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Summo

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No! No I'm not. I drive an MX-5 and these bastards torment me based on ancient 'comic' sterotypes...























... based on MGF owners. :p
 
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xane

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Summo is to become a black belt (with pink trim) in Tae Washan Go :)
 
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stu

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Good stuff summo, pop to your local martial arts shop and find out what's being taught round your way. One of the varieties of karate is probably the most likely (given it's probably the most taught in the country), followed by tkd probably. Then have a quick read on the internet about the various options, and find out about the clubs themselves/the instructors (the most important thing is to get a good instructor, regardless of what art you study). Oh, and when you turn up and think you've made a total prat of yourself the first time round, don't worry about it, everyone else does :) (and the second, third...) It's best to find a mate to go with for the first few lessons, so you can both rely on each other's mediocrity.

Incidentally, fatty, up until a month ago, worked and trained with the biggest karate organisation in the uk, so he can probably tell you if there's a branch near you.
 
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Sir Frizz

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I practice 'Kamikaze'.

Human missiles never fail.:)
 
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wolfeeh

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i fucking lol

@ stu

they'll laugh me out of the place for wanting to get fit, and increase my leg flexibility will they?

cand can't tell that the other two are blatant jokes? my fucking my? you really are a bag of shit aren't you
 
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wolfeeh

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kez?

and let him have a go at me all the time?

just cos i yanked his chain on a certain couple of threads a few weeks back? i think not.
 
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shadow`

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Originally posted by stu
shadow - which style of tkd do you study?
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GTI. I'm not very sure in the differences in the different styles of tkd, but it took me seven or eight years to eventually get to black belt.

I'm only just 17 now, so you can imagine I started pretty young. It's pretty tough as you get further on, and I actually wanted to quit it a couple of times, but my parents kept me at it, and I eventually got there :)
I'm no longer in it now though, it started to get very time consuming when you have to wait 4/5 years for each of your dan gradings -

It's a great sport to take up, keeps you extremely fit and I'm definately glad I did it.
 
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old.ignus

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Originally posted by Summo
This thread has inspired me to take up Karate. Sounds like just what I need - some proper exercise for mind and body.

Cheers, fellas.
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Glad we inspired you mate. I've already found myself staring at gorillas thinking "I could take him, Im sure I could" whether I could or not is beside the point.

incidently Im learning shotokan style as well as my ju-jitsu.

also you tend to find that most instructors will be quite fair to newcomers, in my karate class the sensei makes a point in pulling up everybody on something so that nobody can claim perfection, even the 5 black belts got a bollocking for not getting one of the kata right even though it did look pretty hard.
 
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Krazeh

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My mate does ninjitsu and keeps trying to get me to take it up, apparently it's a superb way to stay in shape and it makes you hard as nails as well, which is nice :)
Altho the time he came into uni with his wrist in bandages, his ribs wrapped up and spent the day hobbling round at about half the pace of everyone else kinda makes me scared to go, apparently he was used as an example of why drinking then fighting is a bad idea.
 
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*Kornholio*

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Originally posted by Krazeh
apparently he was used as an example of why drinking then fighting is a bad idea.
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So they fed him booze then beat the crap outta him ?? I could live with the first bit...
 
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SLiC3R-

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your all nerds and im a ninja that'd kiss all yo' asses!
 
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Shocko

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I've been doing Wing-Chun since november :/


In that time, i've only seen 2 people join - A fair few people have been once, and in one case several times, but i think people get put off for one of 2 reasons:
a) The standard thing of people expecting to be taught how to kill in one lesson
b) It's more informal than they're expecting.

2 Weeks ago, only 6 people turned up - I think it doesn't help that it's held in a rented fittness events room in the local leisure center - I think at one point the instructor was part of a martial arts gym type thing, however i think they had to close due to lack of interest eventually :/
 
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GDW

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Originally posted by Sar


Because you're 100% Homogay, obviously.
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No, but he claims he'd give Jade one, and that may be worse;)
 
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stu

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shocko: where do you study Wing Chun? Under whom? And what are your impressions of it so far? I was thinking of taking it up in a couple of months as I figured it would complement taekwondo quite nicely.
 
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Perplex

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Stu - going to start learning Jeet Kune Do and Wing Chun Kung Fu at an academy in Ipswich pretty soon. The prerequisite for the JKD is stage 1 of the Wing Chun system.

You must complete level 1 of the Ho Wan Wing Chun Kung Fu system before learning Ho Wan JKD so that you understand the energy drills and movements of the body
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http://www.howankungfu.co.uk/
 
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Shocko

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The guy who takes the class is called Mick... I forget his second name. I think he's been teaching it for over 20years...

