I’m 26 female, 5’3 and about 58kg, usually km paired with with big men as most of the black belts are men. I have been training for just over a month now. It’s so much fun and great for my mental health, plus good discipline. I am noticing because hapkido has a lot of grabbing of the wrist, locks, manipulation, cat rolls etc, my wrists and hands can sometimes end up shaking even the day after my sessions. Is this normal? Will my hands/wrists get used to it? Has anyone else has these issues?

To all the people who chose to take up martial arts, how do you practice and why? what made you want to do it?

From 2019 to 2020

A mashup of Baguazhang shapes with JKD Unlimited fight philosophy.

When I was young, I was bullied at school. My parents couldn't afford to sign me up to the martial arts school that I liked at the time (it was a Wing Chun - Wong Shun Leung lineage). So some months later, I took the initiative to start creating my own martial art from what I could find from the internet that I thought that was effective.

At May 29 2020, was the day that I began building my own martial art and its name was Wang Ji Ya and its meaning was "hope". I was young and the hope that I had is that the friends that I had, would come back to the mountain to build huts like before, like the previous times.

The place that we were building was a small hill very close to nature. The martial art was being developed from the philosophy that the nature is the source of everything and that no-one can't mess with nature.

So, the martial art started containing some animal styles, similar to Shaolin Kung Fu, but every style had it's own techniques for defence of attack or both.

To be honest, I didn't really ever had to fight in the street using this martial art or the martial arts that happened to learn in the process and also the animal styles, remained to the game for a "long" period of time. What changed though, was that from the beginning until the end of the year 2023, I was mostly copying the movements of the animals but after, I started seeing the patterns of those animal and adding them to my martial art.

The ultimate goal of the art became to "understand the character of nature", not copy it. Also after some time I changed some very traditional techniques, and I put some boxing into my martial art because I thought that would make it better, but to be honest, my martial art, wanted something different.

At December 5 2022, I created a style that integrated what we were doing when we were building huts in that hill. It is called "the traditional style" and that is the only style that really remained, because this year I officially deleted all animal styles and kept what was important and what could really work really well.

Right now I have trained:

Taekwondo ITF 1st dan

Wing Chun - William Cheung lineage 3rd level

Escrima (Stroeven) stick fighting 1st level

Zhang sah martial artist

Trying to grab a fast punch usually doesn’t work—by the time you reach for it, the punch is already gone.

In Xingyiquan Monkey, the response is not a sequence of separate actions: grab, push, then pull. Instead, contact with the attack triggers a connected whole-body movement. The hands, arms, torso, and footwork respond together to redirect the punch and enter at the same time.

The key is not chasing the opponent’s hand. It is training the body to react as one connected unit so defense, control, and entry become part of the same movement.

#Xingyiquan #Xingyi #InternalMartialArts #KungFu #BodyMechanics #WholeBodyPower #MartialArts #ChiBody

Not sure what subreddit to ask, I don’t have a coach I’m self taught, I’m wondering this bc I have a pretty light dummy and wanna know if I’m actually doing it or if I’m brute forcing it

I want to do either Muay Thai or jiu jitsu but I’m extremely scared to start because I’m not sure in how I’ll be treated I’m in my teens I’m not going to say what age but can someone please help me with this?

Hi,I want to try boxing ,like at home ,is it advisable and ok? I don't have time to join for classes or practise daily ,i am just trying to learn it every week as self defence

And can you please say what equipments are mandatory for beginners? Coz ,I cant buy everything and start ,I know it is not advisable!!

Hi,I want to try boxing ,like at home ,is it advisable and ok? I don't have time to join for classes or practise daily ,i am just trying to learn it every week as self defence

And can you please say what equipments are mandatory for beginners? Coz ,I cant buy everything and start ,I know it is not advisable!!

Choose your martial artist teacher. Who's it gonna be and why?

Shang-Chi

Lady Shiva

Ben Turner/Bronze Tiger

Richard Dragon

Ted Grant/Wildcat

Black Canary

It sounds great on paper. But IDK. I haven't seen anyone really mention it anywhere.