wesley snipes??

[liamcooke18]

i read sum where on the net about what martial arts wesley snipes did "he does quit da few" and he's **** hot at it on da films, can any body tell me what they are, i forgot what da site was.
anyway im 18 in 3 weeks and i was thinking of joining ji jitsu is it any good? i heard u cant compete in it cause most of the moves are deadly "cool eh?" haha -is that true????

i took up karate when i was 8, i gave it up becase i wasnt like bruce lee over night haha, last year i took up tai kwondo but there was way to many people at it and for 5 weeks solid all we did was punch punch punch kick kick kick backwards and forwards. now i know there an important part of it, and my patients arnt as bad as when i was a kid but i would like to have paired up with sum1 and learn a few moves. maybe im wrong???
i know it takes years but im willing to learn


where i live theres karate, ji jitsu, judo, kick boxing, boxing and taikwondo. im doing tai chi for da last few weeks but its just for relaxation ect does that help or does any body know about it!

anyway any advice or recomendations???

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Liam

thanks!!!!

[Azrael]

Welcome to MAP. :)

Wesley Snipes studied primarily Capoeira, and did so for at least a decade. He know studies the Shaolin arts. I think his teacher is Shi Yan Ming, who is based in New York, but I am not 100%. Most of his movie stuff is simply that, movie stuff, but he does make it look good.

anyway im 18 in 3 weeks and i was thinking of joining ji jitsu is it any good? i heard u cant compete in it cause most of the moves are deadly "cool eh?" haha -is that true????

Some schools do not compete because they feel there is too much risk of seriously injuring either your opponent or yourself. Jujutsu for example has alot of locking techniques foir example, which are designed to seriously injure someone, and you can't really pull (hold back) techniques like that, so it kind of detracts from the learning experience if you cannot use them. you run the risk of picking up bad habits. Having said that though, schools may say that just to sound more deadly. Talk is cheap.

Anyway, I sent you an email in reply to the one you sent me. hopefully you will understand where I was coming from. Like I said in that though, go and try it out and see if it works for you, if not, move on.

[Sonshu]

Than Kung Fu and Capoeira etc.

Are you sure?

[ap Oweyn]

Capoeira is true. Watch Blade and its sequel to see him bust some capoeira moves.

I think you're right though that he's got some karate and perhaps taekwondo experience. Can't remember specifically.

His friend, training partner, and choreographer is Jeff Ward, who's primarily a pekita tersia (eskrima) teacher. That's where Snipes gets much of his swordwork, for starters. So he's got some FMA in his repetoire as well.

[KenpoDavid]

I heard he did Kajukembo

[zumtream]

Come on guys! Google is here for a reaons:

http://www.fightingmaster.com/actors/snipes/training.htm

[ap Oweyn]

Er, yeah. That page was enormously insightful. :rolleyes: