How Many Martial Artists Do We Have?

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[slyc_willie]

With a sword also? *faints*

Maharat

Well, since you brought it up, I had the good fortune to spend some time with a skilled swordmistress affiliated with the SCA . . . .

I learned a few things about how to handle my blade.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I need to buy more weapons...

And even though it was a demonstration, that krav maga guy should have kept the oponent he was facing between himself and the other openent. Very goo dstuff though

 

[ExoMani]

I've been studying since 1972. I've studied a number of different styles and have a 2nd degree black belt in a composite karate system.

My favorite system is Goju Ryu. It best suits my particular height and frame and it adapts well to real life situations, versus flashy, competition-style fighting.

 

[AlphaMale215]

I do bjj judo muay thai

 

[xssve]

I have a Black belt in Cunninglingus.

 

[R. Richard]

And even though it was a demonstration, that krav maga guy should have kept the oponent he was facing between himself and the other openent. Very goo dstuff though

The Krav Maga guy made so many mistakes, I don't really know where to start.

Once he downed the first attacker he then faced the second attacker, who hesitated. He should have kicked/stomped the downed attacker in the head.

Kicking/stomping a downed attacker will inevitably provoke an all out attack by the remaining attackers. The defender, knowing what is coming, can then bypass or oppose the next wave of attacks.

As you point out, the defender failed to keep one attacker between himself and the other attacker.

The defender used leg sweeps to good effect, but failed to follow up with truly destructive kick/knee thrust atacks.

The Krav Maga system also has joint locks. The defender should have joint locked on attacker and then thrust the joint locked attacker at the remaining attacker, after the remaining attacker committed. Receiving an off balance, over committed attacker is one of the really fun parts of self defense.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Then again, it was a demonstration, and you don't deliver knock out blows to your oponents, who were also failing to attack as one. I think I've seen better demonstrations of it, of one man against three or four attackers who would attack as one, and it just looked wicked impossible.

On the note of improvised weapons, I have always wanted to use a velvet rope, with the metal clips on the ends, as a weapon. I'm sure that my three section staff training would help, as will my future steel whip training (a couple years away though, unfortunately). But I'm sure that would make a great weapon that no one would be expecting you to use (I regularly eat at a restaurant that has nylon or some such ropes near the registers, and the clips are all broken, so you could snatch one up real quick).

 

[R. Richard]

Also check out the meteor hammer [sheng bao.] It is a very effective weapon, after quite a bit of training. It can be worn as a belt.

 

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[TheeGoatPig]

One of these days I'm going to get a video of myself up on our school's Youtube page. Probably doing Broadsword or bo staff.

 

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[Remec]

It comes up every once in a while, in different topics, that a few of us are martial artists. I was just wondering how many of us there are. What styles are you studying? How long have you been doing it? How much do you enjoy it? Just a general discussion on how you feela bout it all, in life, in the movies, and whatever else crosses your mind about it all.

Nothing studied or even very structured. Just bits and pieces of whatever things friends of mine were learning or that I've read about or watched films of. (Both documentary as well as more theatrical features.)

If I had to pick anything, it would be swordplay as opposed to more traditional sorts of martial training. Otherwise, you'd have to say I was either a dilettante or just a streetfighter with knowledge of this and that.

 

[impressive]

I have a Black belt in Cunninglingus.

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-yah!

 

[SlickTony]

Krav Maga

Video

When I saw the name, I thought to myself, "I'll bet it's that Israeli street fighting..." because last summer I was at a match party for my husband's tennis league and talked to a guy who had studied it. But for some reason the name kept slipping away from me. Maybe I'll retain it now.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

It is remarkable--and this is such a truth--how lopsided the balance between "martial arts badasses" and "normal guys" is on the internet, compared to the real world.

Its like being in grade school, again, when Karate Kid came out in theaters.

 

[CyranodeMelbourne]

It is remarkable--and this is such a truth--how lopsided the balance between "martial arts badasses" and "normal guys" is on the internet, compared to the real world.

Its like being in grade school, again, when Karate Kid came out in theaters.

It is, isn't it? I always thought that it would be a big mistake for anyone to pick a fight at any sort of convention and expect easy targets!

 

[TheeGoatPig]

When I originally posted this topic, I posted it on four forums. This particular one got the most responses, even though I posted it in a forum for a Ninja comic. So we are just an unusual bunch, statistically speaking

Also, with how many karate dojos there are spread throughout the USA, I wouldn't be surprised if 20% to 30% of the country had tried it out at some point in their life. Which makes the couple dozen here in this topic seem not so outrageous.