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Corporal Kielbasa

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Re: Tai Chi [Re: Kamek]
#5006657 - 12/02/05 01:30 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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im looking to gain balance, flexibility, muscle, and muscle tone. What would you suggest?
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thegatewaydrug
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*cough* koden kon *cough*
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Kamek


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LOLZ...
I don't think you should be looking for muscle (tone) in a martial art but balance and flexibility can be gained in most of them to some degree... WuShu is good for flexibility and balance i hear... Jiu Jitsu is better for kicking someones ass i think
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thegatewaydrug
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Re: Tai Chi [Re: Kamek]
#5006716 - 12/02/05 01:53 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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iv heard some good things about jiu jitsu. my friend said he saw a fight go down, and all the guy did was run and jump over him (or so it looked like) and the guy dropped to the ground with a broken collar bone and had to go to the hospital.
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Simisu
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thegatewaydrug said: i take koden kon. its really good for teaching balance, i dunno anything bout flow yet since i just started a lil while ago. iv seen some of the blue and above classes though, they do some crazy shit.
btw, r u really located in Israel?
i have no idea what koden kon is... and yeah i really am in israel  mostly i wish i wasn't but then i've never actualy lived anywhere alse so i dunno
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looner2 said: I saw a black Jamaican looking guy doing capoeria outside in the summer once. He was going pretty nuts and it was pretty impressive looking. It is definitely more dance than fighting related, however.
yeah that's why i'm more interested in it... i don't want to fight anyone i just want to use my body in cool ways BTW i was reading about taichi and maybe what i was looking for is infact what's known as chi gong (cong?) i started doing contact improvisation a month ago and it all ties togather for me... i just need to understand what my body instinctivly already knows so i can manipulate it in cool ways!
it's just a dance for me... another form of exprestion...
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Corporal Kielbasa

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Re: Tai Chi [Re: Simisu]
#5007400 - 12/02/05 04:27 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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chi gong fallow gong and a couple other names to go with it. I started researching that yesterday. I think its outlawed in china. Or was. Lots of people would to parks to practice it.
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leery11
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i have one semester of tai chi under my belt.
it's pretty neat. the gracefulness and the whole not using force is great, but hard to really grasp.
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Re: Tai Chi [Re: leery11]
#5008526 - 12/02/05 10:07 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Tai chi looks pretty sweet from what I've read up on it. I'm seriously considering that as there's really bullshit for martial arts in my town. It's all pussy ass, watered down martial arts.
I was a.... brown belt (Or blue..) in Shitoryu Seiko Kai and I didn't even bother looking it up on the internet or anything after. I was a kid when I started and it was the weakest karate ever, even for karate. Muay Tai looks to be the way to go hopefully.
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Prisoner#1
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SHEIKofSHIITAKE said: fallow gong.
falun gong, it's illegal to practice in china, because he three basic principles of this practice are not related to the communist ideology.
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Learyfan
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Re: Tai Chi [Re: tomk]
#5008638 - 12/02/05 10:52 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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No, but I really wish I had went ahead and finished my karate when I was younger. I'm sure I'd probably be happier right now. Oh well. Maybe some day.
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