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Who here practices martial arts? Or really likes them in movies? Or both? Do you try to find movies that have people using the style you're studying? Ever been inspired by a movie to study a particular art?

Me, I've been studying bagua lately, and man, apart from Jet Li in The One, there's not a lot of it in kung fu movies. This after teenaged-me IMPRINTED on Jet Li in Tai Chi Master.

I do a bit of tailored self defence stuff.

Really tempted by MMA (my ground game is so shit), but it's expensive as hell, and difficult to find non meathead places.

For ground work, see if you can find a place that still teaches Japanese jiujitsu (or whatever spelling you prefer). All the ground game, less meathead MMA machismo.

I enjoy them, both as spectacle and as a participant, but I haven't been able to find time or opportunity to take up any since college.

I took Tae Kwon Do for a while as a kid, then did fencing (shut up, it's totally a martial art!) in undergrad, and took up some capoeira in grad school.

I've been somewhat-seriously considering taking up Judo or Aikido, and I'll admit that Murphy from the Dresden Files books is part of the reason for looking at Aikido specifically. I'm really short, so the styles based off throws and using your opponent's strength against them seem like a good choice.

Made first degree black belt in Goju-Ryu in high school, but have fallen by the wayside since. My goal is to get as close if not beyond the shape I was in back then (I'm actually al ittle stronger now but man is my endurance shit)

http://mortalkombat.wikia.com/wiki/Goju_Ryu

Good job on being fictional.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C5%8Dj%C5%AB-ry%C5%AB

google harder.

lol I know it's real I was making a dumb joke. ;)

I just thought it sounded familiar.

For the record what Kabal is doing looks very little like Goju Ryu most of the time.

Oh I'm sure. I watched some videos of Choy Lee Fut for fun (and because Ermac is MY BOY) and I saw almost zero resemblance. I don't know where the hell they get their stances from, pretty sure most of them are made up.

I've done Tai Chi and I'd love to get to back to it - particularly the style/form that is based more on the martial arts side of it than the meditative side.

Aside from that, I'm interested in giving Krav Maga a try at some point.

I keep looking for one tailored for PWD, but have not seen any available in my area. Prolly would not be worth my time anyway as I have a vestibular disorder. Feh.

What's your area?

I took karate lessons for years as a kid. I miss it and would like to pick it up again some day.

I took Thai kickboxing in high school, and if I ever have the money, I'd like to get into another martial art.

Also, if you're looking for more depictions of bagua, check out Avatar: The Last Airbender, as that's what airbending is based on.

AYRT

Oh, I'm ALL about the airbending. Also waterbending, as I trained for years in Yang style tai chi.

Boxing (from age 5. I was really small and my brother foresaw bullies in my future. All the bullies ended up seeing were stars), Aikido, Iaido, Kendo, and Krav Maga. Had to stop when my back said, "If you keep doing this I will kill you." But all of that experience has really helped with writing.

I don't like movies where the fight choreographer has clearly never been in a real fight. Hint: when you're not in the dojo/ring, all the stylistic shit and all the fucking 'gentlemanly' rules Do Not Exist. There's no such thing as a fair fight. You do whatever it takes not to be the one who gets hurt/dead. You don't even think about it either, and when you think about it later, you know without doubt that you did the right thing (even if that thing involved permanent injury to the other guy) (especially if you're 5'3" and weigh ~130lb).

When you're no in the ring, the 5'3" 130lbs guy gets his shit wrecked anyway, everytime.

Uhh, I am the "5'3" 130lbs guy". I'm actually very female, and yeah, I've been hurt outside the ring (enough for hospital. Gaybashers tend to be serious), but I still won (if 'winning' = they got hurt worse). It just takes a lot more work, outside the ring, and you gotta bring your A game when it comes to concentration, cos one mistake can mean you're finished.

But yes, you will absolutely get hurt. If you bank on that, it doesn't hurt as much.

I rock up to fights for a living.

Unless you attack them first and get lucky, or bring a weapon (and even that isn't the great equaliser most people think it is) - when there's an appreciable size difference, you lose.

99.9% of the time.

If you're talking about cage fights, pal, that's not the sort of fight I'm talking about. I've literally fought for my life (two gay-bashing attacks). Yes, you can add (up to the first attack) 13 years of training. But when you know someone is going to kill you, the training? It moves out of the way, and your ex-lizard hindbrain says, "I only stop fighting when I'm dead."

And that right there is why I won. Twice.

(rings fights I've won--and lost [gotta roll with the losses *grin*]--were fought against even match opponents, same weight)

No, I'm talking people with knives sticking out out of vital places. And lifelong street fighters who're cornered getting told they're getting their liberty removed for a very long time if they don't win.

And you're exactly right, unless you've got a lot of experience getting punched in the head with your adrenaline going full tilt, any amount of training goes out the window. Then the bigger person wins, because they're going exactly as bollow as you are.

I dunno how in hell you make a living out of that (unless you wear some shade of blue and a badge).

The first one, I took the first guy out with one punch, and it shocked the hell out of his buddy, so that was my gap, but I literally do not remember the list of shit I did next (I say a list because I've still got his hospital report, and he was in pieces). I do remember wrenching his right arm right out of its socket, and then having to crawl to a pay phone to call the cops. My injuries were a frickin' litany of breaks and fractures, with a total of 30-odd stitches in various places (I split the skin on my elbow. I guess you know what that takes).

Second one I got lucky and picked up a handy piece of lumber, oh, and there was only one guy. But he punched me in the kidney, from behind, and that was the lizard brain brain "Fight or die" switch. I still got badly hurt, because I guess he experienced the same switch.

Took Tae Kwon Do in college and a bit of grad school for the exercise. Didn't get particularly far. I travel too much for work now to take regular lessons, so I hsven't kept with it.

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