It's held in a fittness room at the leisure center here, once a week, allthough i think he also does private sessions.

I'm not totally sure how it's organised - There's another guy, Roy who takes the gradings, however i'm not sure what area he covers. Insurance etc, is covered by membership of NAKMAS...

I'd say there's a fair bit more enphasis on hands, than kicking. Pretty much all the kicking is below the opponents waist anyway. I would class it as pretty practical stuff - All the blocking is stuff that does actually work, and moves are practised against a variety of attacks, from swung street-punches to round-house kicks...
 
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Krazeh

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Originally posted by *Kornholio*


So they fed him booze then beat the crap outta him ?? I could live with the first bit...
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No, I talked him into a few drinks at the student bar after the last lecture of the day, then he had a few more, then went to ninjitsu. Strangely enough he never drank before ninjitsu again.
 
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Munkey-

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intrestingly enough. go scuba diving and go around 30 metres and go deeper. you suffer from nitrogen narcocis. which is remarkably like being drunk. Makes you do strange things and impairs your judgement.

e.g. the guy who's teaching me to dive has a friend who experienced it and whilst under its influence kept pointing at this fish and making his hands as wide as he could indicating the enourmaity (sp?) of the fish. that was actually 5 inches big :D



and Jacques-Yves Cousteau started chasing after a fish holding his primary regulator outstretched trying to make it breathe :p

(as you might expect you SHOULDN'T do this as one of the prime rules of scuba diving is "always breathe" wether exhaling or inhaling. e.g. take out the regulator and you should continue exhaling)

and the effects go away immediatly once you ascend a few metres without any effects like hangovers!

take up scuba diving. its great!
 
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Perplex

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Errrr, are you actually talking about "The Bends" ?

Originally posted by Munkey-
intrestingly enough. go scuba diving and go around 30 metres and go deeper. you suffer from nitrogen narcocis. which is remarkably like being drunk. Makes you do strange things and impairs your judgement.

e.g. the guy who's teaching me to dive has a friend who experienced it and whilst under its influence kept pointing at this fish and making his hands as wide as he could indicating the enourmaity (sp?) of the fish. that was actually 5 inches big :D



and Jacques-Yves Cousteau started chasing after a fish holding his primary regulator outstretched trying to make it breathe :p

(as you might expect you SHOULDN'T do this as one of the prime rules of scuba diving is "always breathe" wether exhaling or inhaling. e.g. take out the regulator and you should continue exhaling)

and the effects go away immediatly once you ascend a few metres without any effects like hangovers!

take up scuba diving. its great!
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stu

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No, the bends is decompression sickness, totally different to nitrogen narcosis. You get the latter when you're deep in the water, the former when you're shallow (or out of the water)
 
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Munkey-

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bends happens when you come up too fast


(other contributing factors are weight and depth)

basiclly common below 30 metres. happens when nitrogen isnt taken out of the tissue fast enough and gets trapped, commonly in the joints where the nitrogen bubbles cant pass through the bone, causing pain in the joints.


decompression stops are designed to let nitrogen filter out of the blood stream. reccomend that you go slower than 18 metres a minute ascending and make a stop for 3 mins at 5 metres (i think)

scuba diving doesnt take into account decompression stops. their more for the pro's and as such the recreational dive planner doesnt take this into effect

(something tells me that summer holiday isnt working, i'm still learning stuff)
 
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*Kornholio*

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Originally posted by Munkey-
scuba diving doesnt take into account decompression stops.
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It does, but not really at Open Water 1 level... when you start going deeper than 18 meters they become necessary... unless you do something like 3 dives in a day at 18 meters, when a stop would be needed...
 
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Sawtooth

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Erm , most people probably attack you when you arent looking. They probably wont let you change into your pyjammas and do warm ups either.

I used to do summit called Kaze Arashi Rye. Wasn't much use really as you had to cut off the opponents head at the end of a move. More likely to get shot by the police these days if you wield a Samurai sword. Still it was interesting to note that most of the other people training were either Prison Wardens or Police so it must have been some cop (pun intended).
 
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Testin da Cable

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heh I can see the newspapers now:

Bobbys issued katanas, Survey predicts criminals taking kenjitsu classes en masse, British Kenjitsu Sensei Federation pleased
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old.ignus

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Originally posted by Sawtooth
They probably wont let you change into your pyjammas and do warm ups either.
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I bet if you asked them nicely they would.

The guy Stazbumpa mentioned that trains with us who also practises akido has been involved in several fights this year and hasn't lost one yet. His most recent was friday night where he assisted his friend in dealing with a big guy by disorientating the big guy, this was done by delivering one swift kick, to the head. He's only a yellow belt so I can't imagine what he'll be like as a black belt.
 
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