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 Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:56 pm
Name- Donald
Age- 15
Location- Ky
Style- Shotokan Karate, Jujitsu, JKD, Ninjutsu, 2 styles of Monkey Gung Fu
Rank- Karate- 1 Dan, Jujitsu-3 Kyu Brown, Ninjutsu- 5 level of training(Just attained), JKD- 1 Dan, Lost Monkey- Red Sash, Wooden Monkey- Yellow Sash
Interest in Martial arts- Learning a Martial Art, and seeing if it will actually work in combat, then making it better.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:10 pm
Name: Montana York
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Location: interlachen, FL U.S.A
Style if one is studied: Tang Soo Do
Rank: 2nd Degree Black Belt
Your interest in Martial arts: the technique the beauty and the effort it takes to go far in your style.
Anything else you would like to add: Pointy.
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The Black Swordsman Gatsu
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:46 pm
Name: Sarah
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Location: PA
Style if one is studied: Wado Ryu
Rank: Black Belt
Your interest in Martial arts: I love everything about it. I especially like learning the releases (how to get out of things like wrist grabs, chokes, bear hugs, etc.)
Anything else you would like to add: I was in gymnastics in preschool and kindergarden, but I quit because we had to do push-ups. xd
I wanted to take martial arts classes ever since then, but my mom kept making stupid excuses not to put me in one. But I kept bugging her. When I was in third grade, my friend's dad was talking to my mom and he knew of a guy that taught a martial arts class. So I joined. I still remember that first class like it was yesterday. I feel really old now.
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:25 pm
Name: Tim
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Location: Boston MA
Style if one is studied: 11 years total study in Modern Wushu, Northern Long Boxing, Emei, Piguaquan, Fanziquan, Bajiquan..basically alot of Northern styles.
Rank: Don't own a belt. Although, we do use nice sashes for core support and strength.
Your interest in Martial arts: I like everything about it. It's got style, substance, and instills great moral values. I like to apply my martial art to my lifestyle, makes me healthier and happier and stronger and faster. Plus, I loooove the tricks. mrgreen
Anything else you would like to add: Keep training hard, everyone. We all have such a great opportunity to represent our martial art, and hopefully to enhance it and enhance ourselves. Keep having fun. blaugh
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:40 am
Name- Marshall (hehe)
Age- 18
Location- Montana
Style- Muay Thai, Jkd, Tae Kwon Do, ya know what...I'll just say Muay Thai as a core, and everything else just developed around that. I don't go to schools much.
Rank- The highest I've ever gotten was a Blue Belt in Tkd/Muay Thai/Aikido
which was 2 belts away from black in my school. We tried to train equally in a lot of different arts, so when we attained one rank, we attained it in all the arts we studied.
Interest in Martial arts- Making the world a better place, for myself and everyone else. Martial arts give me confidence, peace, health and well being (of all kinds) and have improved my life in every way conceivable.
I wish to expand my knowledge and become the best person I can be, so I can hopefully be a role model to future generations. Kids need something with real values to look to, and what better to do so than martial arts?
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:50 am
Name: Ervin
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Location: Philippines
Style if one is studied: Street Fighting, Philippine Arnis, Jeet Kune Do
Rank: Senior Levels we don't have any belts there... but when you convert it it means black...
Your interest in Martial arts: I want to protect and teach the weak... biggrin Improvements... i'm not satisfied yet in my abilities.
Anything else you would like to add: I was a previous deliquent guy who really loves to fight even if i am out numebred i always fight.. luckily i never faield in my fights. Then when i enterd in Jeet Kune Do my fights became less. Because of teh discipline we earn there.. we just use it when life becomes threaten biggrin annd its ure helps alot.
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:04 pm
Name: Derek
Age: 18
Gender: male
Location: scotland
Style if one is studied:
in past freestyle karate and boxing, am joining a shotokan karate dojo and possibly judo one in few months once i move.
i have read a few books, and learned from them
Rank: yellow in freestyle
Your interest in Martial arts: my father was into karate/judo and a bit of juijutsu when he was young, he took it cos in his neighbour hood he needed it, i decided to follow in his footsteps.
i took it up cos i knew eventually i would need to fight or help out a friend(i was right)
Anything else you would like to add: the reason i no longer go to boxing is i dont believe in set styles.
i feel following a style leads to too many limits. boxing limited me to knuckles.
