Turkish Posted 10 February, 2012 Share Posted 10 February, 2012 I love the people who walk up to our club and say "I do mixed martial arts/jeet kune do", really love them....one art not good enough for you or is it because it's fashionable? We hold a tai chi lesson on a tuesday, but some are a bit shocked when they find out that tai chi is in fact a martial art (tai chi chuan means "grand ultimate fist") in itself and basically just a way to allow a person to fight and defend themselves when they are otherwise incapable...old for example. What club would this be?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockey_saint Posted 10 February, 2012 Share Posted 10 February, 2012 Yeah, it's called Hung Leng Kuen kung fu (translated two ways 1, "Free spirit fist" or 2, "the art of the multiple changing fist") it's been about at Southampton uni since '82 I think (although it's a fair bit older than that) The thing about kung fu is that it's not sticcato(?) and very rythmic, unlike some traditional arts (I say that, but when you meet a very high up expert in most arts, they tend to look a lot like kung fu, even Karate) the founder always said the whole point of HLKKF was to take someone "from this (standing) to this (on the floor) as quickly as possible" which I think is a very good and succinct description. We generally have around 10-15 people in each class; some students and some not....it's all good fun. I think I included a link before, but if I didn't: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~hungleng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 10 February, 2012 Share Posted 10 February, 2012 Sorry mate, you did say. Looks good to me. I know what you mean, we get a few MMA and Kick Boxing guys coming along to Krav, strolling in thinking they are the dogs boll*cks and some of them are surprised at what it is like. THey teach that to win a fight you've got 15 seconds and need to get 4 good blows which is why it teaches to attack the most vunerable areas. It so much more explosive than what the other guys do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 10 February, 2012 Author Share Posted 10 February, 2012 Train my football team, cycle about 100 miles a week and play tennis twice a week. Hope this helps. Really want to do one of the cycle rides, the Oxford to Cambridge or London to Brighton. Get my arse in gear and I could do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 10 February, 2012 Share Posted 10 February, 2012 Really want to do one of the cycle rides, the Oxford to Cambridge or London to Brighton. Get my arse in gear and I could do it. If you weren't spending so much time moping around about how much you hate you're job you'd be there already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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