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RAV-GT4 Forums Junkie Toymods member I supported Toymods Location: Rydalmere, NSW Registered: May 2002	Re: Martial Arts Tue, 23 November 2004 02:44 I've studied martial arts for almost 9 years. Since I first took up karate in 1995, I've learned that karate is more for discipline and fitness rather than learning how to punch-on with someone. One of the first things you learn about karate is that it's for defence only... interpret this how you want. Most people I know say "ok someone throws a punch at me and I finish them off", whereas basically it's to be used as a defence mechanism for yourself (self-defence ). In that time I've studied three martial arts (all karate styles), the first was a hybrid style with a very dodgy ethic, learned there for 3œ years and felt proficient at it. The second style I was only at for 9 months before I moved away... would have loved to continue that style though (Go-Ju based). My third style was Shotokan-based karate and I used my knowledge of my first style to grade quicker (or prior learning), as much of the same techniques were used in this style. I got my black belt in 2001 and started an instructor's course soon after. We also got to learn weapons in this style as an extension of the self-defence ethic of this club. I took up martial arts purely for self-defence and fitness. I'm not a fit bloke by any stretch, and I'm certainly not as flexible as they come either. But I use what I can to my ability when sparring and such, and a lot of people I've sparred find it very hard to get around someone who's 6'4" with a 91" reach. My weaknesses are I'm not a very good evader or side-to-side mover, ie. escaping from a situation, and my movements are predictable so a lot of people can see them coming before I've landed them. I loved doing kata to practice a sequence of moves in a formalised pattern, one of my favourites was Kanku-Dai. Very involved and hard to remember, but I still know about 16 of these kata I used to practice. I kept fairly fit while I was doing martial arts, but now I've let it go a bit and my gut tells the story. But strangely my balance has improved. I don't do martial arts for the contact... if someone is stupid enough to hit me they deserve to get smashed in return. Did someone say self-defence? [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Martial Arts	SilverGhost	Wed, 17 November 2004 07:14
	Re: Martial Arts	Cool1	Wed, 17 November 2004 07:17
	Re: Martial Arts	Malicia	Wed, 17 November 2004 07:40
	Re: Martial Arts	sated	Wed, 17 November 2004 07:42
	Re: Martial Arts	matt_84	Wed, 17 November 2004 07:50
	Re: Martial Arts	SilverGhost	Wed, 17 November 2004 08:26
	Re: Martial Arts	Nark	Wed, 17 November 2004 09:55
	Re: Martial Arts	Cool1	Wed, 17 November 2004 10:00
	Re: Martial Arts	draven	Wed, 17 November 2004 10:34
	Re: Martial Arts	matt_84	Wed, 17 November 2004 10:42
	Re: Martial Arts	justcallmefrank	Thu, 18 November 2004 00:48
	Re: Martial Arts	b1gb3n	Thu, 18 November 2004 18:10
	Re: Martial Arts	MFX_Neko_86	Wed, 17 November 2004 10:39
	Re: Martial Arts	AE86slut	Wed, 17 November 2004 11:02
	Re: Martial Arts	RA28	Wed, 17 November 2004 11:37
	Re: Martial Arts	draven	Wed, 17 November 2004 11:52
	Re: Martial Arts	Nark	Wed, 17 November 2004 22:50
	Re: Martial Arts	sated	Thu, 18 November 2004 14:05
	Re: Martial Arts	4ageeza	Thu, 18 November 2004 15:12
