Your Martial Art/grade

Repli

Basically just post what you do and what grade you are
i'll get the ball rolling..

WTF Taekwondo 7th kup
ITF Taekwondo 6th kup

sam

<edit> stay on topic </edit>

GoneShootin

we all have it sam

Its been a few years since I trained properly, leaving cert I think actually. Ill be getting back into it again next year....(famous last words)


IKU Karate : 2nd Purple

Trebor

Shotokan Karate Green belt
yellow belt ITF Tae Kwon Do but it's been a while

Lorax

Taekwon-do (wtf) 2nd Kup

Rolo Tomasi

ITF Tae Kwon Do

Yellow belt, going for green tag very soon.

heat

yellow belt ITF Tae kwon do
1st Kyu IKF Kendo

kanurocks

Third kyu brown belt kenpo
9 yrs.Still at it you need it in dublin these's days.
Also just started judo 3 months not as practical.im only yello but it's good

nesthead

Ninjutsu - 9th Kyu
Judo - Orange belt (but havent done judo in AGES...)

Silent Bob

Bu-jutsu - Brown Belt

paddyc

Thai, we dont get grades we just fight,

20 pro fights, (12, 2, 8)

Sarky

Shíto-Ryu Itosu Kai Karate, 1st Dan. 1st Dan in Kobudo too. :ninja:

Only common around co. Galway in Ireland, but there's a really big following in Canada, and its HQ is in Japan. Very similar to Shotokan. Can't remember which did which, but the master of one trained under the master of the other.

Haven't been able to go to a class in a year and a half or so recently, college and all that. Sniff:(

xx

Judo - Yellow belt. Bit pissed that I've finished until next term though, doing it in College and all that. Been looking into BJJ in Phibsboro and that Krav Maga course in town. Should keep me frosty.

Musashi

I Dan ITF style Tae Kwon Do

Senor_Fudge

*bows* 1st Dan in Shotokan Karate :
(badly dubbed shout) 10 years training

Have gained unofficial experience in a martial art called LIFE : 21 years ^_^

I'd like to read up a bit about ninjutsu if anyone has any good links to get me started thanks - no clubs near where i live

Home/dojo/hell : http://www.compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~king/

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"I'll be back"

And he did come back, with a nice big car...

Unjaku

Originally posted by Mr
I'd like to read up a bit about ninjutsu if anyone has any good links to get me started thanks - no clubs near where i live

Quite a lot of people commute from all over Ireland to train at Bujinkan classes in Dublin- from Northern Ireland, Donegal and Galway as well.

The question of whether or not the Bujinkan teaches 'ninjutsu' is debatable. I have been training for quite a few years, and the things I have studied which are very obviously from a ninjutsu ryu ha comprises only a small part of what I have been doing.

What is taught could more accurately be described as a synthesis of koryu (pre-meiji restoration) martial arts schools: some of them ninjutsu schools, some jujututsu schools, and some 'sogo' or complete budos which run the gamut of everything from religion, to empty hands, to obscure battlefield weapons and swordsmanship. This synthesis is referred to as Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu.

Some links:-
www.bujinkan.ie (general contact information for various groups etc.)
www.iol.ie~alexm (has articles etc.)

Senor_Fudge

Thanks a lot

Great when the lingo throws others off ^_^

Tis an interesting art indeed, must try and get educated about the terminology - I've shotokan as a concrete base but now it is time to move on.

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There is no knowledge, that is not power.

Musashi

Also studied a Japanese style called Kaserashi. Got a full weapons syllabus and similar to Jiu-Jitsu in grappling style.Also learnt Aiki-Jitsu and Bo-jitsu,Jo-Jitsu,a little Iado and Kenpo,some ground fighting,lots of joint destruction and old trusty kicks and pucks

Man U babe

ITF taekwondo green tag, kenpo junior black belt.
Total of just under 8 years training.

Unjaku

Originally posted by Musashi
Also studied a Japanese style called Kaserashi. Got a full weapons syllabus and similar to Jiu-Jitsu in grappling style.

I'm guessing this is Kaze Arashi ryu...

Does anyone have contact details for these guys or know where and when they train?

btw Jiu-jitsu / jujutsu is a kind of blanket term, it does not refer to a single specific martial art, although it seems that in Ireland there are plenty of teachers who either don't know this or deliberately don't bother to get into it. The unnarmed syllabus of Kaze Arashi ryu and other schools are not just like jujutsu, they are examples of jujutsu.

Wyverne

Focus Martial Arts TaeKwonDo,

Blue Belt, Training nearly 6 years

Runfree

I study Kenpo Ju jitsu.
Currently a Yellow belt.

RunFree

Lordy

Red belt in ITF Tae Kwon Do ...

1st dan in WTF ...

