Ok Im thinking about delving in the depths of the eastern culture. What martial art would be the best? I require grace, style, artisitc expresion, and (possibly) weapons and the usuall body shaping, self control stuff like that. I think Wushu would suit me the best. What do you think?
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Ok, now that i've got that out of my system. Wushu is purely ornimental, there's no practicality behind it.
Wing Chun would be more up your ally. Its a brand of kung fu, Bruice Lee and Jackie Chan both started with Wing Chun.
Weapons don't happen for 2 years at least, with any respectable martial art. Wushu is ornamental, and has all the body shaping and self controll that your looking for, but if you asked Jet Li, who has made his career on Wushu, in fact went to the Wushu Acadamy in Beijing, would admit that a lot of guy's could kick his *ss. It's not practical in the least. I do Teoul Moon, which is similar to Wing Chun, but it's a more mid distance art, Wing Chun does pretty good with long range and close range. Body building is stronger, and practicality is highest of any martial art.
Wushu, by the way, is like beginning Karate for 8 years. Cold, solid, and for the most part fairly weak. It takes a very long time to get very far with it. Remeber that Jet Li has done Wushu since he was eight, and went to the worldwide headquarters for Wushu.
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lol thanks for that info. How does Wing Chun look like? Is it brute force or is graceful and all that
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Taijutsu was one of the 19 martial arts, i believe, in Japan during the fudal era. It means something along the order of "science of fighting" or something like that. As far as martial arts goes, Taijutsu isn't bad, no where near top notch (sorry.) A lot of modern Taijutsu takes techniques from Kung Fu, as do many martial arts. Which i have no problem with, actually. Martial arts is about learning, and building yourself, and bettering yourself, how better to do that than by bettering your art at the same time? Its something that exists within kung fu itself too. Which is why every style now has a mantis form of some kind (save for Jeet Kun Do, which is formless, but really friggin difficult to master) Taijustu os similar in many aspects to the other japanese martial arts. Mastery level is low, on the scale of martial arts mastery levels, teters on the less forgiving side of martial arts, but was designed with fighting other japanese in mind, and therefore is still somewhat primitive. (this has to do with the fact that the japanese were on an island, and very rarely saw other people to fight other than themselves. Save for the mongols, who wiped the walls with the samurai the first time they invaded, and would have taken the country if it were not for the seasonal winds - Kamikazi) Like i said, Taijutsu is a good art, and can be very actractive movementally, at times, however its far from top of the list.
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Wow - Gal wasn't kidding when she said you knew a lot about martial arts .
I don't mind Taijutsu isn't amazing - it's the closest club to where I live and has helped me a fair bit . That, plus we get to use weapons (which is fun ).
At any rate, I plan to study another style when I'm older, so there's no problem there .
i do karate but for what youre thinking of i would suggest some type of kung fu.
unfortunately i dont know enough about the styles so i couldnt say which type
you should go for...
i do wado ryu (i think thats soft style karate) but i'd like to try kung fu at some
point so if you try it tell me how good it is! oh & Qi, you'll have to tell me more
about wing chun!!
Wing Chun is what Bruice started with, and Jackie Chan still does. Its extremely effective, but at the same time, its flowing, fluid, can be fancy if you want it to be, and builds muscle and endurance like you wouldn't believe. Wing Chun is excellent if your willing to put some work into it. It does involve smacking your arms and legs agains a big wooden dummy however, and this acts as a deterrant for some would be wing chunners. And is the soul reason that Wing Chun is primarily practiced by men, not women, not boys, but men, however, its well worth it.
wado ryu is indeed a soft style karate.
By the by, i can promote or denouce just about every martial art, save for a few which are reserved for either promotion or denunciation.)
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I'm not sure what style would suit you best, since I don't know that much about the diffrent styles. But I do a style called Tang Soo Do, its a Korean karete and is alot like Kung Fu, I don't know if its what your looking for but it might suit you.
I think Arvy could try aikido. It may not be the best fighting technique in the world, but it includes great deal of self-control and mental discipline
Aikido is no more self discaplined or mentaly discaplined than any other martial art, actually. Kendo would be better for that, but Kendo is horrible as a martial art. Its much to specific, and leans on other arts. Aside from that the form itself is dead to practiality. It's been obsolite since World War 1.
Stephen Segal is a really BAD actor. He's a great, fabulous martial artist, but his movies are cr*p. He has a warped philosiphy and it comes through in his movies.
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. Zen Kyo Shin Taijutsu (I'm prety certain that's right...).
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. That, plus we get to use weapons (which is fun 
