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Posted: **Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:29 am**

I have been training for about a year and am a white belt under Ben Hall in Melbourne (a Carlson Gracie black belt) in Australia. I love the sport and have competed twice with no podium finishes yet :upside:

Might be going out on a limb here (cos I dont really know how popular it is in England) but does anyone here train? or want to train in the future? Or even heard of what it is?

Posted: **Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:32 am**

Oh and for those who dont know what it is here is the first decent youtube video I found of people sparring and much around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNR9IBuDGDc

Posted: **Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:33 am**

i watched a documentary about it on monday funnily enough, two american martial artists go to different countries to spend a few days training in the local martial art, they both got spanked (they always have to fight someone at the end)

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:23 am**

I think you watched fight quest, its quite an entertaining show.

I guess no one on here trains

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:24 am**

yeah fight quest mate

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:56 am**

No I dont train.

It looks like Judo ?

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:34 am**

it was developed from one of the early forms of judo.

incidentally, i am related to the founders - the gracie family (it is also commonly known as gracie jujitsu) - distantly. there are very few gracies about as we are descended from a few escaped huguenots who legged it to scotland in the 18th century.

not a lot of people know that...

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:55 pm**

I saw a UFC programme on Monday about Royce Garcie (?)

He was beating people who were much heavier than him.

He beat a beast of a man who was nearly 5 stone heavier (all muscle).
He just went for them straight from the off.
They mentioned that his family invented Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:07 pm**

ive got a yellow tag in tan su do

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:16 pm**

I have a black belt. I got it free with my trousers.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:18 pm**

I am up to Brown belt in Su Do Ko

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:46 pm**

I'm a black belt in Taekwondo , thinking of going for me 2nd Dun .
I've heard of it but don't really think its that popular

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:43 pm**

Espionage wrote:I think you watched fight quest, its quite an entertaining show.

I guess no one on here trains

I used to. I studied Kung-Fu for several years. I was really dedicated to it, but people came and went, and my instructor decided to call it a day because of this. That really p*ssed me off, but I can understand. This was a long time ago, and the thing is that he basically taught for free. I tried other places, but the instructors were just knobs that were all show and doing it as a day job for the money. I practiced forms of Hung-Gar, and Wing-Chung as well as some Taekwondo.

As for belts, they don't matter. Belts are just a color, and not really reflective of how good you are.

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:09 pm**

Toffeehater wrote:I'm a black belt in Taekwondo , thinking of going for me 2nd Dun .
I've heard of it but don't really think its that popular

Fuck off you're a black belt :laugh:

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:11 pm**

taekwondo i got to yellow tag too, then they asked me to do push ups or something... and i was tipsy... so staggered out

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Brazilian jiu jitsu - Anyone train?

Brazilian jiu jitsu - Anyone train?