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I started with Tang So Doo Karate a few years ago.

Not long after that, my Dojo started an Iaido/Ju-jitsu class that I tried out and fell in love with it.

I also take Kickboxing classes for an added cardio workout.

I normally take all four classes at once. It's a bit time consuming, but well worth it imo.

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Since I have seen it more than once in this thread, I would just like to point out that the belt ranking system used in many martial arts was not "created for westerners". The colored belt ranking system was developed by Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo. Karate picked up this ranking system through Gichin Funakoshi when he introduced Okinawan karate to Japan. Since then many martial arts have adopted it, in particular Japanese arts that abandoned the older menkyo system of grading.

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I started with Karate when I was real young. Not sure what kind of variant it was. After that I studied a bit of Jeet Kun Do and then back to Karate.

I don't really study any form of martial arts formally now but I do like to invent techniques and maneuvers myself. I like to mix different martial arts forms into one in attempts to find a nice neutral area that I like. So far I lean more towards Jeet Jun Do in my experimentation than Karate, but I will always throw some form in there because it's what started me with martial arts to begin with.

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Black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do (although I have not practiced in years)

Yellow in Kempo

Informal study in other various arts.

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Hold a brown belt in Korean Kenpo, and Tang Soo Do. I've recently been studying Chinese arts such as San Soo, and Wu Ying Dao. While I'm stationed in Kyushu, Japan, I'd like to study Kendo but I've barely got enough spare time to play SWG. Been away from the game fer bout 5 months, and it's good to be back among the SWG community of players.....

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"Formal" Lau Gar Kung Fu for 3 years, then "informal" Lau Gar (i.e. fighting-techniques/sparring/"Chinese Kickboxing") for 2 years on top of that. I forget which grade I reached, but I was getting toward "the top end."

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I took 4 or 5 months of Krav Maga, I really liked it, but the drive was over 90 min to get to class. I stopped going for about 3 months, and found a Sun style Tai Chi/ Northern Shaolin Kung Fu school in the city, within walking distance of my house. So I started taking Tai Chi/ Qi Gong a few months ago. Love it. I plan on branching out into Kung Fu as well, but my instructor wants me to wait on that until I get some more training under my belt. BTW, whomever said Krav Maga was great for police/military was right on the money. As a paramedic, I started doing it after one of the Krav maga teacher did a saftey class in school( he was a police officer). Even after taking it only a few months, it's saved my hide more than once, and has given me a little edge in the classes I am taking now. Good stuff, if there is a school near you, take it, you won't be disappointed.

Just a quick question:

Has anyone taken/is currently learningKuk Sool Won? I would like your thoughts on it, it looks like a very interesting style to me, and there's a school literally around the corner. I just want to gather some info before I go view a couple classes

Isshinryu... combination of Gojinryu and Shoinryu... It is an okinawan style originated to combat americans in WWII... lol... I was taught by the 3rd generation grand master of the style... Great style, its not pretty, but it is very effective. also was trained in a bit of Akido and Tae Kwon Do When I was younger but by far my fav was isshinryu.

Most Okinawan arts are designed for pure self defense, they were always the target of invasions. Much like Korea

You can learn a lot about human nature studying the history of Okinawa. All of the traditional weapons (bo, nunchaku, tonfa, sai, kama) are designed from farming tools and were used covertly as defensive weapons against unjustsamurai. At the time when most of these martial arts were developed, such as Shorin-ryu, a village was only allowed to have knives in a regulated hut in the center of town. Personal blades were forbidden.

I learned a little Shotokan/Kempo hybrid when I was younger. The guy what was teaching us had his "real" job time moved though, so he had to stop teaching about a week or so before I was going to take the Green test. Yes, that's not very advanced... heh.