It depends on your center of gravity, my coach(College Judo Club) is fairly tall(6'2 and about 175lbs) but he has the best balance out of anyone I have ever faced.
I'm in the short stocky range,...
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It depends on your center of gravity, my coach(College Judo Club) is fairly tall(6'2 and about 175lbs) but he has the best balance out of anyone I have ever faced.
I'm in the short stocky range,...
I would suggest Judo to anyone who is serious about martial arts.
Depending on who you practice with the classes can vary in difficulty, but in all three Judo "schools" I have attended it was, as...
This actualy happened when I was still doing Tae Kwon Do but, I was at a competition and a friend and I mis-understood the directions to the warm up area. So we get to what we thought was the warm up...
I got a 2004 les paul, slash standard, my entire family pitched together to buy it for me. I had a joygasm when I opened the box up.
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From what you showed me B the demonstrator was doing a sharper version of Cheng style Bagua Zhang. When I say sharper i mean he added a snap to the end of the long arm movements. But from what you...
I have been a member of this community for about a year though I do not post that often. I have trained for three years in TTkD, five years in Hung gar, and 6 months in Long Fist.
I had never seen...
Today at the Tahlequa OK baseball fields I witnessed a Ba Gua demonstration, the man giving the demonstration(I did not catch his name which in hind sight was a horrible decision on my part.) said...
Last May possibly April, a local club had something like this. Though unfortunatly it was much more degrading for the 'dwarf's'. It went under the name of 'Bloody Midget Wrestling!' A friend of mine...
I am moving to Tahlequah, OK next August and I was wondering if anybody here knows of a good school, I researched on yahoo, and all I found was a bunch of TKD McDojo's and a series of warnings to...
Im not sure if they go all the way to little rock. When I joined the school the 3 months I was there the only competition that we went to was in Springdale. Its fairly new, gets 90% of its revenue...
In north west Arkansas, there are about 4 schools within 35 miles of where I live. 2 are olympic TKD(taeguk), 1 is traditional TKD(Chang Hon), and a MMA school with heavy influences from Praying...
When I was still taking TKD classes, The other black belts(with the exception of Master Wiles) and I decided to see which of us could come up with the weirdest animal stances/styles and use them...
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These swords are realy nice and very cheap for the quality. Unless its a custom sword they cost between $35 and $450.
I got a hand-made batleth from them for about...
I remeber reading a artical on the First American master of Karate. Sorry i dont remember his name so lets call him Mike.
At first Mike was mad at the fact that once he started getting publicity...
I am a form collector, I can preform around 20 perfectly(well I have won form competitions with 3 of my 20 forms).
Though I collect forms, I still attend my long fist/praying mantis class and my...
I was at the Mong festival of the dragon over the weekend. At the Festival 15 people (1 master 14 students) hosted a Kuk sool won demonstration. kuk sool won seemed like a mixture of judo and long...
I had got into i fight saterday afternoon, i was with some freinds at a local hang out of ours when three guys came up and started messing with geoff and ric who were kind of "Off By Themselves" ...
Is it possible to learn Kung Fu without taking an official class. I am planning on learing through a combination of videos and books.
Also, Which style do you think i should start out with. When...
Yes, in my old school 'all belts are equal no matter what the age' as my 'X' master put it. when they turned 13 they were allowed to join the adult class and they kept their belt.
Though I do give...
I agree with you fully. In my old school you could literaly be a black belt in 14 months. thats one of the reasons i quit TKD, we had around 6 eight year olds who were high red belt when i left, 2 of...
In my old TKD school we had to take off our shoes in the 'waiting' area, Everything was done barefoot.