Martial Arts Discussion

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

I don’t know if anybody would be interested in this, but I’m curious about other types of martial arts, and I’ve seen at least a few people here with ranks in their signature, so if anyone wants to discuss martial arts, here’s a thread. What martial arts do y’all do? I do Cuong Nhu, Judo, and BJJ.

Edited August 11, 2024 by Drehy

[Wittles he/him]

This is a pretty cool thread idea!

Idk if you've heard of it, but my dad got me into a really cool one called Taijiquan (Specifically Chen-style practical method taijiquan)

[Ookla she/her]

I got my black belt in a nontraditional style called Bushi Kai, then did a few months of more traditional Shotokan, and then moved on to Irish dance, and now am doing parkour. So far, they've all been pretty cool. (Shrug) 

[jamesbondsmith He/him]

I trained in both an offshoot of Kyokushin karate and freestyle martial arts (so mixes of BJJ, Muay Thai, karate, kali) and my biggest advice is LISTEN TO YOUR BODY. 

I trained from age 7-25 and now I can tell when the weather is going to change in my reconstructed knee and it hurts/gets stiff if I have my elbows on the table for too long. Sport and exercise in general has a 'push through the pain' mentality, and martial arts even more so. It's OK to step back, and there's not much point learning to defend yourself if it leaves you too broken to actually do it.

I do a bit of writing, and I plan to examine the 'loss of martial capability through injury' journey.

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

On 8/15/2024 at 1:06 PM, Wittles the DoomFrog said:

This is a pretty cool thread idea!

Idk if you've heard of it, but my dad got me into a really cool one called Taijiquan (Specifically Chen-style practical method taijiquan)

Naming systems are often really different, but is that also Tai Chi Chuan?

On 8/17/2024 at 6:38 PM, Ookla said:

I got my black belt in a nontraditional style called Bushi Kai, then did a few months of more traditional Shotokan, and then moved on to Irish dance, and now am doing parkour. So far, they've all been pretty cool. (Shrug) 

That’s impressive! I know a bit of Shotokan, but I’ve never heard of Bushi Kai. Is it stand-up or grappling? And Irish dance and parkour are cool!

[Ookla she/her]

8 hours ago, Drehy said:

Naming systems are often really different, but is that also Tai Chi Chuan?

That’s impressive! I know a bit of Shotokan, but I’ve never heard of Bushi Kai. Is it stand-up or grappling? And Irish dance and parkour are cool!

It's actually not too surprising you've never heard of Bushi Kai; it's a conglomerate style that used to be taught in a tiny school in my hometown. They shut down a few years back, though. I mostly learned kickboxing and some grappling from it, but I never got good at either.

Irish dance and parkour are awesome! Parkour is also arguably more useful than martial arts, because it means you have more ways to run away. That's good for me; I'd never survive a street fight.

[Wittles he/him]

10 hours ago, Drehy said:

Naming systems are often really different, but is that also Tai Chi Chuan?

That’s impressive! I know a bit of Shotokan, but I’ve never heard of Bushi Kai. Is it stand-up or grappling? And Irish dance and parkour are cool!

It's something different, I'm pretty sure it's similar, but it's a distinct thing

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

On 11/11/2024 at 9:39 AM, Ookla said:

It's actually not too surprising you've never heard of Bushi Kai; it's a conglomerate style that used to be taught in a tiny school in my hometown. They shut down a few years back, though. I mostly learned kickboxing and some grappling from it, but I never got good at either.

Irish dance and parkour are awesome! Parkour is also arguably more useful than martial arts, because it means you have more ways to run away. That's good for me; I'd never survive a street fight.

Interesting. Do you know what styles it pulled from?

Parkour is useful, but really the only parkour I know is running up walls.

[Ookla she/her]

14 hours ago, Drehy said:

Interesting. Do you know what styles it pulled from?

Parkour is useful, but really the only parkour I know is running up walls.

Not really. They did a little jiu-jitsu, a few tae-kwon-do techniques, a whole lot of kickboxing and some Shotokan-style katas. But that's about all I know.

