do u know martial arts or have training in boxing

I do not know martial arts and am vulnerable to attack right now dngaf

Kyokushinkai green belt, last performed a kata in 1997 iirc

Personal demons are, imo, better than any damn Mr. Miyagi. Don't know karate but do know ka-rayzee, etc.

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I actually did take Tae Kwon Do for a year as a kid, but it was at the YMCA, which was the watered down version.

I could break boards, but not people.

it was good for my self-esteem though, which at the time, had cratered due to bullying.

I practiced classical fencing when I was young (with a foil, the épée was too heavy), which was good for some things, but would still leave me defenseless in any form of attack in the streets. I never saw it as martial, much more as arts.

I feel like general consensus is that any form of these arts alone are often insufficient in street fighting, i.e. even Bruce Lee said you'd be dead in a fight if you didn't learn some boxing in addition to the intercepting fist.

however I would love to see a street fence fight

they are more about art, discipline, physical mind and body etc.

Ah but then kyokushin was specifically the karate for hitting the knee the groin the eye and then running away

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I did karate for a couple of years when I was a little kid, I really disliked it.

kinda fancy boxing training for the workout, but also I'm lazy.

my brother does, I think, kyokushin and used to do full-contact bouts. he broke a bone in his hand punching someone in the chest one of the times and got kicked in the head another time, so I don't think he'll be doing that anymore

I did judo as a kid and can remember the classic judo roll, but as a very unfit and increasingly old person I don't think I could pull even that simple move off. I'm not wrestling with my personal demons so much as being regularly beaten up by them, so I guess I'm voting none.

I did karate for one lesson at the age of 9. My best friend Colin who was supposed to be starting it with me got run over and killed by a drink driver so after the first lesson I lost my enthusiasm and never turned up again. The instructor was this guy called Joseph Griffin who it later turned out was a serial paedophile predator, so Colin did me a solid by dying.. well maybe a bit of a harsh joke but 1981 is so far away now it feels like something from King Tut's era!

I took taekwondo as a kid and made it pretty far, I think to red belt with a black stripe, which is right below black belt, if memory serves. Even at that age though I could recognize I could not make it all the way to black belt. In the many ensuing decades I have forgotten 98% of what I learned, but kind of like the college course in sign language I took (and which I have also totally forgotten) there are bits and pieces of it that have stuck with me and which I find very useful.

I started learning taekwondo in 1975, practiced and taught it for about ten years, then switched to an old-fashioned style of karate. For the last 28 years I've coached a university club. Alongside karate I study and teach Okinawan kobudo weapons like the bo, sai, and tonfa. I had a couple of years of aikido along the way, and I've also learned basic judo and a little BJJ.

I love martial arts more than I can say. I credit them for making it to age 60 as a healthy, sane, and morally balanced human being.

Most of my students these days are women, so I teach a lot of functional self-defense, but it's been a long time since learning to hurt people or not get hurt were major concerns in my own practice. I find a lot of the discourse around self defense to be insular and paranoid. Some describe karate as an art of life protection, and I prefer that language because it foregrounds wellness and the protection of other people over a narrow focus on personal safety.

Teaching karate in the time of COVID-19 has been very strange, but we do what we can. I will be grateful when we can touch each other again; it's hard to explain how things work or don't work when we can't have contact with partners.

Perhaps not surprisingly, I have a lot of ~deep thoughts~ about Cobra Kai ... maybe I'll share some on that thread after I finish season 3.

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I did a lot of tae kwon do and karate from when I was very young up through early teens. It was all through a guy who had been in Mexican gangs as a teenager, and wore an eye patch and knife scars on his face to prove it. He was fantastic, really a great teacher & mentor. His daughter also helped run the school and did some local kickboxing fights.

Later on they started teaching Muay Thai there, which felt much more applicable in terms of self-defense, all elbows and knees (he also taught some actual serious self-defense, things that you would never do in a formal martial art).

No one believes me about this because I don't get into fights and they've never seen me do any of it, but because I did so much of it so young, I really feel like the muscle memory is still there and would be there if I needed it, idk.

I've taken a bunch of self-defense classes over the years and like three sessions of muay thai bc a friend of mine was really into it (she switched to BJJ after she got tired of being punched in the face, as she put it). Probably wouldn't do me any good bc I'm just not fast enough plus I'm afraid of my glasses getting broken. I fake-sparred w my bf once when we started dating and he accidentally slapped me in the face, that's how bad I am at getting out of the way lol

I could throw an elbow if someone approached me very slowly?

didn't see this poll. I am a boxer

I do the training at a local church hall and it was originally setup to introduce kids to boxing, so there are mixed ages on site when the classes are run. cue much laughing by the 10-14 yo kids when you do 100 burpees and you're totally gassed when they could go for another 900 more. wee fuds

it's some workout though. even if you just introduced the skipping element from boxing training, you'd get shredded in no time

For real!

in the 90s I did boxing training in a class w/ Terry Southerland, it was a ton of fun and I think he thought maybe he saw something in me and invited me to come on a Saturday afternoon and spar w/ some young fighters he was training.

I played ice hockey as a kid and I always thought that had to be the most exhausting sport—skating, getting knocked around, having to wear all that gear while pushing a puck around. But after just two rounds in the ring that day I realized it doesn't hold a candle to boxing—especially if you are afraid of getting hit, which affects your breathing (obv.) and muscle oxygenation. I couldn't understand at the time why I was so wiped out, except that this guy hit me one time very hard in the head and I very much didn't want that to happen again.

It's still my preferred or least-boring workout though, I have a heavy bag at home and I skip rope and do some agility stuff. I have this thing, it's a red ball on elastic abt two feet long, you strap it onto your head and hit combinations as it keeps bouncing back. I look like a complete fucking idiot doing it but it's a lot of fun

Oh jesus yes, the muay thai gym warm-up involved 5 mins of skipping rope and I cramped after like 2.

If well and safely coached, almost all martial arts and combat sports are fantastic fitness activities because they engage the whole body and develop the brain and nervous system in ways that transfer well to managing stress in daily life.

I have beef with The Karate Kid (1984) because it helped entrench the idea in the USA that martial arts are for children. Prior to that, most martial arts students I knew were adults; since then taekwondo, karate, etc. have joined soccer and piano lessons as approved forms of after-school childcare, with economics and pedagogy adapted to that market.

Kids can be taught well, but imo martial arts training is really more beneficial for adults. In appropriate settings, people of any age and fitness level can start safely and make progress as long as they want. YouTube is full of fantastic videos of Okinawans and Chinese in their 70s and 80s teaching and training people of all ages. This is normal in cultures with deep martial arts traditions.

To anyone thinking about beginning, I'd recommend setting aside preconceptions about different styles and concentrating on finding a decent teacher. There are a lot of creeps, con men, and abusers out there, but there are also a lot of gentle, trustworthy people, many of whom teach for free or for just enough to cover their rent. Ignore marketing claims about rank, lineage, lethality, and speed of learning. Sit through a class and watch how the teacher interacts with students. Repeat until you find a teacher and group you like.

I took Kung Fu classes for a few months when I was 14 or something. It's amazing how much of it has stayed with me both in terms of body memory for the moves and general fitness practice.