cloudz wrote:Sounds great man.
All the best with it, and look forward to an update at some point.
Is TOD as awesome in real life as he is online ?
cloudz wrote:No doubt brother
happy training
Yeung wrote:cloudz wrote:No doubt brother
happy training
Actually the Chop Suey approach to martial arts is not a very good idea until one knew enough of one art to differentiate it from another art or sport.
greytowhite wrote:I couldn't care less about carrying a lineage forward or having a "xingyi/bagua/taiji focused body." I care about gaining real, useful tools that can be used in a real fight.
MaartenSFS wrote:Fair enough.. but Aikido.....?
Anyways, this is no different from what people did back in the day. They would take on anything that was practical. Good luck with your training.
cloudz wrote:Sounds great man.
All the best with it, and look forward to an update at some point.
Is TOD as awesome in real life as he is online ?
greytowhite wrote:I'm an atheist and I don't take any of these stories on faith...
wayne hansen wrote:Those that don't see the value in good aikido are just immature or haven't come across good aikido schools
greytowhite wrote:Yeung wrote:cloudz wrote:No doubt brother
happy training
Actually the Chop Suey approach to martial arts is not a very good idea until one knew enough of one art to differentiate it from another art or sport.
Thanks for your lack of confidence - I'm quite aware of the differences between the arts - I've been practicing martial arts of all kinds for almost 23 years now. I've got a good idea about what I'm doing with over 10 years focused on "internal" training - I couldn't care less about carrying a lineage forward or having a "xingyi/bagua/taiji focused body." I care about gaining real, useful tools that can be used in a real fight. I've been in a lot of real fights - not sport fights. I get attacked when we're out at bars semi-regularly just because I'm the small guy people want to show off by trying to beat on me. I can handle myself against college wrestling competitors, against karate and wing chun people, and more - most IMA practitioners don't fight at all or with weapons. Do I care if what I'm doing is an external/internal hybrid? Nope - I'll take a useful tool belt over an empty one any day.
Yeung wrote:I just find it interesting when you said, " I'll be working with a local instructor for strengthening my core and back in exchange for neigong". As you sounded that your so called neigong did not strength your core and back. Maybe this is why your IMA instructors can not fight. I think you should review their lineages.
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