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01-08-2019, 05:41 PM
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Professor Jacob, Professor Jay, and others. I needed the discipline.
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01-08-2019, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted By ChristmasFnatic⏩

During highschool, we were taught Arnis as part of PE, cuz its the national martial arts here in philippines.
fellow bjj guy here

i always wanted to learn martial arts but grew up poor. i grew up watching bruce lee, chuck norris, blood sport, etc; always wanted to learn how to defend myself. then UFC 1 happened. it was the realest thing to blood sport and the most unlikely guy (royce gracie) came in and destroyed guys that were bigger and stronger. royce gracie repeated the same thing all the way through UFC 5 and i was sold; i had to learn bjj

i didnt start bjj until 2002 and have been doing it off and on until about 2014; too much real life happened with wife, kids, work, injuries but i'm planning on making a return this year.

i was learning arnis when i was a kid; my unlcles taught me and it was something i practiced until middle school. its a very practical martial art. some kids jumped me and luckily i had my sticks; i still got my ass beat but the other guys looked worse and left me alone
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01-09-2019, 02:42 AM
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Thank you gents, I've read all of your posts. They are all great and very interesting stories.

It seems BJJ, Taekwondo and Muay Thai were the three most popular martial arts.

Surprised to know many practice not only one but more than two martial arts and also started training early in our lives.

I think Martial Arts is our attitude towards life. Through Martial Arts we learn respect for both our own and others' life. *bow*

And most of all, it's really fun!!

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OP i'd like to start a martial arts (i was thinking boxing) but i lift 4 days a week, how can i do both and still progress with muscle? i don't think it's possible so sadly i do only gym lifting
You have to divert some energy and body resourses to Boxing from lifting. There's no other way. But when you get older you won't regret that, that I can promise. An old man who knows not only how to lift but also how to box, sounds cool, doesn't it?

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That's awesome OP, it's great seeing older people in such good shape

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Your Japanese (" Good job ") is excellent too!! *bow*

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fuark im jelly youre from japan. im in love with that culture and some of the hbbs it can produce
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I was a huge puss growing up, always chickened out in confrontation. Even my gf (now wife) took notice of it and it made me feel like ****. I did martial arts before, tkd and kungfu, pretty serious about it too. Well, one day I got in a fight with a football player and got my ass kicked. Wasnt even competitive, just an embarrassing ass kicking in front of everyone. I quit martial arts after that.

So for years i didnt train anything. Then 3 years ago decided to say fuk it and stop by a Muay Thai gym. Been training ever since. Muay Thai boosted my confidence like no other. Girls find it interesting, guys respect it. Even as a manlet I've been able to drop giants in the gym so it helps a lot with feelings of insecurity and masculinity, etc. My last fight was April last year but I've been on a break cuz I ran out of money. Coming back soon when I got taxes tho.
Thank you for joining, my old friend! You are man of "Pen and Sword", we Japanese respect that!

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Moved to a new town and got bullied by a group of high school kids who all took karate at a local dojo…………

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Sensei used ancient technique on my knee to enable me to fight in the finals, where I used an illegal kick to the face to win the championship, respect of the bullies, and the girls love.
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01-09-2019, 03:22 AM
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i went to thailand on a lad's trip, drinking every night but being the fan of ufc and boxing i am, i went to a muay thai place in the jungle for a day to train and decided i'd do muay thai when i got back home. did it for like 4 weeks and started doing the gym's boxing classes instead and then exclusively did boxing for 7 months, liked it much better but now i havent been since september due to work and lacking discipline again. I miss it and have the urge to go back all the time. Sparring is great when you land a clean punch flush or slip a punch perfectly you get a tiny sprinkle of dopamine in your brain
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01-09-2019, 05:20 AM
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Karate -> 3-5 y.o.
Tae Kwon Do -> 5-10 y.o.
BJJ -> 10-20 y.o.

As of now (23) I'm just being a lazy bum and lifting weights, but I definitely feel the itch to go back to sparring sometimes. Will probably get into some Muay Thai because I miss striking more than grappling after doing it for a decade
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01-09-2019, 06:44 AM
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OP seems like a very cool dude. If you ever find yourself in NY/NJ I'll buy you a few drinks!

Martial arts are definitely a way of thinking. The truth is that if learning to fight doesn't change the way you think, you haven't learned the most important part of the art.

Great thread, OP. Keep it up, it's nice to see that there are people like you in the misc.
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01-09-2019, 06:50 AM
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Endorphin rush from a HARD grappling class can only be matched by the most intense hill sprint and even then, you can wilt under the pressure you've applied to yourself - not so when someone is applying the pressure.

It is a legitimate addiction - one I try to chase 3-5x a week for the rest of me life.
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01-09-2019, 11:55 PM
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Great thread my friend.
It means a lot coming from you, my old friend and a grand master. *bow*

Originally Posted By TypeNirvash⏩
OP seems like a very cool dude. If you ever find yourself in NY/NJ I'll buy you a few drinks!

