because one Italian guy puked on my friend.

Right now I just watch the gig or dance on reggae/soul with pretty ladies.

[ColonelCossack]

I did Kung Fu for like 2 months then i got bored the end true story.

but My dad's brother or summat is a Karate 4th dan.

[MarxSchmarx]

I'm kinda heartened by all the other boxers here. I boxed for about 3 years as well after I left secondary school and really enjoyed it. but I don't think I ever really had what for lack of a better term I'd call "grace" for doing well competitively in it. It's as much about style as it is about engagement, and I guess I was never particularly elegant or didn't develop my skills to the point where that would be plausible. I also got my shodan in Aikido around age 14 but have forgotten most of it since.

Wonder if it's anything about being leftist that lends itself to these?

[Ostrinski]

I did Taekwondo when I was younger. Quit right before I got my black belt.

[Ostrinski]

I have to say, Krav Maga is sounding really interesting. I might get involved.

[Ele'ill]

I also played ice hockey for about 21 years.

[Olentzero]

It boils down to a street fight, I want Mari3L on my side.

Anyway - yeah, I took some martial arts for a couple years back in my early teens, a style called Chinese Kenpo. I absolutely sucked at it. Given the situation around here, though, I am seriously considering a good defensive art, and Krav Maga does sound like it would be particularly useful.

What I wanna do, though, is combine it with some serious art of conflict resolution. Yeah, maybe it's too Hollywood, but I'd rather be the kind of guy who can talk his way out of a fight and only kick your ass if you leave me no other choice. Unless you're a fucking Nazi, because by then it's pretty clear you're only after one thing.

[RedSonRising]

I'm kinda heartened by all the other boxers here. I boxed for about 3 years as well after I left secondary school and really enjoyed it. but I don't think I ever really had what for lack of a better term I'd call "grace" for doing well competitively in it. It's as much about style as it is about engagement, and I guess I was never particularly elegant or didn't develop my skills to the point where that would be plausible. I also got my shodan in Aikido around age 14 but have forgotten most of it since.

Wonder if it's anything about being leftist that lends itself to these?

That last point is an interesting question; the militancy of combat is certainly appealing, and the cultural/working class element to sports like boxing might lend themselves to a leftist's interests.

The more interesting question is, why so many RevLeft boxers, and so few posts by other members in my Boxing Discussion Thread? :(

[Bandito]

The more interesting question is, why so many RevLeft boxers, and so few posts by other members in my Boxing Discussion Thread? :(

I can speak just for myself, but I rarely followed professional boxing.

I enjoy practicing it, enjoy the training (although I switched to Krav Maga recently), but due to the fact that I don't watch the TV at all, and there are always more interesting things on YouTube, I kinda skipped a whole lot of good fights.

[Ele'ill]

I've heard in a lot of interviews with professional combat sports fighters that they don't watch/follow what's going on the same way that a fan would. I was never a super star fighter but even then I'd only occasionally watch highlights. The exception being with ice hockey (which isn't a combat sport). I'd watch all the Philadelphia Flyer's games with friends. The only real fights I've ever been involved in were during ice hockey games and outside of the ring dust-ups with people I didn't like/spontaneous situations. I enjoyed the ice hockey scrums/fights.

[RedSonRising]

Yea, I can see where you guys are coming from. My gym didn't have too many hardcore fans, but I think you can learn a lot from watching the pros and hearing them discuss their tactics. Boxing is very useful because it's competitive, and so methods of combat that actually work involving the fists and body movement are applied and refined for use. Feel free to post about your own experiences in that thread though, it's not just the sport.

[ВАЛТЕР]

The more interesting question is, why so many RevLeft boxers, and so few posts by other members in my Boxing Discussion Thread? :(

I'm too lazy lol

I keep up with the fights, but after I spend all day training, sparring and talking about it at the gym. I just don't have it in me at the end of the day. :P

Cool thing though, my old-trainer from the US just got invited out to Floyd Mayweather Sr. training center to help train his fighter. When he gets in nice with them he hopes on getting me to come back on over to work with them. It's gonna be pretty sweet if it works out. (Even though I don't like Mayweather at all)




As for street fighting and whatnot, the best "martial art" nowadays is shooting and knife fighting. People don't fight with their hands anymore from what I've noticed.

[RedSonRising]

I'm too lazy lol

I keep up with the fights, but after I spend all day training, sparring and talking about it at the gym. I just don't have it in me at the end of the day. :P

Cool thing though, my old-trainer from the US just got invited out to Floyd Mayweather Sr. training center to help train his fighter. When he gets in nice with them he hopes on getting me to come back on over to work with them. It's gonna be pretty sweet if it works out. (Even though I don't like Mayweather at all)


As for street fighting and whatnot, the best "martial art" nowadays is shooting and knife fighting. People don't fight with their hands anymore from what I've noticed.

Yea I understand that. I just try to keep it alive as best I can.

And that sounds amazing man. Hopefully it works out for ya. I'm not a fan of Mayweather Jr's personality but his fundamentals and the use of his style are on the level of all-time-greatness, and Sr. is largely responsible for it. I hope you enjoy the experience, I hope to one day be able to have a small hand in developing fighters as well. Training on and off is being a pain in the ass when I haven't even had a fight yet, but I like to think I have solid fundamentals I can pass on one day to a young fighter.

And yea, guns and knives take the cake, but if you're getting into an altercation of that nature, make sure you know beforehand if you can.

[ВАЛТЕР]

Yeah I can't stand Mayweather's personality either, but his technique is ridiculous and I have a lot of respect for him in this aspect. I personally love helping out the younger kids at the gym when they show up to learn, it is a really rewarding feeling.

Yeah, if you pull a knife/gun I'll run like hell, no sense in losing my head over something stupid.

[Marquess]

Don't know if this qualifies as a Martial art, but I boxed for 2 years back in High School.

[Drowzy_Shooter]

As a child, I did taekwondo "just for kicks" (awful pun overload).:thumbup1:

[NorwegianCommunist]

Boxing and kick-boxing for a couple of years now =)

[hatzel]

Not sure if this counts, but my paintings pack quite a punch...

[Azraella]

I did fencing for a time

[Landsharks eat metal]

I did fencing for a time
I tried fencing, but then my teacher died.

[El Oso Rojo]

I had took Karate I and Judo I. I hoping when i go to a big university.