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 Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 9:39 pm
I recently bought a martial arts uniform, it was a basic Karate style, black color. I find it extremely comfortable and for some reason today during sparring I won, easy. I somehow managed to knock my opponents jaw off location and he called it quits. I was so psyched I wanted to keep going! But fair is fair I was named victor. I know this sounds messed up but I think the Gi helped me to win. Not in a metaphysical way, but in its functionality. Does anybody here have any opinions on their favorite MA uniform, stories about wearing them, or opinions that disdain their use?
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 12:18 am
Gloglablyn I recently bought a martial arts uniform, it was a basic Karate style, black color. I find it extremely comfortable and for some reason today during sparring I won, easy. I somehow managed to knock my opponents jaw off location and he called it quits. I was so psyched I wanted to keep going! But fair is fair I was named victor. I know this sounds messed up but I think the Gi helped me to win. Not in a metaphysical way, but in its functionality. Does anybody here have any opinions on their favorite MA uniform, stories about wearing them, or opinions that disdain their use? In striking? I find it has no real useful offensive functions. But grappling? It can be used in oh so many ways. lapel chokes all that good stuff.
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 6:49 am
Personally I found the concept of a GI a bit impractical, but I liked mine because it was very easy to move in. Thogh in TKD I think they are Called a Do Buk.
My preferred training outfit is oddly my favorate worn in pair of levi 550 jeans, and a thcik leather belt, I'll wrap my hands If I'm planning on Hitting my bag or doing a conditioning drill. I figure I'm training to defend myself, and I wont have the luxery of a free flowing Gi when a hood tries to knife me in the street.
So int hat vien I train in all my normal clothes, even my heavy steel toe boots at least once, Learning the give and flex of different fabrics in combat is quite useful, and can be turned to ones advantage.
And an Axe-Kick with Steel-toed welder's boots is just plain UGLY.
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 10:12 am
Vincent Darkholme And an Axe-Kick with Steel-toed welder's boots is just plain UGLY.
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 6:58 pm
Vincent Darkholme And an Axe-Kick with Steel-toed welder's boots is just plain UGLY. Lol, not bad for building leg stregth up either I'll bet
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 7:42 pm
Vincent Darkholme And an Axe-Kick with Steel-toed welder's boots is just plain UGLY. umm, don't you generally use your heel to strike with the axe kick, not the toes? Still you don't wanna be hit with steel toed boots, period.
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 8:43 pm
Mirko_Filipovic Vincent Darkholme And an Axe-Kick with Steel-toed welder's boots is just plain UGLY. umm, don't you generally use your heel to strike with the axe kick, not the toes? Still you don't wanna be hit with steel toed boots, period. Yeah but My boots have the metal plating in both the toe and the heel. Plus they are just HEAVY.
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 9:15 pm
Vincent Darkholme Mirko_Filipovic Vincent Darkholme And an Axe-Kick with Steel-toed welder's boots is just plain UGLY. umm, don't you generally use your heel to strike with the axe kick, not the toes? Still you don't wanna be hit with steel toed boots, period. Yeah but My boots have the metal plating in both the toe and the heel. Plus they are just HEAVY. oh, okay, and yeah, it would be heavy. Still, i do find axe kicks to be rather risky if they trap it there and you're not use to ground fighting. Considering how easy it is to take it to the ground with your leg that high. I mean you could get leg kick to be taken down, a sweep. It's super risky. haha.
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 11:00 pm
Mirko_Filipovic Vincent Darkholme Mirko_Filipovic Vincent Darkholme And an Axe-Kick with Steel-toed welder's boots is just plain UGLY. umm, don't you generally use your heel to strike with the axe kick, not the toes? Still you don't wanna be hit with steel toed boots, period. Yeah but My boots have the metal plating in both the toe and the heel. Plus they are just HEAVY. oh, okay, and yeah, it would be heavy. Still, i do find axe kicks to be rather risky if they trap it there and you're not use to ground fighting. Considering how easy it is to take it to the ground with your leg that high. I mean you could get leg kick to be taken down, a sweep. It's super risky. haha. well... if we're getting technical and we're talking street confrontations, just imagine a heavy blow to the nuts or even to the shin with a steel-toed boot from a well-trained tae-kwon-do practitioner
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 11:31 pm
Mirko_Filipovic Vincent Darkholme Mirko_Filipovic Vincent Darkholme And an Axe-Kick with Steel-toed welder's boots is just plain UGLY. umm, don't you generally use your heel to strike with the axe kick, not the toes? Still you don't wanna be hit with steel toed boots, period. Yeah but My boots have the metal plating in both the toe and the heel. Plus they are just HEAVY. oh, okay, and yeah, it would be heavy. Still, i do find axe kicks to be rather risky if they trap it there and you're not use to ground fighting. Considering how easy it is to take it to the ground with your leg that high. I mean you could get leg kick to be taken down, a sweep. It's super risky. haha. Except I use my axe kicks as a way to make sure when someoen goes down, he stays that way. I'm mostly a fist and knee/elbow fighter.
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:16 am
I train in military gear for my style, its comfy and very durable so i dont have to worry about it tearing or anything.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:31 am
Some uniforms are just plain useless, but you wear them as a sign of tradition and respect. Take the hakama. I can't count the number of times I've tripped over the thing and stubbed my toe. Originally it's supposed to be long enough to cover your feet so that the other person cannot read your movement when you take off for a strike.
But nowadays? Ha!
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:21 am
Never understood the reasoning behind a Gi. Then again, Im into martial arts* for sellf defence, then self improvement. I had best learn how to do anything in jeans and a tshirt, as thats all I wear.
*Eventually im going to take up Kick Boxing... Just need the money sad
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:32 am
Threx Never understood the reasoning behind a Gi. Then again, Im into martial arts* for sellf defence, then self improvement. I had best learn how to do anything in jeans and a tshirt, as thats all I wear. *Eventually im going to take up Kick Boxing... Just need the money sad I think the gi is just like school uniforms in any private school you go to. It breeds a certain respect, tradition and mindset for when you go into the dojo. Don on the martial arts, and you don on a whole new set of rules when training - respect for others, for teacher, for the power that you have in your hands and that you're learning to use. Remember, fighting and being in a dojo is a little different. In the dojo, there's still a teacher, there are still other students. It's not a street brawl. It's a discipline structured class. The Gi reminds us of that.
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:35 pm
My sensei mentioned one day that a particular type of gi you can get would keep you cooler than the others, I believe he said it let the air pass through it more. Maybe.
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