Martial arts are definitely a way of thinking. The truth is that if learning to fight doesn't change the way you think, you haven't learned the most important part of the art.

Great thread, OP. Keep it up, it's nice to see that there are people like you in the misc.
The feeling is mutual and in Tokyo drinks are on me.

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01-10-2019, 09:06 AM
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I studied the defensive blocking moves in Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do book, and used them in fights and won.
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01-11-2019, 01:55 AM
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I think it's my turn to tell you my story.

At age 13, I started using a pair of Tetsu Geta (Iron Japanese footwear) for my Karate kick training. They weighed 11 lbs (5 kg) each, total 22lbs (10 kg) which was 20 % of my body weight. I woke up at 4:00 am and practiced Karate every morning till 6:00 am then started my paperboy job. During those three years, my sensei was books, both Gojuryu and Kyokushin Karate text books. Firstly there were no dojo available where I lived, secondly I couldn't afford tuition/fee, thirdly my father who was born as a farmer's son, had been a foot soldier of JSDF since 16, wanted me to be a banker or a lawyer but never wished another musclehead in the family.



I was a small boy then even for my age, 145 cm (4.8 ft) with BW of 40 kg (88 lbs) constantly being picked up by the larger boys, a few of them were over 180 cm (6 ft). That's 46 years ago…I still wonder what they ate to became so big at the age of 13.

At age 16-18 during my high school years, I bought a pair of dumbbells, weighs 6.6 lbs (3 kg) each. Mostly using them for arm curls and OHP. I used to do total of 1,000 push up and also non stop sit up every evening after two hours of Kendo practice at school (the traditional Japanese swordsmanship with bamboo swords) and another two hours of training at the local dojo of Shorinji Kempo. Also I was lucky, a great teacher at my high school liked me and gave me Judo lessens in his personal time.



The problem was my father didn't know what his son's doing…..while My mother did know everything and never said a word to him. She loved me.

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I wrestled from about 5 years old until college shoulder injury. Started Jujitsu (Danzan Ryu - Japanese) not too long ago. I got my kids (5&7) in it first and liked the Sensei enough that I decided I would do it too. I mostly just enjoy the physics of it, and all the years of wrestling combined with being strong and pretty fast keeps me pretty competitive with higher belt ranks in randori. My daughter just tested for her yellow belt last night, she’s got a lot of natural ability and just destroys bigger kids. My son is testing next week for his yellow belt. I’m enjoying it so far, mostly because the Sensei is so good. Feeling pretty sore today after 90 minutes of throws last night, but it’s leg day #2 for the week so I’ll suck it up and go squat….
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I started Tae Kwon Do when I was 15 back in the mid 1980's. This guy taught no contact sparring and emphasized proper technique. He had been a martial arts instructor to part of the Army and thought we should learn the technique and the philosophy behind the art. He had some ways of making practice interesting. When doing forms, we would face the corners instead of the normal straight at the wall. That kind of throws off your point of reference. We would also stand 3 feet from a wall, have two, three and even four people doing the same forms starting by facing different directions and on the floor at the same time. We would also go out to a local park and do the forms moving uphill, downhill, while standing in ankle, knee deep, and even chest deep water. I received a black belt in his style before I joined the Army and moved away from home.

At my first duty station in the Army I started a different style of Tae Kwon Do and then received my second degree black belt. This place taught full contact sparring. I got my azz handed to me several times since I was used to controlling my movements and many of the other students were wild as hell.

I was then stationed in Korea where the first thing the instructor did was knock me down to red belt. This was my third style of Tae Kwon Do. This was also full contact with pads. Even though I had a head guard on, it did not cover the chin, During one sparring match I took a kick to the side of the chin that broke my jaw. Eight weeks of having my mouth wired shut and still having a little twist of metal embedded in my jaw and I was OK. After that I went back to practicing but with a full face guard. I stayed in Korea for 2-1/2 years and worked my way back up to black belt and was tested there in Kukkiwon at the World Tae Kwon Do headquarters. There were only 3 Americans testing that day so the locals had it out for us a bit. It was all good and made the testing more interesting.

