What style ya do? Where ya train? What's the website of your martial arts school?

I've been training in Wu Shu for about 6 years. For those of you who have no idea what that is and most dont. It's a non-fighting style. Originating in China. It's a performance arts that emphasizes speed, strength and flexibility. Routines contain dynamic movements, good stances, and acrobatics. If you've heard of Jet Li it's the style of martial arts he does. Wu Shu actually translates as martial art. I've been to china twice for a combined total of 6 months to train in wu shu. The first time I went I trained at a school ran by Jet Li's former coach Wu Bin.

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www.4smma.com to check out where I train.

What style ya do? Where ya train? What's the website of your martial arts school?Zen-Do kickboxing (http://www.karmaa.co.uk/kickboxing/kickboxing.htm) - blend of karate, oriental kicking, western boxing, and self-defence techniques. Guy who runs the dojo - Rafael Nieto - was British, European & World Champion. It's a great place to train.

I've been training in this style for most of this year, before that I got a green belt in Jikishin Ju-Jitsu (http://www.jikishin.com/) , and trained for a year in Angola-Palmares Capoeira (http://www.capoeirapalmares.co.uk/). Going to stick with kickboxing from now on, but unfortunately my job is taking me to Birmingham till april, and they tend to do semi-contact kickboxing rather than continuous up there.

Wu-Shu sounds interesting. If it's a non-fighting style, does that mean that you do form-fighting, or do you do any sparring? Capoeira is very showy as well, if you don't know it's a fighting style developed to look like a dance, by slaves in brazil . When you 'play' there's not supposed to be any contact.

Got my grading for orange belt on sunday, so wish me luck.

Wushu is the sport form of kung fu created in "cooperation" with the communist Chinese government. Quite a few masters fled China because they refused to be a part of the transformation.

As opposed to the countless styles of kung fu, all of which were true fighting arts, wushu is essentially kung fu movements blended with gymnastics and dance, with a focus on appearance moreso than any practical application.

Go to virtually any martial arts tournament and pretty much all the Chinese stylists will be some type of wushu. Since it looks more flashy, it is inherently more marketable than traditional kung fu, and thus has been quite successful in the West.

While practitioners do develop great flexibility, dexterity, agility, and coordination, and are admirable athletes, they also do much to perpetuate the stereotype that kung fu, and traditional martial arts in general, are completely ineffective in combat since an observer will not see any practical techniques but an array of cartwheels, flips, random splits, and other impressive but completely useless maneuvers.

Personally I don't have an issue with it provided people make a strong distinction between it and kung fu, and that wushu practitioners don't portray themselves as having studied some sort of ancient Chinese art, but instead an amalgamized sport version created as a tool for Chinese nationalism (and to remove the potentially government-threatening combat aspects from kung fu).

As for me, I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do (Moo Duk Kwan) and currently study Seven Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu.

Brazilian Jui Jitsu, Muy Thai kick boxing, Greco Roman Wrestliing and western Boxing. I train at Ronin / Straight Blast Gym in NYC. www.roninathletics.com We train our butts off 3 days a week.

I do taekwondo (the World Taekwondo Federation variety) at my university. I've been doing taekwondo in different dojangs (the Korean word for dojo) for approximately 5 years, and training for my black belt this Christmas.

Other than that, I've done some Hapkido, Judo, Wing Chun and Ninjitsu. Once I get my black belt in taekwondo, I'm going to start experimenting with different martial arts again. Also, because I've got a body that would lend itself well to gymnastics, I'm going to pursue that too (and maybe do wushu or shaolin kungfu)

I train at Ronin / Straight Blast Gym in NYC. www.roninathletics.com We train our butts off 3 days a week.

Great gym. Glad to see you're training out of the same team as Forest Griffin and the great Matt Thorton and the Singer Bro's...

I did BJJ for a while @ www.ralphgracie.com

Talk about a work out! :flex:

I've been involved with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for around 8 years. After I got my blue belt in 2000 I just started training no-gi, though I still roll in the gi from time to time. Some Jiu-Jitsu schools are now giving out belts for the advanced no-gi students. Belt colors are distinguished by t-shirt color. LOL. Hey, I dig it.

I study Wing Chun Kung Fu and Kali-Silat Escrima at Syracuse Martial Arts Academy (http://www.syracusema.com)