Speaking of famous martial arts guys on the HI forum

Hi Spectre,

Its called "Combat Martial Arts" and has been devised by my Sensei from all of the various arts he has studied. He has taken the best "bits" or techniques from each discipline and combined then with his favourite weapons to his style. Its a modern style but has both budo and bujutsu influences. The unarmed techniques are largely based upon kick and thai boxing training methods as well as traditional hand to hand combat techniques. Weapons in the style include kukri, Japanese sword and Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife.

From white to Green belt is unarmed only, blue belt is basic kukri, red belt basic kenjutsu, purple belt more unarmed, brown belt is Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife and knife defence, Shodan (black 1st Dan) is intermediate combat kukri, Nidan (2nd Dan) Batto Jutsu with intermediate Kenjutsu etc etc!

We also have a hefty load of theory to learn. Basic sports science, History of relevant Martial Arts, History of the Gurkhas, History of the Samurai etc, which I really enjoy! It certainly keeps me occupied!!

We often have other high ranking Sensei come to our dojo to learn from Sensei Simon Hengle as well as the occasional Gurkha, which can be quite daunting for someone like me!!

May I ask what art it is you study?? Just realised I already posted by mistake just now!! Spent ages trying to remember what I put!
 
I'm another "X-kanner", training since '94 in first the Bujinkan, then the Jinenkan. My training schedule was interrupted by joining the Army in late 2001. Found a Bujinkan teacher at Fort Lewis this past year, but haven't had an instructor since then.

You may know something about it, but the Bujinkan and Jinenkan have ukemi, grappling, striking, and weapons work. My favorite manual weapon is the spear, but I've trained much more with the bo staff than anything else.

Your classes certainly sound very interesting. Watching a class with kukuris work out is something I'd certainly love to see! :)

Best,

John
 
interesting that people are starting to come out about their martial arts

have to admit, know those names and knew some of them...and to find to some its history
 
K,
Dif.time & era! We used to visit other schools & spar(spar??HEE!IT WAS KNOCKDOWN WAR)!If you went alone,NO-ONE EVER SAID NO!! The class would look at you like you were fresh MEAT! Everyone wanted a piece of you! Nowdays,they worry about being SUED!Back Then, It was,"Let's see what you got! Bring it"!! We used to follow the standings religiously! We knew when Lewis & Wallace was fighting & where,this was the heyday! Still think it was 6mo. with Lewis not 7 but I could be wrong! Wallace did go undefeated!! He also went to Lewis for hand tech.!! Heck,exchanging styles is nothing NEW!!IT WAS DONE BACK THEN,if you had no hand tech,just kicks & got your clock cleaned,you didn't just keep doing what you were doing,you went & learned what you needed to know!! Then!!You just had to "visit" to see if it worked!Sorry,to carry on & bore you all!!One last thought,K,nowdays,don't know who is who in the "SPORT"anymore! Do know some of the young guys,still get cocky,find out some "old" guy knows a "little" MA or states he used to do a little Karate & they want to "PLAY" to show the old guy up! LOL!!
THE SAINT!:cool:
 
Clifton!!

EVERYBODY KNOWS that DUCKS have webbED feet and CAn't kick!!

<sigh> inhaling too much guano from the cave I guess.........:p :p
 
I don't study MA, wrestled in HS is all. One of my sons studied kajukenbo for 2yrs, lost interest unfortunately. I was interesting to watch when the black belts had their initiations and training sessions. I don't think they went home until someone bled! (my son stopped at purple belt).

My son's sifu said just what you folks have said though. In the old days they practiced on uncarpeted floors, and they practiced HARD. Different times with law suits and all i guess.:(
 
This is rather embarassing...i am not a Martial Arts expert by any means, still a beginner with lots to learn. Lots and lots to learn.

I dabble in Japanese swords as a hobby business to pay for my facination with sharp, shiny objects :) Copied the dimensions of a famous old blade with a buddy of mine and got it custom made by Paul Chen in China for MA use. I could not even sharpen my kuks properly let alone make a sword :(

alf
 
In the past... Tang Soo Do, Tae Kwan Do (I have a Blue tip), Shotokan, Shutokai and Kyo-Koshin Karates, Muay Thai, Western Kickboxing, Wushu, Wing Chun, Lo Ha Ba Fut, Choy Lee Fut, Lung Ying, and Hung Gar Kung Fu styles, a little Bando, JKD and Freestyle...

