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I was checking out Aikido the other day, and I don't know if it was the type of martial art or the sensei, but it had a pretty wonderful spiritual feeling about it all.

ninja.

Sounds good email, can you tell me anymore about Aikido.

I've only done Kendo. It was fun but I'm sure all that cane equipment is freakin' expensive. Just go with the Way Of The Hand.

Aikido's pretty cool. It's all about throwing and channeling your opponent's energy, rather than coming to blows with them.

Yeah, I was only in there for a little while, but there was lots of throwing.

Hmmm, maybe I should give it a go.

Touch of Death!

Yes Inactivist I'm already well acquainted with the Way of the Hand.

Ive done karate and taekwondo?

TKD: Flashy and kind of fun. Very high intensity training sessions usually. Very organised, for example if you go from one club to a different one chances are they will belong to the same overall association and you will keep your belt. Learn a lot of stuff that you probably shouldnt do in an actual fight.

Will teach you how to do a jumping spinning back kick. eventually.

karate: Anyone who feels like it goes off and makes his own style and awards himself a black belt in it and opens a club. You could get a great one or a rubbish one. Kind of a lucky dip.

has anyone done a ''choosing a marital aid'' parrot yet?

Yeah I thought that might be the case with karate Dingo.

why do you want to learn how to fight?

so I can... not fight..

ahh, miyagi have hope for you.

i did aikido for a while. it's grouse. more about defence and turning your opponent's energy against them than beating up on folks. the dojos i know of that teach the pure aikido (aiki kai) are in brunswick, footscray and clifton hill, but i'm sure there are others. it's interesting if you're also into human movement.
i'd either go back to doing that or pick up jiu jitsu, which is more attacking but has similar movements. actually, i think the brunswick dojo has moved, but the clifton hill one is the main aiki kai aikido dojo in melbourne.
the spiritual stuff will depend on the sensei, some are better at articulating it than others.

the Hand Of Death

Here's some Marshall art for you

My boyfriend does jiu jitsu. It seems cool, he shows me all the points on a person to really fuck them up. Although he often gives me bruises. I'm more into Muay Thai kickboxing myself, I love it.

I do Muay Thai. I might decide not to pay your name out again just because you sound alright shazzat.

I also know the art of Muay Glowstickarate? Glowstick Yah!

I wanna do aikido.. might check out clifton hill.

''The whole 80% of fight ended on the ground is pile of crap.'' How many fights have you been in?

Damn right. Eugene Robinson says it and I believe him.

I suppose this doesn't include slapfights.

MATTPHEONIXxoxoxo said 59 minutes ago:
''The whole 80% of fight ended on the ground is pile of crap.'' How many fights have you been in?

1. 
   399 of them ended with a giant bus run over my enemies right in front of me.
   1 of them ended on the ground. I know... but who would say no to go on the ground with a Gracie??? I was in the hospital cos I didn't tap out. I know.... but who would tap out when Kyra triangle lock you???

Shouldnt play martial arts games with retards...can be quite dangerous i know.

MATTPHEONIXxoxoxo said 16 minutes ago:
Shouldnt play martial arts games with retards...can be quite dangerous i know.

Martial Arts is not games.

Nuff jokes, some says 80% of fight ended on the ground, some says 90%, some says 95%. Some says it is based on NYPD report, some says it is based on FBI's stats. They don't even read the stats/report when they use it as a marketing slogan. SHOW ME THE FUCKING REPORT.

Well, when you knock someone out cold, they fell on the ground and it is also the end. When a cop tell you to lay on the ground, you are ON THE GROUND and it is the end.
It is just a fucking urban myth.

It is sad to see idiots try to do a take down and got hit on the back of their neck or head.
Ground fight is an important skills, but if you don't even know how strike, you are fucked.

I have found ground fighting to be the most effective method of winning street fights, of course it doesnt really work if there is more than one assailant. In that situation i find getting punched and kicked in the head repeatedly to be the best option. Barring taekwondo im not aware of any martial arts that doesnt really teach strikes. Anyhow i think its pretty fair to say if you want to be the best fighter a combination of muay thai/jiu jitsu/boxing is going to make you pretty much invincible... that said i destroyed a kick boxer in the NAS with a fantastic turning back kick one time i learnt off a friend who did hapkido...but it was a kempo technique...absolute killer...works everytime.

In that situation i find getting punched and kicked in the head repeatedly to be the best option.

hahahahahahahahaha..

I reckon we should have a M&N-UFC tugboat vs phoenix fight for charity. If you say it's for charity, it's ok.

Anyhow i think its pretty fair to say if you want to be the best fighter a combination of muay thai/jiu jitsu/boxing is going to make you pretty much invincible

Invincible? Inside the ring or on the street?

Hapkido is a pretty complete system. But if someone ONLY learn BJJ and want to be ''invincible'' on the street. It is not enuff.

If they get em horizontal it is i would say

zen do kai is the martial art of choice, good times!!!!!

MATTPHEONIXxoxoxo said 28 minutes ago:
If they get em horizontal it is i would say

But no-one can get Machida horizontal YET. :-)

Matt, when you said you are doing MA, I thought you were kidding. Which weight class you are in for NAS? Our school go to the Full Contact divison sometimes (in Melbourne).

This statement should perhaps be saved for the vegan news thread:
martial arts should be about physical and spiritual well-being.
It depends what you want to get out of it, if you just want to kick ass go and do some bogan mui tai or something.

I'd definitely recommend kung fu, of which there are many different variations, (and many amazing movies)
The Wing Chun school in Chinatown is a little bit fucked, I studied there for a while, Sometimes it feels like you have to pay to take a piss.
I'm looking for a new school at the moment, I hear there is an amazing sifu in Richmond.

I used to do MA... i discovered sex, drugs and rocknroll and stopped. Still have heaps of friends doing it though and we spar sometimes but its mostly just fucking around. It hurts too much, gets too time consuming and i work nights. Always mean to get back into it at some point but i kinda wanna do boxing or something a little more brutal next time round, but once again thats just gonna hurt more....and i have precious little brain cells left :(

Tango Whiskeyman said 18 hours ago:
The Wing Chun school in Chinatown is a little bit fucked, I studied there for a while, Sometimes it feels like you have to pay to take a piss.
I'm looking for a new school at the moment, I hear there is an amazing sifu in Richmond.

Chung's? All the instructors have gone. Don't know what's happened with them.
Is the Richmond sifu a Wing Chun teacher?
If you are looking for Wing Chun sifu and don't mind to go to Dandenong, my sifu is pretty good. (I learn Hung Gar from him but he teach Wing Chun as well) Check out the video

Sifu Randy Bennet is the best kung fu has to offer in Sydney if you ask me

He also has the most amazing school i have ever seen... up a rattley elevator in a slummy street that opens to two giant metal doors... inside is like walking into a shaolin kung fu movie

Randy Bennet is awesome.

If I live in sydney, I will do Pak Mei..

BTW, If anyone are interested in Grand Master Duncan Leung's Melbourne Wing Chun Workshop, PM me.