changing arts

Frankie Smith

does it happen that much and is it really that bad?
not yellow belts but higher, like the 5th dan wado to kickboxing guy some1 was talking about...

pma-ire

Frankie Smith wrote:

does it happen that much and is it really that bad?
not yellow belts but higher, like the 5th dan wado to kickboxing guy some1 was talking about...

Changing arts fully does happen a bit. But the best option is to cross-train as much as you can, while keeping to a base art/style.

Many folk get fed up of there base art due to many reasons mainly due to it not seeming real enough in there eyes to help them defendselves if used in a fight. That a 5 dan left his art for another is a bit odd. He could well have kept up the Wado and cross-trained. Using what he learnt in kickboxing to fill the gaps he felt were lacking.

But because we don't have him to let us know, we can only guess as to why he changed styles at his level?

Cake Fiend

Frankie Smith wrote:

is it really that bad?

Who says it's bad? As you progress in a martial art, your impression of and requirements of the art change. If you no longer get from an art what you want or think you should be getting, what's the problem in changing? You'd have to be a fool to blindly follow a martial art purely because you have already invested time in it. The martial arts world is, however, full of people like this...

Colm_OReilly

It's never too late to wake up from The Matrix...

Ger Healy

Yea but which pill to take?

rainbow kirby

I changed from kenpo to TKD when I was a junior black belt in kenpo... Kenpo just wasn't doing anything for me any more and I just thought it was time for a change.

Frankie Smith

yeah another thing, how does the junior black belt thing work? do you have to start again when you join the senior class?

rainbow kirby

Junior black belt in kenpo was that you had the self-defence techniques up to senior green belt and forms up to senior 3rd brown iirc. You didn't have to go from the start to get a senior BB, but there was 72 new techniques and 2 forms (iirc, been a while, and TKD black belt grading coming) to learn. So a lot of work.

cletus

I've changed from karate to jj to tkd to jj again. It all depends on where I'm living and what the best class is in that area. they've all got something to offer

Millionaire

Yeah the 5th dan wado taught me Kickboxing, If you ask him about karate he will tell you its crap! (now thats his opinion and not mine) I guess if I was a 5th Dan he can say that. Anyway he intorduced modern kickboxing into ireland back in late 70s. It came to Ireland from croatia!

Anyback back to the subject yeah I changed a few times. sometimes becuase I lived in canada and I had to do WTF TKD cause it was the only martial art where I lived.

My main systems on and off has been kickboxing. Now my main system is Krav Maga, as it reflects my personal training goal more. I still do a little kickboxing though I am very rusty compared to when I was training in it 3 nights a week. and I am going to Thai boxing camp in thailand for 2 weeks in May as I want to learn some Muay Thai elements too!

Kevin_rc_ie

WFT TKD

WTF

Yeah it should be called what the fook tkd. only joking. olympics are olympics.

memphis

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

WTF

Yeah it should be called what the fook tkd. only joking. olympics are olympics.

LMFAO

So the olympic style TKD was WTF, was very disappointing stuff if ya ask me, they were wide open the whole time, no guards up, and if I remember correctly they didn't punch..... boring!!!!

pma-ire

memphis wrote:

LMFAO

So the olympic style TKD was WTF, was very disappointing stuff if ya ask me, they were wide open the whole time, no guards up, and if I remember correctly they didn't punch..... boring!!!!

WTF TKD is like it is so that it is not like Boxing or Karate or Judo (ie. the other Combat styles in the Olympics). dats the only reason!

Millionaire

when I did WTF TKD, the training was very tough, the instructor was a sadist, broken bones, black & blue all over was order of the day, and the fighting (95% kicks) was pretty much full contact all the time. Man it hurt! so it is a very tough SPORT as least the dojang I trained in.

The 2 facts I saw there was, No 1 no one could punch to save their lives, funny thing is the froms were 95% hand techniques. No 2 no one had any real street self defense skills at all. No 3 I see no merit what so ever in bowing to a photo of some old korean guy and to the korea flag!!!

if u want to tough athletic sport...go for it.