viet vo dao in ireland?

ElSeano93

is there any viet vo dao clubs in ireland? i'm asking on behalf of a friend of mine who is vietnamese who wants to start it.

JohnMc1

What is viet vo dao? I never heard of that.

pma-ire

JohnMc1 wrote:

What is viet vo dao? I never heard of that.

it's a vietnamese martial art.

there's usually someone doing it at one of them demo's on eurosport at some stage in the year.

very ju jitsu and hapkido like stuff.

SorGan

ju jitsu??

id say more like TKD. but with more leaping around:)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SAtkwcUIV9c

pma-ire

SorGan wrote:

ju jitsu??

id say more like TKD. but with more leaping around:)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SAtkwcUIV9c

hapkido'y type of ju jistu'y stuff. but more hapkido'y

...oh and a bit kung fu'y

JohnMc1

pma-ire wrote:

it's a vietnamese martial art.

there's usually someone doing it at one of them demo's on eurosport at some stage in the year.

very ju jitsu and hapkido like stuff.

Thanks Pma. I never heard of that style before. Then again I never heard of an irish cricket team either.

vasch_ro

there used to be a club in Monkstown CBS and I am fairly certain that the guy had other classes around the area, but thats going back a good few years and ossibly over a decade, the fella was vietnamese married to an irish girl I think.I dabbled at for a while , its not bad , very flashy moves !

Vas_Guy

vasch_ro wrote:

there used to be a club in Monkstown CBS and I am fairly certain that the guy had other classes around the area, but thats going back a good few years and ossibly over a decade, the fella was vietnamese married to an irish girl I think.I dabbled at for a while , its not bad , very flashy moves !

That's right, I remember him he came to Ireland as a refugee, I have'nt heard of him in about 10 years, there was another club doing it in Sligo but it turned into a kickboxing club.

I tried searching on the internet but found nothing, I might have a look in the attic and see if there is anything in my collection of Irish Fighter mags, I do remember a small piece about him in one of the first Irish martial art magazines in 1992 called I think Irish Warrior? it had one of Jim Fitzpatrick's images on the cover any one remember that?

happyslappy

I trained with Mr. Nguyen in Dun Laoghaire for a number of years and we had a few other clubs around that area and also in the Vietnamese centre in City Centre. This is going back to early 90's. I am looking for Louis if anyone knows where he is gone to.

yomchi

Is the Vietnamese centre still there? I used to do the door on that place during the late 90's. I can't remember any martial arts there at the time though.

paddyc

there was a lad from algeria teaching it a few years back, up cabra road direction thats all i know cant think of his name

happyslappy

Yea, we did a few classes in the Vietnamese centre over northside of the city centre somewhere, god forgive me but I cant remember, getting old and all, however, we only did a few classes before the old boys playing chess got peeved with us. Ahhh that was the life.

yomchi

happyslappy wrote: »

Yea, we did a few classes in the Vietnamese centre over northside of the city centre somewhere, god forgive me but I cant remember, getting old and all, however, we only did a few classes before the old boys playing chess got peeved with us. Ahhh that was the life.

It was Hardwicke street flats there on the corner of Fredick street.