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I need to find different types of grappling martial arts besides Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or Judo, and i need different forms of soft martial arts besides Kung-Fi or Aikido….thanks!

Ultimately,

It depends on what is available for you.

Other grappling based Martial Arts:

Sambo: Essentially a combination of Judo and Russian Folkstyle wrestling. Great Art, especially Combat Sambo which also does striking. There are quite a few schools in the US, but it is still pretty hard to find.

Catch Wrestling: Olympic style wrestling with hooks (submissions). Very solid style, but hard to track down someone legitimate, so hard to find.

Greco Roman: Upper body derived take downs, no shots, solid throws, and matwork no submissions.Usually taught in High School as part of a Wrestling Athletic Program.

Freestyle Wrestling: Shots, and of course matwork. No submissions. Usually taught in High School as part of a Wrestling Athletic Program.

Shuai Jiao: Chinese/MOngolian wrestling. Some all around wrestling with some submissions, I haven’t really rolled with any practitioners so I can’t tell you how effective it is, but it is rare and probably no school near you.

Khmer Traditional Wrestling: Basic wrestling style, very leverage based, no submissions or joint locks, just solid fundamentals. If you live in Cambodia, easy to find, otherwise good luck.

Others have mentioned Japanese JiuJitsu.

There is no basically Submission Wrestling that is easy to find. Solid No Gi based wrestling that involves submissions and generally includes techniques from many grappling arts.

As far as Soft Style:

By lsaying no Kung Fu (which is MANY MANY styles, some of which are soft) essentially you are looking for Soft Style arts that are not Chinese.

Soft styles are generally styles that focus on redirection of energy and flowing type of attacking.

Systema: Russian based art, normally considered flowing, but it differs so greatly hard to really label it. 90% of it is BS, but there are good schools.

Hapkido: Think of it as Korean Aikido with more strikes, still uses principles of redirection and flow.

Silat: Indonesian art, though it does combine some hard principles, it is very flow derived.

There are probably a ton of arts that combine hard and soft elements, not to mention probably a few dozen of rare or exotic soft style arts, all of which are isolated and hard to find on a broad scale.

Hope that is of some help to ya.

i want to learn some good martial art and am not finding any master here to teach me .. so can i learn the art by just seeing videos and books … because as i said it is very difficult to find a martial artist here and is karate a good martial; art

Yes karate is a good martial arts to defend yourself. For example a gang that wants to take you down. a punch, knee, hook, kick knife and gun and etc. Also reading and looking from a book is a great way to learn because you don’t have to pay for classes. Also looking from the book is the basic learning. Even a five year old learns by looking. Also karate can make you mentally and physically strong. Just have a person to practice with like a friend or family.

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I am interested in taking a Martial Arts class, I am 4′10 and female.

I think that every person that practices martial art does it a.o. for these reasons

I am into martial arts. Stretching, sparring, running and all that. But now I do it much less frequent. Most of what I do now is mild stretching while watching the tv or when I wake up in the morning and before I go to bed. My muscles, esp my back, aches even when I’m relaxing. I know lack of the activity might have allowed my muscles to not be as elastic as they used to. Please help me.

you need to stretch. i use the book 3-minutes to a pain free life for my stretching exercises but you can find plenty online but you probably know plenty already. you need to stretch more and it will quit.

One of our Yahoo martial art community was attacked and I read some answers and thought of this question to raise discussion not arguments. I am wondering if anyone out there is training women "softer" because of their sex?
Possibly it is unintentional as society teaches us to be gentle with ladies. Look around at your school before answering honestly please. I have seen and corrected cases of this at our school.

I’ve been teaching for many years now. I remember at one time I used to have a rule that "sex" didn’t exist on the dojo floor. I treated everyone equally and the same. I required as much from the women as I did from the men. I thought that treating them any other way would be doing them a disservice. After many years of teaching I realize that by NOT treating them as women I have done them a disservice. The bottom line is that women and men are different. We’re different in a great number of ways. A man has a natural aggression and fighting spirit. Women have a heart and spirit geared more for nurturing. Men have less emotional content than women. Men are built differently obviously. While I don’t treat them "softer" I do acknowledge that women have a different approach to martial arts than men. I think this is even reflected in many traditional systems. I’ve seen many times where certain weaponry, techniques, methods of movement are intended more for feminine spirit than masculine spirit. So I have adjusted my approach to teaching. While it could be considered a double standard, it is a double standard that is equal. Women train just as hard and are just as effective, it’s just different. Just for some examples of what I’m speaking about in case someone is wondering. Men are much more capable of movements requiring upper body strength. Our center of gravity is a little higher and upper region is broader. Therefore, punching techniques that exit from the chamber are more effective for men than women. Women have a lower center of gravity and a slimmer torso (thank god) and as such can generate more power by moving the entire body (since power can be derived from good foundation) therefore, they are more effective with striking techniques that flow from the chamber and have more of a "whipping" action.

Anyhow, just my two cents. I’m just glad to see women at the dojo. Although this last year the guys at our school have been outnumbered by the girls. Go figure.

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