The Browncoat Martial Arts Forum

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CHRISISALL

Monday, March 27, 2006 2:00 AM

To continue an old thread, long lost...
What Browncoat martial Arts people do we have here?
Like the man said to Lee: "Whatsh your schtyle?"

I studied Wing Chun, Okinawan Kempo, Aikido, Jeet Kune Do, Praying Mantis, and Tai Kwon Do.
My main style is Wing Chun, with a heavy Tai Chi influence (Summer appears to be doing some Combat Tai Chi in Serenity, along with some Wushu thrown in...).

So, styles? Real life fight stories? MA observations on Serenity, Angel, or Buffy?

Kwi-Changisall

RIVERGODDESS

Monday, March 27, 2006 3:02 AM

Impressive! I've been studying Shotokan karate for around 8 or so years now, and am a second degree brownbelt, just a few tests away from blackbelt (I'm 17). It's a Japanese style, and we don't use any kind of weapons or anything, but it's a powerful style that I really enjoy doing. When I get my blackbelt, I plan on studying different styles. I really love sparring, though yesterday in class we had to fight our senseis, and one of the younger ones punched me really really hard in the stomach, twice, then kicked me in the ribs. Hard. Ouch! I've also gotten some kid's toe in my eye when he was aiming for my head and got lazy
Oh, well. Even though I get the wind knocked out of me sometimes, I'm the last one to quit. (maybe because I'm such a stubborn ass sometimes!)
Also, I was very impressed with Summer's fighting skill in Serenity. That's some tough stuff! My friends were like "Hey, don't you do something like that, Sara?"
What other stories do everyone else have?

*~*~
Summer's response to Nathan getting his very own action figure:
"I tried to pull his head off."

CHRISISALL

Monday, March 27, 2006 3:27 AM

RiverGoddess, you go girl!
Shotokan is cool, I've sparred with (playfully) a student of that style in a Jeet Kune Do class.

Short MA story: I was always a kicker. Growing up seeing Bill 'Superfoot' Wallace literally kick his way to fame had me thinkin' "That's the way to go!"
So I developed my kicking so's I could hit from any angle, and almost any range. But then once I got tied up in a Junior High fight in a doorway, and couldn't kick. He was a wrestler, and tried to take me down. I slipped his headlock (some luck was involved), and reversed it, ramming his head into a brick wall twice. End of fight. But it showed me my strength of kicking could sometimes be a limitation.
Some years later (an understatement), I sought out styles that used hands and feet equally, and Wing Chun nicely gave me whatever expertise I now have above the waist.

*bows*

Kung-Fu fighting Chrisisall

KAZE

Monday, March 27, 2006 3:44 AM

I've been into martial arts since as far back as i can remember in one form or another. Got very serious about it for a while when i was in high school. I did tons of research on all aspects of martial arts, fitness, and related subjects and for a short while i had some regular people i trained with/taught. It all came very naturally to me as far as understanding what would and wouldn't work and why.

For a whole buncha different reason i eventually stopped practicing. I still have huge amounts of research material and stacks and stacks of notebooks and i even still research some now and then but i no longer am physically capable of proving any of my theories.

I usually don't talk much about it. Martial arts discussions can be as bad as arguing about religion sometimes. I just don't have time for it anymore but browncoats are always pretty cool so i figured i'd share a bit more than normal

MAGHAFFAR

Monday, March 27, 2006 4:21 AM

Ni Haozit, fellow BC MAers...
I first got into Chinese arts from watching ol' Kwai-Chang "I...wish no trouble" Caine when in my mid-teens. Now some 30 years later, I've studied southern Shaolin Hung Gar [tiger/crane] got to study / live with my sifu Fred Lee for about a year. He learned from Buck Sam Kong [Lum Jo / Lam Sai Wing branch] then I did about 3 years in a Chinese Shao-lin Center school - really comprehensive school -- made it to 3rd brown 'fore I relocated. Then I found a really good Taiji sifu from PRC who taught me the Wu-Chen-Yang 48. Learned the 8-piece brocade in Maui [lived there 4 years 96-2000]. Tonight, in fact, gonna meet up with a friend who videoed my taiji form so I can have it to review. Been doing more of the internal styles since the body ain't a spry as it used to be. [called me Snake in my 20s cuz I could do the side splits to the ground.] But now I mostly do the taiji / qigong thing, plus practicing punching metal, cement walls, poles, etc. Hung Gar teaches nice body conditioning exercises, arm banging, etc.
I've tried some Japanese/Korean stuff, but my heart's been won by the Shaolin / Taiji thing.
Been considering moving to Vegas for family-related reasons [sister & a nephew -- want to get him started in gungfu] plus there's a CSC school there. Gotta get back into the group class routine. Really miss it.
The gungfu thing is what got me into Chinese language, art, philosophy, history, etc.
Anyway, that's the wrap-up on my MA history.
[deep bow]
-- Jonathan M.A. Ghaffar
the Shaolin Muslim

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JOSSISAGOD

Monday, March 27, 2006 4:31 AM

I'm a wheelchair bound paraplegic so, mostly adapted Akido, and possibly some others that I'm unsure of. All of my training was informal, in a disabled self-defense class.

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

CHRISISALL

Monday, March 27, 2006 6:56 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kaze:

I usually don't talk much about it. Martial arts discussions can be as bad as arguing about religion sometimes.

Arguing 'The Way' is like religion or politics, and Bruce Lee showed me that 'The Way' is like life: ever fluid and always adaptable.
Peace, my fellow MA Browncoat.

Fighting without fighting Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Monday, March 27, 2006 7:02 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MAGhaffar:
Gotta get back into the group class routine. Really miss it.

Know what you mean, since moving to Massachusetts, my sparring has been put on hold. No Chinese Gungfu here, all straight up punch and kick; dying for some ying/yang movement.

When the opponent expands, I contract Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Monday, March 27, 2006 7:08 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by jossisagod:
mostly adapted Akido, and possibly some others that I'm unsure of.

As I get older, I realize that real Martial Arts is about perception and harmony of motion, and not strength or agression. That's for Boxers.

Chrisisall

KAZE

Monday, March 27, 2006 8:25 AM

In what part of Massachusetts do you live? I used to know a guy who taught wing chun and some other martial arts, had a good mix going. He may still be around i could dig up his info for you if you're close enough.

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