No Gi grappling Vs Boxing and MMA, how to choose MA classes?

The complete program to follow when attend no gi grappling classes is to combine with a boxing class and may be fitness gym as well, but this program could take your time and efforts, so let’s explain the whole process before trying of any:
First you should decide whether Self defense/violence situation/street fighting/UFC competitions are what you are seeking for or just want to emphasis your health and not training martial arts, it is up to you.

Boxing techniques
depends mainly on punches, so I think if the main target to learn a martial art is to use it in self defense and protecting yourself from street fighters, the boxing techniques is enough to defend the bullies.
There are some really great and exciting boxers out there who tend to be in better shape than most martial artists.

What about MMA combination?

1. MMA goes against moving the hips too much as the stance leaves you a little open from attack of kicks.
2. Cover the board: MMA classes usually cover a broad range of arts in a shorter time period, so it is less than a year and you can gain abilities and viable skills to for fighting in many situations.
3. The age: I think it is No doubt to start martial arts class at any age, and for what is the best age to compete in MMA fights I think that there is age not a factor in almost all martial arts as I think, for example you can see the previous month at UFC 109 the oldest competitor on the roster, 46 year old Randy Couture took on the second oldest, 45 year old Mark Coleman in the headline bout. On the same card retirement was a distinct possibility for the loser of the Matt Serra Vs Frank Trigg bout, two ‘veterans’ with a combined age of 73.Also, the average age of the fighters currently competing in the UFC is 29.5 years old.

The most common age is 28.
The youngest competitor is Rory Macdonald who is just 20 years of age.
The oldest competitor is Randy Couture at 46 years old.
In the Heavyweight UFC; Oldest Fighter: Anthony Perosh and he is 37 years old and the Champion of 2010 was Brock Lesnar and he was 32 Yo, and in the heavyweight division an overwhelming majority of 74% are 3o or over. and in the Light-heavyweight Oldest Fighter: Randy Couture at 46 years old
And I think that you can practice MMA with/without need to compete in UFC’

Comparing the reviews between Boxing and MMA and No-gis grappling

1. Most people think Boxers could beat most MMA fighters in a fight, one punch from these boxers with a clear blow would be a finisher and they are usually very fast (Mike Tyson could dish out 4 punches every second) at dishing these punch's out. Although as soon as the Boxer loses range and balance the MMA would have the advantage. Bruce Lee Himself said that Punches were for the win and Kicking was for the croud. I watched a lot of violence scenes from Bruce lee’s movies and approx. all fights are punches and kicks and rarely using grappling.
2. Boxing involves a lot of movement and rotation of the hips with your footwork to build power of moves; If you know how to move well and box well; MMA with boxing will definitely help
3. MMA is a mix of kicking, punching and grappling. It takes aspects from JuJitsu Combat  and Muay Thai mostly with some punching, the mix of styles and fighters you see. One may be a masterful striker, while the other excels at grappling, and the amount of strategy used to get the win is what keeps me interested, With boxing you only get punching with those big gloves but with MMA you get way more action. Punching, kicking, submissions. It’s got something for everyone and is probably the reason boxing isn’t nearly as popular as it once was. Way more styles in MMA so when the fighters go up against different people its more entertaining to see what they will actually do to counter that style., I want to mention that the gloves is to save peoples lives, if these guys fought bare fisted they'd kill each other. Plus, the Gloves don't offer too much protection, David haye broke his hand in the first couple of minutes fighting the 7ft1 Beast from the east Nikolai Valuev, yet he still fought all 12 Rounds and ended up winning - punching with a broken hand.

