The Jedi Academy- The Official JA Martial Arts Thread!

The Official JA Martial Arts Thread!

Sep 17 2005 02:12am

Ataris
- Milwaukees Finest

Allright, I can't remember if we ever had our own martial arts thread. But increasing numbers of JA members are in a way or another interested in some sort of martial arts.. Many of the people I've talked to over the years have been or still are active in some sort of martial art, it being everything from Judo and Karate, to more artistic stuff like Capoeira..

So if you have anything related to martial arts, what you train or what your favorite martial art is.. Please post!

I train Muay Thai myself. Thaiboxing for those of you who wonder.. Been training it since late 2004, and I think it's absolutely awesome!

Poll

What's your favorite martial art? To watch, to do, or just what sounds the coolest if you don't know!

(I can't have ALL martial arts, but I'll put 2 in each option)

< Recent Comments

Previous Comments >

Comments

Nov 17 2005 07:45am

Ataris
- Milwaukees Finest

Nov 17 2005 12:35am

Plo Koon
- Student

Ok Major Bump.

Well my ankle is FINALLY better and I went to sparring class tonight. Okay...god have mercy on my poor out of shape body. That's all I'll say about that

_______________
Free Tibet!
Click this link,and learn
Here too

Nov 05 2005 08:22pm

xAnAtOs
- Student

Congrats. What grade are you now? black belt?
_______________
Brother to Luke Skywalker and (SKX) Dark Blade

Lag Brother to Acey Spadey

Jools is my best friend.

<Henkes> nebody feeling like abusing me with a lightsaber?|+Smilykrazy grabs Gradius, beats the living CRAP out of him, then throws him into a huge vat of ACID

Nov 05 2005 01:08pm

Raider
- Student

*Bumb* ^.^

I've been in the local Taekwondo dojo all morning (it's 13:53 now) for graduation.
I decided to go to bed early yesterday, and get up at about 6:30 or so. I went to bed at around 1 and got up at 8:32 :/, started rushing around, gathering all the stuff I needed, my dobok, my belt, money for graduation and possibly a new belt, my pensum book ect ect.
When I got there 8:59 (my mother was driving me, thank god) I realise I, of course, had forgotten my pass needed for graduation. I wave my mother back just before she leaves, tells her to get my pass here no matter what.
So far, it had seemed the gods themselves(ish) wanted to stop me from getting my new belt. I enter the dojo rather nervous and tired. Got warmed up and sent outside and waited for the lower members(we start from the buttom, the higher belts tend to take our sweet time ^^), wrestling a little with a friend of mine to get our nerves down, and finally entered the dojo when the lowbies were done.
The graduation went kinda okay, thou I had to save my energy to make it last because I am in bad shape, not kicking too hard or fast ect ect.
Finally, when done, I had time to relax and felt like passing out on the floor. I was told that it was a very good graduation, I had given a lot of my time into training my things(aye, riiiight

) and I understood what was needed to understand. I had a beautiful "ground" techneque, good control of my body and I was appearently very flexible. I was told that all I needed to train was very small things, making the grades go from very good to perfect.
Then I ate shawama and drank cola for breakfast.

\o/

Edit: Oh and I did pass
_______________
Artificial intelligence beats natural stupidity.

This comment was edited by Raider on Nov 05 2005 01:09pm.

Oct 26 2005 02:06am

Trad Redav
- Student

Quote:

Well, after 3 weeks of healing I thought I was good enough to use it, but after tonights class I went to, I can't even walk normal without it really really hurting (aaaaahh!). I'm starting to think I'm really skrewed up, so I'll go see the foot doctor to see what's really wrong. It really sucks not being able to do what you love, even if it's just for a while

Ouch. Good luck with that; hopefully it'll be nothing serious.

In other news, today marks the one-year anniversary of me being a black belt. Yay!
And un-related, but one of the instructors has set me a task that is gong to take some time and effort: I need to work on getting my kicks to the point where I can leave them out there for a few seconds before rechambering. Right now, if I try to hold them out, after the first second or so they just drop drastically... especially with the black belt forms coming up that are very showy, and look most impressive when you can hold high kicks out for, like, five seconds...
So, yeah. That's my goal. Add proficiency in kicking for show to my kicking for all that other stuff I do.
_______________
Well then. Just so you know, just because I don't post often doesn't mean I don't lurk this place multiple times every day...

Oct 26 2005 01:14am

Mic Den Octela
- Student

My training is complicated, hard and gradually increases. However, its frequent. Daily

I prefer to do it in private, go out into the woods that is so conveniently next to our village/town. Return when you are near enough crawling home. lol Just kidding. I return when my life requires me back

. Which isn't long.