If you can run up walls, that's more advanced parkour than I have under my belt. (Unless you're being slightly facetious, in which case, "Yep, running up walls is the first technique I learned! ")

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

Cool! That sounds like a pretty well-rounded style.

Yeah, that was a joking “people drive me up walls” way

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

 

On 8/12/2024 at 8:50 AM, Ookla the Awkward said:

I don’t know if anybody would be interested in this, but I’m curious about other types of martial arts, and I’ve seen at least a few people here with ranks in their signature, so if anyone wants to discuss martial arts, here’s a thread. What martial arts do y’all do? I do Cuong Nhu, Judo, and BJJ.

Ohhhh my goodness I can't believe I just found this thread now! I love martial arts! I've been doing Kyokushin Karate for the past 5 years and I absolutely LOVE IT!!! I'm currently a blue belt, which is the fourth belt and I've done 3 tournaments!

Edited December 27, 2024 by Queen Elsa Steelheart

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

36 minutes ago, Queen Elsa Steelheart said:

 

Ohhhh my goodness I can't believe I just found this thread now! I love martial arts! I've been doing Kyokushin Karate for the past 5 years and I absolutely LOVE IT!!! I'm currently a blue belt, which is the fourth belt and I've done 3 tournaments!

Oh nice! I haven’t heard of Kyokushin, what differentiates it from other styles of karate?

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

1 hour ago, Kaladin Stormcursed said:

Oh nice! I haven’t heard of Kyokushin, what differentiates it from other styles of karate?

It's similar to shotokan, kinda like a cousin of it. Kyokushin is known as one of the most brutal styles as it is full contact. I love it

 

According to google. 'Kyokushin Karate is a highly effective martial art for real-life fighting situations. It's not just a sport or a hobby, but a way of life that teaches discipline, strength, and resilience.'

Edited December 27, 2024 by Queen Elsa Steelheart

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

21 hours ago, Queen Elsa Steelheart said:

It's similar to shotokan, kinda like a cousin of it. Kyokushin is known as one of the most brutal styles as it is full contact. I love it

 

According to google. 'Kyokushin Karate is a highly effective martial art for real-life fighting situations. It's not just a sport or a hobby, but a way of life that teaches discipline, strength, and resilience.'

Oh cool!

I’m always partial to practical martial arts. I haven’t done a full contact one though…that sounds interesting!

[Treamayne]

On 8/15/2024 at 2:06 PM, Wittles said:

Idk if you've heard of it, but my dad got me into a really cool one called Taijiquan (Specifically Chen-style practical method taijiquan)

On 11/11/2024 at 2:21 AM, Kaladin Stormcursed said:

Naming systems are often really different, but is that also Tai Chi Chuan?

Yes. 太極拳 is the long form Chinese - Tai Chi is the Wade Giles phoneticism, Taiji is the Pinyin phoneticism (see also, Peking (WG) vs Beijing (Pinyin)).

Basic summary - Wade Giles is the old British Colonialist developed romanization from the 1800s, Pinyin was developed by Chinese Linguists in the 1950s to address pronunciation issues with the Wade Giles system when trying to approximate Chinese language dialects. There is also another alphabet - Bopomofo, developed by pre-Maoist Beijing and introduced to help standardize a "base" pronunciation in the early 1900s, now used by Taiwan for teaching elementary school pronunciation (but it is not a romanization - just a transliteration system for pronunciation, since Chinese does not have an alphabet).

There are multiple "families" of Taiji. I was an assistant instructor for Yang Family Taiji (amongst other Martial Arts studied 1982-2010).

If the linguistics interest you, then I would suggest searching out a comprehensive DIctionary of Chinese Characters (the one I bought I found in Seoul, RoK - but that was 1999 and I would think they might be more globally accessible by now). For example, when I look up a character, the dictionary has for each entry:

• Long Form
• Short Form (when different)
  • Kanji Short Form (when different)
• Pinyin
• Bopomofo
• English
• Hiragana
• Hangul

Hope that helps.

 

Edited December 29, 2024 by Treamayne
SPAG

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

6 hours ago, Treamayne said:

Yes. 太極拳 is the long form Chinese - Tai Chi is the Wade Giles phoneticism, Taiji is the Pinyin phoneticism (see also, Peking (WG) vs Beijing (Pinyin)).

