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Date Posted: 03:29:55 05/15/04 Sat
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Re: American Freestyle Karate
In reply to: 's message, "American Freestyle Karate" on 18:22:30 04/06/04 Tue

>Years ago I first found myself with the opportunity to
>study karate. I was living in a very small town and in
>that town there was only one school and, while I was
>not terribly impressed with the instructor or the
>style, I was hot to start taking martial arts lessons,
>so I signed up. As it turned out, it was american
>freestyle karate based in taekwondo. With it's Korean
>influence it was, of course, about 90% kicking and
>about 2% hand strikes, with 8% miscellaneous joint
>locks, forms, and drills. I was not a happy camper, as
>I had always pictured the martial arts as a blazing
>series of hand strikes followed by a kick or two to
>the groin and or knee area, with a neck break or
>shoulder dislocation to finish it off. What I got was
>waving my big damn foot in the air until my hip was
>about to sieze up and a bunch of calisthenics.(Shit, I
>thought to myself, I can do pushups and run in place
>at home. I came here to learn how to burn people to
>the ground with my bare hands.) I continued to put up
>with this nonsense for about two years and then my hip
>pain became unbearable and I was finally forced to
>quit. After I finally recovered the ability to kick
>hard with my right leg I began doing research on
>different styles of martial arts, and lo and behold,
>there were things out there called instructional video
>tapes. They covered everything! I discovered awesome
>things like American Kenpo and Jeet Kune Do. Kali and
>Silat. Budo Taijutsu and Brazilian Jujutsu. But I was
>still in that small town and NOBODY wanted to work out
>with me. Everybody was all for it as long as it didn't
>cut into their beer drinking and lying around
>time.(Dammit! Frustration city one more time.) Fast
>forward several years and I now live in a
>significantly larger city, but the various schools
>around here charge an arm and a leg and want me to
>sign a damn year long contract! FFFF that, man! If my
>hip goes out again (which I don't think it will. I
>havn't felt more than a twinge out of it in years.)
>I'm gonna be stuck paying dues until my contract is
>up. I really don't know what to do. ANY help would be
>appreciated.

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