Are there any martial arts "ratings boards"

(dont have a car, its bus or train travel and buses are more familiar to me)

 

If your not familiar with trains, then there's only one way to get familiar, use them more often!

You've been posting on here for over a month about finding a school, just go to some already and actually physically try classes out!

 

i dont have that many in town but. IM GOING TO LOOK AT BOXING NEXT WEEK! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! XP I do actually have pre standing issues which would effect me going to these places and distance and public transport wont make it better. Also Tai Chi as well.

 

On which case get to something you can train in consistently, if you have a preexisting medical condition, you may not be able to train in every art, so choose one you can do, that is close by, and do it!

 

Ui, more excuses!

I don't have a car either.

I need around 90 minutes one way (back might even be longer, due to waiting times), every day, to get my training places.
Twice a week I add another trip, because I have to switch places.

If there isn't much to chose from: Even easier!
Go to these you could actually attend and have a look at them.
Afterwards you can choose where to stay or decide you need to look farther away after all.


So, please, don't use such excuses.
They really are only annoying and seriously not worth it.
(I don't mean that personal, by the way)

You want something - you find a way of doing it.
You don't want something - you go looking for and find all the excuses you need.

 

Thank you,dear.

Things coulda got downright ugly!

Rataca,as ALL CMAs are "Gung Fu"-(or more properly,Wu Shu)-saying TC needs to be more "kung fu" is,well, meaningless.Like saying "Aikido won't work unless it's more Ju-Jutsu." But Aikido is a Ju-Jutsu,whether a particular brand/school has effective training/function or no. I know people will refer to "Kung Fu and T'ai Chi" but such a phrase is idiotic.Except for advertising purposes,I suppose.

Anyways,jest so's ya know.

 

You challanging me to a duel? XP

Then correction for the statement, i have seen it taught with other kung fu's and be good enough for fighting. Good enough revision?

I dont know all these general terms for martial systems from a country

 

Anytime sweetie

handbags at dawn!!!

Not really unless you qualify which systems and what made it "good enough"

Which taiji players have you crossed hands with? Which styles? How often?

If it's none, none and none then your initial statement is a little awry n'est pas?

The perhaps refrain from such polemic statements when discussing them eh?

 

Normal handbags or ones with hidden suprises in them?

The Tai chi i have seen is second hand sources. (Bank holiday and the one i was going to look at was shut then. ) the most respectable kung fu channel i think i have watched was wingchun based. Dont watch these as much recently.

The rest is noted.

 

Of course not. But ok,and you can use your freestyle karate groin kick.I'll use a T'ai Chi lance.(After all, I'm not a young man anymore).

Nope,not at all.While some folks do that, it doesn't need to be taught with another system to make it viable.It DOES require much,much more than doing some solo form and spending an hour a week pushing hands,tho'. I didn't bother to teach my TC students my Hung Ch'uan. Be a waste of time for 'em.

Well now ya know a couple as pertains to Chinese systems,at least.

 

Its freestyle kickboxing not karate!

 

To bring this a tad more on topic; one way to review "ratings" is for styles/clubs that engage in regular competition.

It's moderately available to find results publicly for some styles; if there are clubs that are achieving well frequently, then it is a good sign that they produce high quality of training for that style.

Most places you can find out up front what is involved in the syllabus, and see if that fits your needs.

Over time I have found that it's not always the "club" that had been the successful part, but some teachers or classes can vary in quality if there is not standard that checks this, it is possible that there are people getting graded based on being friends or relatives of the chief instructors regardless of ability.

Word of mouth can be subjective, so isn't always a good measure; I've seen many mixed views been clubs in a small region, and going to all of them often found that there was more in common in the training, than that which was different.

 

See above for if i have trained in it or not, my basis would be those videos of challenges against tai chi. I have not seen a combat based one in person however.

But for all purposes, if they are the minority, you can say its not a combat based martial art as you probably wont find any. Just another question as i dont recall its answer, dont they teach it with other styles commonly?

 

They can't find a Tai Chi teacher in China that beats a "professional" MMA fighter. I'm skeptical they'll find it elsewhere.

 

I presume even the fitness ones have that underlying theme then, i havent looked at the move set of any. I think i looked at a page which contained a description on a few tai chi styles. (that doesnt mean wikipedia. ) I dont think my counter argument would be relivent to the art itself and as they say first impression is everything.
Just for the last one, you dont have to do a a style to know about the style, (doesnt mean i know about it) but you can get theory knowledge without actually training with someone for that style. If you get what i mean.

(to simon):
If i can grapple them, sure. One day anyway. how old are they out of curiosity? I could probbly do a 2-5 minuet round before im out of energy and adrenaline.

Edit: I seem to have messed up the code for quotes somehow, if anyone can have a look at the edit screen and fix it, it would be much appreciated. I hate muilti quote sometimes.

 

Experience is a useful filter by which to assess theory. Martial arts are in the doing.

Speaking of which you think you have 2-5mins worth of work in you but you have no idea really if that is true. In addition, if you were to grapple Simon's teacher you'd likely be on your posteria because you have no grappling experience.