Martial Arts!
Martial Arts!
Do any of you forum members take any type of martial arts?
If you don't, you really should. Martial arts teaches you self defence, it makes you stronger, teaches you discipline and makes you more healthy.
Me? I take vovinam. Basically combining lightning fast aerial attacks and techniques with beautiful form. Its freaking awesome, you should check youtube for some videos.
If you don't, you really should. Martial arts teaches you self defence, it makes you stronger, teaches you discipline and makes you more healthy.
Me? I take vovinam. Basically combining lightning fast aerial attacks and techniques with beautiful form. Its freaking awesome, you should check youtube for some videos.
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I'm not very active, but I sometimes used to practice Jitkyùndo with a buddy of mine. Despite my laziness, however, I do hold a deep reverance for martial arts.
When I was nine, I saw a Tai Chi master at a mixed arts exhibition. He was this seventyish year old man, five foot nothing, and he's fighting all these young guys from every style and school, and seemingly not lifting a finger.
At one point, he asked for a large group of volunteers, about a dozen, and challenged them to land a single strike against him. So they all ran at him, slightly staggered one after another, and he literally just started flinging them across the mat like ragdolls, hardly even moving to do it.
~Alja-Markir~
When I was nine, I saw a Tai Chi master at a mixed arts exhibition. He was this seventyish year old man, five foot nothing, and he's fighting all these young guys from every style and school, and seemingly not lifting a finger.
At one point, he asked for a large group of volunteers, about a dozen, and challenged them to land a single strike against him. So they all ran at him, slightly staggered one after another, and he literally just started flinging them across the mat like ragdolls, hardly even moving to do it.
~Alja-Markir~
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Alja-Markir wrote:I'm not very active, but I sometimes used to practice Jitkyùndo with a buddy of mine. Despite my laziness, however, I do hold a deep reverance for martial arts.
When I was nine, I saw a Tai Chi master at a mixed arts exhibition. He was this seventyish year old man, five foot nothing, and he's fighting all these young guys from every style and school, and seemingly not lifting a finger.
At one point, he asked for a large group of volunteers, about a dozen, and challenged them to land a single strike against him. So they all ran at him, slightly staggered one after another, and he literally just started flinging them across the mat like ragdolls, hardly even moving to do it.
~Alja-Markir~
Matrix guy lol. I do Tae kwon do. I've recently graded and now I'm a senior belt. WOOOO!
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Tai Chi is really fascinating because it is entirely based on redirecting your opponents forces. Example. He throws a punch, you apply your own force at an angle, amplifying his speed and taking him off balance as his arm safely rockets past you. Now you apply a force onto his torso and propel him even faster forward and he flies out of control and lands on his face.
You never block something straight, you deflect things smoothly. Think of throwing a heavy rock up and down. If you hold your arm and hand stiff to catch it, it hurts. But if you move your arm along with the rock as it falls, all the while slowly applying a slight relative upward resistance, the rock slows and you catch it without stinging your hand. That's a simplified explanation of the concepts of Tai Chi.
~Alja-Markir~
You never block something straight, you deflect things smoothly. Think of throwing a heavy rock up and down. If you hold your arm and hand stiff to catch it, it hurts. But if you move your arm along with the rock as it falls, all the while slowly applying a slight relative upward resistance, the rock slows and you catch it without stinging your hand. That's a simplified explanation of the concepts of Tai Chi.
~Alja-Markir~
Alja-Markir wrote:Tai Chi is really fascinating because it is entirely based on redirecting your opponents forces. Example. He throws a punch, you apply your own force at an angle, amplifying his speed and taking him off balance as his arm safely rockets past you. Now you apply a force onto his torso and propel him even faster forward and he flies out of control and lands on his face.
You never block something straight, you deflect things smoothly. Think of throwing a heavy rock up and down. If you hold your arm and hand stiff to catch it, it hurts. But if you move your arm along with the rock as it falls, all the while slowly applying a slight relative upward resistance, the rock slows and you catch it without stinging your hand. That's a simplified explanation of the concepts of Tai Chi.
~Alja-Markir~
The second part was supposed to be simple I understood but I don't think many will. Tae kwon do is all about learning how to kill someone in a blink of an eye. I allmost did kill someone once.
Its not all aerial. The aerial is the only thing that sets us apart from other martial arts. And also, we focus a lot on speed more then strength.AmazingPjotrMan wrote:Personally I think aerial attacks are more or less useless unless the the opponent is either tied to something or just stuck.
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I did tae kwon do for a few years, and had the guy who ran the school not become so corrupt with power and greed I would have had a black belt a few years ago. I ended up quitting a couple belts short of black, when the owner guy added more belts between where I was and the black belt, and more below it as well. He also jacked up the prices a bunch of times, and then drove around in his jeep and his porsche instead of teaching like he was supposed to.
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I am being technical but power is force times speed.
Really being picky but by using × you indicate that power is the cross product of acceleration and velocity which would make power a vector which it is not.
Really being picky but by using × you indicate that power is the cross product of acceleration and velocity which would make power a vector which it is not.
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I must ask, as I've not seen you on the boards yet, and your name intrigues me...
Would it be a reference to Daler?
*grins*
~Alja-Markir~
Addendum: Whoops! My bad! That's Mehndi, not Mendhi. I believe yours is actually a term related to henna?
Addendum Again: Okay, apparantly both spellings are acceptable for both subjects.... so... uhh... Tunak Tunak Tun? Or no?
Would it be a reference to Daler?
*grins*
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Addendum: Whoops! My bad! That's Mehndi, not Mendhi. I believe yours is actually a term related to henna?
Addendum Again: Okay, apparantly both spellings are acceptable for both subjects.... so... uhh... Tunak Tunak Tun? Or no?
Mendhi wrote:I took karate for years, I can still do a mean snap kick. I've always been interested in Tai Kwon Do, all those little old ladies in the park doing it can't be wrong!
Tae kwon do is (Tai?) is very similar to Karate. I've seen comparisons and Tae kwon do is better as Karate doesn't use hip twist from what i've seen. Punches are allmost the same except the hip twist.
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god0fgod wrote:I had an argument on another board on what force was I said speed x acceleration as I thought it was the same as power. Other people said a lot of other things. I guess we were all right maybe then.
Speed times accelerations is most definitely not force.
Speed is meters per second.
Acceleration is meters per second squared.
Multiplied together, you get meters squared per seconds cubed, which would give you no actual mathematical number.
Closest thing you have is jerk, which is meters over seconds cubed.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration
"acceleration is measured in metres/second² (m·s-²)"
You were saying?
"acceleration is measured in metres/second² (m·s-²)"
You were saying?
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I took like one karate class when I was little, but freaked out and quit when someone hit me (yeah, I know, stupid move. I was little, give me some slack!)
I really wish I would've stuck with it, cause that'd be just the thing I need. People see that I'm so small, and think they can mess with me... but if they tried I could roundhouse kick them in their face.
That'd be awesome
I really wish I would've stuck with it, cause that'd be just the thing I need. People see that I'm so small, and think they can mess with me... but if they tried I could roundhouse kick them in their face.
That'd be awesome
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