Ain't gonna happen.

ACTUALLY.. My friend recently started taking classes of Judo and Karate is at the same time as theirs and in the same place so I might be able to go.

what do you do? what kind of martial art?

I do Muay Thai, what about you?

Right now Im just marathonist hehe

But I did fight for 15 years and I was athlete: Capoeira (8 years), Kung Fu (5 years) and Boxing (2 years). I still love Kung Fu and I would like to come back sometime.

I have lots of friends who do fights or teaching... two of them, Muay Thai Many times I got there to play a bit hehe... but I never tried to really do. I would probablly like.

That really is wicked . Right now we're just doing tricking because we all got exams coming up & the lessons have been reduced to once a week.

exams? are you going to change the belt? (is it belt that you guys call?)

In karate these're belts, in English, I believe

Aww it's sweet how this thread is getting more popular. I feel like it was my child I take care of haha

Yeah, thanks

Awwww yeah

Hm, I just looked at the Muay Thai article in Wikipedia, and seems like there's no rank scheme there

I'm gonna start karate in summer. My friends used their peer pressuring skills to make me. They're doing judo though.

...........
THAT'S ABSOLUTELY FUCKING AWESOME!!!

I will tell you the amount of times I fall and everything too. =)

I can't wait for the precise report

Haha you will have to wait till at least June. But it will be worth the wait.

I have almost no free time till June anyway, so no problem

I mean exams at college.



We don't really follow a rank scheme. I think they only do that at academies & stuff. But red's the highest I think

Aw ok and how it was, the exams? I hope fine

I'm doing my first one in 2 weeks, but thanks

ah ok! Good luck

I know Tae Kwon Do. I might consider taking up another martial arts style later in my life if college next year isn't too busy.

^And what martial arts would you consider?
Personally, I recommend some of the Japanese ones

I watched the fight night on CBS on Saturday. Kimbo Slice is pretty cool. I liked how they called James Thomason's culiforer(sp?) ear an "alien lifeform". Then Kimbo just hit the shit out of it. lol

Bump!

I'm kinda pissed and I just need to write this. So, I started psychology at the university this year, and I still continue pedagogics (or education, or however you call it). I knew it was going to be hard and I was not going to have much of free time, but I've never expected this. Basically, 5 days a week I start lectures at about 8 am, and finish them at about 9 pm. The weekend is free, but I don't think there're any karate classes on Saturday and Sunday.
The thing is, I just cannot give up karate. I love it more than anything else, it seems impossible to say "goodbye" after 7 years of doing it. Plus, I still don't have the black belt yet, which is one of the most important things I want to achieve.
I don't know what to do, the whole situation just makes me wanna cry

Btw, have you signed up to any karate club, Fati? You've promised to do so

-wishes she could come up with good advice-

I was going to! But right now there is no karate club or any other sports centre offering karate near my house. There is one but the only way to get there is by car really and we have no car right now AND I'm not allowed to take a train or bus or even go there with a friend so I don't even know how the hell I can sign up. I was supposed to be going there since june but then all got fucked up and I don't know what to do if my dad doesn't get a car soon.

There's no good advice, that's why you can't come up with anything...

Damn, and you can't do karate as well, for the time being at least Why don't your parents want you to go there by bus?

Well they get freaked out by anything to be honest. They don't like me going to places on my own blah blah blah and they're too lazy to take me if they've got no car. I want to do karate.

You better do want indeed!

So your parents are afraid that samething bad might happen to you, right? Try to explain to them, that if you do karate, you're gonna be better at self-defence

That is actually a pretty good idea.
Btw for your problem, couldn't you try talking to your sensei (that is what they're called right?) and see whether he could arrange extra classes for you on the weekend if you really need to do karate? Just explain why you can't go on weekdays.
Shit idea, probably won't work, but I didn't want to feel completely and utterly useless.

Hell yeah, and I'd get privat classes, just for me with some handsome, young sensei Awesome, but impossible, I guess

I think I've found kind of a solution, though. I figured I actually have 2 days with free evenings - on Monday and Thursday. The problem was that karate classes are always either Mon-Wed or Tue-Thu. But, my friend was talking to that person from AKK (it's one of a few karate clubs in my city) and she told her we could sign up for 2 different advanced groups, with different senseis, and have classes Mon-Thu. I think we're gonna do so, I just have to think if I have enough money to pay the registration fee.

Thanks for the advice anyways, Fati, I appreciate that so much

Glad you found a solution. Hope it works.
And sure.

Thanks
Now your turn, sign up to a fucking karate club NOW!

Yessir.

has anyone ever actaually seen a sumo match or whatever there called?

it's always in cartoons but i've never seen a real one

You mean like, live or in the TV?