Choosing your MA

**Dr. Whom** · Posted On: 3/15/2013 7:16am

Hello,

I recently just started Martial Arts for the first time in my life a few months ago ( I am 38 ) and I love it!

My problem is that I like all my classes and cannot decide which direction I should take my curriculum as the classes overlap

The things I enjoy

Jun Fan Gung Fu/Wing Chun Mon Wed
Savate Tues
Muay Thai Mon Wed
Filipino MA Mon Wed

I am not as interested in 10th planet and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu although the Combat Submission Wrestling looks interesting.

The schedule:

Monday

Hour1 = Jun Fan

Hour2 = Muay Thai
Hour2 = Filipino MA (Panutakun)

Do I focus on

Wednesday
Hour1 = Jun Fan
Hour1 = Muay Thai

Hour2 = Filipino MA (usually Kali)

Is it better to just focus on Filipino and Jun Fan or just take 1 hour of Muay Thai a week and study 4 martial arts at once? Any suggestions to maximize this schedule?

**Azatdawn** · Posted On: 3/15/2013 7:35am

What is it that you're planning to get out of martial arts?

**Permalost** · Posted On: 3/15/2013 7:39am

As a beginner I think you'd be better served just really getting good at one. You're studying arts with some crossover though (savate, panuntukan and muay thai will probably all have a jab, for example). Even still, any one of those arts is complex enough to study on its own for at least a few years.

**Dr. Whom** · Posted On: 3/15/2013 7:43am

Conditioning, discipline, self-confidence, and to become a human weapon

I want to become a martial artist and I am not sure when that happens.

**Permalost** · Posted On: 3/15/2013 7:46am

Originally Posted by Dr. Whom

I want to become a martial artist and I am not sure when that happens.

You'll know, because they'll teach you the secret handshake.

**Azatdawn** · Posted On: 3/15/2013 7:49am

Is there a martial art that teaches getting shot ouf of a cannon?

**Cuddles** · Posted On: 3/15/2013 8:00am

Originally Posted by Dr. Whom

...to become a human weapon

I want to become a martial artist and I am not sure when that happens.

OH LAWDY LAWD! God help this man.

Read this first:
http://www.bullshido.org/Finding_a_g...al_arts_school

You might want to read that because you stated Jun Fan and Wing Chun. Not that the styles are particularly bad in themselves (...kinda), but that almost all of them train without aliveness.

Aliveness explanation

Also, as a beginner, stick to one maybe two styles. I suggest one stand-up, one grappling if you take two. Not to mention that it's expensive as hell to pay for many MA at once.

Also, instead of posting here, try checking out our friendly Newbietown here:
http://www.bullshido.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=64

Posting in YMAS is going to get you trolled.

(10th Planet is a BJJ school that focuses on the Rubber Guard, which I find extremely interesting. BJJ is just general grappling. There are many versions of it.)

Submission Wrestling is great. I like to think of it as BJJ with less pulling of neutral positions. Somewhat like Judo's groundgame. It's fast and furious.

**Vieux Normand** · Posted On: 3/15/2013 8:01am

I'm going search-engining to see it the term "gunboxing" exists.

If not, dibs.

Rolls as smoothly off the tongue as a racial epithet.

**W. Rabbit** · Posted On: 3/15/2013 8:10am

Originally Posted by Permalost

You'll know, because they'll teach you the secret handshake.

You'll really truly know when they show you the lethal techniques hidden inside the secret handshake.

**W. Rabbit** · Posted On: 3/15/2013 8:12am

Originally Posted by Vieux Normand

I'm going search-engining to see it the term "gunboxing" exists.

If not, dibs.

Nope some deluded individual on Youtube has beaten you to it.

"How to fight close quarters when you run out of bullets" is not what most people consider an "age old question".