What's your primary training style?

[sidder]

scro:
I reckon there's alot mt where you're at. Definitely very useful skills for any grappler to pick up. Nothing beats knowing how to kickbox on the street. A guy from my bjj club who also spars mt with me won an nhb fight in like 5 secs with a left hook.

[Szczepankiewicz]

Sorry man, couldn't get the link to work. Tried all the alternates I could think of. Can you email it to me?

Thanks,

SZ

[Tony10]

Krav Maga 4x/week

BJJ 2-3x/week

Mixed martial arts class 2x/week (includes a curriculum of BJJ, Kung Fu, Boxing and Kickboxing, point sparring and boxing sparring).

[sccr06]

SZ: sorry man. I couldn't get it to work either. I'm going to ask if his site is down when I go tonight.

Tony10: I have a question about Krav Maga maybe you can answer. What is different about it than just what you described as your MMA class? I really don't know that much about it, but I hear lots of people saying it is this or that. Thanks.

[Tony10]

Krav Maga doesn't contain any stances or styles like Kung Fu and will maybe offer two or three responses at most for any attack.

Part of their philosophy is that if you're taught too many options to, say, a front grab, you might freeze in the moment of need.

It's very much a self-defense art, in that you're taught intercepts and counters and not offensive techniques per se. It's definitely a "hard" art, too, in that you're usually coupling some kind of escape with a strike of some type simultaneously.

Some of the techniques will be familiar to you if you've studied various martial arts; some I hadn't seen before. All are pretty simple, really. They do lift some techniques from other arts.

The difference between it, say, and the other arts I've studied/do study is they're REALLY big on conditioning and going all out. You're taught to go full power for extended periods of time to build the endurance you might need to last more than a few seconds. The workouts at the start of and during class are some of the hardest I've encountered, cardio-wise. You are taught to fight to the point of exhaustion, then keep going still.

You're also encouraged to go almost full-out to get the most realistic feel whatever drill you're doing--if I'm choking my partner, I'm REALLY choking him. We also do full-contact boxing sparring because they want you to be able to get hit and still function.

I guess the difference is that it is totally balls-out, and they use simpler techniques to go right for the kill. A lot of it reminds me of JKD, but even more simplified.

I really recommend it to everyone; it's good stuff. Love it.

[iamdoomsday]

I started training a few years back at home, every now and then. I learned from tapes of UFC, PRIDE, KOTC, etc... I've been going to the only school anywhere near here, and it's helping me get better, but it's not really what i'm looking for. I'll probably keep going because it's my only option. I have taught myself a fair amount of jiu-jitsu for a beginner and for being self taught, and i'm starting to teach myself a striking style kinda like thai i guess. I roll no-gi, and don't spar standing yet. I'm working on developing kicks, punches and blocks, then i'm gonna start sparring. I guess i'm creating my own art, but borrowing techs from everywhere i can find them. I use a couple judo throws and some wrestling stuff too. no small joint locks really though. I also know some pressure point stuff but it's not really useful most of the time, I could probably use some of it, but someone that's agro is too hard to hit with almost all of it, and i've put some stuff on calm people with no effect at all, joint locks work on everybody i've come across though! i have a couple chokes too, one sweep and i hit the armbar from everywhere. I can't seem to use the keylock, though. my leglocks suck. my escapes from bad positions are good, and i'm working on my guard passing, but i'm getting triangled quite a bit, like every time i try, lol. I train 2 times a week at school, mostly excersize and sparring, and I try to work out once a week, also i try to run a little on sat. morning, but my cardio is crap from smoking.

[Lithp]

The art of fighting without fighting.

[kuroshio]

I have competed in sumo since 1994, but I have no other real combat martial arts experience. I would like to learn BJJ or judo or submission wrestling, but I cannot really call myself a martial artist or combat grappler. Or can I. What do you guys think about sumo or the people who compete in it? I have trained in Japan and Hawaii, and I took a couple of Relson BJJ classes when I was on Oahu and liked them very much.

