Big Easy said:
Dante is a man who eats his dinner on his couch, with the laptop on the coffee table, with the tv on. There is no way he does martial arts.
i don't own a laptop. the only laptop i ever owned was a powerbook 1400cs, which i sold on ebay to someone in mexico who paid more in shipping than the computer sold for.
PuffnScruff said:
eric is the child who sits in front of his p.c. with a cut out of the apple logo taped to the computer surrounded by empty beer bottles while e-stalking 15 year old girls on the net
no one has forgotten his crusty osx themes for his windoze and how leet he thought he was because of them. brokie mc brokerson cannot afford the mac.
Cheesyphily16 said:
Dante is bluffing. He says this to prevent mofo's from jackin his 2pac collection. Question for all you who have trained in any of the martial arts, how much time did you have to devote until you got things down? Speaking from a noob perspective.
if someone was trying to rush me i also own a gun. it would be easier to throw lead then try to do a chinese connection brawl.
as for martial arts and the time required, it very much depends on the art. kata intensive arts will take a lot longer to learn by nature, whereas arts such as mine (jeet kune do is in many ways the precursor to the ufc shit of today) are application oriented and train via drills and sparring. that being said, in my third year i entered several tae kwon do tourneys and dominated brown and black belts until ultimately being disqualified from each and every tournament. tae kwon do tourneys don't permit punches to the face, but they do permit a roundhouse kick to the face, which seems a little contradictory to me. ...especially being that jeet kune do is about taking the centerline and dropping chain attacks with knees, elbows, and fists.
anyway, back to your question - it's all about the art. iin looking for an art it's imperative to consider what you want out of it first. for fitness and competition, tae kwon do is the way to go. you won't have the opportunity to use what you learn terribly much, and once a fight degrades to a wrestling match you might get beat. likewise, some dojos are all about promo based on payment. if you keep paying you keep getting new belts. this is weak. i'd encourage you to join a dojo that focuses on application, preferably from a military instructional base. i know with mine if you smiled or didn't call the teacher the proper name you had to do things like stand on your head for an hour. harsh maybe, but i learned a TON quickly and progressed up to high-skill weapons within my first two years.
