Karate?

[ZacharyW]

Does anyone here do Karate/that sort of thing ?

I am enjoying Karate.

Just wondering :tum

[qwerty guy]

Used too.

I was going to go back to formal training about a month and a half ago, but the place called me so much wondering if I was going to start I got erked. That, and I own a gun now so.....

[Pastorj]

Too fat and not limber enough. However, my children did it for a couple months and loved it. Just too expensive for us right now.

[Kayla]

I used to do Taekwondo but...I am in college now and I don't have the time. I got pretty high up I was a blue belt with a red stripe.

[Marcus2Israel]

Would like to do it for the discipline and excersize but we don't have the money to.

[Kayla]

Would like to do it for the discipline and excersize but we don't have the money to.

You can do it from home, you can buy videos. I used videos after a certain point because classes were so expensive, I rented some of them from the Public library I believe. Then I would enter a tournament when I had the money.

[LindaR]

Christian martial arts????????? Is the practice of the martial arts Biblical? What are the origins of the martial arts? IMHO, there is nothing Biblical or Christian about the martial arts.

Here's an excellent article: Karate, Kids, and the Culture:
Your Child and the Martial Arts
By Linda Nathan - August 2005
http://www.darksideofkarate.com

http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/karate.htm

[Timothy]

IMHO' date=' there is nothing Biblical or Christian about the martial arts.[/quote']Good point, Linda. Personally, I did mixed boxing and wrestling... till I got soooo beaten up, and haven't been as enthusiastic anymore :frog :frog :frog

Edit: I did MIXED boxing... :duh

My nose has never been the same since... why oh why do people like to hit there???

[ZacharyW]

Karate is an art of self-defence from the Ryuku Islands (Okinawa). Apparently it was used to defend against the Samurai Warrior of Japan.

The Karate I go to does (supposedly) NON-CONTACT sparring (fighting).

Me and my brother sometimes play-fight anyway. :Green

[Kayla]

Mixed as in girls fighting too...?

[Timothy]

Mixed as in mixed boxing styles--we kick and sometimes used attacks that aren't really 'boxing' attacks. Some people put boxing in the martial arts category, but IMHO it is just a fighting style nothing else. Mixed boxing is a real thing, and can make someone quite dangerous. Someone who is a champion would make most martial artists look pathetic.

I was much better at wrestling though...

[John81]

Martial Arts simply means fighting skills, basically. Virtually every people has some form of martial arts. The French have their own unique style, for example, and their special police still train in this and use it effectively.

I've always been more interested in practical self-defense than any specific martial art.

Wrestling might have been an interest for me but they ended the wrestling program at the high school I attended the year before I began high school.

[Timothy]

When I was younger, I liked to look for trouble so my intentions weren't so good as that. I liked wrestling because it was generally easier for both myself and opponents that weren't skilled. You could also get out of a fight without laying a single punch, which was a bonus. So I was better at that because me and my mates would get together and have an afternoon of wrestling--it was really fun! :smile

[John81]

I enjoyed lifting weights so I had a stocky build and I was rather fast so wrestling was great. Such moves were also great to deal with a fight situation where you didn't really want to hurt the other person or you just didn't really want to fight them.

[Kayla]

I enjoyed lifting weights so I had a stocky build and I was rather fast so wrestling was great. Such moves were also great to deal with a fight situation where you didn't really want to hurt the other person or you just didn't really want to fight them.

They never let me do wrestling...maybe since I am a girl