Your mission, if you choose to accept.

[Szczepankiewicz]

We get a lot of threads asking who, what, where, and why about martial arts from beginners seeking advice. I would like to pen an article that I can post on my website and refer people to when they ask these questions.

What I'd like is the benefit from your experience on what you think is a must for training, and what you found to your liking (and dislike) in the past.

Once we generate a good list I will work out a rough draft and the sumbit it for Bitty's approval before I publish it.

And remember, please be kind with your comments, I have a fragile ego....

Regards,

Szczepankiewicz

[ceasarx]

Good idea

I think that new comers should be educated on the variess martial arts available and what the concepts are . Such as is it a strikeing art or a grappling art. Is it a work out on the body or is it a low impact thing. When I first got involved in the martial arts I found that my lack of info led me to a lot off dead ends.
Maybe if you could make a list of martial arts and what they are all about that might help.

[Mr. Miyagi]

OK, here's a few:
Karate(shorinryu, ishinryu, shotokan, kyokushin, shitoryu, etc)
TaeKwonDo
Hapkido
KungFu(don't know all the varieties, perhaps a separate branch for WingChun)
JeetKuneDo
Aikido
Kendo
KravMaga
Judo
ThaiBoxing
AmericanKickboxing
BrazilianJuiJitsu
Capoeira
WesternBoxing
Sambo
Ninjutsu
HybridMMA

OK, big guy, can you come up with short essays on each of those?