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Martial art?

Ironbutt

Ironbutt

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Anyone here study a traditional martial art? Like Shorin Ryu? I'm looking for a school..
 
when you say traditional how traditional are you looking for?
do you want a formal Japanese school with belts, gis and ritual or are you looking for a single system that hasn't added boxing and jujitsu and become a mma.
Are you looking for an external style or an internal style, are you looking for fighting applications or learning a complete system.
How far do want to travel for classes, how much are you willing to pay and what kind of schedule are you looking for?

How long do you want to practice this art: one year, 3 years or a life time.
 
i started with Goju-Ryu for a few years.....that's plenty traditional....and is 'street' applicable..

Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate has a very pure lineage.

Gojo-Ryu Karate is a traditional martial art that was handed down from the founder Sensei Chojun Miyagi to his student Sensei Anichi Miyagi and then to Sensei Morio Higaonna in an unbroken line, which means the art has not been diluted or embellished through the generations like many other martial arts have. Instead, Goju-Ryu Karate persists as a highly effective fighting system today. It is not a sport style of Karate but offers its students a practical method of self defence in any situation.
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then i went into TaeKwonDo for a decade...very pretty style...awesome forms....seems diluted to me though....

then there's kenpo....blah....not worth mentioning IMO

of course i now know just enough to get my ass kicked really good...and in a colorful fashion...:|
 
Ironbutt said:
Anyone here study a traditional martial art? Like Shorin Ryu? I'm looking for a school..
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I was in Shorin Ryu for 5-1/2 years back in NH. Great system. I've been out of it for more than 20 years but have my son in a traditional school Okinawin school in El Sobrante (uechi dojo, El Sobrante). The sensei is a 7th dan black belt and very good. It's a small, school and the sensei loves to teach and isn't trying to get rich off of it (like so many other schools).
 
I did Tae Kwon Do for several years.... loved it. Lots of kicking and punching and fighting, right up my aisle.
 
Aikido has a tradition extending almost 100 years :p

Definitely no Tapout nonsense there though. Aikido is philosophically opposed to that sort of thing.
 
Agent Orange said:
Interesting that he still practices his katas.
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Huh!?!?

Kata practice is practically all there is, is it not?

Sure there are other things to learn, but they are all in support of doing kata correctly.

Maybe I got the wrong message about them from my teacher?
 
Suigetsukan dojo on International down by the lake does danzan ryu jujutsu, if that interests you. Good folks, and the place is collectively run so nobody's getting rich.
http://suigetsukan.org/
 
Nemo Brinker said:
Suigetsukan dojo on International down by the lake does danzan ryu jujutsu, if that interests you. Good folks, and the place is collectively run so nobody's getting rich.
http://suigetsukan.org/
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is Esmailzadeh still running the school? He's top notch and down to earth, plus I like the name of the school cus it makes me think of SailorMoon.
 
Cheyenne said:
Huh!?!?

Kata practice is practically all there is, is it not?

Sure there are other things to learn, but they are all in support of doing kata correctly.

Maybe I got the wrong message about them from my teacher?
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Some schools are heavier on the kata's, others are heavier on the sparring.

Neither is more valid than the other as long as they work on good solid technique which only comes from thousands of repetitions of every move.

Kata's done without sufficient visualization won't prepare you for fighting.
 
tuxumino said:
is Esmailzadeh still running the school? He's top notch and down to earth, plus I like the name of the school cus it makes me think of SailorMoon.
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Yup, Mike Esmailzadeh still heads it up. Solid guy, very understated, walks the talk. I took a yawara stick seminar from him the other day and was impressed once again.
 
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