Monday, August 21, 2006

Martial arts in class

As it happens, we have expertise in various martial arts in our class.
What do you want to know about martial arts?
Did you realise you were doing basic aikido today? Does anyone know what aikido is?
I have posted some links for those of you studying martial arts as a topic.

aikido pics clips and info:
http://www.aikidofaq.com/multimedia.html

Of course, we now have a dreaded new flea weight wrestling champ. Perhaps judo might be an option for our wrestlers?
http://www.judoinfo.com/

The other main Japanese art is Karate, which comes in many forms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate

Of course, there is something mysterious and beautiful about the more ancient and deadly way of the samurai:
http://www.samurai-archives.com/

Not to be outdone, other countries have their own arts. China has tai chi chuan and different styles of kung fu. Perhaps it all began with the Shaolin monks:
http://www.shaolin.com/

Even the seemingly peaceful Indian culture has a martial style quite unique in itself:
http://www.kalaripayattu.org/

Of course, all cultures probably had their own ways of fighting hand to hand. In our own beautiful country we have the fearsome Maori warrior tradition with beautiful but deadly hand made weapons:
http://maorisource.com/MaoriWeapons.html

16 comments:

catgirl said...

Miallo!
Nice lists of links, by the way. I might have a look at some of those.
Did you know that karate and martial art thingy-ma-bobs can do funny stuff to people? For exaple, there's this guy called Tony Anthony, who was a karate champ (I think)for 3 years. Then he became a body guard, and he had so much anger and fire inside of him he killed or injured anyone in his way to get to the person he wanted to! He got sentenced to 3 years jail, and after 1/2 a year, a guy came up to him and told him about Jesus and he became a Christian over night! How funkishly cool is that!
And then there's Sumo wrestlers who are so fat they have to get someone to wipe their bottoms for them (yeuch!)...

laffydaffy said...

yuck, you know sumo wrestles eat this soup thingy to make them fat

Sig said...

I do Wado Kai Karate, and I find it really hard work but afterwards you feel really refreshed. I could tell people about it if you're interested. It just 5 or 6 minutes away from Peachgrove (intermediate).

I might look at the links as well, but right now I don't have the time. Oh well.

catgirl said...

I reckon Karate is good for stuff like self defence, because if you're walking somewhere late at night and a person comes up to you and tries to kidnap, rape or do something else equally as pleasant to you then you can hurt them and run like mad.
For some tips on how to hurt them, go to my brand new blog!!! Yay!

Sig said...

Karate isn't all just hitting people and trying to bash them up, you know. It's also about teaching you respect, self-discipline and techique. Then, and only then, are you able to bash people up! (laughs)

catgirl said...

I didn't say it wasn't, Sig. True, technique and blah are important-they're pretty much the most important thing! But I was saying that it is good for self defence, not that it is all about hurting others. But you've got to admit it is a rather satisfactory way to beat others up!
And what you said about "then, and only then can you beat them up" doesn't have to be true-there's just no guarantee you won't get in trouble for doing it!!!

MrWoody said...

great point sigorama 8>)

Sig said...

me sorry catgirl....... =S (muffles a giggle) your cool so i wont be.....um.........whats the word? .........ANNOYING! thats it! and yes it IS very satisfactory when you get to free-spar with someone you don't like! (evil laugh)

and you can beat people up before you know everything in the world (i guess) but you won't be as good.

P.S. thanks mr woodles for acknowledging!

P.P.S. CUTE picture catgirl!

Ernesty said...

mr woody i want 2 include 2 modern martial arts and 2 martial arts that were made a long time ago.

The modern 1s r: taekwondo and muay thai

historic martial arts: kung fu and karate
can u plz tell me ur opinion?

Thanks
Ernesty

Ernesty said...

actually can i change the question, i want it to be based on karate and taekwondo (because they are the main martial arts you can learn right now), how bout "karate VS taekwondo?"
we can talk about it at skool.

Urxan said...

Mr Woody,
Can we learn martial arts for P.E.? People like Sig could teach us the basics and the we can do self defence thingys???

Please?????????
Urxan

Ernesty said...

mr woody can you come 2 my blog, we can chat there, just go 2 the "talk space!" thnx

laffydaffy said...

I've never been interested in martial arts but it is a good way to defend yourself and it teaches you dicipline

MrWoody said...

nice sign off line, monkey man - made me laugh - as for you, sabor -you are talking rubbish - no offence. but you have your facts wrong.

MrWoody said...

great post master mind - but you still haven't proven anything. you have merely written out your opinion. and that is based on some guy weho its trying to convert people to christianty and sell books, so how trustworthy is that? as for karate being a defensive art, i would like you to justify that statement too.

MrWoody said...

great comment master mind - but, to be sure, knowing someone doesn't mean they don't have to prove their point with references, etc.
you also need to work on punctuation and spelling.
keep up the interesting comments - just try to give references to back up your point.
you have excellent speaking and debating skills. they need honing though.
please don't think i'm trying to disparage your beliefs. try to look beneath the surface, grasshopper...
;>)
p.s. not believing in religious traditions doesn't make my life pointless or sad [necessarily] - but of course, we must agree to disagree.