[rufeo]

shotokan is no joke. what is Krav Maga can't say I've ever heard of it?

[garcia3441]

Originally Posted by rufeo

shotokan is no joke. what is Krav Maga can't say I've ever heard of it?

Krav Maga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's the official martial art of the Israeli Defense Forces.

[rufeo]

wow quite interesting

[Desecrated]

I got a brown belt in shotokan karate, it's a pretty fun form of karate.

[Hexer]

I read a bit about Krav Maga some time ago and checked some videos on youtube, too. seems quite interesting to me. its very much focused on modern self defence. a few techniques actually seemed a little similar to kali to me.

anyone into yaw yan? seems really effective, too but looks like it needs quite a bit more training until you can actually make some use of it than some other things

hmm, what is Shotokan Karate btw? I mean of course I know what Karate is (have looked into it a bit some years back) but somehow I dont really know about Shotokan even though the name keeps popping up lol

yesterday I tried some knife-defence and empty hands stuff on my mum, but thats kinda difficult cause I gotta be very carefull not to hurt something hahaha I just wanted to make sure I got that stuff right, especially since I couldnt go to training this thursday

[Desecrated]

Shotokan is an old style of karate. It's much more fixed on the ART then the MARTIAL part of martial arts. Lots of kata and not so much self defense.

[yevetz]

Judo here

But it was about.......7-8 years ago or so

[Hexer]

oh damn, actually I did about 1 year or so of judo training YEAAAAAARS ago when I was a kid (must have been like 8 year old or something...) but it wasnt really for me. right now I think I've pretty much found everything I wanted in Kali hehe

saw something on tv yesterday, they were trying to find out what is the "ultimate weapon of the asian martial arts". there conclusion was, thats its the Katana cause it has good range, is easy to controll, powerfull and doesnt break easily like some other weapons.
I found their experiments and all quite interesting but also a bit lacking partially. in fact I think they only scratched the surface kinda hehe

also saw another thing about martial arts some time ago which I found more interesting. you know like testing what the human body is capable of doing. they had different martial artists strike crash-test dummies and stuff like that.
the boxer was the only one who was able to do a classic one punch KO for example. they had a Kung Fu master, too, he was the fastest (actually they put a sensor in his hand while he was doing a punch and saw that he strikes at about 12m/s which is about 3 times as fast as a snake strikes when it bites). they also had a Ninjitsu master who was the only one having a pretty much perfect balance and also was the only one who is able to kill with a single strike (they let him do it on the dummy and the techs said there was an 80% chance for this hit to be deadly). was quite interesting to watch I thought

[Hexer]

hey guys a little question that is partially related to the topic: does anyone happen to know where I could get a Balisong TRAINING knife in europe (possibly germany)? real Balisongs are illegal in germany and I dont need/want one anyways but a Training-version would be nice just to flip around and train fingers and all

[garcia3441]

I found a couple of locals places that teach Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and one that teaches Muay Thai.