i am takin karate/judo up north for the sparring more than anything else.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:32 am
Name: Taekyon
Age: 19
Gender: M
Location: Here
Style if one is studied: 3 yrs Hwarangdo, half a year of Ju Jitsu, 3 yrs + WTF TKD, 1 yr Muay Thai
Rank: 1st Dan
Your interest in Martial arts: *insert unrealistic, long, preachy, bombastic comments about beating up evil purse snatchers, protecting old grannies, becoming a power ranger, cute puppies, and world peace* stare
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:51 pm
INTRODUCTION: Hi my name's keith and i got into martail arts at first because i needed something to get my mind off of my ex gf...and I ended up falling in love with it. martial arts gave me something unique (family, goals,drive to get better, lifestyle, ext.) I havent been into martail arts my whole life but I started in april because a freind told me it would help and so i joined his dojo.
Right now i help as a assistant for childrens shadowkan karate and I am studying koga ninjitsu, the bone breaking akido and shadowkan karate.
I want to be Great at it and I want to encourage anyone thats down on their luck to give it a try, it may not be for you but if it is then youve got something worth looking forward to!
but thats a quick overview of why I wanted to join this guild.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:54 pm
oops I said shadowkan instead of shotokan (in the kids classes we call them shadow warriors and i must of been really tired when i wrote that! HHAHAHA)
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Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:02 am
Name: Fanci
Age: 13
Gender: female
Location: Florida
Style if one is studied: aiki-tora-ryu aikido and a little Hwarangdo
Rank:
Kids: brown belt (and instructor) adults: 5th kyu
Your interest in Martial arts: everything, the culture, the history, the language, the morals and values it instills, the ability to watch michevious little kids like I was turn into well behaved children, the principles, the concepts, the techniques, the training, everything.
Anything else you would like to add: I have been studying aikido for 2 1/2 years now and it is my passion. There is noplace better to me than the dojo, and very few friends I have are not from the dojo, and even they are martial artists.
my favorite weapon is nunchuks, my favorite MA movies are The Next Karate Kid and Bruce Lee's The Chinese Connection.
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:32 am
Name: Lordlemming (real: Eric)
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Location: Washington
Style if one is studied: Kajukenbo Tum Pai, and some brazillian jujitsu
Rank: brown/black sash
Your interest in Martial arts: my interest in martial arts was originally something to use to work out, but then it became soo much more because I began to have fun with sparring and learning the tricks and doing forms. Soon of course the people became like a family and I just kept showing up and eventually I got up to where I am now
Anything else you would like to add: Dont strain yourself trying to pronounce the name. It's an acronym. Ka:karate, ju:jujitsu and judo, ken:kenpo, and bo:chinese boxing (sillum gung fu)
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:36 pm
Name: MacPhisto-chan, or Mac. RL: Alyssa
Age:15
Gender:Female
Location:Massachusetts
Style if one is studied: My dojo does a mix of all sorts of stuff.
Rank: Midterm redblack, which means I've been going technically about as long as my Sempai, but he can afford a black belt. Sad to see people where I remember when they were under me getting their 2nd degree.
Your interest in Martial arts: EVERYTHING.
Anything else you would like to add: Favorite weapon is nunchau.
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:47 am
Name: Barry
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Location: Kootneys, British Columbia, Canada
Style if one is studied: Seven Stars Praying Mantis Kung Fu (Northern) 1 year, White Tiger TKD [1 month]
Rank: Yellow Belt
Your interest in Martial arts: I got into it because I was tired of being pushed around. As soon as I jumped into it I couldn't stop. I am also thinking about joining a Phillipino Knife fighting class.
Anything else you would like to add: If anyone knows about the Phillipino arts please pm me.
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:34 pm
Name: Lawrence
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Location: Toronto, Canada
Style if one is studied: Tae Kwan Do, Judo, and Weng Chun
Rank: White in all three (I had no sence of diccipline in high school)
Your interest in Martial arts: I love the honor, history, and tradiction of many maritial arts, as well as the exotic weapons some of them use. I tried to learn them when I was younger, but by the time I found an art I liked, I left high school and couldn't afford lessons till now. I wish to either restart my Weng Chun training again, or find another art I might like.
Anything else you would like to add: I'm more interested in internal arts than external ones, and would prefer one with weapons training. The art it's self dosn't have to be asian, just interesting.
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