Anyone switch from a full to light/no contact MA?

**Motor** · Posted On: 1/08/2007 8:27pm

I've read lots of stories about how people stopped taking a "bad" MA (WC, TKD, etc.) and took a "good" one with full contact sparring (KB, BJJ, etc.).

What I'd like to know is if there is anyone who has taken a full contact/sport MA and after being in it for awhile (6 months +) decided to switch to a light or no contact one. Has anyone gone from Judo to Aikido? Muay Thai to TKD? BJJ to Wing Chun? If so, why?

I know some people take Tai Chi because injuries have prevented them from training hard and sparring. I'm especially interested in if anyone has made a specific choice to switch styles because they felt the non-Bullshido approved style was superior. Or, what ever other reason one has.

**TehDeadlyDimMak** · Posted On: 1/08/2007 8:31pm

There are a few on this board who changed due to injuries just like you mentioned.

**Doctor X** · Posted On: 1/08/2007 8:32pm

I would like to take no-contact BJJ.

Or, if it is not available . . . _ing _ung. . . .

--J.D.

P.S. I have known some who have. Most basically adapt. For example, I have met at least three people who started studying Aikido with resistance and adding in "atemi" as in strikes. One was toss out of his Aikido group for doing this on the weekends!

Some have done Tai Chi and the like for flexibility and relaxation--PERIOD. They do not consider them "fighting" exercises.

--J.D.

[Edited to make the "with" without the "out" that was in the "without."--Ed.]

**bob** · Posted On: 1/08/2007 9:22pm

DA Young's Tai Chi thread is your best bet...

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=48894

**Motor** · Posted On: 1/08/2007 9:47pm

Thank you bornsceptic, I've read that thread and it actually was the one that inspired me to start this thread.

What I'm most interested in hearing about is if anyone has switched to a low contact style not because they are forced to, but because they felt the new style was better.

For example: Someone studies Muay Thai for a year and then discovers Wing Chun, quits MT and devotes training in WC principles because the person feels WC is superior to MT.

Is there anyone who has gone that route which is the opposite of what many on Bullshido have gone through?

**Epicurus** · Posted On: 1/08/2007 9:48pm

I haven't, but this gives me an idea for something to do since I re-cracked my rib! I'll take up aikido and flower-arranging... I hear there's a lot of carryover. ;) (just kidding aikido people, please don't passive-aggressive me to death)

**Axelton** · Posted On: 1/08/2007 9:49pm

Originally Posted by Motor

What I'm more interested in is if anyone has switched to a low contact style not because they are forced to, but because they felt the new style was better.

For example: Someone studies Muay Thai for a year and then discovers Wing Chun, quits MT and devotes training in WC principles because the person feels WC is superior to MT.

Is there anyone who has gone that route which is the opposite of what many on Bullshido have gone through?

Lol. Since he got the aliveness he needed from MT he now has enough feel for distancing, timing, and taking hits to do WC you mean?

**Motor** · Posted On: 1/08/2007 10:07pm

Originally Posted by Axelton

Lol. Since he got the aliveness he needed from MT he now has enough feel for distancing, timing, and taking hits to do WC you mean?

Yah, something like that.

**Axelton** · Posted On: 1/08/2007 10:11pm

aaaaah...is motor seeing how people feel about this because he himself is switching to Wing Chun?

**Doctor X** · Posted On: 1/08/2007 10:23pm

I have not heard of anyone going from a full to realistic contact martial art to a compliant art who then claimed that the complaint art is better. There is that guy the ninjers cite who joined the BJK, but I do not know if he has declared BJK as "better" than what he studied previously.

--J.D.