Life and kids happened so I stopped doing it a few years later. That was about 10 years of training in total.
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01-11-2019, 07:03 AM
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Solid thread OP. *bow. Forge both body and mind
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Did Bjj for like 2 years and stopped and got fat lol
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01-11-2019, 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted By Plateauplower⏩
I wrestled from about 5 years old until college shoulder injury. Started Jujitsu (Danzan Ryu - Japanese) not too long ago. I got my kids (5&7) in it first and liked the Sensei enough that I decided I would do it too. I mostly just enjoy the physics of it, and all the years of wrestling combined with being strong and pretty fast keeps me pretty competitive with higher belt ranks in randori. My daughter just tested for her yellow belt last night, she’s got a lot of natural ability and just destroys bigger kids. My son is testing next week for his yellow belt. I’m enjoying it so far, mostly because the Sensei is so good. Feeling pretty sore today after 90 minutes of throws last night, but it’s leg day #2 for the week so I’ll suck it up and go squat….
Honestly, I'm jealous. Wish I had a son and a daughter to train and spend great times with. And the respect you show for your Sensei makes others feel refreshing. Thanks for a great story, much appreciated. *bow*

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Respect Kaz…

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I started Tae Kwon Do when I was 15 back in the mid 1980's. This guy taught no contact sparring and emphasized proper technique. He had been a martial arts instructor to part of the Army and thought we should learn the technique and the philosophy behind the art . He had some ways of making practice interesting. When doing forms, we would face the corners instead of the normal straight at the wall. That kind of throws off your point of reference. We would also stand 3 feet from a wall, have two, three and even four people doing the same forms starting by facing different directions and on the floor at the same time. We would also go out to a local park and do the forms moving uphill, downhill, while standing in ankle, knee deep, and even chest deep water. I received a black belt in his style before I joined the Army and moved away from home.

At my first duty station in the Army I started a different style of Tae Kwon Do and then received my second degree black belt. This place taught full contact sparring. I got my azz handed to me several times since I was used to controlling my movements and many of the other students were wild as hell.

I was then stationed in Korea where the first thing the instructor did was knock me down to red belt. This was my third style of Tae Kwon Do. This was also full contact with pads. Even though I had a head guard on, it did not cover the chin, During one sparring match I took a kick to the side of the chin that broke my jaw. Eight weeks of having my mouth wired shut and still having a little twist of metal embedded in my jaw and I was OK. After that I went back to practicing but with a full face guard. I stayed in Korea for 2-1/2 years and worked my way back up to black belt and was tested there in Kukkiwon at the World Tae Kwon Do headquarters. There were only 3 Americans testing that day so the locals had it out for us a bit. It was all good and made the testing more interesting.

Life and kids happened so I stopped doing it a few years later. That was about 10 years of training in total.
This is a great tale, you soldier and my book 52 friend!!

I myself moved a lot since my childhood and had to be taught by different teachers and sometimes it's an eye opening experience and othertimes it's just confusing. But in the end, we always find the right path.

Those changes in our life also take place and we have to step back from doing what we love. Also joining dojo isn't cheap, money has to be spent for one's family first.

When your kids are grown up enough you could restart from where you left. Maybe you and your kids could enjoy practicing TKD together, like Plateauplower. Anyway, I wish you and your family a great life together, my friend.

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Solid thread OP. *bow. Forge both body and mind
Can't agree more, my friend!!

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How do y’all afford martial arts classes? I want to get into BJJ, but the classes are like $150+/month.

I’m poor right now so there’s that, but with BJJ AND going to the gym, that’s roughly $200 a month just for “exercise”.
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How do y’all afford martial arts classes? I want to get into BJJ, but the classes are like $150+/month.

I’m poor right now so there’s that, but with BJJ AND going to the gym, that’s roughly $200 a month just for “exercise”.
Go join a class for as long as you can afford and make friends there. Find a place so you and your new friends can practice by yourselves. When you save enough money then join a new class, a different one if possible and learn a new things and make new friends. Repeat that year after year, then who knows someday you can teach others, maybe kids. If you are good they may pay.

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How do y’all afford martial arts classes? I want to get into BJJ, but the classes are like $150+/month.

I’m poor right now so there’s that, but with BJJ AND going to the gym, that’s roughly $200 a month just for “exercise”.
Ya, it can be pretty expensive, and $150 month is probably around the average for a commercial dojo in many places in the US. I’m in a pretty high tax area with a really good park district and my Jujitsu is through the park district even though the school also has a commercial school. Might want to see what is available through park district, YMCA etc in your area. I’m paying about $200 month total for myself and both kids, so it’s still not “cheap” but it’s a LOT cheaper than it would be at the commercial school ($450 month for all 3 of us). In reality it’s probably about even because my property taxes are pretty high ($12k year) and the park district gets a decent chunk (can’t recall what it is). You could easily blow $150 month going to bars a few times per month, so that’s one way of looking at it. The other being if you stick it out long enough to be advanced it’s free when you are an asset to assisting teach classes….
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I really didn't set out to become a boxer.

I was kind of hitting the bags at my lifting gym one day some four or five years ago. This guy came up to me and told me I looked terrible. He mentioned he could teach me, but his whole approach sort of turned me away from the idea.

I ended up training at the only local boxing gym in my area for about two months before they told me it would be $300 monthly. Couldn't afford that, so I just trained on my own for a bit.