I think I can help you to choose:

1. General fighting situations: Most people are fighting with fists in schools or bars or crowd…, so the Boxing is a common fighting style, because boxing decrease the time used to start fighting and doesn’t require a short distance or long distance to begin the moves, then most fights ends with ground grappling, so that we see that all natural fights uses Boxing techniques then ground grappling or submission, so if you the kind of that, Boxing and No-Gi grappling is the best combination of martial arts styles.
2. Broad fighting situations: Some people may love to learn many situation, so that when depends on the situation; ground fights like to use JuJitsu Combat , and if it a Close fight, boxing is suitable solution, but with Longer distance fighting Taekwondo (tkd) will be fast way since TKD depending mainly on kicking moves, where Taekwondo is almost entirely kicking and works strongly on the legs.
3. combining many classes to improve your fighting skills are too expensive to take classes in Boxing and another class in grappling and another class in stretching techniques, As you have the Time and money to spend every thing could be great!, but if you have to work for a living, training-competing cost a lot of money, travel-food-hotels ect..., The burdens of life may be an obstacle in order to practice the martial arts with various styles as well as you cannot engaged in many martial arts classes for the same reasons and people with old ages also may find the same obstacles.

So MMA or kung fu the Sanda style is enough to combine all fighting and sparring techniques either in real fight at streets or in competitions, and no need to additional classes in gym or boxing or even No-gis grappling (BJJ) 

Notes:
No-Gi is: the form of competition and training that does not use a "jacket", "gi," or "combat kimono," often worn with belts that establish rank by color, may be called “Submission wrestling, as submission fighting, submission grappling, submission wrestling, sport grappling, or simply as No-Gi”.

No gi grappling is focusing on clinch and ground fighting with the aim of obtaining a submission using submission holds, in MMA grappling techniques sometimes called submission wrestling to refer to mixed martial arts competition skills that are submission wrestling skills used to defeat an opponent, Brazilian jiu jitsu is the a No-Gi grappling martial art.

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How to Learn Shaolin Kung Fu Fundamental Training by Jwing-Ming Yang

The Needs to best Martial arts course to learn from home will not stop as well as experienced martial arts instructor, so one of the well-known Kung fu shaolin DVDes is one called Shaolin Kung Fu Fundamental Training, that written by sifu Jwing-Ming Yang.

But if you are still not familiar what is shaolin kung fu and what shaolin Monks do with their trainings just go to the live news about shaolin shows that they are traveling the whole world to exposure shaolin culture and training fundamentals IF IT'S death-defying stunts you are after then this spectacle by the Shaolin Warriors promises the kind of action usually seen in effects-laden Hollywood movies.
As Director Stephen Leatherhead said: "there are so many exciting feats. Personally, I'd suggest the 'five spears thrusting the body', a stunt where a warrior is supported in the air with spears. Others include lying on blades, the nail bed, breaking iron bars using the forehead alone, to name just a few."

Read more: http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/Shaolin-Warriors-return-Queen-s-Theatre-death/story-18674434-detail/story.html#ixzz2RI2VluEj

Shaolin Kung Fu  Fundamentals:
extensive knowledge of Long Fist White Crane Kung Fu (Gongfu)
extensive Kicking techniques in Course 2 is 90 minutes long
applications of the techniques learned by shaolin Monks
Basic techniques and stances of shaolin such as: Hand Drills, Stretching, Walking, Hopping, and Jumping
and the traditional stances of shaolin kung fu such as: horse stance, climbing mountain stance, four-six stance, tame the tiger stance with over 20 hand strikes are taught through the remainder of Course 1 that concludes at around 75 minutes.

and as I said before at a great article you should know how to learn from online educational resources of martial arts so you can be aware of common mistakes that newbie students fall of like Stretching Routines and basic Stances or Proper Alignment and Posture Extensive Punching & Kicking Drills , where I covered a lot of beginners important tips about how and where to learn kung fu and chinese martial arts techniques from online videos and offline by yourself at home; you can show more here

Much more 100 Scene Selections with Narration by voice and camera and multi-language DVD with so much information for each shaolin technique with one-on-one demonstration video guide by kids students training by hitting sand bags with their punches and kicks, Beginners will need it as well as initiates and intermediates, do not forget your copy

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Find wing chun kung fu schools in chicago

Good Wing Chun schools in the Chicago-land area either city or burbs, first hand information and knowledge of the Sifu's teaching - their reputation, etc. This post for you to learn wing chun kung fu styles that I'm most interested in.

