Well, if I were you, I'd choose martial arts, of course.
Cause I don't like playing basketball/volleyball/etc.
Swimming can be pretty relaxing though. But I'd get bored soon.
But do you still keep practicing in your karate club?

Woah, congrats! I'd love to be a 1st Dan (in karate, in my case).
No, I've never done Tea Kwon Do, but my friend has.


Of course I do! Karate is... a part of my life, I'd say haha. I couldn't give it up so easy. Hopefully I'll change the club to a better one soon. The one I'm in now is getting worse, I don't really know why. For sure not because of the coach, she's great and she teaught me a lot. I think it's the location's fault...
I like swimming, but not when I;m forced to do that every week. It's nice to go swimming when you feel like it, but it's getting terrible, when you have to, and if you don't go, you'll het a lower mark. That's not something for me.
I;m staying in this judo club for the time being, and the we'll see. Hope it won't be so bad.
Haha the problem is that my friend who I pracitse with is... well, rather fat, and it's not easy to fight with her... but I'll get over that too, I'm pretty positive

TKD is fun, it's really different from Karate because we mainly use kicks and it really helps our balance and stuff, its fun =p. Youtube some TKD vids some might surprise you XD

Any links then?

TKD Best Knockouts, This vid will make you go "WOAH!" no joke even i sometimes go WOAH!! XD - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjvugJ2rFM

Some Olympics Sparring - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWpt9q_jQHQ

These two vids should make you go "WOAH I WANT TO DO TKD" =P...Well maybe I hope it does XD

Well, you've guessed the first part of my reply: WOAH!!!
But the second part would be "I still prefer karate"

The image I get from Karate is breaking boards, links for some Karate persentation? =P

Ha ha, yeah, that was pretty impressive but I prefer karate too.


Oh, and I'll try to find some good vids for you Benji.

I like TKD, but I did and I prefer Kung Fu and I like jiu-jitsu too.

I want to do Kenjutsu

I really want to do Kung Fu, and i'm chinese ><" I should move to China and learn some Kung Fu =P

I did fights for many years and I could say that Kung Fu is just amazing you really should try it
But you don't need to move to China I live in Brazil and I did it here, Im sure you should have good palces where you live to learn it

Of course to learn it on China should be great!!! Do you know there?

Well the one place which i know in China is Hong Kong and i'm sure theres a Kung Fu place there but idk, the ones in like the middle of no-where in China is the best =P

^yeah, you right, Im sure the unknow places could be better

You know Hong Kng, cool!! and where you live know, don't have Kung Fu?

I live in Edinburgh,Scotland and I'm not sure if there is, even if there is its most likely to be a white teacher, I'm not racist or anything but I feel like to learn a material art good you must have someone from the same origin or one with alot of years experience (When i mean alot i mean from about 15-20 years+)

You right again, in some way
Well, yeah, I believe that chineses could be the best people to teach Kung Fu, but some other people are really good too yeah, just those people should have experience and at least some contact with chinese culture, what I had with my teacher. Its really important

I want to do it as well! But damn, I can't find any club, there're only kendo clubs, and that's not it... Are there kenjutsu clubs in Brasil?

And Benji, I'll look up for some links for you later

OK ty =]

Yeah, we have a strong and huge group here I have Kenjutsu near of my house and we have it around country.
Brazil has a huge chinese community, the second in the world is what they say.

This is the link to Niten Institute, where I would do it; their homepage has another languages than portuguese, I guess

http://www.niten.org.br/

I used to do Kung Fu when I was 11. Now I don't and I even can't!

^Why can't you?

I just passed my judo exam (I have it as a university class, you see) and I got 4,5 (to explain: you can get marks from 1 (the worst) to 5 (the best)).
That's so unfair, I wanted to get 5 so badly!

Don't worry, 4,5 is good mark too

Well, 4,5 still isn't bad at all. Congrats!

Thank you Rita and Marta
But still, I should have put more effort into that exam...

I take Tae Kwon Do I'm A Brown Senior Belt Which is one step away from Black Belt

i have like a year in tae kwon do and i'll never left
i love it


Im yellow tape right now

^The yellow belt, you mean?
What is the order of belt colors in Tae Kwon Do?

1 white
2 white end
3 yellow
4 yellow end
5 green
6 green end
7 blue
8 blue end
9 red
10 red end
11 black

^Oh I see.
And then you have a few black belts, or only one? Because in karate (and judo) we have dans - the first black belt is the 1st dan, the second is 2nd dan etc.

yes we too. They are like 10 dans

We have 10 dans as well, but the last one is given only to the masters after their death
So the best you can be while alive is 9th dan.

Hey, a new member here. Does anybody do muay thai ?

ive never tried but im probably bad at it

As I already told you, I don't even know a single person who does that

Oh yeah I remember . I guess I'm the only one then.

muay thai?......whats that?

Muay Thai. I think Mohamed could say something more about it
Today I found out that one of my friends' friend does Muay Thai. Does it count as 'knowing' this person (I've never seen him)? If it does, I know one person who does it (beside Mohamed), and my previous post is not true anymore

thanks for the information

^You're welcome

Since our sensei (a coach) is pregnant now, she asked her friend to replace her at the trainings. Her friend turned out to be a very nice guy, but also very exacting. So I'm basically dead after each practice now. I don't regret that change, though, at least I know I'm doing a progress. Plus it's actually a nice feeling to be so tired at the evening, I can easily fell asleep. That's kind of mean, but I hope that our previous sensei won't be back so quickly.

hey, hows it going. I haven't been on this thread for a while so i couldn't explain it ASAP but basically muay thai is a martial art from thailand which involves full contact with your fists, legs, elbows and knees. But the link Kasia gave you will have explained all that Btw Kasia i know exactly what you mean. That feeling you get when you push yourself to the limit is great & lets you fall asleep easily. I reckon its useful cuz im a bit of an insomniac

^I'm a bit of an insomniac too I had never had that problem before, it started like a year ago during my end of term exams. It's better now, but a few months after the exams were horror. Never again, please.

Haha, yeah it seems to happen to a lot of people during their exam period

Sexists in taekwondo? Not at our club! I had to give it up about 18 months ago because of a foot injury . I got to green belt (3rd belt up). I hope to get back to it by next month, though!

This reminds me of that Polish karate sensei who was accused of sexual harassment.
And again, that reminds me of MY sensei who likes hugging me for some reason

i know the reason!!

Gesss... I never had this problem!! ..and I did Kung Fu for 5 years, almost everyday and it was just me of woman, no other in those 5 years! Me and the guys... I did fights for 15 years, never had any problem.

Careful.

I have never done any kinds of martial arts or sumo wrestling. But karate looks pretty fun. There is a kid in my class who does karate and in english class he once did a presentation about it. And yes, it does look quite interesting. I doubt I will ever try it though. Too lazy.

^I am careful!
And you, move your ass and start doing karate, it's absolutely awesome


You do?

Everyone is cool with the girls in my class. I mean there's the occasional spanking & boob honking but apart from that it's fine.




































Nah not really, the guys would never do that & if they tried they'd get their arse kicked.