newbie help...

**GoldenJonas** · Posted On: 7/23/2006 10:02pm

yup, yup. New college, Check out Judo and Boxing clubs. MOST colleges have 'em, I imagine even the artsy fartsy ones.

I second JNP's assessment, and pirate jon's for that matter.

**Mars** · Posted On: 7/23/2006 10:56pm

I concur. However I do in fact disagree with Sokaku and Sochin. I have visited many different types of karate studios. Most of the time they do not train with aliveness. If they ever do it's only among persons who intend to compete or who are high ranking. Stick with kick boxing or BJJ which allow a person to learn how to fight from the very first day instead of having to wade through years worth of ridiculous ritual and misleading therefore worthless training.

**Nesyad** · Posted On: 7/24/2006 2:17pm

i will take all of this into consideration...

i will search around on the net for any schools, hopfuly close by to.. concord... pleasant hill... area of CA..

thanks for the help and advise by the way.

**sochin101** · Posted On: 7/25/2006 3:11am

Originally Posted by Mars

I concur. However I do in fact disagree with Sokaku and Sochin. I have visited many different types of karate studios. Most of the time they do not train with aliveness.

Respectfully, Mars, I wasn't advocating Karate as an art. I was actually lampooning SevSB's assertion that most Karate was crap, except some, which was good. Which is like saying "I like all types of food. Except the ones I don't like."

**Sokaku** · Posted On: 7/25/2006 5:48pm

Originally Posted by Mars

I concur. However I do in fact disagree with Sokaku and Sochin. I have visited many different types of karate studios. Most of the time they do not train with aliveness. If they ever do it's only among persons who intend to compete or who are high ranking. Stick with kick boxing or BJJ which allow a person to learn how to fight from the very first day instead of having to wade through years worth of ridiculous ritual and misleading therefore worthless training.

Hey are you an ass or something? You disagree with me when I in fact have the same point of view? I've said that the only karate styles that aren't usually crappy are the kyokushin based styles, so what the hell are you talking about?

Originally Posted by Goju Joe

Anyways don't judge a soley school by it's styles name no what it is you're looking for.

You're maybe right, but you've gotta admit that when you see some random schools advertising for _ing _un classes or something-ryu karate (and so on...), inconsciously (or not) you know that this school will be bullshit in 95% of the cases.