Fighting learning video...?

Question

You cant learn martial arts by video but can you learn basic fighting moves? And i wanna watch videos on martial arts in case i ever try. Whats a raw hardcore fighting style? Is 12 too late to start.

Answer 1

Find a good school.

What's with the thumbs down allready?

Grumpy people can't handel the truth?

Answer 2

I know this is the internet generation, but not everything can be learned on line or from videos.

Can you teach yourself martial arts from books and videos and websites? Yes.

Can you teach yourself correct and effective martial arts that will actually work for self defense? No way in h***. That should be commen sense. I mean can you learn to do open heart surgery succesfully by watching a video or reading a book?

You may be able to imitate the moves, but without feedback and correction from a good qualified instructor, who will teach you right and ground you in good fundimentals and basics, all you will be doing is punching air and if you ever have to use it to defend yourself, you will be in deep s***.

How can you think that you will be able to learn how to fight from watching DVD's and books, that cannot include many of the littlle things that are needed, and must be done correctly, in order to work? In order to learn a martial art correctly you need the following:

1) A good instructor who has knowledge of the techniques, and can give you feedback on what you are doing wrong.

2) Resisting opponents to train with that can help you learn to perform the moves correctly under pressure.

3) A school that will train realisticly, making you perform under some type of stress, so that when it really is needed on teh street you will not freeze.

So long story short, yes you can learn to imitate the moves on your own, and look cool, but do not in any way expect them to get you anything but hurt if you ever have to do them for self defense.

Hey I have an idea, lets train our soldiers via video and books. That would save a ton of money on housing and feeding. We could send them like DVD's. One for each week of basic training, including a rifle, ammo, and uniform. Then once they complete that, we can send them DVD's on there MOS(Military Occupational Specialty) such as "How to fly an Apache Helicoptor made easy". D*** we been doing things the wrong way all this time.

Now would you feel confident relying on soldiers who were trained this way? Then why would you want to rely on martial arts trained this way?

Answer 3

The things you can learn from video are what styles are out there,whether its karate ,judo kung fu it will allow you to find out which attracts you most.

Video can be a great source of information and yes you can learn from it though to really benefit you would need proper instruction.

Have a look at http://www.selfdefencemadeasy.com

You will get a free self defence report and dvd.

Best of luck

Answer 4

Check out these vids, they will answer your questions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL05Es8LV...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-g6JTQDW...

And also, if you were 50 it still wouldn't be to late.

Answer 5

There are so many videos on the net, it's hard to point you in the right direction.