Originally Posted by Rush

First it was karate when I was a kid and I made it up to brown belt before quitting at age 12.

Then I joined Jiu Jitsu and are a green belt here. It's hard but fun learning the techniques and counters especially when I've had a coach who apparently has been in two UFC PPVs. He lost to Evan Tanner and Dan Severn but is an awesome coach. I can't wait to fight in a tournament. That would be sweet kicking another persons a-- since you can fight the same way as in school. But so far no one on one fight tournaments. Just sparring, etc tournaments where you show off your moves. Thats only for the higher belts.

I am trying to find boxing but theres none here since I live in a community where people think its strong to use weapons instead of fists.

Originally Posted by Rush

Lol, I found a place in my community where to do boxing and I mentioned the instructors name and then my dad was like "No, your not joining that. No way! You'll get your ass kicked those guys are rowdy". Sometimes my old man is cool but other times a complete loser and let down. I can't wait till the kickboxing tournament I'm going to have. I'm almost in the same belt Dana White is in-blue belt . I'm pretty strong and smart but none of my fights have been mixed martial arts, only school fights .

Originally Posted by Rush

Yeah, you probably don't go at all or are a personal punching bag like you would be for me if I ever met you.

Originally Posted by The Don

ok just out of curisioty, and to see how diverse the community really is... would you all mind listing the different martial styles you have all trained in?

Originally Posted by HARD_KNOCKS

Well I'm and extreme practitioner of the following:

- BJJ
- Muay Thai Kickboxing
- Greco-Roman Wrestling
- Judo

I have also trained in:

- Boxing
- Yoga (may sound funny but it helps with your flexibility a tonne)
- TKD (at a younger age)
- and JJJ (before i found out about my favourite Martial Art BJJ)

Originally Posted by HARD_KNOCKS

Well to me, when i took JJJ, we learned mainly the Judo style takedowns with many submissions, as opposed to when i switched to Bjj i learned a wide variety of new Takedowns that i hadn't learned in JJJ, plus their were many, many more submissions and variations in Bjj then their were un JJJ. This is no disrespect to JJJ in any way, Maybe it was my instructer, maybe i just wasn't at a high enough level yet but from my experiences (not the same as other peoples) Bjj taught me more.