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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jan 10, 2020 22:07:18 GMT
However, I might drag myself to a beginner's class or two. I'd be doing it for fitness and to feel secretly confident that I could twat people, none of this stupid discipline / inner peace bollocks.
That probably rules out any / all of the Far Eastern ones.
Anybody recommend any? I know it's not technically a "martial art" but I reckon I quite fancy Krav Maga. Any practitioners of that?
A bit of context- early thirties, 6'5", 20st, pretty strong but crap stamina / cardio.
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Post by sd22 on Jan 10, 2020 22:29:29 GMT
I did MMA, Luta Livre/Kick boxing/Muay Thai based.
Would highly recommend any of the three, you’d be surprised how fit Luta Livre and/or BJJ gets you, I find it taxes the brain more also and leaves you mentally tired as well as physically, the ground game is where the real thinking comes in!!
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Post by Goonie on Jan 10, 2020 22:33:30 GMT
However, I might drag myself to a beginner's class or two. I'd be doing it for fitness and to feel secretly confident that I could twat people, none of this stupid discipline / inner peace bollocks. That probably rules out any / all of the Far Eastern ones. Anybody recommend any? I know it's not technically a "martial art" but I reckon I quite fancy Krav Maga. Any practitioners of that? A bit of context- early thirties, 6'5", 20st, pretty strong but crap stamina / cardio. I used to do Jujitsu to a good standard, judo as a kid and tried Yoshikan Aikido in my late 30's currently I do three hours of boxing every week at home on homemade bags etc I guess its whatever you're looking for. Not practiced Krav Maga but it is a good self defence style invented for Israeli military designed to disable and escape opponents MMA, kickboxing are very good and you'd get very fit. MMA incorporates aspects of of judo/jujitsu into the groundwork and Muay Tai/boxing for standing combat. These really are the ones for street fighting as you'd practice sparring and you'd get accustomed to hitting and being hit, increasing your ability to take a shot and evade them too It's also about being realistic about how much commitment you can give to a style and how much you're prepared to suffer. Hope that helps. I want to get my daughters into something but whatever you do it's better than nothing - for practical reasons avoid 'soft' martial arts Although this fella is fierce but cant imagine doing all this in my best suit in the middle of Hanley on a cold and frosty night |
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Post by clarkeda on Jan 11, 2020 7:55:47 GMT
However, I might drag myself to a beginner's class or two. I'd be doing it for fitness and to feel secretly confident that I could twat people, none of this stupid discipline / inner peace bollocks. That probably rules out any / all of the Far Eastern ones. Anybody recommend any? I know it's not technically a "martial art" but I reckon I quite fancy Krav Maga. Any practitioners of that? A bit of context- early thirties, 6'5", 20st, pretty strong but crap stamina / cardio. I used to do Jujitsu to a good standard, judo as a kid and tried Yoshikan Aikido in my late 30's currently I do three hours of boxing every week at home on homemade bags etc I guess its whatever you're looking for. Not practiced Krav Maga but it is a good self defence style invented for Israeli military designed to disable and escape opponents MMA, kickboxing are very good and you'd get very fit. MMA incorporates aspects of of judo/jujitsu into the groundwork and Muay Tai/boxing for standing combat. These really are the ones for street fighting as you'd practice sparring and you'd get accustomed to hitting and being hit, increasing your ability to take a shot and evade them too It's also about being realistic about how much commitment you can give to a style and how much you're prepared to suffer. Hope that helps. I want to get my daughters into something but whatever you do it's better than nothing - for practical reasons avoid 'soft' martial arts Although this fella is fierce but cant imagine doing all this in my best suit in the middle of Hanley on a cold and frosty night Your first YouTube clip is actually from a film called ‘never back down’ |
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Post by Goonie on Jan 11, 2020 8:10:05 GMT
I used to do Jujitsu to a good standard, judo as a kid and tried Yoshikan Aikido in my late 30's currently I do three hours of boxing every week at home on homemade bags etc I guess its whatever you're looking for. Not practiced Krav Maga but it is a good self defence style invented for Israeli military designed to disable and escape opponents MMA, kickboxing are very good and you'd get very fit. MMA incorporates aspects of of judo/jujitsu into the groundwork and Muay Tai/boxing for standing combat. These really are the ones for street fighting as you'd practice sparring and you'd get accustomed to hitting and being hit, increasing your ability to take a shot and evade them too It's also about being realistic about how much commitment you can give to a style and how much you're prepared to suffer. Hope that helps. I want to get my daughters into something but whatever you do it's better than nothing - for practical reasons avoid 'soft' martial arts Although this fella is fierce but cant imagine doing all this in my best suit in the middle of Hanley on a cold and frosty night Your first YouTube clip is actually from a film called ‘never back down’ Nice one. Never heard of that, thought it was real footage! Damn you youtube! Damn you gullible goonie! |
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Post by marwood on Jan 11, 2020 17:45:29 GMT
my son has taken up Parcour and in what could the first onset of the Mid Life Crisis, ive taken a few adult beginners classes
