Just got back...

[shaolin kungfu]

just got back from krav maga.

Started off with stretching and warmups. Then played an odd little game where you try to run around the room and touch everyone's shoulder without letting anyone touch you. It was fun, but I'm not sure what it was for. Speed, awareness maybe?:confused:

We then moved on to learning the fighting stance, which is basically a boxing stance with hands extended further out. Threw a bunch of left jabs and right crosses, single and in combination. Learned their way of breaking a front choke, and did some follow up moves. And lots of padwork.

All in all it was ok. The stuff seemed pretty practical. The workout wasn't quite as good as kungfu, but I did get a sweat going.

[chen zhen]

So where you dissapointed or not? Was it worth the prize? How long did it take? Are they prizey?

[shaolin kungfu]

Nope, not dissapointed.:)

it's not the expensive, and was good instruction for the price. Took about an hour and a half.

[chen zhen]

How many times a week?
It's because I've been around to different MA schools myself for the last few months, and I've been very dissapointed with most of it, so I don't really have a place to train. We don't have a rich diversity in MA here in Denmark. So I just ask the questions I've been used to ask instructors the last months.

[shaolin kungfu]

It's only once a week. It's actually just a couple month course offered at my gym. I decided to take it because it was cheap and fit really well with my schedule. I didn't really expect much out of it, but it seems to be ok.:)

Edit: sorry to hear about the lack of MA over there.

[chen zhen]

Well, that's good then. As long as you learn something useful and enjoy yourself. That's more than u can say I have in my MA history.:(

What other possibilities are there? What other schools are nearby?

[shaolin kungfu]

What styles did you study? Is everything really that bad near you?

In milwaukee there's my kungfu school, a crap load of tae kwon do, some karate, and apparently a BJJ school that I might check out. I'm not sure what else there is.

p.s. I never looked at any tae kwon do schools, and only one karate place.

[chen zhen]

Try BJJ.
I studied Yang Tai Chi (with the best instructor in northern europe, very skilled, but his students stank, because they did'nt take it seriously) a year, then a year of Jing Wu (crappy), and between them a year of "self studies" if you might call it that. Right now: a little xingyi, hoping to train JKD soon.

[shaolin kungfu]

I don't know if I'm going to try it out, but I will probably go and look at it. I might sign up some time in the future. I'm pretty happy with the shaolin right now.:)

Why'd you stop the tai chi? Is the xing yi your taking good, or is that why you are looking to start JKD?

[chen zhen]

At Tai Chi I was the youngest person training, there was all these old people.. But the instructor was fantastic, when you pushed hands w. him, you could feel that he was rooted firmly to the ground, felt like a mountain. Hella strong.
Xingyi is ok, it's not really formal training. The instructor just comes there to train us informally because he feels like it, it's not a real school, in that sense. It's once a week, so the schedule will fit with JKD, so I can train both XY and JKD every week.
This summer I don't have anything to train.:(

OK, I'll leave for the next hour, Sopranos is on in a minute.;)

[shaolin kungfu]

Aiight. cya.

[chen zhen]

btw, what time is it over there? in this precise moment, it's 00:10 O'clock..
wwops, that's the time of Sopranos.. gotta run:eek: ;)

[Former castleva]

OK.

So was it kind of an introductory class for you or did you just jump there in the middle of it? :)

What did you think about their techniques?

It SHOULD give you a work-out.

[chen zhen]

I'm back. Sorry if this thread turned the attention to me.
Q: Does Krav Maga have a certain structure in their fighting-strategy, I mean footwork, stance, blocking, etc? Or is it just he-does-this-and-I-do-that kinda training, like I have a feeling KM is about..?

[Kristoffer]

I've seen some KM. I thought they did too much theory. Nothing I'd wanna train

[chen zhen]

u know.. the Mossad killed SKF?:(

:o ;)

true story

[Kristoffer]

yeah I heard.. sad..... aah well

[Former castleva]

I heard some rumors about him being attacked by alligators,but I have no conclusive evidence.

[chen zhen]

That was israeli agents disguised as alligators.

[shaolin kungfu]

Yeah that's what I heard too. I wonder if it's true.

[Former castleva]

You should know..!

Welcome back.
You would not guess how much bandwith we have been using since your passing.

[Kristoffer]

Spam Boyz INC

[chen zhen]

*eeewww*
sounds like a boyband:eek: :mad:

[Kristoffer]

Boyz n Tha ORA
?

:D

[Former castleva]

The ORAl boys. :D

[chen zhen]

N*sink (or spit) :cool:

Let's not get too excited about all this..:o

[Former castleva]

Don´t you worry,I´ll remind you anytime you´re about to faint out of excitement. ;)

[chen zhen]

I was talkin to you boy(z?), but whatever..:o

[Former castleva]

Yes,I realize that.

I´m working on our first hit.
:cool:

[chen zhen]

Ooh, no...:o

;)

if we should be anything, it should be rap:cool:

[Former castleva]

Rap?... :D :o :p
I see.

Now how does that work with classic console tunes? :D

[Kristoffer]

lol

I've hheard someone rappin to a super mario beats.. Sounds kinda cool. If u have kazaa or share ware you should try search for ''mario rap/super mario rap/etc/etc'' ..til u find it