	Re: Martial Arts	riceburna73	Thu, 18 November 2004 00:49
	Re: Martial Arts	Nark	Thu, 18 November 2004 01:28
	Re: Martial Arts	yut_hon	Thu, 14 July 2005 01:37
	Re: Martial Arts	ra23mad	Thu, 18 November 2004 02:15
	Re: Martial Arts	Nark	Thu, 18 November 2004 05:15
	Re: Martial Arts	AE86slut	Thu, 18 November 2004 05:19
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 18 November 2004 03:07
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 18 November 2004 03:13
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 18 November 2004 03:17
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 18 November 2004 03:27
	Re: Martial Arts	AE86slut	Thu, 18 November 2004 03:30
	Re: Martial Arts	riceburna73	Thu, 18 November 2004 04:22
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 18 November 2004 04:38
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 18 November 2004 04:42
	Re: Martial Arts	Cool1	Thu, 18 November 2004 07:09
	Re: Martial Arts	AE86slut	Thu, 18 November 2004 07:20
	Re: Martial Arts	Cool1	Thu, 18 November 2004 07:22
	Re: Martial Arts	AE86slut	Thu, 18 November 2004 07:27
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 18 November 2004 08:41
	Re: Martial Arts	Nark	Thu, 18 November 2004 12:05
	Re: Martial Arts	boris	Thu, 18 November 2004 12:30
	Re: Martial Arts	Cool1	Thu, 18 November 2004 07:37
	Re: Martial Arts	AE86slut	Thu, 18 November 2004 07:44
	Re: Martial Arts	riceburna73	Thu, 18 November 2004 11:16
	Re: Martial Arts	RA28	Thu, 18 November 2004 12:38
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 18 November 2004 12:55
	Re: Martial Arts	sated	Thu, 18 November 2004 16:27
	Re: Martial Arts	Nark	Thu, 18 November 2004 21:38
	Re: Martial Arts	b1gb3n	Thu, 18 November 2004 18:03
	Re: Martial Arts	Goose	Fri, 19 November 2004 00:32
	Re: Martial Arts	4ageeza	Fri, 19 November 2004 00:58
	Re: Martial Arts	Nark	Fri, 19 November 2004 01:49
	Re: Martial Arts	RA28	Sat, 20 November 2004 07:55
	Re: Martial Arts	Goose	Fri, 19 November 2004 03:17
	Re: Martial Arts	Bill Sherwood	Sat, 20 November 2004 08:10
	Re: Martial Arts	The Untouchable	Mon, 22 November 2004 03:46
	Re: Martial Arts	Cool1	Mon, 22 November 2004 04:41
	Re: Martial Arts	matt_84	Mon, 22 November 2004 05:04
	Re: Martial Arts	boris	Mon, 22 November 2004 05:09
	Re: Martial Arts	matt_84	Mon, 22 November 2004 05:13
	Re: Martial Arts	boris	Mon, 22 November 2004 05:14
	Re: Martial Arts	Nark	Mon, 22 November 2004 05:23
	Re: Martial Arts	bunkyT18	Wed, 29 June 2005 07:25
	Re: Martial Arts	BigBadBenny	Thu, 14 July 2005 13:16
	Re: Martial Arts	Cool1	Mon, 22 November 2004 06:19
	Re: Martial Arts	Norminator	Mon, 22 November 2004 06:28
	Re: Martial Arts	The Untouchable	Mon, 22 November 2004 10:55
	Re: Martial Arts	fractoid	Mon, 22 November 2004 11:23
	Re: Martial Arts	sated	Mon, 22 November 2004 14:37
	Re: Martial Arts	boris	Tue, 23 November 2004 00:27
	Re: Martial Arts	justcallmefrank	Mon, 22 November 2004 11:24
	Re: Martial Arts	fractoid	Mon, 22 November 2004 12:11
	Re: Martial Arts	Shraka	Mon, 22 November 2004 11:34
	Re: Martial Arts	MFX_Neko_86	Mon, 22 November 2004 11:47
	Re: Martial Arts	Nark	Mon, 22 November 2004 12:39
	Re: Martial Arts	Shraka	Tue, 23 November 2004 02:28
	Re: Martial Arts	Evil_Foetus	Tue, 23 November 2004 02:35
	Re: Martial Arts	Yian	Tue, 23 November 2004 02:39
	Re: Martial Arts	The Untouchable	Tue, 23 November 2004 02:39
	Re: Martial Arts	RAV-GT4	Tue, 23 November 2004 02:44
