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Anyone here love martial arts?

I think people who have OCD or obsessions could really get into martial arts because of the rules and perfect movement they teach. You can control your body and if you have OCD or ticks martial arts can really calm you down. The OCD will help you master the perfect movement and the obsession will make you good.

I am obsessed with martial arts. Most notably, Taekwondo. Yet Taekwondo as a serious fighting art.

It seems to be one of the more common hobbies with aspies - mainly because it's a skillset that you can usually pick up at your own pace without it getting overly competitive and, if it's a teacher or system conducive, it also yields self-defense which helps a lot at lowering certain kinds of social anxiety.

I enjoyed taekwondo in my teen-age years.

I love doing martial arts because it keeps me in shape and build my confidences. I've been doing Shotokan for 10+ years (now stopped doing it due to losing interest of it) and now training Kung Fu.

Why did you lose interest in Shotokan? What rank did you get?

What style of kung fu do you practice now?



I am a TAekwondo instructor and have been doing it for 20 years. I also dabbled in other styles too. I love self defense oriented stuff and MMA and kickboxing.


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Shotokan is the one i've lost interest with due to my sensai changing the way of her teaching (in otherword, not toughing her students now as she done in the past with me and the rest). I've achieved black belt 2nd dan about 3 years ago.

I'm learning Shaolin Kung fu as of now.

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I wanted to take martial arts, but my family could never afford lessons.

I've been learning how to box, instead. You have to practice a lot to build up your speed, aim and strength, but the actual moves in boxing are simple. For the most part, it's strategy and hard work that wins a fight.

My parents are OK with me learning it, so long as I don't enter competitions. They don't want to risk me getting a head injury.

I joined a community-education night class for my taekwondo. It was really cheap. Unless an individual wants to learn the advanced stuff (brown and black belts), learning at a community class usually provides the same instruction as a commercial "school."

I haven't ever tried boxing.

I've mentioned what I've been in in some other threads - closing in on seven years now of the Dan Inosanto blend; ie. Kali, Panantukan, Muay Thai/JKD, Kuntao, Wing Chun, Chin Na, etc.. No, I'm not studying these systems separately (although I have been given the 116 form of the wooden dummy) - it's an amalgam of Filipino and Southern Chinese styles and my instructor has been getting additional certification so that we can also as students follow up in specific areas after our first general black-belt is earned. We don't focus quite as much on Silat specifically but the Kuntao is very close, a bit like it but more brash/offensive.

We're lucky enough to have a gentleman and his wife who are both well achieved students of Dan's who live about 5 hours away and make it out to hold a seminar where we're at once per year or so. It's one of those things I never miss because having been to the Inosanto seminars a couple times, for as much as I love Dan's stories and seeing him move (yes - even in his late 70's) you have a LOT thrown at you and not a lot of time to practice it. When his students hold a seminar its less total information but we're getting five to eight minutes to work on a technique with a partner and they're walking around and checking on all of us to make sure we're following through right.

i kick good in Karate by stretching & warming up my legs

I trained many styles of martial arts for around 9 years. I switched to gymnastics though.