And a few more I may have forgotten!

Now, I do:
Shingen Ryu Batou Jutsu (teaches Daito, Shoto, Tanto and Naginata), various Aikido styles, Hockheim CQC, Knife and Archipelago Combatives (a flawless blend of everything that works, including Arnis De Mano, Modern Arnis, Bujitsu Kempo, Aiki-Jitsu, Kajukenbo, Ju Jitsu and Sadiq Kuntao Silat), Wayne Roy Ninjutsu (a modern, tactical version of Bujinkan Ninjutsu)...
 
Been doing Koryu Japanese jujutsu since before it was the new "fad".
I used to teach in a Judo Dojo and when the UFC came out in the early nineties and all of the Koroteee people were getting chewed up by jujutsu-I had to put up with being Dojo stormed for years as all of the Wallace, Lewis, Norris, Lee, Benny the jet, followers wanted to find out why they kept losing to jujutsu.
In the end Lewis and Norris (true to their fighting core)said "If ya can't beat em-join em." They took up..............jujutsu.
Next, most of the Korean, pajama wearing money making machine martial art crowd suddenly....."discovered"....... all this long forgotten Jujutsu in TKD and TSD that we...who had been in the arts for years had never ever "seen" before. Those were some funny times.

Come to think of it we had a few Bando guys show up to. We have a Bando school here. Been here for twenty years.

Also been doing another Japanese Koryu for years now that includes; Iai, paired form work, short Sword, two sword, bo, Naginata, Yari. etc. It is the oldest continually taught art in Japan. To be clear lets say it is the oldest legitimate school that everyone agrees is real and recognized as such.
There are VERY few "real" Japanese arts that are known to be authentic and have the documentation _IN_ Japan and are also taught and/or practiced here.

Martial arts and the state of them in the world today is in a sad state. Most of them are anything BUT martial. Typically you see the "self defense" tag applied to them. In fact, self-defense is antithetical to what the martial arts were all about to begin with. Self-defense is a very narrow aspect of a martial pursuit. Today they are nothing but a "hobby." A casual pursuit of suburban white boys and girls that is not "martial" in any context of the word, nor are their adepts capable of using them against a person who can man-handle them and see their efforts undone, and to defend against that in a method that can be recognized as any thing even close to an "art" form. They usually fall apart and start flailing just before they are thrown down and choked out.

As for these "a little of this- and a little of that" artists who take all sorts of disconnected techniques and threw them all in a pot to "make a martial art?"
It is anyones guess as to what ya end up with. There is a reason that Lee was rare. He had a theory.
Disparate techniques need to be linked and joined by a connecting cogent principle of movement and rational theory. Your average Billy-bob at the local strip mall is wholly incapable of pulling that off. Just ask them. Their visible technique is usually about as "deep" as their theories when pressed from knowledgable people.
One well known Japanese jujutsu sensei looked at a bunch of these "a little of this- a little of that" schools that ran the gamut from comical, to awful, to just plain crude bludgeoning and he said

" A little of this and a little of that, is a great way to make beef stew-not martial arts."

I have been calling them "beef-stew arts" ever since.

It is a rare thing -even in the Martial....er...fauna and faura to find a fellow who can get out of a cooperative dojo setting and withstand sustained agression from a trained fighter with anything that is "identifiable technique" from his given ryu. To do it with any thing even remotely akin to an "ART" is rare(er) still.

As for dojos....Most fighters will just show up and just play well in the sand box to see what ya gots in yer martial arts thingy-ma-bob and they will be ever polite. Beyond that, if you ask them to "bang" with you, you may see some things you were not aware of. I have done this with Korotee schools (I use this term to differentiate from quality-read real- karate dojo) that I have watched for years and who magically hung up jujutsu tags that they added on their signs. Why? a little leg trip here, a little Aikido's Kotegaeshi there- does not a jujutsu ryu make, not by a long shot. Most are wholly unprepared for what an art meant to take people apart can and will do. It sure surprised the hell out of me-I remember realizing I had never seen a person move that way or to see an entry so direct.

Annnnyyyyway.........

Oh, I also Forge Katana, kukri, and other things and we test cut on live trees.

cheers
Dan
 
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