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skinny · 09-02-2002, 11:31 PM

I'm new to this site as well as to martial arts in general and I don't want to offend any one even though I might sound like a nerd to you guys. I've never been arrested, locked up or in a life threatening situation other than in an emergency room after a bad allergy attack. But I have been observing ad learning about different styles of Martial Arts and finding that they all seem to have plusses and minuses (many that I probably can't even see yet.)

I felt JKD seems to have the most effective moves if your life depended on it but that's my opinion I guess. But I have a friend I grew up with who was a black belt in Karate and very small but very fast and strong and a very effective kick boxer and another friend I grew up with who studied nearly every style from -Karate to Kung Fu to Aikido JKD to Boxing- and I think he got it right by combining the techniques of many different styles. But to this day I have yet to see someone threaten either guy on the street with or without a weapon. There's a lot of bickering going on over who is better, who's style is better etc. Wouldn't it be better if you all shared your knowledge and experience and learned a littel bit from each other? Or would that be to nerdy?

Slkinny

09-02-2002, 11:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
skinny Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rutland, MA Posts: 52 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	who's betterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr? I'm new to this site as well as to martial arts in general and I don't want to offend any one even though I might sound like a nerd to you guys. I've never been arrested, locked up or in a life threatening situation other than in an emergency room after a bad allergy attack. But I have been observing ad learning about different styles of Martial Arts and finding that they all seem to have plusses and minuses (many that I probably can't even see yet.) I felt JKD seems to have the most effective moves if your life depended on it but that's my opinion I guess. But I have a friend I grew up with who was a black belt in Karate and very small but very fast and strong and a very effective kick boxer and another friend I grew up with who studied nearly every style from -Karate to Kung Fu to Aikido JKD to Boxing- and I think he got it right by combining the techniques of many different styles. But to this day I have yet to see someone threaten either guy on the street with or without a weapon. There's a lot of bickering going on over who is better, who's style is better etc. Wouldn't it be better if you all shared your knowledge and experience and learned a littel bit from each other? Or would that be to nerdy? Slkinny __________________ Skinny, We can go through life afraid of the unknown or face it head on and conquer the demons that stand in our path."