How has martial arts helped you dance?

**PizDoff** · Posted On: 1/31/2004 10:39am

I'm pretty sure we have some smooth moving members out there.
So please share.

(That rhymed.)

Obviously from (proper) training you will receive flexibility, coordination (I no longer trip over my own feet!) and reaction speed.

I like to do some huen sao's, axe kicks, shoulder checks. I find that my hip flexibility movements are much smoother than many.

Share.

**grego** · Posted On: 1/31/2004 10:45am

One time I got arrested for drunken disorderly conduct and while I was in lock down I made one of the other guys do the "Tube Steak Boogie" with me.

**blankslate** · Posted On: 1/31/2004 10:56am

Crescent kicks over her head...back in the 80s.

**PizDoff** · Posted On: 1/31/2004 11:23am

Oh yeah those too!

I wish I knew some capoeira. :D

**Sparky** · Posted On: 1/31/2004 11:30am

My Instructor keeps stressing that some of the movements we use are a lot like dance , lol then he starts dancing around the place ad gets everyone to lol, it's quite fun, but definately true.

**Punisher** · Posted On: 1/31/2004 11:37am

Martial arts is dancing, it's just bad dancing because your usually hurting your partner.

I end doing a lot of my old kata moves while dancing. Not fully, not enough for someone that didn't now the kata to know where the hell it came from.

***Omega Supreme*** · Posted On: 1/31/2004 11:57am

Breakdancing, Swing, and Ballroom here.

**gamera** · Posted On: 1/31/2004 12:00pm

One time when I was out dancing, I slipped in a puddle of beer. I did a forward roll and I felt like a complete nerd! However, my friends thought it was an intentional dance move.

**DANINJA** · Posted On: 1/31/2004 12:43pm

i use broken rhythm attacks so that makes me a **** dancer!!!

**Choke** · Posted On: 1/31/2004 2:06pm

I use a modified bob and weave and a patchwork of shortened kata movements in da club.

I've salsa danced (I'm of Cuban descent) all my life so I don't think ma has affected that or any of the other latin dances I do. Girls do all the work anyway. :)