spetsnaz Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 muay thai around makati area, meron ba? Quote Link to comment
freeboracaytrip Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 I box (im actually trying shoot fighting) and practice greco roman wrestling everyday...old college thingy. Quote Link to comment
freeboracaytrip Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 Red corner has muay thai! im not sure when but ill ask Quote Link to comment
Novice Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 I box (im actually trying shoot fighting) and practice greco roman wrestling everyday...old college thingy. Shootfighting in the PI?! Where?! Is it an authentic Shooto school like the ones they have in Japan? Quote Link to comment
caloy76 Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 little karate, arnis, judo, aikido and wrestling (freestyle) Quote Link to comment
ron9 Posted July 9, 2004 Share Posted July 9, 2004 Red corner has muay thai! im not sure when but ill ask yes red corner has muay thai, but most of the trainers come from the amateur muah thati assoc. of the phil. this is the muay thai gym located in the ultra bleachers...there are no fixed schedule of classes, so you can go as early as 7am or as late as 9pm and anytime in between except during lunch Quote Link to comment
MODERATOR bonito99 Posted July 9, 2004 MODERATOR Share Posted July 9, 2004 Merged! Quote Link to comment
ATONG ANG Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 Merged! lloks like we have the same interests Quote Link to comment
smart-ass Posted July 11, 2004 Share Posted July 11, 2004 krav maga? american combatives? where could i go to get some training. i think learning these styles are best for today's world. MY FEMALE FRIENDS GOT A TASTE OF STREET VIOLENCE LAST WEEK IN LIBIS WHILE CLUBBING. SOME GUYS THOUGHT THEY WERE FAIR GAME AND TRIED TO FORCE THEM INTO THEIR VAN. HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME BYSTANDERS, WHO KNOWS WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPEN. SO MY FRIENDS ARE ASKING WHERE THEY COULD GET SOME AUTHENTIC TRAINING. GUNS AAND KNIVES ARE TOO LETHAL AND CAUSE LEGAL PREDICAMENTS. PLEASE HELP ME OUT FOR MY FRIENDS SAKE. Quote Link to comment
Novice Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 I saw in Gameplan a couple of years ago, a group that teaches self-defense class for females, but I can't remember the groups name. What I can suggest is reality-based fighting like what you've mentioned i.e. Krav Maga. Filipino Martial Arts is very useful in self-defense situations, because it will teach you both empty-handed and weapons based fighting. Guns and knives are fair game especially in a life or death situation, but for practical and financial purposes there are a lot of knives that are available in the market that can be used in self-defense scenarios. It's okay to carry a knife for self-defense purposes just as long as it does not exceed 2.5 or is it 3.5 inches in length. Feel free to PM me if you need help in finding martial arts instructors for your friends. Quote Link to comment
smart-ass Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 I saw in Gameplan a couple of years ago, a group that teaches self-defense class for females, but I can't remember the groups name. What I can suggest is reality-based fighting like what you've mentioned i.e. Krav Maga. Filipino Martial Arts is very useful in self-defense situations, because it will teach you both empty-handed and weapons based fighting. Guns and knives are fair game especially in a life or death situation, but for practical and financial purposes there are a lot of knives that are available in the market that can be used in self-defense scenarios. It's okay to carry a knife for self-defense purposes just as long as it does not exceed 2.5 or is it 3.5 inches in length. Feel free to PM me if you need help in finding martial arts instructors for your friends. novice, i watched the episode you were refering to in gameplan pero it was ecletic, halo-halo, and did not account the fact that your assailant(s) may attack a woman as he would a man,. which would involve fully power swings and straights, kicks etc. instead of grabes, bearhugs and the like. guns are best pero may legal ramifications, and knives well my swiss army knife was treated as a weapon by the police and naglagay pa ako para lang maka-settle. (the law on defensive knife is very vague in the phils.) kaya all you have are your hands, feet, etc. ( canes and sticks are cumbersome) to fight with. anyway thanks . I'll tell my female friends about FMA, pero i doubt if they will try. May pagka J.Lo (as in the movie ENOUGH) ang type nila. Quote Link to comment
spetsnaz Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 there's a gym @ olives plaza, pque, who's now offering aikido class. any info on the class sked and fees? thanks Quote Link to comment
Novice Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 novice, i watched the episode you were refering to in gameplan pero it was ecletic, halo-halo, and did not account the fact that your assailant(s) may attack a woman as he would a man,. which would involve fully power swings and straights, kicks etc. instead of grabes, bearhugs and the like. guns are best pero may legal ramifications, and knives well my swiss army knife was treated as a weapon by the police and naglagay pa ako para lang maka-settle. (the law on defensive knife is very vague in the phils.) kaya all you have are your hands, feet, etc. ( canes and sticks are cumbersome) to fight with. anyway thanks . I'll tell my female friends about FMA, pero i doubt if they will try. May pagka J.Lo (as in the movie ENOUGH) ang type nila. Hmm....what I could suggest to your friends is not to choose an art for it's aesthetic value, but for it's lethality. We're talking about life or death here. Since, as far as I know, there are no qualified Krav Maga instructors here in the PI what they can do is mix and match a couple of styles together. I'm talking about FMA mixed with a striking art like Boxing or Muay Thai. FMA is not just arnis twirling. In movies like The Bourne Identity and the one with Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones, the weaponry techniques that were used there was FMA. IMO, Kali is P4P the most lethal reality based martial art. It also teaches empty-handed fighting. Boxing or Muay Thai would be a good compliment to FMA, because even if a girl would hit you, if she hits you in the right spot, it's gonna hurt. Whatever your friends chooses it would always boil down to instinct and common sense. Me, I taught my sister to hit the vital points of an assailant. I taught her to always go for the eys, shins, groin and/or if somebody grabs a hold of her twist their fingers and shout "FIRE!" scandalously. I also taught her to use anything she has a hold of as a weapon, be it a pen or cellphone. The tricks that I taught her are dirty as hell, but they are also effective as hell! If you want more input and opinions regarding female self-defense, I would be PM'ing you a site that you can go to and ask these specific questions. Quote Link to comment
smart-ass Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 thanks novice for the info. maybe something eye-opening needs to happen for my friends to learn to think the way you do. The key word is instinctive reaction to thwart a violent situation. With training, everything becomes instinctive. Quote Link to comment
ron9 Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 On July 19 (or earlier) some of our muay thai practitioners from the amateuar muay thai assoc. of the phil (located in ultra oval) will be going to thailand to compete in an international event. these are billy alumno, brent velasco, and rodirgo "the bull" asiong. let's wish them all the best and to show the world the quality of the filipino fighter. also, on august 21 at the ultra, there will be also be an international muay thai event. will keep everyone posted on any developments Quote Link to comment
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