what is your favorite style (opinion)?

1)Shurite Karate Jitsu (I also like Chen Taiji)

2)Shurite Karate Jitsu

3)I live it every day

4)It is a mixture of hard and soft, has striking, grappling, light ground work, meditation, and kyusho, but above all it would have to be Shihan that gives it that extra edge

5)tradition

6)because tradition as is was designed is for the street/battlefield and there's no need for me to change it, I don't fight for sport, I live the lifestyle of a martial artist

7)in many occasions

8)I used the style I trained in, it worked and I have no need to change it

9)There's not a style that I don't like, only schools that I feel are below the standards they should be at, and the students and or instructors are of the wrong mindset to perpetuate this lifestyle

10)I believe that history of the style accompanied by the history of other styles, their respective nations, and eventually the world. Not for better karate, but for a better mentality. History can tell us a lot, if we only pull our heads out of our butts and listen.

11)20 years

1) what is your favorite style (if you could do any which would it be): Krav Maga

2) what style do you study: Wing Chun

3) if different styles why aren't you studying your favorite: No schools near me, and i'm getting WC training for free.

4) what makes the style your favorite: Logical self defense applications and multi person self defense.

5) which do you train street, sport, tradition: Tradition

6) why train that way: I don't have a choice hehe. But it seems for WC traditional and internal training is the best way to go considering that's how the style was developed.

7) have you ever had to use your style: Yes.

8) if you did have to use it, would you use your style or a simplified and direct version: Simplified, direct, and tailored to why i'm defending myself. For example, if i'm not defending my life there's no reason to try to kill someone.

9) are there any styles that you just don't like and why: No not really. I think they all have their place in the history of whatever region the represent. I don't like how people consider only styles that are affective in the sport of MMA are good though. MMA is a combat sport, not self defense. So not really a style i dislike but more of an association between some styles and MMA.

10) do you believe history of a style is important: Yes. A history of a style defines it and gives it credibility.

11) how long have you been training: 7 Years. I've since stopped training though. It's been a year or so, but after 3 years i learned all 3 forms and after 4 years had all the weapon forms down then i began my real training until a year ago. I felt i knew enough and was losing interest in learning more so i stopped.

1) what is your favorite style (if you could do any which would it be) "Sanshou XingYiQuan"

2) what style do you study- Sanshou XingYiQuan

3) if different styles why aren't you studying your favorite. n/a

4) what makes the style your favorite- It has the best of all aspect. Internal,external, fighting, simply, yet complex, weapon defense, meditation, all of it!

5) which do you train street, sport, tradition- its all interchangable to me

6) why train that way- train realistically, but dont forget "wu de"

7) have you ever had to use your style- twice

8) if you did have to use it, would you use your style or a simplified and direct version- Practice alone and using it will always look a little different from eachother.

9) are there any styles that you just don't like and why- Taekwondo....mostly just kicks. Boring

10) do you believe history of a style is important- Yes. Its good to know the roots, so you can understand it better

11) how long have you been training- 12 years

1) Chute Boxe style Muay Thai

2) Muay thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

3) I'm pretty much learning my favorite. My coach was formerly with Chute Boxe

4) It's aggressive, flashy, effective, and versatile.

5) Sport and Street

6) For my personal fitness and to learn self defense

7) No, I have been in a couple 'situations' but I was influenced by other styles at the time.

8) I would just let it flow out on its own.

9) Any style that promotes sorcery or any such nonsense.

10) Sure. I think it's good to know the history of your style but not imperative.

11) Total for about 10 years, but I took a looong hiatus. Right now I have been training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for about 8 months, although I haven't done much BJJ compared to MT.

1) My favorite is Northern Shaolin Kung Fu - though I feel a connection to most styles of kung fu. If I could study another art, I'd like to study Kalarippayattu at some point, if only as a "getting to my roots" type of ordeal.

2) Northern Shaolin Kung Fu

3) I am studying my favorite.

4) I'm a striker, and my art is predominantly striking. I just love that it's not something you see every day, and it's not exactly easy to figure or read.

5) I study in a fairly traditional way, which becomes all encompassing of the other two.

6) I love the art itself, and to study for just sport or just self defense seems nonsensical, and almost like I'd be cheating myself to only study one side of the art or the other.

7) Not in any major way.

8) I would use my style in the manner that the situation dictated. If some punk kid is trying to mess with me, I'm not going to tear his throat out. If someone pulls a knife on me, I'm not going to box him with lazy punches.

