Any Martial Artists Here?

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yeah i dont think they had weight divisions in that tournament (it was the first), kinda like the old skool UFC. It was literally a King of the Hill type fight, with guys weighing 185lbs taking on 350lb sumo wrestlers. It's hard to say a style sucks when you got discrepancies like that. But the UFC has evolved now and things are a bit fairer. Karate tournaments have followed suit, and if you ever got involved with martial arts again and competed, you would have classes divided by weight AND age.

 

it was a documentary made by Oyama to promote his style.

 

you mean it wasnt an unbiased account of Karate vs Kung Fu?

 

LOL...Check out the Oyama Trilogy starring Sonny Chiba (who was a student of his ). Crazy, but good stuff.

 

the japanese and chinese are always going at each other. Kung fu kicked karate-ass in 'Ip Man' and the Bruce Lee joints....then you watch something like this and the red-sash kung-fu guys arent even treading water.

 

I used to take shaolin kung fu (I know, I'm a nerd). The instructor was a badass.

 

Merge that with your MMA training and you will be damn near unstoppable.

Kung fu needs more people to represent it in the ring.

 

Did you do that before or after watching 'Kung Fu: The Legend Continues'




I never taken that tho...frankly there arent many schools around here that teach it...BUT there are literally two TKD centers within 1 block of each other in my neighborhood, and maybe a dozen or two BJJ centers in the city alone

Fast Food martial arts at its best

 

They'll never get along and a majority of what is taught as 'kung fu' ain't kung fu. Its BS.

 

I actually grew up wanting to study that but as I got older most traditional styles seem impractical that's why I'm really into krav maga now.

 

Yeah, that's exactly why i stopped doing it

 

Problem is most kung fu teachers don't teach fighting...only forms.

 

That's what I loved about Oyama. You had to be bad ass to take it and there were only three schools in my area which created a real brotherhood.

 

Kung-Fu hasnt gotten attention in MMA since Jason DeLuca, a red-sash practitioner, failed in the UFC

to be honest tho, I think he competed before people adapted BJJ/grappling to their striking.....it's still like a red-headed stepchild, along with TKD.

top fighters usually go the muay thai/wrestling or BJJ route, probably because Muay Thai is a ring sport, that is not based on the individual point-scoring system of other martial arts.

 

Yeah fun to watch that's why they usually win the kata portion of tournaments.

 

Look at Cung Le. :wink:

 

Google Kung fu and Cultural revolution and you'll see what happened.

 

That full shin roundhouse is suppose to be the most effective kick in mma

 

cut me some slack i cant keep up on all the fighters



i heard he was BEAST tho and put on some good ass fights. It just doesn't get that much attention. I dont know any schools around here that mix Kung-Fu with their MMA classes.

 

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