Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: Martial Arts.
This is an awesome post and I'm glad someone brought this up. Just recently I've been thinking about taking some form of "take care of myself if necessary" martial arts. I tend to stay quiet and to myself but one of these days I'm going to have to defend myself and I want to be able to do that. I'm 5'10, 175, pretty quick(i like to think so), played sports most of my life, and am im pretty good shape all the time. My only problem is flexibility. I've been naturally stiff, never been very flexible. Granted stretching all the time would probably help that out. Reading this over has perked my interests in Hapkido and am going to poke around town to see what I can find as far as that goes. Granted it would be nice to take the poor **edit** out in a few shots and be done with it, thats not how it goes in real life situations. Any more info anyone can give me on what might be the best questions to ask and things to look for when I'm looking at certain places to train, please email me [email protected]
Much appreciated 
AurosBain wrote:
I took Bujinkan Ninjitsu for about a month and wish I could have kept with it. While they have kicks and punches, they focus on pressure points and submission, which means breaking. It's a painful art since alot of the moves are meant to incapcitate. People always laugh when I told them I took that, but come on, You'd be a Ninja, and Ninja's are totally sweet, and if by totally sweet you mean they're totally awesome... then you're right!
The Bujinkan is a fraud. People were laughing because they knew that you were throwing your money away and that you would never have real ultimate power.
Anubis222 wrote:
Do any of you take Martial Arts in real life? If you do post what kind and what it focuses on. Im thinking about try to take Hapikido or one of the Shaolin animal styles.
I practice pistol marksmanship.
I have studied various martial arts since i was 9 years old.
I have studied Tae Kwan Do - Shotokan Karate - European Fencing - and for the last 10 years its been Aikido.
Tanizaki wrote:
AurosBain wrote:
I took Bujinkan Ninjitsu for about a month and wish I could have kept with it. While they have kicks and punches, they focus on pressure points and submission, which means breaking. It's a painful art since alot of the moves are meant to incapcitate. People always laugh when I told them I took that, but come on, You'd be a Ninja, and Ninja's are totally sweet, and if by totally sweet you mean they're totally awesome... then you're right!
The Bujinkan is a fraud. People were laughing because they knew that you were throwing your money away and that you would never have real ultimate power.
One of my best friends is a Bujinkan 5th Dan, I'd love to witness you saying that to him