9) Right now I have a very strong dislike for something called KFM, or Keysi Fighting Method. It just seems like a couple people with weak knowledge of traditional martial arts trying to capitalize on the McDojo scene.

10) I think it's very important, but we also can't let it consume us or our study. As you said, it's important to know the original reasoning and purpose of techniques or tactics. I think that, despite what some would say, it important to evolve the manner in which you practice and study your art, and realize it's a different time now than then. I don't think the founders of our arts would be pleased to know that by "keeping pure" we might be falling behind other arts. That doesn't mean to cross train, per se, but only to be mindful of the world around us now, including other martial arts and the way in which they exist today.

11) Northern Shaolin Kung Fu has been I believe about a year. I was with kickboxing/boxing before that for about a year or something. It's tough to say exactly when an interest in one thing turned into an interest or study in another, as I've got a really bad grasp of time.

1) Tai Chi.

2) Tai chi, Fujian White Crane Kung Fu, Taekwondo and MMA.

4) Relaxing and developes body control much greater then the others in my opinion

5) Street, Sport and Tradition.

6) I enjoy the movements in Tai chi and FWC Kung fu. I do Taekwondo because I LOVE kicking. I practice MMA for street.

7) Yes.

8) I used the traditional Tai chi method. Its not something I usually do but i was in a position that forced me to use it naturally without thinking.

9) No. I find all types of martial arts interesting and useful in certain situations.

10) Yes.

11) 10 years

1) MMA, catch wrestling

2) Nothing

3) No money

4) It's practical, and fits with my body type.

5) If I trained, it would bebecause I want to get a job in a prison and it might help me live one day.

6) huh?

7) Sort of. I have subbed several people with far more experience than me sparring.

8) It IS simplified and direct.

9) Anything that does not train against a living, breathing, resisting opponent.

10) Nope

11) N/A

Shaolin kung fu

Shaolin kung fu

It incorporates all things into one fluid and devastating style

Self defense

To keep peace and to protect myself and others when necessary

Yes, I have used it

I used a combination of that and things I've leaned from other styles I have studied

I don't like grappling, it is not a complete style and people rely too much on it because of mma

History is good to know, you can't progress without knowing where you've been

20 years

1.) Dan Inosanto's version of Jeet Kune Do, or Gene Lebell's Hayastan MMA

2.) Judo, BJJ, and MMA. I list MMA as a style because it is easier than saying boxing/wrestling/muay thai/submission wrestling. I study at 3 different places.

3.) I don't live in California to study under Inosanto or Lebell.

4.) A combination of arts from highly regarded masters who have taught the vast majority of "self defense" experts. Lebell has brutal Judo with wrestling and meanness, Inosanto has a wide variety of skills.

5.) I train for enjoyment, everything else comes on it's own.

6.) Because I am not fooling myself one way or the other, I do it because I enjoy it. Not because I am preparing for sport, or for the street or anything else. I do what I do because I enjoy it, if it helps me win MMA matches, or defend myself and keep me from deploying a weapon, all the better.

7.) Repeatedly. I have used Judo more than anything else, I worked for a while doing Security work, where the need to take control a situation without putting a patron in the hospital or worrying about blood bourne disease was a must. To be honest I use verbal Judo even more than physical Judo.

8.) Used it as it came, mushin. Same exact techniques as I train them, more devastating results. I reacted without thinking, instinct dictated, didn't have to modify or have a thought process.

9.) I don't like styles that aren't styles... Or things that are made up, particularly styles in which someone invents, calls himself a 10th degree grandmaster of, and is made up of kyu level understanding of techniques, or has little to no real training. I dislike training methodologies more than styles.. "too deadly to spar" or thinking "chi sao or push hands" is resistance training.

10.) Important for what I guess? I think it is personal preference, understanding the Wai Khru will not make you throw a round kick better, understanding Marquess of Queensbury rules and the history of boxing will not allow you to throw a jab better. I think knowing the history of an art helps you in becoming more balanced, and as such opens you up to different insights and understanding. I looked at Judo in a whole different light when I grasped Dr. Kano's philosophy as living maximum effeciency, minimum effort, as more than just regarding Judo.. but regarding life. It didn't make me a better Judo player, but it made me a better person.

11.) 23 years.

As much as I hate stereotypes I prefer the skaters/scene and goths. I like tomboys...I like a girl who can take care of herself but still needs me to protect her sometimes. Not someone who rides on the back of my motorcycle but rides beside me on her own bike if you get what I'm sayin.