not coping too well with the strain and stress but definitely feels good to be doing some sort of urban exercise activity
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Post by vokeswagen on Jan 11, 2020 17:54:45 GMT
my son has taken up Parcour and in what could the first onset of the Mid Life Crisis, ive taken a few adult beginners classes not coping too well with the strain and stress but definitely feels good to be doing some sort of urban exercise activity Are you doing this in order to grab fleeting glimpses through the windows of shagging couples, lasses in showers etc? Or would that be a dangerous distraction?  |
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Post by Timmypotter on Jan 12, 2020 6:55:23 GMT
my son has taken up Parcour and in what could the first onset of the Mid Life Crisis, ive taken a few adult beginners classes not coping too well with the strain and stress but definitely feels good to be doing some sort of urban exercise activity Always fancied a go at this myself. Looks a right laugh |
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Post by mattador78 on Jan 12, 2020 7:05:42 GMT
Football related self defence 👍
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Jan 12, 2020 7:47:15 GMT
my son has taken up Parcour and in what could the first onset of the Mid Life Crisis, ive taken a few adult beginners classes not coping too well with the strain and stress but definitely feels good to be doing some sort of urban exercise activity Always fancied a go at this myself. Looks a right laugh Beat me to it. |
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Post by brotherleelove on Jan 12, 2020 21:44:47 GMT
However, I might drag myself to a beginner's class or two. I'd be doing it for fitness and to feel secretly confident that I could twat people, none of this stupid discipline / inner peace bollocks. That probably rules out any / all of the Far Eastern ones. Anybody recommend any? I know it's not technically a "martial art" but I reckon I quite fancy Krav Maga. Any practitioners of that? A bit of context- early thirties, 6'5", 20st, pretty strong but crap stamina / cardio. If all you really want is to get fit you can do it without feeling the need to 'twat' people. That's a bad motive.
Swap the numbers around for my height and i'm only half your weight, that's one reason why I did martially arts many moons ago-I was bullied a lot as a kid so I did it for self defence.
I wouldn't have thought a bloke of your stature would get bullied generally.
Are you familiar with Newton's 3rd law ?
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Post by felonious on Jan 12, 2020 22:32:48 GMT
However, I might drag myself to a beginner's class or two. I'd be doing it for fitness and to feel secretly confident that I could twat people, none of this stupid discipline / inner peace bollocks. That probably rules out any / all of the Far Eastern ones. Anybody recommend any? I know it's not technically a "martial art" but I reckon I quite fancy Krav Maga. Any practitioners of that? A bit of context- early thirties, 6'5", 20st, pretty strong but crap stamina / cardio. If all you really want is to get fit you can do it without feeling the need to 'twat' people. That's a bad motive.
Swap the numbers around for my height and i'm only half your weight, that's one reason why I did martially arts many moons ago-I was bullied a lot as a kid so I did it for self defence.
I wouldn't have thought a bloke of your stature would get bullied generally.
Are you familiar with Newton's 3rd law ?
You do realise that you're talking about a lad who was 302nd toughest in the infants? |
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Post by vokeswagen on Jan 12, 2020 23:08:51 GMT
Are you doing this in order to grab fleeting glimpses through the windows of shagging couples, lasses in showers etc? Or would that be a dangerous distraction? OMG hadnt thought of that Pervcour right now i cant get out of a disused airplane hangar on a Cardiff industrial estate cant wait to get out there in the community Pervcour Your aircraft hangar situation sounds like an episode of The Professionals. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2020 0:31:09 GMT
I remember Eddie (the eagle) Edwards, when asked why he didn't do any weight training, he said that it made his arms ache.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jan 13, 2020 1:22:01 GMT
The thread title is poetry like a JC Clarke opening salvo....
good stuff.
As a youth I joined a Karate skool on the back of Bruce Lee flicks etc...
As a gangly yoof I didn't last very long.. didn't realise the nuances of appropriate styles...
Our instructor, a squatch chap took great delight in calling me out to demonstrate the effectiveness of his low attack technique.
Me, arms flailing got fed up of getting winded..
went guerilla....
Good luck though keeping fit/energising is good in any form...
Apart from skateboarding/BMXing and Parquor....{as an adult}
Imho.
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Post by bathstoke on Jan 13, 2020 8:18:31 GMT
A bit of context- early thirties, 6'5", 20st, pretty strong but crap stamina / cardio. Hey Hagrid, where have you been all my life!?! |
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jan 13, 2020 19:41:18 GMT
However, I might drag myself to a beginner's class or two. I'd be doing it for fitness and to feel secretly confident that I could twat people, none of this stupid discipline / inner peace bollocks. That probably rules out any / all of the Far Eastern ones. Anybody recommend any? I know it's not technically a "martial art" but I reckon I quite fancy Krav Maga. Any practitioners of that? A bit of context- early thirties, 6'5", 20st, pretty strong but crap stamina / cardio. If all you really want is to get fit you can do it without feeling the need to 'twat' people. That's a bad motive.