	Re: Martial Arts	RWDboy	Tue, 23 November 2004 04:07
	Re: Martial Arts	RWDboy	Tue, 23 November 2004 04:15
	Re: Martial Arts	RWDboy	Tue, 23 November 2004 04:26
	Re: Martial Arts	boris	Tue, 23 November 2004 04:49
	Re: Martial Arts	The Untouchable	Tue, 23 November 2004 04:55
	Re: Martial Arts	Nark	Tue, 23 November 2004 10:21
	Re: Martial Arts	muaythaiman	Tue, 23 November 2004 11:02
	Re: Martial Arts	RWDboy	Tue, 23 November 2004 13:20
	Re: Martial Arts	RWDboy	Tue, 23 November 2004 13:38
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Tue, 23 November 2004 15:38
	Re: Martial Arts	boris	Wed, 24 November 2004 00:32
	Re: Martial Arts	RWDboy	Wed, 24 November 2004 00:35
	Re: Martial Arts	RWDboy	Wed, 24 November 2004 00:39
	Re: Martial Arts	The Untouchable	Wed, 24 November 2004 03:27
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Wed, 24 November 2004 18:20
	Re: Martial Arts	fOOZ86	Fri, 24 June 2005 13:21
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Sat, 25 June 2005 01:19
	Re: Martial Arts	Malicia	Fri, 24 June 2005 14:27
	Re: Martial Arts	RWDboy	Fri, 24 June 2005 15:53
	Re: Martial Arts	fOOZ86	Fri, 24 June 2005 16:34
	Re: Martial Arts	Malicia	Fri, 24 June 2005 17:02
	Re: Martial Arts	fOOZ86	Fri, 24 June 2005 17:10
	Re: Martial Arts	Malicia	Fri, 24 June 2005 17:15
	Re: Martial Arts	captain chaos	Fri, 24 June 2005 23:53
	Re: Martial Arts	RWDboy	Sat, 25 June 2005 02:10
	Re: Martial Arts	fOOZ86	Sat, 25 June 2005 04:49
	Re: Martial Arts	illuminatus	Sat, 25 June 2005 05:19
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Sat, 25 June 2005 06:27
	Re: Martial Arts	sleeker162	Sat, 25 June 2005 08:39
	Re: Martial Arts	fOOZ86	Sat, 25 June 2005 08:49
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Sat, 25 June 2005 18:38
	Re: Martial Arts	b1gb3n	Sat, 25 June 2005 10:25
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Sat, 25 June 2005 18:44
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Sat, 25 June 2005 18:54
	Re: Martial Arts	captain chaos	Wed, 29 June 2005 05:26
	Re: Martial Arts	b1gb3n	Fri, 01 July 2005 09:35
	Re: Martial Arts	Nark	Fri, 01 July 2005 09:57
	Re: Martial Arts	fOOZ86	Sat, 25 June 2005 19:34
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Fri, 01 July 2005 10:34
	Re: Martial Arts	Big T	Fri, 01 July 2005 13:56
	Re: Martial Arts	fOOZ86	Fri, 01 July 2005 15:31
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Sat, 02 July 2005 08:19
	Re: Martial Arts	b1gb3n	Sat, 02 July 2005 11:53
	Re: Martial Arts	bubbles	Sat, 02 July 2005 12:11
	Re: Martial Arts	Malicia	Mon, 04 July 2005 14:45
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Sat, 02 July 2005 14:43
	Re: Martial Arts	bunkyT18	Mon, 04 July 2005 00:51
	Re: Martial Arts	RWDboy	Mon, 04 July 2005 16:12
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Tue, 05 July 2005 01:06
	Re: Martial Arts	bunkyT18	Tue, 05 July 2005 03:37
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Tue, 05 July 2005 08:28
	Re: Martial Arts	bunkyT18	Wed, 06 July 2005 05:09
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Wed, 06 July 2005 07:53
	Re: Martial Arts	dlwd3w	Thu, 07 July 2005 04:35
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 07 July 2005 09:51
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 07 July 2005 09:53
	Re: Martial Arts	dlwd3w	Sun, 17 July 2005 07:28
	Re: Martial Arts	no_tofu_speed	Sun, 17 July 2005 10:01

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