First style you learned?

[Judo Tom]

Ok I am assuming most of us have learned, practiced, studied or at least been exposed to multiple styles during our life.

Just curious as to what your first was and what do you think of it now.

Me.. Karate. YMCA when I was 5. I didnt like it preferred baseball... the class was huge the guy had to be making HUGE bucks..

about 10 years later I started Tang So Do and loved it and that really got me into martial arts then I got into Judo and grappling arts.

 

[undisputedjaycee]

boxing . year 10 of my life I got into boxing

 

[Balboa270]

wrestling was first

 

[Ranger11B]

Joind the military at 16 so GFT (ground fight tecniques) and boxing were first. Then Joined a fighting gym and picked up bjj . Muay Thai became my favorite and main fighting style.

 

[Judo Tom]

cool thread.... im actually thinking of starting some muay thai.. havent done any real striking in YEARS

 

[Colstreamer]

I first started with judo, then sacked it after 4 years in favour of taekwondo and ju jitsu, I wanted to do some striking but felt I should keep up some grappling but soon dropped ju jitsu for boxing. I just prefer striking… now I'm doing savat for a change!

 

[Judo Tom]

WHAT!!!!!! quitting JUDO!!!!!

lol j/k man gotta do what you enjoy or there is no point.

 

[ALIN]

Ok I am assuming most of us have learned, practiced, studied or at least been exposed to multiple styles during our life.

Just curious as to what your first was and what do you think of it now.

Me.. Karate. YMCA when I was 5. I didnt like it preferred baseball... the class was huge the guy had to be making HUGE bucks..

about 10 years later I started Tang So Do and loved it and that really got me into martial arts then I got into Judo and grappling arts.

I started out boxing at a very young age.

 

[Stryker1992]

Tae kwon do for like 15 years.....then karate..then thai..just for 12 months. bjj for about 3 years and boxing for 2. All that and I still cannot beat a flea down!

 

[Colstreamer]

Yeah but fleas are tough little buggers.

 

[Firetemperssteel]

Kenpo karate!

 

[Colstreamer]

Kenpo karate!

My ond ju jitsu instructor also did kempo, he integrated it with the ju jitsu, lethal combination.

 

[CYCLONE44]

Got into wrestling when I was 14. Best base for MMA IMHO...

 

[training700]

Boxing 8th grade
Wrestling freshman hs

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[Myphic]

My first was boxing, I then learnt wing chun and Thai kickboxing those mixing it all up, have been great to learn and have been great in mix spar fights

 

[Colstreamer]

My first was boxing, I then learnt wing chun and Thai kickboxing those mixing it all up, have been great to learn and have been great in mix spar fights

Nice combo.

 

[Myphic]

Thanks mate, Thai boxers had to restrict me when I was doin wing chun in fights again wing chun Thai kickboxing was no good, but I took it up because it was definitely a great one against most others, boxing is a great base to start any of em.

You have done alot of em if I remember correctly aye?

 

[Colstreamer]

Mainly Taekwondo and boxing.

I agree, boxing is a good base. Good addition too.


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[Myphic]

I never liked taekwando and not because I can't spell it lol
But never appealed to me, plus when
I sparred others who done it, was a 30sec fight lol but I jumped up levels of skill fights quickly wasn't until others who done what I did plus good grappling skillers took me alittle longer then 30secs lol rarely lost ;p

And hell yeah boxing was good, I learnt bare fists, so I knew how to strike and good movement and dodges with it, so made the others so much easier and made me alot more brutal with it, plus being able to use both hands, didn't make me a right or lefty so was harder to predict lol

 

[Colstreamer]

To be honest what I do doesn't look much like Taekwondo at all. I see what they're doing these days and I'm almost embarrassed to say I do TKD! It seems to have changed do much in the past 10 years or so it's practically unrecognisable.

 

[Myphic]

It used to be different?
With what I've seen of it, TKD has been commercialled for groups of kids n little teen ninja wannabes lol

I had sparred moronic guys you do the whole "horse" stance crap...
And soon that bell rang my "cat" stance was 2 moves and they're out unless they had some braincells left to try and get up, and after they soon lost em lol
TkD your days prob was alot more then what it is now, my mate taught classes and he'd have a rehearse earlier that week on what to teach... Lol
I got taught by an old family friend boxing he was a debt collector for a bikey gang down here known for there violence... :/
And wing chun n Thai kickboxing by another family friend who was ex SAS spent 4 years overseas learning wong chun by some master, he skipped on the little things and taught me all need to know stuff so I am rather effective I got offered a thing to enter Australian mma tryout thing IF I obidient to there restrictions lol

 

[Colstreamer]

It was very different to what I see these days, we did a lot of low kicking, knees, elbows, clinching/standing grappling (class sparring not competition).. Nowadays it seems all sport oriented prolly thanks to the Olympics.


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Defeat is the stepping stone to victory.

 

[Myphic]

Certainly low blows and grappling lol but it's all pretty slow to go aggressive, as say wing chun, is defensive but and relays on opponent striking but their strike becomes their opening allowing me to do as I please and I looooove to hurt em lol my old local comp brought in new weavers to enter from how compitive an violent we'd get :/ so ueah it has gotten pretty sport like, which means tweeks to make it appealing enough to shut complainers up who don't like it lol
Why they watch em is of no clue to me, oplympics does mm comps?

I like old style fighting, where we where allowed to hurt each other lol god damn it if I'm gonna compete I wanna be breaking arms and ribs and getting to top ranks >.< no prancing around jabbing and grappling each other for 20mins to win -.- headhunter rules or gtfo I say lol

 

[princeofsin]

Currently learning and is my first BJJ at gracie barra orlandoa

 

[beandip13]

highschool wrestling. Sophmore Highschool

 

[Garenius]

Kenpo. I guess you can't really call it martial arts, but we use wooden swords called "bokken" to beat on each other mainly.

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