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Quite a few answers to this.

If you aren’t interested in a particular type of martial art and are doing it for fitness reasons initially, I would recommend that you support your local gym. Not only will it be easiest for you, but supporting your local gym might make the different to him, to keep running.

Remember that some martial arts focus on ground work such as Judo and Jujitsu, where as arts such as Taekwondo focus on kicking (to put it simply)

If you visit your local recreation centre or local gym, you might be surprised to see how much Martial Art activity goes on, with most instructors booking gym rooms out along side any premises they might have to reach a wider audience.

So what are you waiting for, go join a gym!

Quick reminder that there are still tickets available for the MEN arena on the Saturday, March 27th.

To follow on from yesterday Muay Thai is a martial art, directly from Thailand. It is renowned for being a very fast paced, hardcore martial art and is Thailand’s national sport.

Muay Thai roughly translate to “the Art of Eight Limbs” Referring to the fact there are 8 points of contact involved in the sport. Fists, Knees, Elbows and Feet.

If you are from the Manchester region, you may have noticed that local radio station XFM is doing a competition to give a way tickets to the Muay Thai Premier League. The competition is also giving away overnight tickets and spends for the Park Inn Hotel.

Fights including Liam Harrison, Michael Dicks, and Damien Trainor will be taking on a host of Prime masters from Thailand making the event a not to be missed for those into your martial arts.

If you want to try and win tickets, log on to the XFM Manchester site now and apply using the web form available. Either that or tune in for another chance to win more tickets.

Thanks to the surge in MMA interest, the UK is seeing a record number of organised exhibitions and tournaments.

The interest in MMA is bringing keen gym enthusiasts out of the wood work and learning the Mixed martial arts, not jsut to keep fit, but to compete and hopefully go semi or fully professional.

Those that make it will enjoy a decent salary whilst doing what they enjoyed in life as a hobby.

The UK scene isn’t anywhere as big as the USA, however, there have been a number of successful Brits that have made it over there and are doing well amongst the heavier weights.

Why not go check out your local MMA gyms?

Well you might be surprised to learn that the martial arts demonstrated in the movies are oftenly based on real martial arts, most commonly, arts such as, Karate, Tae Kwon Do and Jujitsu.

The cheorographers will oftenly be black belts in various arts and will then device new and amend various techniques to reflect the movie they are filming.

A good example is Star Wars, where the art of Kendo was modified, obviously a lot, to help actors get to grips with the fake light sabers they were supplied to film the various martial art based lightsaber fights.

Some films are more accurate than others. Modern Kung Fu films featuring famous faces such as Jackie Chan like Rush hour and Rush hour 2 contain a lot of real martial are techniques. However these techniques will be blown out of proportion with gravity defying moves slowed down for effect.