Firstly you must visit a couple of schools near you to see get nearest look on wing chun teachers, I think as many of wing chun kung fu fans that Phil Nearing is the best wing chan teacher in Chicago even he pushing 60 years old and still strong master, He also is very skilled in BJJ earning his belts from Carlson Gracie.

First thing visit a couple of schools to see if you like the teacher.
Along with the fact that you only I mean you are the practitioner the fisrt princible of progression in martial arts training because the best teacher for you may not be the best fighter or the one with the most years of study.

Take Wing Chun classes in IL and near of Chicago with the best teacher Phillip Nearing School of Wing Chun - 400 South Green Street,Chicago, IL.

Chicago Fut sao Wing Chun
Training teacher is Sifu Chuck Kennedy
and school is allocated at 4222 N. Milwaukee
New Location is Chicago, IL 60641 USA


Lee's Martial Art Academy
near of 15546 S Cicero Avenue, Oak Forest, IL 60452-3602

Genuine Yip Man Wing Chun School
Sifu Sam Lau help Master Yip Man to teach Intensive & Instructor Course

Ving Tsun Self Defense Academy
Address:1839 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL
Also this school deliver classes for : Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) Kung Fu School
Some Positive review from people tried this school: "I think this dojo would be a beautiful experience if I could train ...” 

The Philip Nearing School of Wing Chun
Located at 400 S Green St # 217, Chicago, IL
Sample review: "Sifu Nearing is a top notch Kung Fu master. He is without a doubt a leading Wing Chun authority and has a meticulous teaching style."

Degerberg Academy
Near of 4717 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL
Offers classes for weight room · mixed martial arts · arts training · jun fan · black belt
Sample review: "mixed martial arts, streetfighting, capoeira, jeet kun do, self defense, kali, arnis, escrima, jujitsu, jun fan, wing chun, savate, kung fu, wrestling."

Chicago Wing Chun Gung Fu school
This place has closed or relocated, and was at 2342 N Spaulding Ave, Chicago, IL
Review from customers: "Chicago Wing Chun Gung Fu club's web site giving class information, general wing chun theory and principles, history of Wing Chun Gung Fu, martial arts ..."

K.S Hyun's Hapkido School
They consider their classes as Martial Art education not Sport with Best Street Self Defense classes.

Some recommendations of wing chun kung fu masters and teachers I found round there:

1. Wing Chun in North Suburbs Tony Kariotis teaches north of Chicago called Glenview. His website is www.mukjong.com, He's a bit eccentric but very well experienced and informed. 
2.  William Cheung Wing Chun in Chicag: I donot know if this school still there or not but anyway Sifu Milan is he teacher and he also a certified personal trainer (which means you won't be getting the lazy man's/woman's wing chun here) and he also teaches Qi Gong which has helped me help to relax, destress and focus better.
3. Wong Shun Leung lineage. which in my biased opinion, is the best. and proven. 
4. Amazing collection of  kung fu schools/classes in chicago, PA, WA, and NY Citites added every day at Children Martial Arts Blog

Be carefull of teaching a two dimensional "face slapping" method of wing chun fake teachers. Actually, most kung fu systems suffer from same problem, in that the people teaching them are not genuine instructors.

Notes:Chicago Is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, , it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland," is the third largest in the United States, the largest in the Great Lakes Megalopolis, and the 27th most populous urban agglomeration in the world, with an estimated 9.8 million people in the three US states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana.

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10 steps to Learn kung fu online with free lessons for beginners

Train the Kung Fu every day to become stronger day after day
Kung Fu is the best martial arts, at least in my view, as a person exercised a lot of martial arts, the spectrum has helped me to identify the style and the way each combat and fighting strategies in each martial art.
If you decide to learn kung fu I think you are starting to take the right path towards the best way to defend yourself against harassing you on the street, but please do not use kung fu against your friends in school and I warn you also that you use against your sisters or brothers at home or who are younger than you are.
Because kung fu martial arts and all MA styles been invented to go out where all the internal energy stored inside you, which leads to the accumulation negative effects on the way you interacted with people and the way of discharging your duties daily.

Kung Fu practice helps you improve style of interaction with people and helps you to spend your day and you are relieved of the body and clear the mind.

