I did Judo for 10 years Shotokan Karate for 5 years
Now i am to old to punish my body

Yeah Muay Thai is really really demanding on the body if you have a good master.

I've done Karate for a year, I got a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and learnt boxing and judo, and some wushu and weaponry. But when I tried out some Muay Thai drills and practices and I was sore the next day.

I wanna learn Hapkido and the Russian martial art self defense one.

this is the only martial arts you need

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Originally posted by Invasionmix Yeah Muay Thai is really really demanding on the body if you have a good master. I've done Karate for a year, I got a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and learnt boxing and judo, and some wushu and weaponry. But when I tried out some Muay Thai drills and practices and I was sore the next day. I wanna learn Hapkido and the Russian martial art self defense one.

sambo?

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Originally posted by Lightshow i wear sunglasses for the same reason everybody wears them in a club. 1: people look cool in sunglasses 2: it gets awefully bright as the night progresses

*nusty does not wear sunglasses at night, they make it hard to see and you could trip

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Originally posted by Jem_hadar was JUST gonna say Dave should way in here, lol... and LOOK! ^^^ there he is posting.

funny how i havent been online in months on TA and then the first day i get a new computer this is the first thread i see. its like it was calling me back. lol.

For the record if I were to start all over again knowing what I do now about martial arts I would focus on Muay Thai and Gracie Jiu Jitsu as my two main ones. I personally think Muay Thai is the best all around stand up striking art and has the most devastating hits Ive ever taken in competition and provides a great work out just training even for fun. Gracie Jiu Jitsu on the other hand is as close to perfection with ground submission techniques as you will get. One with out the other I think is leaving you only 50% prepared for a bad situation if your goal is actually self defense. If its just purely fitness I'd say go for Muay Thai. BJJ is great for getting you winded and feeling like you had a great work out but in all honesty unless you are training 4 plus times a week you aren't likely to build awesome definition and shed pounds.
The only problem with doing Muay Thai and BJJ is that it still often leaves you in a situation where your ability to take an opponent down to the ground is still lacking compared to Judo. So I feel a year of Judo is almost a must to get your take down abilities up to a level where you can use them to start working the BJJ side of your defensive strategy to its full potential.
The main reason I stuck with Karate for so long was that I was good at it and I got really competitive with it before I figured out that Muay Thai was a better choice. I've had to acknowledge that weakness in my game and cross train harder to make up for it and Ive actually adapted a lot of muay thai style technique into my karate.

For weapons, I always thought Donetello (sp?) was the coolest ninja turtle so thats why i started learning bo jitsu. since then those skills have come in handy twice while bouncing at club that had pool tables where some idiots thought they could take the place over with pool cues.

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Originally posted by Lightshow i wear sunglasses for the same reason everybody wears them in a club. 1: people look cool in sunglasses 2: it gets awefully bright as the night progresses

*nusty does not wear sunglasses at night, they make it hard to see and you could trip

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I like Aikido, i think is the closest thing to poetry :-) Also a lot of street fighting and plain cheating (read rocks, wood sticks, low blows) adds to my experience.

Come to think of it, I've been living here for around 6 years now, the only fights I've seen were at hockey games (or ufc fights on tv) but never at a club or any public place. Back at home if you go out you get to fight a lot, usually because of girls, territory and shit.

We should organize an sparring match, could be fun. I would go against vivid :-) Ah that would be fun.

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I do shotokan karate, judo and aikido.

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Originally posted by neuromancer I like Aikido, i think is the closest thing to poetry :-) Also a lot of street fighting and plain cheating (read rocks, wood sticks, low blows) adds to my experience. Come to think of it, I've been living here for around 6 years now, the only fights I've seen were at hockey games (or ufc fights on tv) but never at a club or any public place. Back at home if you go out you get to fight a lot, usually because of girls, territory and shit. We should organize an sparring match, could be fun. I would go against vivid :-) Ah that would be fun.

bro watch out for my ground game. ive been training at tapping out for years. i can smack the mat quicker then any opponent

I did shotokan karate for 8 years, did a bit of judo and hapkido (looking to get back into this) as well as aikido. Got my black belt in Tae Kwon Do a couple of years back. Looking to go back into this as well.