Favorite Fighting Style

[Impulse87]

Taekwondo is a sport, which evolved from a game, some of who's techniques are reported to have been maybe used to kick heavily armored soldiers off horseback hundreds of years ago. Not a lot of cred there. Really, I wouldn't entrust my life to any of TKD's mostly for show kicks, as pretty much all of the except the back kick have been gaudied up for performance and aren't (maybe never have been) for actual use in a fight.
People often think of Ninjutsu as the "art of l337 stealth shadow killing" or whatever, but from what I know a "ninja" is a martial artist not limited to physical proficiency alone (as in someone able to adapt and fight intuitively in a way that suggests natural awareness), and not always used as a spy or vessel of espionage (and very rarely for assassination). Ninjutsu is mostly a very complete form of martial arts for use in real fighting situations with an emphasis on natural movement, breathing, and posture.

really? wow I guess you learn something new everyday :laugh: btw bolt what do you practice?

 

[Bolt]

All I really practice anymore is an amalgam of "kickboxing" that comes from 5 years of Muay Thai and and Sanshou, as I'm re-entering the fight circuit and when I'm not weight training all the practice I get is sparring, focus pads, and bag workouts. But in the past, I've studied or at least played around with:

-Muay Thai (5 years)
-Sanshou/wrestling (4 years)
-Taekwondo (4 years)
-(Japanese) Jiu Jutsu (4 years)
-Judo (3 years)
-Boxing (3 years)
-Hapkido (2 years)
-Kyokushin karate (2 years)
-Filipino stick arts (Combination - 1 year)
-Kendo (6 months)
-Changquan- 3 months

 

[HaiTien78]

Impulse is basically right; Muay Boran is a complete fighting system with the kind of joint locking and grappling that the movie sort of showed, but this "Elephant Boxing," if it was ever even a real martial art, was probably only used in ancient wars and thus not advisable today, kinda like how the traditional chambered karate punch is obsolete because it was slow and deliberate and designed to smash through bamboo armor, which made the wearer slow enough to be hit by it. Nobody wears bamboo armor anymore so punches have to be faster, agile, and more efficient overall.

I don't know anything about Samurai-do but it sounds stupid.

Yes Elephant Boxing is a ancient form of Muay Thai, based on how a Elephant defends itself using their trunk. I've heard of Muay Boran when reading up on Ong Bak and Tony Jaa, and Jaa knows alot more than just Thai Martial Arts.

Samurai Do is basically Hiroshi's style of Bushido, he calls it Samurai Do. And Hiroshi is no beginner when it comes to martial arts. He's a Seventh degree teacher in Tou Dou (Japanese Sword Arts), Fourth Degree in Bato-Dou, Fourth Degree in Ko Gatana Koshin Dou, Third Degree in San Dan Judo, and has various first degree's in other weapons (Throwing Stars, Spears, etc.) and Sho Dan Karate.

First off, I guarantee you've never seen Ninjutsu. It's almost as obscure an art as finding a student of Merlinian magic in present-day Britain. Some of its techniques have been integrated into other martial arts, but some of them came from other martial arts to begin with, so for all practical purposes there's no way to differentiate what is true Taijutsu and what is just a widely used technique. I assume the show you're talking about is Final Fu, every contestant of which was basically a gymnast with lots of flippy, spinny skills but nothing combat-applicable, which showed in the pathetic rules. I never really kept up with the show myself but I would bet both of my testicles that the guy claiming to be practice Ninjutsu was either full of **** and knew it or full of **** and has no idea.

Yes I have never seen Ninjitsu in person, the only martial arts I've seen in person are Eskrima and other various Filipino Martial arts, namely knife arts. Final Fu was pretty crappy actually, only about 6 of the contestants could actually fight, 2 of which were actually somewhat professional, the guy that had pretty good talent (he used a form of Karate, I forgot what he used specifically) was disqualified from the show for "Aggressive Force". I don't believe he was a full practitioner of Ninjitsu, but he applied the basic principles of Ninjitsu to his Tae Kwon Do.

Taekwondo is a sport

Very true, complete with their own Cheesy Highschool "Mighty Ducks" type movies, I forgot the Korean name of it, but my friend showed a recent movie like that to me, in english its called Spin Kick I believe.

 

[kamenridersigma]

kendo, western/European fencing, singlestick fighting, cane fighting [fighting with a cane/walking stick, western boxing, Wing Chun and tae kwon do. personally, I find that my body is better suited to kendo, fencing, singlestick and cane fighting and western boxing and Wing Chun.