Help with my Martial Arts?
I am basically looking for a website (a community suite or guide site) which contains tips, tutorials, exercises, drills and advice to improve my martial arts, regardless of the discipline.
Hopefully looking for video tutorials and guides which teaches kicks, strikes and blocks.
Simpler kicks (Front, side, round-house) as well as the more advanced (Reverse crescent, tornado, flying side, 540 degree)
Drills and plans which could help improve my speed and strength in my striking, movement and kicking? Certain tips on how I should be training and exercises I should be doing to improve certain aspects. As well as fitness guides and how much i should be exercising and eating to improve my stamina and over all fitness.
Guides of stretches; How to do them, Which ones cover my body better and how long I should be doing them.
This was a pretty crappily asked question, I’m pretty much just looking for a website which covers basic and advanced martial arts techniques and exercises (as I said, Kicks, strength, speed, stamina and stretching ) perhaps a forum or community website which could also contain Video guides or guides I could read. You know what I mean? Just really good websites that cover general AND specific Martial arts and combat which help practitioners like me.
If you know of any websites like this (more than one is fine) putting them up would be awesome.
To Katana, I hope you get to read this.
I read your answer and it did hit me.
I probably emphasized on the wrong thing in my question, I am really just looking for a guide to help me along with my training, I agree with what you are saying, I do train (not at the moment, I’m away in India right now) under a Tae Kwon do instructor who I consult at every moment i get about my technique.
I’m really just looking for a guide that will help me with my fitness, strength, speed and yes, technique. Not to completely rely on, but just to help me with training I already take part in.
I see nothing wrong with getting a little bit of "help" from outside my dojang…Even if it is from the internet.
I appreciate your input and will value it. I understand the point you were trying to make. =D
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5 comments
pugpaws2 on September 2, 2010 at 4:26 am
To improve you really need a qualified instructor watching you as you practice. He can see the faults and correct them. Videos can’t correct them and can’t see them. Many videos themselves show techniques that are flawed. Many do not explain and show the correct foot position while kicking, …etc. Even if you had a video that did everything correctly you would still be making mistakes. After teaching for years I know how much time I spent standing watching, and correcting a single error in a students technique, only to have to keep reminding that same student for many many months.
Rely on a qualified instructor to correct your technique. As you begin to do things correctly as a habit, your martial arts will improve in many ways.
Katana172 version3 on September 2, 2010 at 4:26 am
I hate to tell you this but unless you already have a signifigant amount of training, you might as well not waste your time or energy. Video’s and books are great as a suppliment, but to learn correctly you need a good instructor, good training, and more importently people who know what they are doing to train with. There are so many little things that make a difference between a technique working and not, and only a good instructor cans how you these, and the only way to train them is with a resisting partner…period.
They don’t teach cops high speed driving , shooting, or cuffing suspects on video right? Soldiers don’t learn CQC by the internet do they? Firefighters don’t learn via the internet right? So what makes you think that something that is at least as complicated as these, like martial arts, can be?
You could mimic the moves, but they would not work if you ever needed them. You can ignore this advice, however when the s*** hits the fan and the attacker walks through your best "internet" move, expect to hear me shaking my head an laughing…
No name. on September 2, 2010 at 4:26 am
http://www.martialedge.net/
Most tutorial videos are for the people who are already studying a martial art and have forgotten how to perform a move and are reviewing / remembering how to do it.
If you want to learn a martial art you should join a club, otherwise you will be wasting your time.
I do Shotokan Karate and I use this:
http://www.shotokanunleashed.com/node
Daniel on September 2, 2010 at 4:26 am
Lol, that isn’t going to work.
bill_nye68 on September 2, 2010 at 4:26 am
http://www.bullshido.net