Whatever your training is. Never let yourself get used to it so that it is easy. Forever set your goals higher and you'll break your limits.

We may only be human, but we can push ourselves beyond our mind.
_______________
-Padawan of Virtue -Brother of Menaxia, *|irael, Krynn Adept, Majno, Ris Win Juljul, DaMi3N, Beowulf, Dash Starlight, Carrock and Yuken Zalak Bartender at Munes bar. Sir Mic of Nippledom! Proudly beating Wang, since '07. (Crackdown)

This comment was edited by Mic Den Octela on Oct 26 2005 01:16am.

Oct 26 2005 01:00am

Plo Koon
- Student

_______________
Free Tibet!
Click this link,and learn
Here too

Oct 21 2005 12:46am

Ataris
- Milwaukees Finest

Well I basicly have 3 different training types:

1. Muay Thai training at our gym:

warming up (running, jumping, punching bags etc etc..)
Stretching (mostly legs/waist)
Technique training (pretty much everything you can do in MT)
Some sparring
More stretching
Muscular training (situps/pushups, that kind of stuff)
Stretching on your own if you don't have to leave for anything

2. Working out in the gym

Weightlifting (benchpress/legpress/abworkout.. the lot!)
Jumpingrope (my favorite! really builds up your stamina, and good warming up too)
Other than that, I do basicly every machine you can find in a gym

3. Jogging

nothing weird about that? running around on the track and whatnot..

I can't really tell you how many reps I do, since it varies.. something from 2-3 times 20-40 per exercise. sometimes I'm lazy and I don't do that many, other days I really feel like torturing myself and I go to a mad extent, and then I'm sore the next week or so, which isn't that good..

-Ataris <3
_______________
[ Honorable mentions: aph3x | Milamber | Bail Hope Belouve | Jaiko D'Kana | Rosered | JediEthic | Mike/JJ/TheKing | Kensei | Dane | Gradius | Thomas Skywalker | Pink Floyd | Setementor | Steinin | Odan-Wei ] [ Owner of: MetaDust's 500th comment! | Eica's 700th comment! | Pink Floyd's 666th, 999th, 1200th and 1337th comment! | DarkRyu's 400th comment! | Redeye's 1st comment! | Cow's 1111st comment! | Rufusan's 75th comment! | Wicek's 3300th and 3400th comment! | Dash Starlight's 2000th comment! | Piccolo's 3400th comment! | Takaru's 300th comment! | Senor Hat's 900th comment! | Rytandus' 4160th comment! | The first ever awarded, the original, the one and only, Catphin Award!!1 ] "Music expresses that which can not be put in to words but can not remain silent."

This comment was edited by Ataris on Oct 21 2005 12:48am.

Oct 20 2005 10:59pm

xAnAtOs
- Student

Actually, that reminds me. What kind of training routines do you guys put yourselves through? How many pushups/situps/chin ups/leg raises etc? What kind of pushups? Aerobic and anaerobic exercises? Perhaps meditation? 15 mins jog? Gym - weights, dumbells, bench press etc? Enlighten me.

_______________
Brother to Luke Skywalker and (SKX) Dark Blade

Lag Brother to Acey Spadey

Jools is my best friend.

<Henkes> nebody feeling like abusing me with a lightsaber?|+Smilykrazy grabs Gradius, beats the living CRAP out of him, then throws him into a huge vat of ACID

Oct 20 2005 10:45pm

Ataris
- Milwaukees Finest

Hope you get back in full training soon Plo

Theese things happen so what can you do heh

Oct 20 2005 06:19pm

Plo Koon
- Student

Sigh... This blows that I can't do any martial arts with my ankle all skrewy right now

But it's slowly getting better, It's been two weeks, so hopefully another week or two. All I can practice is punches, pushups and stretching LoL

_______________
Free Tibet!
Click this link,and learn
Here too

Oct 16 2005 07:06pm

Trad Redav
- Student

Jackie Chan is a genius. Completely ignoring how good he might be in real life or anything, in movies he makes everything look so easy-- that is, until you see the outtakes

. I've recently gone through seeing most of his movies in sequential order (starting with the chinese kung-fu movies that have very little plot but brilliant fight choreography) and ending with Rush Hour 2 just last week or so. I just can't help but exclaim whenever he rolls into a window or something like that-- he's really, really good.
_______________
Well then. Just so you know, just because I don't post often doesn't mean I don't lurk this place multiple times every day...

