hey thanks for the advice it's good to hear you can still train after all those problems i was only thinking of taekwondo because my legs seem better than my hands at the moment!
sorry to the 3 of you guys over 50 too, i just had my birthday last weekend so i'm feeling really old! haha
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haha i think that's what all of the veterans at my school say when we start studying TCPM after having practiced other arts for many years.. we wished we had started training the mantis style much sooner! We have guys from all sorts of styles - taekwondo, MMA, jujitsu, karate, aikido, muay thai etc and all of us prefer the mantis system to anything we've done before. And yes you're right, from the get go in the mantis system we're taught very vicious applications that focus on grabbing, breaking elbows and wrists, twisting necks, and striking the eyes and throat. And don't feel too bad, 25 is still a great age to start. You're mature enough to stick with it.
A lot of the mantis system's kicks are identical to those used in taekwondo, such as the front, roundhouse, side, spinning hook, and tornado kicks. Some of them are delivered in a slightly different way however. Even today I still find my grandmaster trying to correct me from the habits of more than 10 years of taekwondo training.. also the taekwondo forms are much more linear and broken than mantis forms which tend to be more flowing. Honestly, I think if you're attending the right school you will get everything you want out of TCPM, though it may be wise to try out other systems such as muay thai and BJJ to get well rounded training.
I agree with mooying mantis though, stick with TCPM and try not to absorb other arts till you've been studying this one for at least a few years.
So I'm unlucky today.. two will die for the price of one!
Hey, I turned 50 in May and my life is anything BUT over! Careful what you consider old...you'll get there before you know it.
Although I've been involved with martial arts since I was 10, I took up Mantis at 21, and didn't begin my focus art, CLF, 'til I was 30. Sure, the earlier experience helped me, but all we have is the present. Enjoy your training and don't worry about numbers.
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went off the radar for abit... wheres my thread gone?!!
edit: ok thanks for making it reappear lol
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Tainan, If you stop eating and sleeping you can finish quicker and we will be able to read your book that much sooner. I will be anxiously awaiting your completion. Please keep us updated.
can you read chinese? i you walk down nan da jie theres signs for english school posted up everywhere, they are all desperate for teachers
If you don't think old, you are always young.
Last week when I walked on the beach with my dog, I saw a guy was training on the beach. I walked toward him and asked if he wants to be my training/wrestling/sparring partner. We were supposed to meet on Monday 6pm in the park. About 2pm, he called me and told me that he is a Karate instructor. If I want to train with him. I would have to pay for his instruction time. At my Medicare age, I'm 15 years older than him. If he still think that I'm just a young guy and looking for some Karate instruction, I must still have my young look. That made me feel really good.
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Wow. Some people are just all about the money. He missed out on an opportunity.
Funny thing happened to me when I took my 85 year old mom to the hospital today.
The two nurses looked at me for a while after I told them my mom's age. Finally they asked, "Oh, are you the youngest?"
Told them I was the oldest, 53. That went back and forth for a while and they had a hard time believing me. They thought I was in my 30's. Told them it must be the American rice or something.
Last month some cutie chick at work asked if I had any kids.
I guess that must be woman-talk for "are you single?", without actually asking directly.
I said, Yeah, blah blah blah... in their 20's blah blah...
She was like, "Wtf, did you have them when you were 10 years old???"
Cracked me up.
Told her it must be the Asian genes, but that she should have been able to tell since she was Korean.
My teacher passed away at 59. I told my students that I don't intend for that to be me.
YKW,
It sounds like he never intended to train with you, but probably thought he simply roped in a new student at the beach. Either that, or maybe he wasn't confident enough that he could hold his own if he trained with you(?).
I always get mistaken for about 15 or more years younger than I am. Then again, people mistook me for a minor when I was in my early 30s. It's a good feeling.
I didn't say who trains with whom but just be a training/wrestling/sparring partner. I made it clear to him that he could pick up a technique that he wants to train and I would be his dummy. I then pick up a technique that I like to train and he would be my dummy. After we have known each other better and build some trust between us, we could start some wrestling and even sparring after that.
This just remind me when I was young, I tried to build up a fighting club. I had found 3 guys. One day we visited the 4th guy, the guy kept saying, "What do you want from me?" I said, "We don't want anything from you. We just invite you to join in our fighting club."
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More opinion -> more argument
Less opinion -> less argument
No opinion -> no argument
i can't read or speak chinese...i can sometimes understand a few (spoken) words
been observing a few classes in kai fa qu and i'm hoping they will take me...didn't realize next week was a festival until today so might not hear back for abit
hows it going downtown ?
waaa why? lol
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