learn martial arts

I’ve always wanted to learn martial arts of some kind. I enjoy testing my strength and intellect against others, so it would be an interesting experience.

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not sure yet which one..

The day I broke my wrist I had signed up for Kendo classes. Breaking my wrist kind of put a damper on that adventure. I still have my Bogen and my Shinai (somewhere…) though!

I don’t have many skills outside of movies and writing, and martial arts can be a great way to get exercise and get one’s self in tune with their body. Earlier last summer I took Muy-Thai lessons in some dude’s garage but I put an end to that because he was kind of weird. I mean, he knew what he was talking about and he was great at what he did, I just didn’t want that kind of influence to be such a psycho.

So, right now I’m really interested in learning the Japanese sport of Kendo and it’s cousin, the art of Iaido. I love swords, and I’m fascinated by Samurai (moreso than Ninjas), so this seems like the perfect art for me when it comes to weapons training.

As far as hand-to-hand combat goes, I’d really like to get my hands dirty with Krav Maga. It’s the same fighting style used by Matt Damon when he played Jason Bourne in the Bourne films. I took a free class once and got the snot beat out of me by a 5’1” bald Hungarian. He round-housed me into a wall…not pretty.

The downside is that martial arts is EXPENSIVE to learn, especially on the West Coast. I may not be able to accomplish all of this until later in the year, but we’ll see how it goes, right?

I just cant stop ..I already have skills of taekwando , Judo ..but I want more …:-) ..
the more the merrier …
I checked out some fantastic video training clips recently on youtube ..
its from Ninja Chosen
its awesome and he has a collection of some 600 training videos… free .. freee. .. freeeee..
i love it ..

I want to learn martial arts but im too fat

I ended up taking Judo at the college I’m attending. Not only has it taught me self defense, I have also learned to become one with the eb’n flow. I highly recommend Judo to anyone looking to enter the arena of martial arts.

Learning to do some sort of martial arts would help me with a whole bunch of other goals I want to achieve, so I might as well put this down as well. Black belt..Yeah I reckon I could do it.

Another couple of years and I may have that black belt. 2/3’s of the way there!

I used to do Tae Kwon Do as a kid but its been about 6 or 7 years since I last used those skills. I didn’t find it to be very effective and I would like to try something that seems a bit more useful like Aikido, which I was taught a little bit of when I was staying with friends in Japan. However I would still like to learn something a bit more physical so I might take up two martial arts.