Martial Arts - Who in here is taking classes and for what reasons?

[DirtyDaver]

Not sure if this is better suited here or in Sports category. In an effort to become more involved with the site I wanted to start a thread to see what martial arts people take on here. There are various different types - BJJ being the most popular of our current time. I practice Sambo which is a combo of Judo and Greco-Roman wrestling/striking. It’s a pretty niche sport but was just formally recognized by the Olympic committee. Doing martial arts keeps me active outside or working out and has great self-defense value. It does come at a cost as I tore my labrum 8 months ago - all good to go now though. So what is everyone utilizing for self-defense (outside of weapons) ? Would love to see who in here does Taekwondo, BJJ, Muay Thai etc. If anyone has Sambo questions I will answer them. It’s one of my favorite subjects to talk about outside of guns and shooting.

 

[Thunder]

My background is in Judo

 

[Bigmurph6]

Our brother @Kad1 is very involved

 

[Kad1]

Love BJJ. I train with a Russian Samba guy. He’s pretty impressive

 

[Dirtnasty]

Background of catch who wants an elbow in the eye socket

 

[DirtyDaver]

Right on. Randori is always my favorite part of sport Sambo nights. How long have you been taking Judo?

 

[DirtyDaver]

Right on. We like to call the BJJ guys butt draggers but it’s all in good fun. My sister and i did Judo as kids. She branched off into BJJ and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time to meet some very high level Sambists. It intrigued me so I gave it a shot. I’m absolutely destroyed the next day but it’s worth every bit of it.

 

[Thunder]

Got into it in 2001. Sensei Hal Chadwick. He was a big deal in the USJA back in the day. Got my start in Shorin ryu before that in the early 90’s and wrestled all through school

 

[Bigmurph6]

I have the same decipline

 

[Dirtnasty]

When people tell me that major sports couldn’t be fixed. I tell them pro wrestling started as catch and was legit till they realized there was money to made.

 

[Bigmurph6]

Sports have been fixed since gambling was created in BC times lol
I know of multiple sporting events that have been fixed and were talking top sports frasier went down because the mob told him to go down.
The black soxs even recently all the cheating in baseball and football.

There all dirty they just don’t usually get caught

 

[Poppy]

That’s the truth!

 

[Tack]

I was getting into MMA, and was my main reason for looking into performance enhancing substances. I wasn’t competitive, was only looking for self improvement. Then, lots of things changed in my life, where I felt it was best to take a step back from it due to the risk of internal organ injury having constant impacts to my stomach, while being on blood thinners.

It wasn’t about learning to fight for me, and was more about having fun hitting eachother to get the aggression out. So going into some other martial arts for the practice wasn’t for me.

 

[DirtyDaver]

I completely understand that @Tack . I’m not trying to compete or anything. Having a good sparring partner makes all the difference too. If you are able to tell your sparring partner to slow down or ease up and they listen they’re great. If they don’t you need to find someone else. we have 2 hours classes so by the time we get to Randori or sparring we are all gassed - how it should be. Less chance of people getting hurt.

 

[Rusty]

I took tang soo do and tae Kwan do as a kid. Had a lot of fun with it and it helped me with discipline as the instructors were not fuck around guys at all!!

Been contemplating getting into some type of fighting classes once my kids are just a little bit older and life settles down. I here guys talking about their experiences with it on here and it sounds fun And therapeutic

 

[anabolic_geek]

A lot of the RP folks do Brazilian jiujitsu (bjj) and it sound pretty dope to me. Tho personally if I were to do lessons I’d learn how to dance.

 

[Symarip85]

I’ve boxed on and off for almost 20 years. There’s been plenty of American Kickboxing and Muay Thai mixed in there as well. I train at home only the last couple years with a mid-spring fast cobra bag. I would love to find a decent old school boxing gym but there aren’t any that are geographically attractive. Most boxing gyms around here don’t spar. They just do bag and mitt work which I see no reason to for. And BJJ is dope, I’ve had close friends who trained with the likes of Matt Serra and the Gracie Family. I myself am straight garbage on the ground. I’ve made a few good attempts but I could never get very far. But the training I do have on the ground makes me a problem for anyone without proper training for sure. I miss fighting people and then laughing about it afterward and learning from the mistakes the hard way.