Basic summary - Wade Giles is the old British Colonialist developed romanization from the 1800s, Pinyin was developed by Chinese Linguists in the 1950s to address pronunciation issues with the Wade Giles system when trying to approximate Chinese language dialects. There is also another alphabet - Bopomofo, developed by pre-Maoist Beijing and introduced to help standardize a "base" pronunciation in the early 1900s, now used by Taiwan for teaching elementary school pronunciation (but it is not a romanization - just a transliteration system for pronunciation, since Chinese does not have an alphabet).

There are multiple "families" of Taiji. I was an assistant instructor for Yang Family Taiji (amongst other Martial Arts studied 1982-2010).

If the linguistics interest you, then I would suggest searching out a comprehensive DIctionary of Chinese Characters (the one I bought I found in Seoul, RoK - but that was 1999 and I would think they might be more globally accessible by now). For example, when I look up a character, the dictionary has for each entry:

• Long Form
• Short Form (when different)
  • Kanji Short Form (when different)
• Pinyin
• Bopomofo
• English
• Hiragana
• Hangul

Hope that helps.

 

Thanks! That’s really helpful.

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

On 12/28/2024 at 5:30 PM, Kaladin Stormcursed said:

Oh cool!

I’m always partial to practical martial arts. I haven’t done a full contact one though…that sounds interesting!

It's really fun! I love it It's helped me massively mentally and physically.

[Shard of Sharks He/Him]

I do Taekwondo. I'm Korean, and basically all the guys in my family have a black belt or better. It's great for kicking form and self-discipline, but not for self defense. I learned jiujitsu and kickboxing to develop a viable MMA fighting style. TKD is great for doing pretty kicks and breaking bricks, but I needed to learn some other things in order to be able to actually spar against other people outside of TKD. The punching and grappling specifically are pretty neglected, but you get flexible and fast, along with some elite footwork. 

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

9 hours ago, Shard of Sharks said:

I do Taekwondo. I'm Korean, and basically all the guys in my family have a black belt or better. It's great for kicking form and self-discipline, but not for self defense. I learned jiujitsu and kickboxing to develop a viable MMA fighting style. TKD is great for doing pretty kicks and breaking bricks, but I needed to learn some other things in order to be able to actually spar against other people outside of TKD. The punching and grappling specifically are pretty neglected, but you get flexible and fast, along with some elite footwork. 

Sweet! Yeah I have a TKD dojo near me, and I get a lot of students who did it before. Kicks are definitely better than mine, it's a really cool style

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

On 8/11/2024 at 3:50 PM, Kansas Stormcursed said:

I don’t know if anybody would be interested in this, but I’m curious about other types of martial arts, and I’ve seen at least a few people here with ranks in their signature, so if anyone wants to discuss martial arts, here’s a thread. What martial arts do y’all do? I do Cuong Nhu, Judo, and BJJ.

I do MMA

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

1 hour ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

I do MMA

Traditional, or a specific type?

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

9 minutes ago, Kansas Stormcursed said:

Traditional, or a specific type?

idk

i just know I do MMA (mixed martial arts)

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

2 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

idk

i just know I do MMA (mixed martial arts)

Yeah I think there are a few different styles of MMA, but idk what they are

What's your favorite part? (Boxing, grappling, whatever other styles are folded into there that I forgot)

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

15 minutes ago, Kansas Stormcursed said:

Yeah I think there are a few different styles of MMA, but idk what they are

What's your favorite part? (Boxing, grappling, whatever other styles are folded into there that I forgot)

My favorite is Wrestling (although I would never actually do it professionally or anything) because I'm not that strong, so some of the boxing days I just get hurt the whole time.

I really like chokeholds

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

Just now, CoderDrag0n8 said:

My favorite is Wrestling (although I would never actually do it professionally or anything) because I'm not that strong, so some of the boxing days I just get hurt the whole time.

I really like chokeholds

WRISTLOCKS

I've been banned from doing wristlocks until I get blue belt because I was doing them too much

Like getting hit a lot in boxing, or just hurt from hitting things?