Valentina Shevchenko Quotes

I used to do traditional weapons training, and I wasn't bad with a sword.

Henri Hooft has made my hands and feet deadly weapons.

I trained in kick-boxing and Muay Thai.

I did not feel that I was designed for hand-to-hand combat.

I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.

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.

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

I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.

Say you can't put one foot in front of the other, you punch like a child, and you're not flexible at all. We'll show you some aikido, some ground jujitsu, some gun stuff, some knife moves. We can make a pretty good-size dent with that.

I'm useless with a sword in real life.

I studied Jeet Kune Do and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. On element of Jeet Kune Do is that I had several of years of practice with the kali stick - a stick with a size and length similar to a baseball bat.

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.

My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.

Take up martial arts and get proficient. Take a sword-fighting class. Dive in and immerse yourself in it as you would any other acting class, so when the opportunity comes, that skill can be really utilized, and it's not half-baked.

I think it's stupid to say a guy who has trained in jiu-jitsu for as long as I have is just a stand-up fighter. I have trained with some of the best black belts in the world. I am comfortable on the ground. I can fight wherever the fight goes and not be concerned.

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 train jiu-jitsu and judo with the best guys there is, and the best guys for ground and pound.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.

You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.

I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.

I've done taekwondo striking my entire life.

Being able to open up and use my kick would make me so much more dangerous. It wouldn't even be fair to use some of the weapons that we work on.