Other Martial Art Styles

GKR KARATE. ive just started as an SDC with GKR ive 22yrs exp
i have been with the K.U.G.B & I.S.K ive been training since 1986
starting with the K.U.G.B & gaining my BLACKBELT with the I.S.K in 1990 & continued teachin & training till about 1994 where in started to look at mix marshal arts from 1994-2000 i had time out through health . when one day in 2008 a GKR rep was in the area & told me about a job with GKR i went for an interview & got the job as an SDC my first training lesson i was told that they would NO honour my grade as BLACKBELT SHODAN i would have to START AGAIN!!!!!!

Ever since I was a little kid I knew the martial arts were for sissies who couldn't beat down a man the old fashioned way. But after an experience yesterday I have decided to start my own school of the arts. Even though I had always seen the Kung Fu Ninja boys as weaklings and wimps who tried to replace good old school toughness with trickery I got hooked up with some guys at a Savate school in Kenosha Wisconsin. For you people who don't sit around and watch Steven Seagal movies and tell people how Bruce Lee could throw playing cards through walls, Savate is a martial art born in Napoleons armies. It lacks all this Mr Miagi philosophy and spiritualism. ...  Read the complete review

I used to do karate. It was quite a while back actually and yet I can't seem to remember its name... Oh well, needless to say - it was great fun and I do not know why I gave up! I must have started to do karate when I was about seven - I'd just moved up from Essex and wanted to mingle, so I thought of starting karate - I remember my first hour group lesson oh so vividly... It started at about 8 o'clock at night, and I was put up in front of about 30 people, all seemed a lot stronger than I was and some of them looked pretty big from where I was standing. I had to learn everything from scratch, and quite often did it wrong. You have the ...  Read the complete review

From a parent’s point of view, the knowledge that your children can go out and at least have a fair chance of defending themselves is worth more than winning the lottery!! A few months ago, my 7 year old daughter Abbey was bored and looking for a club of some kind or another to join, and got friendly with our next door neighbours daughter who goes to Karate. She nagged me until I couldn't take anymore, and I agreed that she could try out Karate. As it is with children of her age I didn't expect it to last for very long, just until the next fad came along, but after a couple of sessions she seemed to be enjoying it. I soon discovered that one of ...  Read the complete review

There is a huge number of martial arts available to the wannabe expert and it is difficult for the uninformed to make a justified decision without having spent years learning the ins and outs, especially considering many of eth experts will always profess theirs in the best. The fact that this tends to play to the real experts their own inferiority is lost on the beginner and in this way will a lesser fighter earn the respect of his students. I always recommend Shotokan Karate to those who ask me a similar question. Not because I consider it 'better' or more effective than other arts, but simply because I sincerely believe it to be an excellent, solid ...  Read the complete review