Art Print Appreciation

Depends on what you call “art”
I trained in horsemanship for over 20 years… in some ways and in some events anytime you practice it is “training” of sorts.

7 years on TKD ( my biggest waste of money)
2 years varsity wrestling ( I consider wrestling a martial art)
and now Im doing Gracie jiu jitsu and muay thai ( the funnest and most effective martial arts ever)

Shotokan goju ryu aiki jutsu jujutsu judo kenpo pentjak tkd monk fist boxing.
Dan ranks 3rd dan ni dan shodan renshi and master instructors certificate in kenpo sciences.
Total 48 years.

Trained in Chinese Martial arts for 12 years. Bored with it now.

3 years Uechi Ryu Karate here.

personaly I think a high amount of the posters on here have no experience at all, and me… my dojo taught me EXTREMELY good balance, which is great for every day life… but as for the real martial arts experience… but they never let us make a solid hit on anything so I pretty much unlearned the ability to hit hard and they didnt teach us anything else really.

A year of varsity wrestling

in one single art straight:
>1yr 15%
1-5 yrs 42%
5-10 yrs 23%
10-20yrs 5%
no training at all just run their mouth 15%

not a percent more or less

i have been studying for… 1/3 of my life?…… lol but two of those years were tkd as a lil kid….. and i never trained like i should.. and now that i finally started getting there.. i got shoulder injuries… so now i auctally kinda dont wanna train as much cas i dont wanna become semi crippled…. i gatta get my shoulders fixed…… dam……. but yea im 16 and im now vastly expanding what i study… i did 1 type of aikido type art then my instructer mixed it with another.. then he taught me a bit of karate…. a bit…. but enought that im gunna get a job and find a good instructer (mine just joined the marines… so bye bye for 5 years) and im getting various people i know to teach me various types of… w/e they know.. ne ways…… very few who posted here have studied for 5 years….. and only a few over a decade……. me not included.. cas i havent….. not for a few years ne ways

Low percentage…Less than 50%….

0 = 30%
0>1 = 25%
1 = 25%
2 = 10%
5 = 5%
10 = 5% (I’m in this cat.)
20+ = 5%

Don’t know about anyone else’s resume for sure, but usually the answers give away the age and maturity level of the contributor. They are really more transparent than they think they are.

I started training in Isshin-Ryu in 1981 and haven’t stopped. Now I run a dojo that teaches traditionally. Hard contact is part of the training starting at about green or blue belt, based on age (teenagers don’t get as much as adults). No testing fees or pro shop. I’m roku-dan (6th degree black belt). Makiwara training begins at age 20. I learned for 17 years directly from someone who trained under the founder of the style.

I, like most others, have my view. There again who will ever really know. Most of the time you get a sense of a person just by their answers. I’m sure that people have views on myself as well as everyone else here, but none of us will most likely ever really know what “skills” people here have. There again “skill” is such a large and encompassing word. What I consider skills are what others do not and visa versa. If I have do guess I’d think that most do not really have skills that they claim, but I tend to distrust people as a whole. I’m sure that those who have read my answers and questions would question weather I have any “skill” as far as it go’s I really do not care what others think of me and they shouldn’t care what I think of them. This site states point of view and unless we see things as others do, which I tend to not do, we’ll never really know the answer to that. My skills, as an example, are about real combat, no kata or fluff. To alot, if not most, here they do not find this a skill. So in most peoples eyes here I may not have skills in martial arts. As far as I am, when I walk down a street I know for a fact that I am able to defend myself, if it came down to a kata war, I’d loose but how often do “streetfights” end up in a pre-arranged kata battle?

Well lets see, Wado ryu karate 4 years. Tae kwan do, 1 year.
Choy lay fut kung fu, 2 years. Kajukenbo, 13 years.
I have also trained on and off in these other styles.
CHA 3 kenpo
American kenpo
Shotokan
Judo
Jujitsu
Kali

I’ve also done a lot of research into martial arts styles and histories.

32 years Okinawan Goju Ryu, 3 years Sun Style Hsing I Chuan, I Chuan…

Currently studying Fujian White Crane Fist.