[Jerik]

errr... Question!

aren´t the people of you who train 5-6 Days a week 2 hours each too much training? I mean, ok im no expert in MA, i just train TaeKwonDo since a half year and done some JKD before, which i dropped after 3 Months... BUT 5-6 Days, 2 hours each is much time (in my current oppinion) maybe i will train more then you after i found my MA , but right now im just wondered abut that.

[koto_ryu]

I'm curious to see what most of you are training currently.

I am doing Freestyle Jiu Jitsu (more wrestling based and no gi). Even though most of my previous experience was Judo and regular BJJ.

No boxing on the poll? BtW, it's Nietzsche

[koto_ryu]

I have competed in sumo since 1994, but I have no other real combat martial arts experience. I would like to learn BJJ or judo or submission wrestling, but I cannot really call myself a martial artist or combat grappler. Or can I. What do you guys think about sumo or the people who compete in it? I have trained in Japan and Hawaii, and I took a couple of Relson BJJ classes when I was on Oahu and liked them very much.

I'm one of the few people I know who actually thinks sumo is a good art. When I was on Okinawa I met two sumo guys there (not yet too big, they were still about my size! ) and we had a friendly sparring session and they showed off what they can do. It's impressive to see guys that big doing splits, and there's more technique in there than a lot of people think. Most people just see two chubby guys smashing into each other, but there's some good stuff in there.

[Broadsword2004]

Yeah but Americans are fat enough, last thing they need is a martial art that lets you eat way more

[HtTKar]

I'm one of the few people I know who actually thinks sumo is a good art

Great art. When you read the history of it (before modernized sports version) Sumo is what saved Japan. Lots of old school jujitsu moves.

Yeah but Americans are fat enough, last thing they need is a martial art that lets you eat way more

Fat Americans need anything they can get to get out of the house and actually do something. Rather be a fat sumo wrestler, than a fat couch potato.

Very good thread

[Jakuzo]

[QUOTE=Szczepankiewicz]I am currently training in Kantan Kyo Jujutsu. It is a mixture of Chaun'fa and Tae Kyon striking techniques, Japanese Jujutsu and Chin Na grappling techniques. We also use Chi Kung self healing as well.



what is chi kung self healing. can u tell me some of the techniques (how they are done) sounds intresting

[Ronson]

From iamdoomsday:

"I started training a few years back at home, every now and then. I learned from tapes of UFC, PRIDE, KOTC, etc... I've been going to the only school anywhere near here, and it's helping me get better, but it's not really what i'm looking for. I'll probably keep going because it's my only option. I have taught myself a fair amount of jiu-jitsu for a beginner and for being self taught, and i'm starting to teach myself a striking style kinda like thai i guess. I roll no-gi, and don't spar standing yet. I'm working on developing kicks, punches and blocks, then i'm gonna start sparring. I guess i'm creating my own art, but borrowing techs from everywhere i can find them. I use a couple judo throws and some wrestling stuff too. no small joint locks really though. I also know some pressure point stuff but it's not really useful most of the time, I could probably use some of it, but someone that's agro is too hard to hit with almost all of it, and i've put some stuff on calm people with no effect at all, joint locks work on everybody i've come across though! i have a couple chokes too, one sweep and i hit the armbar from everywhere. I can't seem to use the keylock, though. my leglocks suck. my escapes from bad positions are good, and i'm working on my guard passing, but i'm getting triangled quite a bit, like every time i try, lol. I train 2 times a week at school, mostly excersize and sparring, and I try to work out once a week, also i try to run a little on sat. morning, but my cardio is crap from smoking."

I hate to break it to you, but you have NO style. The words you use like, "I have taught myself, I'm working on developing..., and I also know some pressure point stuff." says to me that you don't know shit and I very much doubt you're creating a new martial art. Until you get legitamate instruction, you're just a MMA poser.