Currently learning Jeet Jun Do in Nottingham, Bruce Lee really was a genius. I’d recommend it to anyone searching for a no frills devastating street fighting style.

Studied Kenbuchai for 3 years, never found any references to it anywhere but basically it’s like systema crossed with kick boxing and anything else that is effective, used to get quite messy as semi often lead to full contact and the fight wasn’t stopped if it went down to the mat, bloody good sensi and people I trained with, too far for me to travel to do it these days so I’m thinking Norwich is going to be my next best bet. Mind you, I need to up my fitness levels before hand, too many nights and mornings wandering round trying to figure out where my brain has gone and whether I really want it back :love:

kickboxer here….raaa :bounce_fl

Haha, yea i say Ninjutsu because it’s a bit less of a mouthful, and if i say Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu then i usually get a blank face in response, but yea thats what we learn.

We do stuff with Shuriken and stuff like stealth walking etc, but not too often, generally in classes for higher grades, and we learn Sakkijutsu as well, but its usually incorporated into techniques or in specific exercises every now and again. I talk about sakki to some people and they say it’s bullshit(i mean people who don’t do martial arts), but it does work (though i’m by no means brilliant at it).

My mistake, theres no jujutsu, but there are similarities in some of the schools.

Yea the class is under Soke Masaaki Hatsumi, and my teacher organises trips to go and train with him in Japan, but i haven’t had the chance to go yet.

What martial arts do you do?

Oh yea, and i would like to start learning some sort of Kung Fu, but it seems really badly taught around here. Theres a class that happens at the same time as my ninjutsu class, and it seems rubbish. The teacher seems apalling and i once heard him puttiing down someone who was obviously new to the class when he found out they’d done jujutsu. He started trying to “prove” that it was rubbish, despite the face that he was blatantly talking bollocks, and the face that his general technique is shit, and i can see that even though i’ve never done Kung Fu. I may be wrong but there doesn’t seem to be much good Kung Fu classes near me.

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I used to be a 2nd brown in Goju Ryu Karate (1st dan…I think). Havn’t done it for years though, teenage life got in the way of training. I’ve been thinking of starting up again but in a different style, havn’t decided what style yet but I’m thinking something a bit more full contact.

I agree for full contact either of those.. although having done Muay Thai i’d have to say go for that but be prepared to be permenantly covered in bruises.. lol

People used to ask me why i never wore a skirt.. well 2 reasons 1 i ain’t a girly girl so u’ll more or less never see me in one.. 2 doing Muay thai u end up with bruises like you wouldn’t believe at times so not very nice to show..

I think more people should get into martial arts as they not only keep you fit but they teach discipline which is severely lacking in todays society.. I’ve seen kids off the street start training and their outlook changes they no longer want to go out and start fights even though they’re far more equipped to do so after it..

definitely a movie script in here..

so far we’ve got

the feisty Scots lass… (Acidfairy)
the wise “new age” type (Globalloon)
the big bloke who is thinking about food (BioTech)

and someone from Wales wanting to learn new skills

Instead of “Journey to the West” (otherwise known in its popular adaptation as “Monkey” or “Monkey Magic”) you could have “Journey to the East” :laugh_at: