Martial Arts Workout

just curious

Capoiera and wushu. Hit youtube to see what I mean

I just want to know because I want to start a good acrobatic martial art and I would like to know if there are any in glasgow or near glasgow and I already know about capoeira so got any more?


Capoeira, Wushu, and not TDK but XMA (extreme martial arts) which often gets confused with TKD because it was developed by TDK practitioners.

i have tried. i started off with tae kwon do and have been practising it for about 10 years. Then i tried doing ninjutsu, and omg i was having a hard time trying to adjust. have any of you been in my shoes? how do you over come it?
how do you learn something new without losing what you have learned?

Generally speaking one spends their entire life mastering just one martial art.

You may become proficient in a few martial arts, but generally you only master one.

That being said, I started studying Kodokan Judo, Goju Ryu Karate, and Hakko Ryu Jiu jitsu and after about six years of training I deemphasized my Karate to emphasize my Judo and Jiu-jitsu.

Even Bruce Lee emphasized Wing Chun kung fu before studying several other styles and creating his mixed martial art of Jeet Kune Do.

I have black belts in Judo, Karate, and Jiu-jitsu. And I have high kyu ratings in: Uechi Ryu Karate, Shotokan, Tae Kwon Do, Kendo, Kodokwan Jiu-Jitsu, and Aikido.

And yes there is a lot of gear shifting when you switch from one style to another. But that is natural. It even happens to the Japanese and Chinese as they try to master several styles of combat.

It is even worse when you shift from a Japanese style to an Okinawan style to a Korean style to a Chinese style.

So stick with two or three styles at the most. Master one and become proficient in two others and you’ve come a long way.

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how about judo ? does it require the splits ?

maybe fencing is the martial arts that requires you to do the splits.

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i’m 24 and i’m intereted in doing it. i started doing it when i was 7, i was yellow belt but i stoped. am i too old now?
also can you suggest a company/place for me to start if i’m not too old? is it expensive?

No you are not too old at 24 !!!

Depends whether you want sporting martial arts or street defence martial arts there are too many to choose within both.
my suggestions would be ,Karate,Jiu-jitsu,Aikido,Judo, wing chun as a starting point good luck.

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I trying to find a martial art that is very good insofar as someone being able to effectively defend themelves. Moreover, I’m looking for a style that doesn’t require any tournament style sparring, but is also reasonably priced($30-50). Thanks.

Chinese "internal" martial arts are a bit stylized but can be used effectively in a self-defence situation. So "Ba Gua Zhang" (sometimes "Pa Kua Chuang") or "Xing Yi" (sometimes "Hsing-I") are good choices. But they’re also rare, depending on where you live. I know for a fact that I’ve had difficulty finding Ba Gua schools in Canada but had little trouble when I lived in Europe.

Perhaps a slightly more common non-competition form of martial art is Ninjustu. But there are many "fake" schools where the instructors are unqualified or are trained in an entirely different martial art and are simply using the mystique of "ninja techniques" as a marketing ploy. The best way to find out if the Ninjutsu dojo is legit is to make sure they are officially aligned with the Bunjinkan ryu- the most well-reputed Ninjutsu ring of schools in the Western world. Also, you can always try asking them their lineage. If they give you a blank expression, you will know they have no idea what they’re talking about.

Shotokan Karate is a last resort. They tend to teach very common sense self-defence manuevers that a person would not really require to throw money out to learn. "Kick them in the crotch and run away" is not only a person’s natural first impulse in a fight-or-flight situation, but it’s also easier said than done when your adrenaline is pumping, your opponent is fighting back and you haven’t been trained properly to deal with the stresses of being attacked by someone bigger, stronger and angrier than you are.

Krav Maga is the penultimate form of self-defence, in my opinion. But schools are impossible to find. The only way to really get an education in it seems to be to join the military, specifically the Army.

So, in short, seek out schools that teach Ba Gua, Xing Yi, Ninjutsu or Shotokan Karate. In that order of preference.

Hope that helps

I know this could turn into a huge list but i’m just looking for some of the more popular fighting styles and maybe a bit of an explanation for each. I’ve heard of so many, i just don’t know the different and the positives and negatives of each.

Boy you are asking for a lot. Just to give you an idea of how impossible it is to answer, consider this……

In China there are known to be at least 300-400 different styles of Kung-Fu. There may be many more than that, but there are known to be at least that many styles.

In Okinawa and Japan there are hundreds of known styles of karate, kempo, kenpo, jujitsu, …… etc. During the Samurai era in Japan, there were known to be several thousand different styles of sword, weapons, and unarmed combat.

And these are just a few of the countries out there. NOTE: I have been a serious student and researcher of the martial arts since 1967. I am semi-retired now after spending most of my life teaching martial arts full time. I still train and study. Even after more than 42 years of study, I’m always hearing about some martial art that has been around for hundreds of years, that I had not heard of before. It does not surprise me since man has had a need to defend himself since the beginning of man. It is only logical to assume that people all over the world would have developed systematized fighting methods long ago, in all parts of the world.