petone 0 Report post Posted September 8, 2004 (edited) Decepticons or autobots? edit- dam, so close Edited September 8, 2004 by petone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bumpstop325 0 Report post Posted September 8, 2004 autobots!!! optimus prime :mosh: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Spargo Report post Posted September 9, 2004 Yes M3AN, i bet we would. We should have a meet at cuba before they stop smoking in bars. Unicron is the most badass transformer there was, apart from Omega Supreme. *sits down to watch transformers on DVD with h.Upman cigar and glass of Remy VSOP. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
*sic 1 Report post Posted September 9, 2004 Yes M3AN, i bet we would. We should have a meet at cuba before they stop smoking in bars. Unicron is the most badass transformer there was, apart from Omega Supreme. *sits down to watch transformers on DVD with h.Upman cigar and glass of Remy VSOP. :confused: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Homy.D.Clown 0 Report post Posted September 9, 2004 Fav Transformer METROPLEX..see him flex...hes a CITY!!!!! :mosh: :mosh: always thought how badass it would be to be a city :bowdown: Do a bit of shooting do ya M3AN? *sits down to watch Transformers video with a coke and bag of poppa jacks ..like its ment to be done!!!.........! ! ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carl 3 Report post Posted September 9, 2004 I had two transformers, but funnily enough they didn't the the ...ex name - they were Smokescreen and Viper man I liked Octomus Prime... Anyways, just burning some copies of me fav porno DVD that I made up for MattA and me bro...just thinking that I should stick that car model hoe in the background :pimp: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
*sic 1 Report post Posted September 9, 2004 Opps, I forgot... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carl 3 Report post Posted September 9, 2004 (edited) Nice post, unfunny, unproductive, uninteresting; is that a persian rug??? Very nice M3AN, good to see some people on this forum actually have good taste. The Glenmorangie 10r is what I consider a quaffing whiskey - mmmm, so easy, but that 18y ancient, now that's tops :thumb: :thumb: Edited September 9, 2004 by ///Carl Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
*sic 1 Report post Posted September 10, 2004 Very nice M3AN, good to see some people on this forum actually have good taste. The Glenmorangie 10r is what I consider a quaffing whiskey - mmmm, so easy, but that 18y ancient, now that's tops :thumb: :thumb: sorry here ya go... i will let you all get back to masty over looking at alcoholic liquid.but im sorry to say... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dave 2 Report post Posted September 10, 2004 sorry here ya go... i will let you all get back to masty over looking at alcoholic liquid. but im sorry to say... w3rd dawg!!!111one! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shadowninja 0 Report post Posted September 11, 2004 Gourmet Food Fine Wine Movies Music Martial Arts :thumb: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Homy.D.Clown 0 Report post Posted September 14, 2004 does this mean *sic ,shadowninja and i can post pics of our shique ninja costumes?? maybe meet at a bar..and have a fight?? . "its fun to poke the bear with this stick...when does this game end?" waahhhhhrrr Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shadowninja 0 Report post Posted September 15, 2004 Haha you laugh... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Homy.D.Clown 0 Report post Posted September 15, 2004 Haha you laugh... yeah..but not at you. wouldnt have a clue what the cert is..but it looks badass-ninja-ish what style?.. :mosh: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shadowninja 0 Report post Posted September 15, 2004 That would be my badass black belt grading cert in Bujinkan Kobudo (ninjutsu). I've studied a few other martial arts, but ninjutsu would definitely be my preference. I haven't trained regularly for over a year now. The Bujinkan is an international martial arts organization, which is based on fighting tactics from nine ryu-ha (traditions, schools) that were established in ancient Japan. These nine schools stretch as far back as the 7th century. In the past the Bujinkan has been solely associated with the art of Ninjutsu, but actually it is derived of fighting styles of the nine schools and only three of these schools emphasis Ninjutsu, the remaining six emphasis on the mainstream bujutsu (martial techniques). [from an Adelaide Bujinkan Dojo site] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
*sic 1 Report post Posted September 15, 2004 do you have any training photos? does your club compete on any level? how long have you been training in martial arts as a whole? what is your view on martial arts today? are thet still relevant to you? or do you find martial arts has become more of a watered down version of itself too drenched in a history not of our own, yet the so called beliefs and possible original movements (not likely) are still applied in todays world. Do you have a "proper" instuctor versed in the art or a student of a students friend who "kinda" knows Bujinkan Kobudo... like some arts seem to have now! :drugs: .. martial arts to me has a place, but unfortunatly alot of it is steeped in tradition and not focused on development of the art, this is unfortunate as all the movements were made up and researched many many years ago and do need to be analysed, I feel all the movements have changed over time as the original masters and there sole student passed away. whole forms have been lost and a chinese wisper effect has almost taken care of the rest. to me Traditional forms are little more than useless as no one focusses enough on the techniques developement, for example Chi Sao or literaly 黐手 for those fluent, can only be truly and effectively taught by someone who is a master in the movement...ie thats there vice, yet my club does this movement from black belt up.. i see where my instuctors motives are and i like the use