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Do you know Karate?

  • 19-09-2013 12:51AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    Or any other martial art for that matter? The mother enrolled me as a nipper in a karate class - 2 weeks later one of the lads I was sparring with (we must have been all of 12 at the time) jumped the gun a bit and kicked one of my last remaining milk-teeth out. And so ended my illustrious fighting career. Did a bit of boxing as a teenager but mostly for fitness more than anything else.

    So what about you fine citizens of AH? Could any of ye pull the still-beating heart from the chest of an uppity scumbag, or would ye be calling Chuck Norris to do your fighting for you?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    wax on, wax off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭uch


    No

    21/25



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 542 ✭✭✭crustyjuggler


    I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I have a yellow belt in Judo.

    I'm also a big hardman.


    RAWR!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭uch


    It begins with a C

    21/25



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Hai!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Watched a few Jackie Chan movies so know a few moves :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    I used to train in karate and taekwondo. Planning on starting back into karate next week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭uch


    Can Nobody use Chopsticks yet ?

    21/25



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    Ah, Salmon skin roll!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,581 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    Or any other martial art for that matter? The mother enrolled me as a nipper in a karate class - 2 weeks later one of the lads I was sparring with (we must have been all of 12 at the time) jumped the gun a bit and kicked one of my last remaining milk-teeth out. And so ended my illustrious fighting career. Did a bit of boxing as a teenager but mostly for fitness more than anything else.

    So what about you fine citizens of AH? Could any of ye pull the still-beating heart from the chest of an uppity scumbag, or would ye be calling Chuck Norris to do your fighting for you?




  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I did a few years of modified ju jitsu/self-defence. Got me out of one dodgy situation! :)

    I had my first experience of capoeira this evening. Still a bit dizzy now...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Rho b


    Trained for a good few years in TKD but quit it a few years ago due to personal problems. I would love to get back training again but to be honest it just seems like too much effort at the moment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    KKkitty wrote: »
    Watched a few Jackie Chan movies so know a few moves :D
    Jackie does Kung fu and Judo.

    Yeah the Kung fu Karate Kid reboot misnomer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭Wedgie


    Batfink's sidekick?

    Yeah, I remember him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    wil wrote: »
    Jackie does Kung fu and Judo.

    Yeah the Kung fu Karate Kid reboot misnomer.

    Karate looks cool but too technical for me. Knowing my luck I'd break every bone in my body doing one move.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    Nobody does it better or did it better than Peter Sellers...:D




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I had a few lessons when I was about fourteen but it wasn't for me. I was being bullied in school and wanted to learn how to defend myself but there was too much nonsense involved. It really turned me off when the instructor shouted at me "next time you come in here bow to me".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Do know Hai-Karate tho. Spray that stuff at an attacker and they'll go down like a roundhouse to the head!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy

    stealing a man's avatar: that's a paddlin'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    When in the danger zone in street confrontations, I never hesitate to sweep the leg.

    /guitar solo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,255 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I have a ninth dan pink belt, with tips and knobs on, Ducky.


  • Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    Or any other martial art for that matter?

    Brazilian jiu-jitsu is my fighting style of choice and I do classes twice a week and practice most days a bit too.

    Also do Capoeira which is a martial arts dance form. You would not use it on a dance floor though without hurting everyone except yourself. And you would not use it in a fight or you would hurt only yourself.

    But it is good for fitness - endurance - flexibility - and as party entertainment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I've done a few. Some only a few weeks, others for years. The two favourites were Savate and Aikido.
    I'm very rusty now though, probably couldn't judo chop my way out of a paper bag.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    I have several years training in mixed martial arts (Jiu-Jitsu, Kick-boxing, Krav Maga etc..). I don't think overly much of Karate and Taekwondo, I knew a few people with black belts in those disciplines and they'd be hard pressed to fight their way out of a wet paper bag

    For the thread that's in it...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    I did it for a year or so as a 10 year old but it was boring. Lots of stretching and punching and kicking drills so I Karate kicked it into touch.

    The only martial art I like is 'kung-fu' by Ash. Great song.

    'Last night Jackie Chan came around
    I played pool with him and we hung out
    Mr. Miagi and the X-men
    Called in for a while as well'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    I roundhoused kicked a guy in the head in a real fight, It was so awesome I nearly passed out from the adrenalin rush. Proper Van Dam style. Discovered this does not cause people to somersault and land in a heap.
    True story.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    No, but I know Jarate!


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