Oct 16 2005 05:32pm

Yuken Zalak
- Student

Im glad about your replies... I though everyone woudl go stand against me and say Im a too big fan of TV and yes it´s true I do watch alot of martial art movies but then again i watch then and compare them with the reality trought my experience and then learn from the reality side of the movies...

I liek Jackie Chan´s style in the movies ALOT... You can´t make martial art more realistic than that... I mean he doesn´t kick a guy down and then run for the other guy but he runs away, uses the enviroment and in a flat area with many guys against he usually gets a beat up...
_______________
=Y-Z=

Yay Piccolo´s 777th post, [Yay Damien´s 250th post, [OMG LADY´s 800 POSTAH!!![Lady´s 888 post... YAY!!!

Oct 16 2005 11:39am

Ataris
- Milwaukees Finest

Quote:

Every über great thaifighter should try to learn some Kung-Fu to gain a huge advantage...

Yeah cross-training gives you an edge. But an edge in what? Streetfights? UFC? Pride? I'm a big fan of the two last mentioned, but I couldn't see myself entering the octagon or writing on a pride contract. I'm all for MT and I doubt training something else for MT fights would do anything else but get me confused..

Quote:

I know the thread only asks peoples opinions but I wanted to bring this up

The thread is for general talking about martial arts.. You have anything you want to say concerning martial arts, say it here! Your post was more of the type that I prefer in this thread too, keep on posting if you feel like it

Oct 16 2005 04:36am

xAnAtOs
- Student

lol yea, would be cool to see him still going at it as a 65 year old.

And Plo, I only do karate right now, but I've had some experience in Wing Chun as well as a bit of Jeet Kune Do. I haven't done anything at all for four months now though; i tore a cartilege in my left knee and I haven't been able to do any exercise at all. Most I get up to now is walking, but that gets REALLY boring. I dunno what to do actually, it's not exactly healing, and I don't have enough dough to get an operation done either - I don't even know if an operation is a good idea. I have SO much pent up energy it's not even funny anymore, I'm going insane. :S
_______________
Brother to Luke Skywalker and (SKX) Dark Blade

Lag Brother to Acey Spadey

Jools is my best friend.

<Henkes> nebody feeling like abusing me with a lightsaber?|+Smilykrazy grabs Gradius, beats the living CRAP out of him, then throws him into a huge vat of ACID

Oct 15 2005 11:46pm

Plo Koon
- Student

I totally agreee Yuken. If you click previous page twice and scroll down about 75% I posted a rare link to a 60's interview of Bruce on a talk show that is half an hour long, and a link to a TNT martial arts award show segmant that honors bruce with a very nice video.

I wish he was still alive

_______________
Free Tibet!
Click this link,and learn
Here too

This comment was edited by Plo Koon on Oct 15 2005 11:48pm.

Oct 15 2005 11:13pm

Yuken Zalak
- Student

Nice topic... It gave me a headacahe to answer the poll... My answer woud have been.. A mix of all these... Every art has it weaknesses and strengths... But if I had to pick an art that covers much of all, it would be Jeet Kune Do.. Bruce Lee made up this art and the point is to be faster and more initiative than the other one... Bruce Lee wasn´t the best Kung-Fu artist... He was the best fighter.. His punch was strong enough to knock out a Shootfighter ( ultimate fighting/shooto/freecombat) or a heavy weight boxer... He was the best for his usage of all the strong stuff from the arts, which was later named Jeet Kune Do... Kickboxer´s/thaifighter´s kickstrength, Shaolin monk´s initiativity and quickness, Judoka´s/Aikidokas´s technique of close holding combat, Taekwondoka´s feet technique and tricking, Karateka´s combatibility , Boxer´s toughness and wrestlers slipperity (

) now that is a good fighter... Bruce Lee might not have all those but he had the most of those and that is why he is the best... And nor even Jeet has all these but like Bruce it succeeded the best... No fighting style is the best or strongest and that is the reason I do every type of martial arts I just can find... Every über great thaifighter should try to learn some Kung-Fu to gain a huge advantage...

*Paying honor to Bruce Lee *silent moment*

I know the thread only asks peoples opinions but I wanted to bring this up
_______________
=Y-Z=

Yay Piccolo´s 777th post, [Yay Damien´s 250th post, [OMG LADY´s 800 POSTAH!!![Lady´s 888 post... YAY!!!

This comment was edited by Yuken Zalak on Oct 15 2005 11:16pm.