Swap the numbers around for my height and i'm only half your weight, that's one reason why I did martially arts many moons ago-I was bullied a lot as a kid so I did it for self defence.
I wouldn't have thought a bloke of your stature would get bullied generally.
Are you familiar with Newton's 3rd law ?
Not entirely serious about the twatting people comment, was mostly tongue in cheek but I'd rather something that has a practical application rather than ostentatious flair stuff that's flashy but useless. |
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jan 13, 2020 19:44:11 GMT
If all you really want is to get fit you can do it without feeling the need to 'twat' people. That's a bad motive.
Swap the numbers around for my height and i'm only half your weight, that's one reason why I did martially arts many moons ago-I was bullied a lot as a kid so I did it for self defence.
I wouldn't have thought a bloke of your stature would get bullied generally.
Are you familiar with Newton's 3rd law ?
You do realise that you're talking about a lad who was 302nd toughest in the infants? Well I teach Y7 now and I'm comfortably 90th hardest out of 130 of them, so joke's on you. |
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Post by lagwafis on Jan 13, 2020 22:49:19 GMT
You know the place, you know the rules
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Post by felonious on Jan 14, 2020 6:54:31 GMT
Perhaps we could post a few fight scenes  |
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Post by maxplonk on Jan 15, 2020 12:07:06 GMT
However, I might drag myself to a beginner's class or two. I'd be doing it for fitness and to feel secretly confident that I could twat people, none of this stupid discipline / inner peace bollocks. That probably rules out any / all of the Far Eastern ones. Anybody recommend any? I know it's not technically a "martial art" but I reckon I quite fancy Krav Maga. Any practitioners of that? A bit of context- early thirties, 6'5", 20st, pretty strong but crap stamina / cardio. If all you really want is to get fit you can do it without feeling the need to 'twat' people. That's a bad motive.
Swap the numbers around for my height and i'm only half your weight, that's one reason why I did martially arts many moons ago-I was bullied a lot as a kid so I did it for self defence.
I wouldn't have thought a bloke of your stature would get bullied generally.
Are you familiar with Newton's 3rd law ?
That's perhaps the only disadvantage of being tall - nobody picks on you so you don't learn how to deal with it. |
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Post by maxplonk on Jan 15, 2020 12:07:35 GMT
However, I might drag myself to a beginner's class or two. I'd be doing it for fitness and to feel secretly confident that I could twat people, none of this stupid discipline / inner peace bollocks. That probably rules out any / all of the Far Eastern ones. I think a better reason for avoiding oriental martial arts will be the amount of time needed to learn a technique adequately to feel confident that you could "twat people". Jiu Jitsu being a possible exception. Yoshinkan Aikido (mentioned above) is the most intensive of the Aikido styles (in terms of condition training) - there's a good account of the Yoshinkan training the Tokyo riot police do in Robert Twigger's "Angry White Pyjamas". (I'd be doing Yoshinkan now if I was younger.) Krav Maga is also very popular and I think there is a second training program designed for civilians rather than the military. I didn't like the constant movement when not actually performing a technique - too lazy, me.) I have no experience of BJJ or MMA but then I was never interested in ground work. |
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Post by chigstoke on Jan 15, 2020 13:45:41 GMT
Just put Sony Movies on and watch some Steven Seagal films, you'll learn about 700 martial arts in 30 minutes or so.
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Post by Frogger Theft Auto on Jan 15, 2020 14:52:05 GMT
However, I might drag myself to a beginner's class or two. I'd be doing it for fitness and to feel secretly confident that I could twat people, none of this stupid discipline / inner peace bollocks. That probably rules out any / all of the Far Eastern ones. I think a better reason for avoiding oriental martial arts will be the amount of time needed to learn a technique adequately to feel confident that you could "twat people". Jiu Jitsu being a possible exception. Yoshinkan Aikido (mentioned above) is the most intensive of the Aikido styles (in terms of condition training) - there's a good account of the Yoshinkan training the Tokyo riot police do in Robert Twigger's "Angry White Pyjamas". (I'd be doing Yoshinkan now if I was younger.) Krav Maga is also very popular and I think there is a second training program designed for civilians rather than the military. I didn't like the constant movement when not actually performing a technique - too lazy, me.) I have no experience of BJJ or MMA but then I was never interested in ground work. I think MMA whittled down a lot of the fringe oriental martial arts over the years to fine tune what actually works best in a scrap. Things like Aikido are supposed to be pretty useless against somebody that also knows how to fight, and pretty useless in a street fight unless they're coming at you with a specific thing in a specific way, haven't got a clue how to fight and give up immediately when they miss first time. The base of all MMA fighters is some form of kickboxing, Muay Thai mainly, wrestling and BJJ. Nobody has much success with anything else these days because those trump everything. |
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