Christopher Moore Quotes

Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.

I started studying Jeet Kune Do in my early 20s.

This is a full-contact sport. It's the objective to disable your opponent, even if sparring or a real fight. You've got to use your technique.

To say martial arts, or the combative form - mixed martial arts - is not an art form is incorrect.

This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.

I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.

My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I fight like Bruce Lee. I train in his style of kung fu, wing chun. It's all about fighting with controlled power, so you learn to punch correctly.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

The movie style of fighting is completely exaggerated with over-the-top movements. You'd get completely hammered if you fought like that in a real fight situation.

That Dutch style of kickboxing, that's great. That's hard. It's very intimidating to stand across from, but you know it's very rhythmic on the beat. It's just something: It looks scary, but it's nothing to be scared of.

Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I'm not a mixed martial artist, I'm a brawler.

I showed I'm an elite fighter.

The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.

Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.

We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.

Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. That's what's great about the choreography that goes on here. It's a delicate ballet with a fist in the face.

There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.

I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.