Oct 15 2005 04:55am

Trad Redav
- Student

...All of my really bad shin-wounds have been from the few tournaments I've been to. (Ahh, memories. Have you ever seen in a movie or something somebody getting kicked and literally flying back a few feet before landing? Have you wondered if that was really possible? Trust me-- it is. It's happened to me.) So they haven't really been all that frequent. I haven't been to many tournaments, I don't really like them.

In other random news, I've learned up to move 32 or so of my form. Still more to go, though. The thing that makes this form hard to learn is that is has no real pattern to it at all-- yes, some moves happen again later with the opposite side, but not where you'd expect, and not really in the same order. It's a really fun form, though. It also holds a somewhat special significance for me, because it's the highest-rank form I watched other people learn before I got to black belt myself. So once I learn it, I basically have nothing from way back when that I still need to learn. Of course, now later black belt forms have replaced these in my "I really want to learn that" list, but whatever

.

_______________
Well then. Just so you know, just because I don't post often doesn't mean I don't lurk this place multiple times every day...

This comment was edited by Trad Redav on Oct 15 2005 04:57am.

Oct 15 2005 01:18am

cHoSeN oNe
- Retired

Steven Seagal pwns j00!!!1
_______________
Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Oct 15 2005 01:06am

Ataris
- Milwaukees Finest

Quote:

That really is insane though ataris, don't you guys have shin guards? no...I guess not

yeah of course we have shin guards, not in matches though, and sometimes in trainings we don't use them since you're not SUPPOSED to kick hard lol.. Guess how good that works when you're 19 and sparring against your friend heh

Oct 14 2005 11:30pm

Plo Koon
- Student

Ladies & Gentlemen, Ataris...crazy-l337-warrior.

Don't hurt him, he'll hurt him, then hurt you!

That really is insane though ataris, don't you guys have shin guards? no...I guess not
_______________
Free Tibet!
Click this link,and learn
Here too

This comment was edited by Plo Koon on Oct 15 2005 12:06am.

Oct 14 2005 02:40pm

Ataris
- Milwaukees Finest

Quote:

LOL...So Ataris, when you do roundhouses with bare shins, how does it feel when it hits directly on a pointy elbow?

Well I don't do high roundhouses that much, since I'm too short for my current weightclass, so they're high to me, but not that high for the opponents.. But a shinkick, that really hurts.. like a roundhouse only to the legs.. low roundhouse if you may, and if the opponent blocks it with his shin, you'll both have a nice lump on yer shin.. I've had a couple which were around 5cm in diameter, and around 3cm in height from your shin.. NOT a pretty sight! and hurts like hell

I believe you would pretty much get the same things when you kick someone in their pointed elbows or something..

Oct 14 2005 01:53pm

Plo Koon
- Student

LOL...So Ataris, when you do roundhouses with bare shins, how does it feel when it hits directly on a pointy elbow?

And Xanatos, do you do any martial arts?

_______________
Free Tibet!
Click this link,and learn
Here too

Oct 14 2005 12:06pm

Ataris
- Milwaukees Finest

So now we need some fresh thing to start debating on then, when you're finished with your TKD..

Oct 11 2005 04:11am

Trad Redav
- Student

Quote:

That site even has ITF Chang Hon poomse, that's your forms right?

that's in there that goes before Kwan Gae and is learned by Recommended Black Belts. Theres also another before Chun Ji (pronounced "song song"

that's the first form new people start to learn, but they don't really learn all of it until further along. (So if you count, I know 13 forms and am started on Ge Baek, my 14th)

In regard to the site with the form movies: I looked at some of the ITF form movies, and those are basically my forms, but that's not really exactly my forms. The style is a bit different, and some moves are modified a bit. But those are basically them, yeah.
_______________
Well then. Just so you know, just because I don't post often doesn't mean I don't lurk this place multiple times every day...

This comment was edited by Trad Redav on Oct 11 2005 04:11am.

< Recent Comments

Previous Comments >

#Jedi-Academy on irc.quakenet.org

Administration:

Chris "" DuBois - Academy Leader
Kevin "" Laude - Academy Website and Game Server Administrator
Gonçalo "" Trindade - European Management
Jens "" Nilsson - The Enforcer
Adam "" Fearn - Community Liasion
Questions? Comments? Snide Remarks? Email one of us.

This site has nothing to do with LucasArts, LucasFilm, Raven Software, or George Lucas. We are simply big fans of the games and the movies, and Star Wars, Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Knight, and content directly from the game, along with the Jedi Academy name, are their copyrights and should be credited to them and no one else. Thank you, and have a nice day.

Site Design Copyright ©2004 Chris DuBois and Kevin Laude