let me ask you this,do you actually know what martial arts is?
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Forms are crucial to any true martial art. This is where your fighting skills are developed. Otherwise, how do you explain the fact that they have survived all these centuries? \nI'm not sure I followed everything you said here. \nSome people think that they know more than thoses who haved trained for decades & studied with other who trained for decades. These grasshoppers have much to learn.
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My training is similar to yours.  I train BJJ, Muay Thai, and Boxing.  I also have a strong background in wrestling, having done it for over 6 years and having coached it for a short time.  Right now I'm not near any schools, as I work on a Navy base in Italy.  There are a couple of guys here with different backgrounds and we spar together, teaching each other what we can.  When I get back to the states I'm going back to my BJJ school, and looking for a muay thai gym if I can find one.\n\nI think you're training now is ideal for MMA.  Boxing and muay thai have awesome footwork and striking techniques. Combine that with the comfort muay thai fighters have in the clinch and the ground fighting prowess of BJJ and you have a very well rounded fighter.  All that's missing is the takedown ablility of wrestling or judo.  I've trained with many higher ranked (in belt)BJJ practitioners, and I've always had them off the takedown.  They eventually improve their position and get me with a submission, but that will change in time.\n\nI don't completely agree with your view on Kung Fu, though.  It's true that there aren't many MMA champions with Kung Fu backgrounds, but I don't think that is because of the stye.  I think it's more because of the training.\n\nKung Fu, traditionally, was a mixed martial art form.  The chinese brought together various famous fighters to study their styles and techniques and to develop strong fighters for battle.  It's techniques are effective and it has potential for MMA  Presently, though, I don't think Kung Fu is practiced in a way that builds great fighters. Especially in the US.  It has become more of a forms based martial art and the practitioners don't spar enough, if at all.  It's possible for a Kung Fu fighter to study for years and have less ring time than a Muay Thai boxer would get in his first few months at a gym.
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I think it might be jujitsu, but many similar techniques are present in other martial arts.
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I challenge you my friend.... to a mighty THUMB WAR!!!! and i have a few questions...\n\nthe first.. which would win... peanut butter or Jelly?  If they were of equal age and size..\n\nthe second.  Where are some Karate schools in my area.?\n\nThe third.  I am a Chi master, does anyone else believe in it?\n\nthe fourth...  Does anyone know the outcome of the Dana white Ortiz fight?\n\nThe fifth... Does anyone watch UFC and if so Who is the best fighter!\n\nWHAT SAY YEE!
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I have heard of some South American tribes that use a form of martial arts.  Apparently, it is very different from Eastern Martial Arts.
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Ah, but are any of us ever more than just masters of the basics?  I would say it all the depends on the individual in question.  How long have you trained and what it is your educational background?  Do you have knowledge of the business side of things?  Do you have a business license?\n\nI (only) have a single black belt, but I have been training in various martial arts systems for over 17 years.  Does that mean that I have not mastered more than "the basics"?  Am I one of those people who train and train but "never seem to get anywhere"?  Maybe, maybe not.\n\nI have taught martial arts only as private lessons.  But I have assisted in countless demonstrations, seminars and training camps for my teacher.  It would appear that at first glance I still have not "acheived" the privilege of opening my own school.\n\nHowever, I have two college degrees, and have been a public school teacher for 12 years.  And if I have learned anything through all of my experiences, it's that being a successful martials instructor has as much to do with business acumen as it does with knowing the lore of the art.\n\nWho is to say who is ready?  Only the individual can truly say.  All one really needs to do is to apply all that training that has gone before to the goals now set in sight.  90% of all martial arts training is a contingency plan (what do you do if...?).  So what are the contingencies of running a business?  Answer that and you should be ready.\n\nBest of Luck.  I hope to be in that position myself in the near future.\n\nVT
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My mom has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.  It is a hard martial art to master.  Some of the katas are really complicated.  She's broken ribs and toes during sparring.
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Tee,\n\nI've studied multiple disciplines over the last 22 years..\nThe main two arts were Hung Ga Chuan Fa (17 years) and Bujinkan Taijutsu for the last 5.\n\nIn the midst of those...I've played around and cross-trained w/ Muay Thai, Yoshinkan Aikido, MMA players, Kodokan Judo, Kokkar military knife and firearm tactics, Wing Chun, Xingyiquan, and Bagua...\n\nBut Hung Ga and the Bujinkan were the major two, the only two that have really spoken to me. The others were for fun mainly.\n\nHave I ever had to defend myself? Yes...\n\nOnce at an attempted ATM mugging : the assailant left w/ a broken elbow and a nasty concussion.\n\nOnce at a bar : I hit him w/ an ashtray, and my bouncer friend threw him out. 30 seconds and done.\n\nThat's good enough for now...
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You can't find very many good ones. Even if you did, it would be extremely hard to learn from them. I reccomend finding a good martial arts school. ^_^
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Martial arts is a blanket term for hand to hand fighting, mostly referring to fighting styles originating in Asia. And people came to practice it for self defense, or war.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_martial_arts should help.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_fu\n\n\nHint: If you talk about Chuck Norris, you're bound to get an A!
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That really depends on which martial arts. Fencing, kenjutsu, chinese weapon martial art, kendo, etc. they are all different from each other. It's really difficult to name them all. Furthermore, each martial art created afew defensive stance as well.
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How refreshing to see that some still hold the same belief I do about "traditional" martial arts!\nWould it be a no holds barred match, or include the increasing in numbers rules doled out in UFC matches that limit more "vicious" tactics? I notice those guys like to wear pads on their fists and roll around on the floor with one another...\nI don't hold any disdain against so-called "mixed martial artists", I mean, after all, most traditional systems are mixed in one regard or another, but I dislike the idea that they take bits and pieces of what would otherwise be "whole" systems to become more "well rounded". But I ask how they can take the best of any one system if they have not mastered it?\nTo them, I say they are jacks of all trades, masters of none.\nLittle old Buddha man wins!
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hard to answer, but through martial arts it could be answered.
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Hopefully you'll find someone more knowledgeable than myself, but in case you don't:  Kung-fu is the most varied and most difficult style to learn, and probably the most successful from an offensive point of view.\n\nAikido is a martial art that relies on flips and twists and might be considered the most successful from a defensive point of view.\n\nTae Kwan Do is basically glorified kick-boxing.  Not very advanced, but a good way to exercise.\n\nThis is the extent of my foolish knowledge.  The ancient masters are probably crying in despair now.
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I think that is Shaolin martial arts. Try that. :)