But we all know its not about grade you are right

kanurocks

having juinior black belt in kenpo is just annoying you just have to start the senior system all over.i got real pissed of it ment jack **** .you cant open a club on a juinior black.and the i spent another 5 years going for my snr black.dropped out 1 month before mry grading,the moral of the story is dont try in the first place

sionnach

green with white tips in shotokan, 3 years training. ill probably take up tae kwon do as well when i move up to hte smog id love to give aikido a shot too

Code Ninja

Bujutsu - Yellow Belt
(Graded after 3 months and never graded again. Was with the association for 3 1/2 years. Gave it up to go to college)

Choy Lay Fut - Yellow Sash
(Trained for 1 year then gave it up to go back to college)

blondie83

Green belt in Kenpo karate,and
10th ryu in ninjitsu, a pretty cool martial art!!!!:ninja:

Lemming

Bu Jutsu - Orange Belt
Bujinkan Budo Taijitsu ('Ninjitsu' in lay terms) - 9th Kyu

Nichololas

First purple belt in shotokan.
4 years training although I only took it back up last christmas after a 3 year break.
Starting a judo and kick-boxing course soon .

dudara

green belt (6th kup) in ITF taekwon do, in Passage West Club, Cork.

Been training two years, and it's the first sport besides weightlifting that I haven't given up out of boredom.

fractal

Combat Judo (MMA) - Orange Belt (hopefully green soon enough)

dubhthach

1st Dan ITF-style Taekwon-do

BoB_BoT

Whoot, Graded last Saturday, I'm now an 8th kup (yellow belt)
ITF Taekwon Do

dubhthach

congrats, it only gets better

BoB_BoT

thanks, that's what i've being told , only thing i don't like is the dead skin on my toes :P lol but that's another story lol

Prime

Balck Tag - ITF Tae Kwon Do

haven't trained for some years. Broke my arm about 1 month before I was to do my black belt. Have been reluctant to get back into it, but still train alot. Took up rock climbing and swimming shortly after my physio. Swim about 8Km a week over four sessions. Wouldn't mind getting back into the Martial Arts again, did try a little Tai Chi for awhile out in UCD, was quite impressed. Closed soft style as as apposed to what I was use to of Open hard style training, kata and fighting.

Prime

clippy

Black Belt 3rd DAN trained in Bushido Martial Arts
http://www.bushido.ie
Kickboxing and selfdefense started about age 8 training since then .

Mrs Jingles

5th Kyu - 2nd yellow belt. Haven't trained for about 6 years due to injuries but would like to get back into it. Trained with the Kyokushinkaikan organisation in England but I think it was a British break away org. only. Anyone know of any in existance here - or similar?

CrazyTalk

green belt = itf taekwon-do

OOH
theres so many tkd ppl here
where are all u from?
some of u no could be in my club...........or could be my instructors

Millionaire

3rd degree black belt in mu gen do kickboxing

did belt before red in WTF TKD year s ago, blue I think???

Been doing Krav Maga recently andit rocks, no belts, no GIs, you train in your street clothes which is cool!

Belts are great for keeping track of your progress, and a brilliant achievement especially getting black belt. but with great respect to all, we all know that there are people walking the streets , real violent bastards, who would take alot of us black belts apart in the street regardless what style we practise if we be brutually honest about it. when your under stress in a violent situation and adreline is flying, is is very very hard to remember the techniques never mind trying to get them working!

Lantis

1st kyu brown belt in Shotokan, going for 1st dan next May/June. Yar.

exiot

Im currently on the 6th Kup - Green Belt, and going for the 7th Kup - Blue Tag next month

rainbow kirby

Grading yet again on monday... hopefully 48 hours from now ill be blue tag itf tkd!

Apocalypse

9th Kyu Bujinkan

motobu

Originally posted by Sarky
Shíto-Ryu Itosu Kai Karate, 1st Dan. 1st Dan in Kobudo too. :ninja:

Only common around co. Galway in Ireland, but there's a really big following in Canada, and its HQ is in Japan. Very similar to Shotokan. Can't remember which did which, but the master of one trained under the master of the other.

Haven't been able to go to a class in a year and a half or so recently, college and all that. Sniff:(

****o-ryu Itosukai is no more similar to shotokan than any other style of karate and is disimilar to a greater extent.
****o ryu is closer to the original Okinawan kata,and incorporates kobudo into the grading syllabus , stylised bunkai are also taught as part of the syllabus,and the hard kime found in many shotokan practitoners is not so prevalent ,****o stylists are usually very fluid .

the master of one did not train under the other but Ankoh Itosu was the teacher of both the masters Kenwa Mabuni(****o ryu) and Gichin Funakoshi(shotokan ryu) , there was some intertraining between the students and both masters were reportedly good friend but they were contemporaries/colleagues.

Also Kenwa Mabuni historically was the founder of ****o ryu karate not ****o-ryu Itosukai ,when he died his students all claimed succesion from him this lead to the
founding of many ryu-ha(schools) Ryushu Sakagami founded the Itosu-kai ryu.
There are perhaps 10-11 of these 'splinter' ryuha.

Good style and generally nice people

Cake Fiend

Should really throw my 2c in the pot here:

8th Kyu JKS Shotokan

mike2084

Green belt IUTF Taewkondo

BoB_BoT

whoot as of saturday i'm now a green tag (7th Kup) Taekwon-Do!!

*edit* humm just noticed i posted a similar reply earlier in the thread when i turned 8th kup, oh well */edit*

the_only_Ali

Graded yesterday for by AIMAA blue belt, and Im also a green tag in ITF taekwondo, but i don't do that anymore.

Danilo

Shotokan Karate - 1st Dan.

FSKD Ireland, which is affiliated to FSKA World

dubhthach

Graded on Saturday am now a 2nd Dan in Taekwon-do (Taekwon-do Ireland
):D