I bumped into that guy in the gym again, and he offered to train me for a bit cheaper. So I agreed.

I spent some time working with him, before I realized that I had outgrown what he could teach.
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Done Muay Thai, Judo, and MMA for a few years. I haven't trained in almost 4 years now and really miss it. Might get into BJJ as finding reasonably priced and nearby MMA gyms is hard.
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How do y’all afford martial arts classes? I want to get into BJJ, but the classes are like $150+/month.

I’m poor right now so there’s that, but with BJJ AND going to the gym, that’s roughly $200 a month just for “exercise”.
& A.
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The other being if you stick it out long enough to be advanced it’s free when you are an asset to assisting teach classes if you stick it out long enough to be advanced it’s free when you are an asset to assisting teach classes ….
More motivational, positive and realistc plan than mine. My hat's off to you. *bow*



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I bumped into that guy in the gym again, and he offered to train me for a bit cheaper. So I agreed.

I spent some time working with him, before I realized that I had outgrown what he could teach.
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This sounds like a superhero origin story.
Yes, he actually is.

Originally Posted By Jax05⏩
Done Muay Thai, Judo, and MMA for a few years. I haven't trained in almost 4 years now and really miss it. Might get into BJJ as finding reasonably priced and nearby MMA gyms is hard.
From the start, it's always the money, sometimes impossible hurdle for me to stay active in the field. When I moved to Tokyo area 20 years ago, the tuition became more than tripled so I had to gave up to join any dojoes.

Anyway, many of my old dojo friends were either long lost or passed away by now. I must go on by self-teaching….

Thanks for joining us and good luck!

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When I was young, I used to train Karate for 2-3 years.
I've always been very non-confrontational though, a kid fought me in high school and I got punched once, then I just tried to wrestle him to the ground but didn't punch back, although I easily had a chance and I know I could have beaten him easily. The hit he landed was a sucker punch, after that he punched me again and I blocked it with ease.

Another time when I was at the school canteen, a kid/friend tried to cut the queue and come next to me. I told him to go to the end of the queue, he wasn't having it, got hangry and punched me in the head and broke his wrist. I just stood there and laughed.

I think the thing I'm most afraid of is seriously hurting someone, I know it's a little irrational and probably will not happen - more likely I'll get my ass kicked, but I just feel like a bad punch and fall can badly hurt someone.

I also practiced Wing Chun between 2013-2014.



In karate, we were also taught a little of the spiritual side and I think that's one of the reasons for my non-confrontational way. I feel however, that these arts were more "art" and less practical in real life. I can't know for sure though, since I have not fought anyone.

Thinking about taking up something more practical, like MMA/BJJ. I prefer locks and movements to make your opponent subdue to kicks and punches, because they look and feel a lot more cleaner. Aikido has interested me since I was a kid too, but it feels like it's practical value is nearly zero and it's all just a show. Can't know for sure until I've experienced it though.
Maybe a miscer can comment on this?
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My father was into fitness and marital arts; mainly boxing, but also kick-boxing, karate, sambo, and self-defense against a weapon type skills. So, my brother and I grew up immersed into that atmosphere. He had us sparring from an early age. I trained with him, my brother, and his youth training club almost daily until my family immigrated to USA when I was 13.

I have been doing boxing on and off ever since. I think I have a solid foundation with boxing, but I want to get into other martial arts, primarily BJJ and mixed martial arts. A family member is a professional MMA fighter and I train with him occasionally.

I tried pure karate and aikido for a little bit, but could never get into them. I found the katas in karate kind of strange and pointless, but the kicks were alright. Aikido was useless, but the philosophy behind it is kind of cool; plus, Steven Seagal is a badass.

Also, I took a taekwando class in college, but only for one semester.
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i used to practice Kung Fu, it was after watching Bruce Lees movies when i was 16
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Karate because tired of getting my azz kicked by my brother. Then tkd. They had an mma(mauy thai and no gi bjj)gym down the street so did them both for 6-7 years. Became a black belt in tkd won a national sparring competition. Did some aikido and wing chun. Some of it is trash and some isn't. I still train at a gym with bags.

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What sort of training aids and apparels are you looking to sell?
Hey brah
Currently selling a grappling/throwing dummy specifically designed for judo fighters or people looking to practice throws at home
We also will be producing training gear like rash guards,gis and implements like uchi Komi bands to assist people training outside of the dojo
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Currently selling a grappling/throwing dummy specifically designed for judo fighters or people looking to practice throws at home
We also will be producing training gear like rash guards,gis and implements like uchi Komi bands to assist people training outside of the dojo
Mirin Kyokushin. That's some tough chit.

They don't have that here. In sparring do you guys use gear or without?
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Might do some Bjj this month as I can drop in whenever I want
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I think I’d really want to learn some boxing though just for a few months so I can handle myself on the street
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