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  • kitsuneandy
    kitsuneandy Posts: 36
    I do the Choy Li Fut style of Kung Fu. Have my orange fringe and am just learning my forms for the next grading. Five Wheel Horse, Five Wheel Fist and Nine Star.

    We learn a lot of different blocks, takedowns, joint locks and strikes in all of our classes as well as doing a lot of conditioning work.

    Once I've done my next grade, I'll start training with weapons as well.
  • MizTerry
    MizTerry Posts: 3,763 Member
    Ours is the Ho-Am traditional Taekwondo. We are broken up into cubs, juniors and adults. We work on fitness, board breaking, E-CAS sparring, traditional sparring, occasionally pressure points, and forms. We test every two months. Sometimes you move up, and sometimes there is a no-change if the instructor feels you don't have a full grasp of what you need to know.

    I'm sure there are others who can put it more eloquently than I can.

    All I know is my instructors are out to kill me. Hahaha
  • wigglypeaches
    wigglypeaches Posts: 146 Member
    I'm doing Krav Maga through Krav Maga Worldwide. We have a level system, although we still colloquially refer to them as belts (we don't wear a uniform). The standard levels run 1-7, or White, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, Brown and Black, with Black and above reserved as invite-only tests, typically for instructors.

    Worldwide has published an incredibly useful book that outlines all of the techniques and curriculum from levels 1-7. The gym I attend offers several fitness classes in addition to Krav classes, and I try to make it 2-3 times a week.

    How the classes are run depends a bit on the instructor, and heavily on the level. Level 1, for example, features more cardio and fitness in the beginning of class than does any other level, and the lesson is typically broken into some combination of a short-range (e.g. elbow strikes), medium-range, (e.g. straight punches) and long-range weapon (e.g. groin kicks), and a choke defense that combines the techniques covered. Level 3, by contrast, heavily emphasizes sparring and significantly reduces the time spent on general fitness and conditioning.

    In every class, we spend some time discussing self-defense, situational awareness, some of the ways we might apply the knowledge, and how things would be different on the street.

    Here are some of the things we're covering in this level:

    - Offensive back kicks
    - Heel kicks, slap kicks
    - Headbutts
    - Bearhug defenses
    - General defense, high and low
    - Inside and outside defenses
    - Falls and rolls
    - Ground fighting
    - Sparring
  • taylorbrown1792
    taylorbrown1792 Posts: 129 Member
    Learning and loving Hapkido
  • rstoliker
    rstoliker Posts: 65
    Learning and loving Hapkido

    Are you doing Traditional Hapkido? or Combat Hapkido? I took Combat Hapkido a while back...really enjoyed it!
  • 8limbedpanda
    8limbedpanda Posts: 7
    I know I've put TKD as my work out, but I really do Muay Thai. And I love it, its really becoming a passion of mine :)
  • Gary844
    Gary844 Posts: 9 Member
    Muay Thai and Kickboxing on/off for 2 years looking to compete in March 2013.

    Add me to your friends list I welcome advice and support.

    Cheers
  • Jay214
    Jay214 Posts: 10 Member
    I have a TKD blackbelt. now I'm training judo and bjj
  • atongthegreat
    atongthegreat Posts: 4
    I've been training Muay Thai for 2 years now. I also box once in a while.
  • jazzynazzy1992
    jazzynazzy1992 Posts: 9 Member
    Lots of people training in Muay Thai... fantastic ! (is it because of those awesome shorts you get for fights .. hahaha)..

    Currently I am also training Muay Thai and occasionally going to boxing classes.
    Used to train in Judo and Karate and would love to eventually go to MMA... but need to get through my first Muay Thai fight before i decide :P
  • Liadora11
    Liadora11 Posts: 35
    I have been doing shotokan karate for exactly one year now. I'm an orange belt and hope to take my yellow in June.

    Just now we are working on improving our katas (taikyoku shodan, heian shodan and heian nidan) for competing as there are lots of opportunities to compete in spring here. We move slow and steady, we don't grade more than twice a year but when we do, the entire club gets their full respective grades.

    My daughter just started on Monday, and even though my son has his full red he is only 7 and needs lots of practise so I have just started to train 4 times a week, twice with the kids in beginners class and twice in the middle group. I have to say, being back with the newbies has really highlighted just how far I have come! Plus double pass Monday is a great physical challenge for me. :D

    We are a tiny club, about 30 members, so even I get to help out occasionally, leading warm ups (!!) and helping out with the newbies. I translate for the folks that don't speak swedish too. I don't know how it happened but karate seems to have become our lifestyle, rather than just out sport!
  • watergallagher
    watergallagher Posts: 232 Member
    Novice thugjitsu artist. Nap or snap!

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