Forms...where can I learn some?

Hey guys.....after a LONG time out of the martial arts...I am ready to get fight, physically fight and fighting fit!

I was just wondering if anyone can point me to some websites where I could learn some forms? I know Siu Lim Tao from my Wing Chun...but thats it. Personally, I just want to learn some to practice on my own for meditation/relaxation, and to help develop awareness and concentration.

Thanks guys!

 

Well personally

1) Don't learn forms from the internet
2) you need more than forms to get "fighting fit" surely

Wouldnt it be better to go along to a class and train with a real rather than a virtual sifu?

 

Sorry, you misunderstood. I'm not trying to get fight with forms, are you mad?!

Yea, well I learn some at Wing Chun, but I do BJJ too and well that hasn't got forms of course. Just a rough guide to forms you know?

 

Why not just add footwork to SLT? Look at that Hsing-Y form that was posted.

 

Go find a school and teacher.

 

No I don't think I am mad!

I just really struggle to see why people want to go and learn forms in isolation without learning a whole style. I just completely fail to see the point.

 

YAY!! At least you've got a little bit of sense Su!

 

Pftt! What do you mean I have a "little" bit of sense!!! :woo:

Forms in isolation just seem silly.I mean, every style has its own "feel" and its own type of movement that you surely can't pick up just by learning the odd form in isolation.
WHy not do something like yoga if you want to learn movement for relaxation.

 

Here is some age old advice that was passed down to me everyday by nearly every high school teacher I had - stop dawdling around and get to class!

 

Yes, type in youtube.com than look for the form you want to learn. Regardless of what any would be martial artist on this site says it is you life learn what an how you want. Look up forms on youtube.com.

I am just saying whatever to most of the poster on here they ain't no masters of the what you want to know so you don't have to learn from a school but you probably should if you are going to teach.

 

Here's your first lesson young man:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMasVRj4KI"]breakdance - YouTube[/ame]

 

You want to do forms to RELAX?!
I am wasted after going through my forms.

 

Yeah ,learn ALL the forms you can off youtube because they are guaranteed to be perfect examples and performed by real masters.

 

If you really just want to learn forms for the sake of it stick in 'X Kata' or 'X Forms' into amazon. You should be able to get manuals for all the form movements of all the common martial arts. You could look at them on Youtube as well if you want.

In general getting a teacher is best.

 

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Did the school holidays start already?

 

While i know i could never do that an live! I imagine there is someone out there that loves that so much they can glean something from it.

My point is not that you can actually learn a style or what is going on in a form from over the Internet but you do get to move an that alone can improve you emotional state weather through interaction on a very distant level but it is still moving an that above all is what every martial artist loves to do.(Excuse me for putting words in every one's mouth). So if the person knows what they want than they should at least try to help themselves and in time when they have the confidence to venture into a school do develop the next level of contact an self development than maybe they will learn more an maybe even try to be the next master or teacher. I personally have never studied this way from videos, just i am for a person moving to keep the body realizing movement is everything and that when we stop is when we die. When i was young i would study for days without sleep cause i always believed that sleep was a little death. I mean just move literally it takes all kinds for martial arts to continue those just there for the forms those who want to kill someone in a fight the extreme is what maintain all thing. If a person has the heart to study forms by the Internet more power to you.

An thank you for making me actually write, shootodog an sever thankyou for quoting me here i thought no one would ever quote me ha!

Sever i do not know did they? I am not a child so i don't know.

 

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please stop! please stop!