I am just curious about how many of you guys here. Who have been training more then one style of MA in your life ?? What have you been training,what style did you like best. And why did you stop with the MA you are doing now ??
Didn't I see this thread already? Hmmm, sounds very familiar, the questions asked. Some I dont understand. Why did I stop with the MA I am doing now? Makes no sense to me. Sorry, no pun intented.
My english is totally gay... SORRY !! I did try to say. Why did you stop with the MA you are doing now. Lets say you have done 4 different styles of MA. And what made you to train what you are doing now.. Maybe you started doing Karate and have done MMA and Kickboxing. But you desided to go back to Karate forex,,.....
yo im new to the website just thought id check a few posts out and get used to it. Ive only ever tried 1 martial art which is shaolin kung fu which ive stopped and started over the years. my reasons for stopping that were simply down to being lazy then also starting bodybuilding but now am back at i missed the training and the tournements. im also looking into starting ninjutsu if any1 can shead any light on that thnx.
It's all up to you bro... You not know what you like before you have seen or tried it out,,.... I have done Karate,TKD,Kickboxing,Shoot fighting and Thai boxing.. After many years in the game. Do i now know what i really like. And what style i prefer to train...
Started with judo when I was a kid, was thrown out of that club for fighting when a teenager. Did some kickboxing as a young adult then stopped due to moving location and err certain lifestyle choices. Didn't regain an interest aside from being a photographer for the local kickboxing shows here in Wales and it was when my son became old enough that my interest was reborn. Still didn't take anything up as I'd always put myself second to my son's education, he trained in TKD at 5, muay Thai at 8, jujitsu at 8, judo at 11 & MMA at 14. My role was putting it all together for him. I recently started Thai boxing, now he's grown up and my life is my own and hope to mix in a little MMA later this year. Sticking with that as I've quite a lot to do with the gym including designing much of it and it is of course the best training in North Wales. Finding it a little bit difficult as this old body doesn't behave as well as it used to but hopefully once I've got over my back injury I'll get some decent training in.
Must be cool to have a son who do MA. I would love to be there for my kids to. But i have none lol !! I have problems with my back my self. And it's a very boring problem. Hope you get over it soon.. But MMA is not what i would have started to train if i had back problems,,.... Hard take downs and many crazy possisions on the ground. Will probably hurt you more Mr.
It's only a recent problem from weightlifting (last Friday) so I'm hoping it'll just be a glitch. Taking it easy now as I know the dangers. I'm only going to be playing with both of them. Too damn old! Best thing all the training is free
I've done different forms of Karate, Judo and kickboxing. I really like the style I'm in now...Cuong Nhu. It has all the elements of all the above and a few others as well. It's a perfect fit for my age and level of participation especially. I can't imagine doing straight Judo or something more ground-based with all the dings I've got. On any given class, I can workout harder with what doesn't hurt me. And if something does bother me, I can just do that part of class (let's say throws or tumbling) at a lower intensity and my training overall isn't all that affected. Adaptability for the win!
i had a back problem through weights myself pain at the lower back so i stopped the weights for a while but to be honest didnt get much better. whith my time back at kung fu with the stretchin n wat not it has cleared up 60% im even back on the bench again.
Trained a little Kickboxing when I was around 16, left that when I realized that we were never going to get past boxercise. At 17 I started Kyokushin Karate, which I practiced for a year reaching 8th kyu before I decided it wasn't for me, for all that I could respect the skill of the higher up fighters. It was at this point that I begun training in Rapid Arnis, and although I started with the misapprehension that my karate days made me so much better than all of these stickfighters with my bare hands that was soon beaten out of me when it came to sparring! I'm approaching my second year with that, and showing no signs of slowing down, it is now the martial art from which I view others. In addition I have and do crosstrain in MMA at a university club, and when I get the chance I do some proper Muai Thai wherever I can train. But really at this point I wouldn't say I train in different martial arts, I just train with different people who specialize in different areas of combat. My MARTIAL ART is Rapid Arnis, everything else is just finding a specialist to work on a specific skillset.
Started out doing Choy Li Fut Kung Fu while in High School. Got very into it, however, my school ended up shutting down due to financial reasons about a year and a half after I joined. I waited around for about a year to see if my Sifu would re open another place in the area. During that time I started weight lifting, but found myself craving the Martial Arts again. I joined my current system of White Tiger Kempo and have been extremely happy with it ever since.
Movie fu style kung fu Tiger/Crane style kung fu San da Boxing Judo Combatives Thai Boxing No-gi grappling MMA Thats a basic chronological timeline of my training, I've trained for a decent period of time in all of them. I've tried many other arts for a couple of sessions or as long as a few months. The ones highlighted in bold are the arts I currently still regularly train in, although nowadays my training does vary depending what I'm training towards. I've had a couple of boxing matchs recently so have been more or less just been boxing for the last six months. Now I'm getting matched up for an MMA show at the end of May I'm training everything again. I've enjoyed all the styles I've done. The reason I've ultimately gravitated towards MMA is simply that you can put almost everything together, I even use stuff I learnt in kung fu in MMA sparring alot, especially at clinch range against the cage. And the competition element obviously, massive rush fighting in front of a big crowd!
You'd have thought wouldn't you? Apparently throwing someone down a flight of stairs was a bit much. Worse still he was a club member :bang:
Started with TKD, got to green belt, but started a new job which was shift work and i could only make it once a week, it would have cost me £35 per month to train once a week so i left that and joined a gym for a bit as i could use that around my shifts. Went to the gym for about 6 months, then started my current job which also involves shift work, so found a MA gym that did classes during the day and at night, trained in a hybrid kickboxing style i guess you could call it for about a year, but wasnt overly inspired by it, also during this time went to a few ninjutsu classes at the same place. The guys who ran the gym then moved elsewhere which again didnt suit me, plus thinking about it now dont really think the training was all that good. Enjoyed the ninjutsu but havent gone back to that as of yet. Started training at the Griphouse in Glasgow in January, doing Muay Thai, and hoping to start BJJ regualrly there in the next few weeks. Also been to a couple of Dogbrothers classes there which i have enjoyed, so far ive been enjoying my classes there, really good coaches and good experienced guys in the classes to train with which i think will make a big difference to the last place i trained.
Lessee: Tang Soo Do: 1 year Parker Kenpo (with some Kali/Escrima mixed in): 1 year Wing Chun (informal classes): 1 year Hung Gar with some Muay Thai: 1 year I'm not sure which came next, but I wound up doing both at the same time: MMA: 2.5 years on, 2 years off, 2.5 years on Yang Tai Chi: 3 years, becoming assistant instructor Currently: Aikido
I've tried pretty much every martial art under the sun (as in, turned up and done a taster session - I do my research!), apart from the really obscure ones and Muay Thai (just by chance really, the opportunity hasn't presented itself and I haven't sought it out with any great effort). I've only trained in karate with any consistency though.
