Tae bo as self defense:

I cant beleive i am responding to this post but here it goes, tae bo is aerobics it was desingned by billy blanks we used to trian together at the golden dragon here in buffalo when he moved to california he opened a hungar school and did some moveis then his buisness started to pick up but 95% of his clientel were men 19-35 and so he decided to add an aerobic class in the mornings taught by a LA fitness instructor named kim disman and he watched his profiet sky rocket. So he decided to combine shadow boxing routines with kicks from kung fu at an aerobic pace and expand his market to the general public that didnt want to do kung fu but also didnt want to do just aerobics so he maximaized his clientel by 200% and made lots of money doing it.
It has nothing to do with fighting or defense and just becuse the practictioners are in shape means nothing about fighting, just becuse you can jump rope for an hour does that mean you can block a punch?

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video game training is "not dead". It is "alive". You have to actually fight and work to KO your oppenent. Your opponenet doesn't just throw one punch and then stop and let you hit them like in kung fu. You have to go all out and actually use your strategies agaisnt the resisting computer.

Also kung fu sparring is a joke. It is like TKD sparring. Light contact sparring that's really shouldn't be done by anyone over the age of 12. Boxing/kickboxing sparring is hardcore with hard contact.

I am the Grand Ultimate Fist

Just because you can stand in a low stance for an hour, does that mean you can fight?

heheheh it's amazing isn't it. On the one hand, Kung Fu training methods give you the "strength" to be an excellent fighter. On the other hand, these same people say that being in shape doesn't account for fighting ability. Please choose a point. :p

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Tae-bo is a good conditioning aerobic workout, and lets you train your kicking speed. But that's about it. I see no fighting benefits other than the conditioning, sorry.

MD Abel - Think carefully. It is not an either/or question. One need not have great strength to be an excellent fighter, but it doesn't hurt none to be strong.

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...once again Ralek you have made a generalisation. A sad, useless waste of text space. Do you think that because you've seen a few Kung-Fu schools that you've seen them all.

At my class we do "kata work", blocking work (at full speed not in slo-mo, bag-work, circuit training, power routines, speed drills, active stretching, and both light and heavy sparring.

We do not place an emphasis on kata. It is comprehensive system.

Please don't generalise. I went to a f*ck awful BJJ class once. Does that mean that all BJJ is s*it?

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MD abel is Kungfoolz,

Tae bo conditioning is nice but i would hardly give it a martial art status. This is a troll post.

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