How to learn kung fu at home without paying any cents?
First: you must know that martial arts should be exercised under the supervision of a teacher of martial arts professional and an expert on how the treatment and training of trainees in all ages and knows how to train the bodies of the players, is also know to train their minds and take out the best in them, thus he have achieved the goal of martial arts correctly.

Second: to learn kung fu of free books or other free stuff that are everywhere on the Internet, some of these books distributed illegally, but you can purchase, there are great references to Kung Fu cheap and bear fruit as well and deliver you valuable kung fu lessons.

Third: We must know very well that you should learn the technical basics and strategic kicking using the legs and punching using hands and learn the types of fists in Kung Fu also must take strong idea about the beginnings of kung fu and how to deal with every style in kung fu, because each style needs to be a way specific and consists of various steps and stances for the other method or style in kung, for example styles that originated in northern China relies on kicking legs more than a fist punching and vice versa in styles that originated in southern China, such as Foshan the Chinese city of martial arts.

Fourth: Read firstly well for each style of kung fu and know very well the way that suits your potential physical and mental capabilities, there are those who can not implements some movements, for example, exercise methods in kung fu animal styles that mimic the movements of animals that need to get to a good level of physical resilience to learn kung fu for ways of animals, but if you want to learn an easy way to defend yourself is better for you is Kung fu Sanda or Sando kung fu, which is plain and simple and consists of essential Kung Fu kicking, punching and movements , and if you want to exercise a kung fu style strengthens the Respiratory way and make your breath a long and it helps to relax  your body muscles and nerves; Tai Chi kung fu is the best technique of Kong fu for you to learn and exercised at any time.

Fifth: I advise you to look for some videos published by some of the players and lovers of martial arts and many of them on YouTube, for example, videos on YouTube explaining how the good performance of the movements and the proper steps to implement the martial arts movements.

V.: Train quietly and continuity because few hold exercises will make you stronger, but not to continue every day in the exercise will make kung fu exercises lose its effectiveness every day and look like you start the first time every time you intend to exercise them.

Sixth: You can post one of your friends or neighbors who trust them to learn together so you can both implementing of collective kung fu exercises and make simulation of a real contact fight.

Seventh: Do not lose your patience if you can not perform some movements because this means that you have to rehearse more to get leniency and flexibility necessary for kung fu training, however kung fu is also not an easy art.

Eighth: I forgot to tell you that you have to "Empty your Cup to start Learn", means you must your mind be cleaned of all the combat movies such films: Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee that you interested in and loved them and affected you because it will hinder your mind on the implementation of the movements; the truth, as some films Represent fighting movements with Visual cinematic tricks, so not everything you see in the movies can Perform on the real world.

IX: Do not Practice Kung Fu or start your daily kung fu lessons after eating directly or rehearse on fighting and you are tired or want to sleep because your body is not equipped to perform martial arts, however if you are not in a good mood may get hurt or may lead art movement the wrong way, which could cost you cuts or bruises or fractures to some members of the body, so be warned.

Tenth: Do not forget to set time each day for exercise, even if half an hour because that makes the body awake whenever it is time training.

Finally, I hope that I gave you some tips that will help you learn kung fu martial arts alone at home without a teacher and free.

Please, communicate with me if you can not perform some kung fu combat movements to prevent to hurt yourself .

I wish you luck and to meet with the next lesson.

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18 Shaolin techniques and self defence application

It has many purposes: to make your hands closer to the opponent's lower body, to make your body shrunk against high level attacks, to be able to make a displacement near the opponent's body in a safer position, to lower whole body weight as a support for down-going pressures and attacks, to make it possible to rotate your trunk while raising up which has many applications,...

The T stance is a transient stance, not a steady one, i.e., it is used while a transition from a side to side, with a leg on sole supporting the whole body and the other leg proceeding the transition.
The Chicken stance lowers your body in order to do a maneuver at lower heights. Because of one foot being in front of the other, this stance has a very good balance and it is appropriate before advancing, at which one foot can take a firm step forward with the rare leg supporting the movement.

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