of the technique but my club only uses it as a sensitisation excercise that works great. other schools will teach it as part of the art yet the instuctor is not truly teaching them the correct form. Then they inturn go off and start a club whos students go and start another....on and on. martial arts is little more than exercise in many clubs as the instructors are what i would class as non-martial artists or 'play fighters' which is a sad thing, because there are many talented people being taught by sub standard, ill informed, mal trained, so called instructors. me and my instructor used to go to clubs and seminars and talk with the instructor and listen to them bullshit there way through a converstation / seminar, then ask for a demonstration of a technique only to be shown some lacking movement that was laughable at best and when prompted to explain what they were doing mechanicly they have no idea... hmm obviously broken it down and studied that then... damn i can write, incoherently at best!.. i cant be bothered rearranging and fixing it.. so if you get it sweet, if you dont, read it again. to close on this moan, i would just like to say that although not everyone can be a martial artist, out of those that are, most are not what i would call a martial artist. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bumpstop325 0 Report post Posted September 16, 2004 i just like watching with a cold tui in one hand, listening to blue oyster cult Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Andrew Report post Posted September 16, 2004 damn damien sounds like you talking about the force.. hah Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
*sic 1 Report post Posted September 16, 2004 damn damien sounds like you talking about the force.. hah my bad ill be quiet now Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shadowninja 0 Report post Posted September 16, 2004 Well! Wasn't this a bit of a surprise. Some serious & reasoned discussion for a change. **breath of fresh air enters the room** In many ways I agree with you Damien. So many martial arts have been diluted to the point where they have become 'sport' either for fitness or entertainment, and pay only tacit dues to their original roots. Some retain rigours of discipline, and some go further to instill the ethos of budo in the serious practitioners. Regretfully our 'modern western society' recognises most old forms of martial arts as violent. That has meant much of the full contact training styles have turned into sport versions. Just look at a classic karate kumite: a half-point for a hit, a full point for a decisive hit, and penalties if there is sufficient force as to potentially injure your opponent. As Pirelli would say, "Power is nothing without control." But most old-school karate styles wre designed for one-hit-one-kill, with armour. Martial arts are so much more than the combinations of movements and forms. Tradition is a strong part of the arts, yet this is what appears to isolate many modern practitioners as the values behind the traditions no longer exist. Bujinkan training retains full contact training, including throws, locks, strikes, etc. Indeed it really does boil down to the inspiration of the instructor. But that is just a chain, in that the instructors of today will only ever be as good as the instructors that passed on that knowledge. If I think of the instructors I have learned from, my first Bujinkan sensei taught me the most. These days he is shidoshi-kai (5th dan), after spending some years training in the grand-masters dojo in Japan. Personally I've been training on & off for around 10 years, and have 'tasted' aikido, tae kwon do & one school of kung fu. However most instructors I have found to be enthusiastic, but uninspiring. Whoa, just realised I wrote an essay there. Maybe we should start a new thread. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
*sic 1 Report post Posted September 16, 2004 maybe we shouldnt!! we will just start talking in essay form! its good to see a martial artist that does think about what training in our culture has to offer, and even more interesting to see another martial artist that can break down and look at the meaning of it. the misconceptions and misleading information that is being spread around is mostly disheartening, i feel martial arts should be progressive, not stagnant. you gave the example of traditional one hit, one kill.. with armour. how relevant is this in todays society? As much as i would like, and im sure most other males would is there own set of badass armour! but alas this is not the case, this theory needs to be adapted to our laws and culture, that theory can be adapted to now represent one hit, one incapasitation.. ie one inch punch. in our martial art we use the 1-warning, 2-heavy strike, 3-death. obviously this last movement and more often than not the second are to be left till the most extreme of cases, but here adaptation can be made. the traditions are of great significance dont get me wrong, the teachings regarding training are valuable even more so today, but the movements and the incorrect teaching is deaply concerning.. even more so are the students that seem to never question what is being taught or even ask why they are doing it in the first place! cheers shadow! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shadowninja 0 Report post Posted September 16, 2004 Bring on the armour! Haha imagine getting in & out of a bimmer in a set of traditional japanese battle armour.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Andrew Report post Posted September 16, 2004 Bring on the armour! Haha imagine getting in & out of a bimmer in a set of traditional japanese battle armour.... now THAT looks like my cup of tea.. in fact i'm sure a saw a hooker wearing that on K-Rd? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
*sic 1 Report post Posted September 16, 2004 now THAT looks like my cup of tea.. in fact i'm sure a saw a hooker wearing that on K-Rd? so your saying you wanna be a hooker on K-rd andy?if so then i'll be your :pimp: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
