Viêt Võ Đạo, Vietnamese Matial Art Options

[ranmatatsumaru]

Anybody take Viêt Võ Đạo? What's it like?

[WhoAmI]

Vovinam Viet Vo Dao is known for its flying scissor kick techniqes. i dont take it myself because there isnt a school where im at. but im going to learn a vietnamese style martial arts one of these days. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Kulong]

How many styles of Vietnamese martial arts are there?

[drunk_on_tea]

I know they teach VoViNam in San Jose. I've been to some demonstration, very cool.

[ranmatatsumaru]

About how many Vietnamese martial arts are there?

[drunkenmonkey]

How many styles of Vietnamese martial arts are there?

Well known one is Vovinam.

the rest is almost never mention in the western world...

Vo Binh Dinh
Vo Tu Do
Vo Ta
Vo Go Cong
Vo Ba Tra
Vo Tan Khanh
Han Bai
Thanh Long
Coung Nhu

that's all i think and find....

here a pic of vovinam flying scissor kick

(IMG:http://www.vovinam-vietvodao.net/vovinam_vvd/vietnam_dctc.jpg)

[huaren]

Nice kicking style. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/eek.gif)

[WhoAmI]

Actually im not to sure. Vovinam is probaby the most well known vietnamese martial art there is. Many others are "local" martial arts styles i think. Besides those there are Vo Binh Dinh which is from Binh Dinh and i think came from the Tay Son brothers of the Tay Son rebellion. Nguyen Hue i think is a famous person who studied this style. i believe there are some animal styles too like Kim Ke. Oh there is Quan Khi Dao. Cuong Nhu is another style... though im not sure it can be called a vietnamese martial art.. more like a mixed martial art, since its a fusion of Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese styles. Anyways, Vovinam's founder travelled around and did extenstive studing of many different vietnamese styles and thats how Vovinam became more famous as "the best of Vietnamese martial arts".

EDIT: Go here: http://www.vovinam.com/ Click on "techniques" and you should be able to download some demos. The "one against three" is freakin awesome. Its choreographed fight scene. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/cool30.gif) Enjoy!

This post has been edited by WhoAmI: Mar 7 2004, 07:05 PM

[DAI_VIET]

(IMG:http://www.vovinam-vietvodao.net/vovinam_vvd/vietnam_dctc.jpg)

OUCH! That's gotta hurt.

[ranmatatsumaru]

Looks like there are a lot more Vietnamese fighting styles than I thought.

[WhoAmI]

So anyone actually practice a vietnamese martial art?

[Nam]

heya dudes im from australia and i study vovinam viet vo dao

man i'm lovin it im on my blue belt one stripe and just had a test 2 days ago

well im not on my stripe yet but i just had da test for it

its cool its more then a martial art and i met da grandmaster of vvn

man his cool he signed my uniform^_^

[Nam Quoc Son Ha]

At where I live, the club offers VoViNam but I took Tae Kwon Do instead and now a black belt 1 stripe. Would love to do VoViNam if I have some time in the future. Still busy with study and casual work at the moment.

[herosword]

Dang it. I tried getting my parents to pay for martial art lessons, but they said I should concentrate on my study instead. I would love to take vovinam. It isn't too late to start in your late teen is it?

[WhoAmI]

^ that sucks. parents wouldnt let you huh? anyways, martial arts is fun and help you stay in shape too (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/icon_wink.gif) . I've taken Tien Shan Pai Kung Fu for like 7 years. i think i'll start taking Tai Chi lessons now (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) I still plan on learning a Vietnamese martial art someday somehow.. just got to find someone to teach me. and yeah Vovinam definetly looks interesting and i wish i could learn it too. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/biggthumpup.gif)

[Nam]

Heya man its neva too late to take up vvn

vvn is for everybody whose willin to learn and train hard to become a better person

i do vvn in australia m8 heheheh in St Albans Victoria Melbourne

but a tip is neva go to a center with alotta 10 year olds cause they muck around alot and the masters wont bother trainin ya hard un like me i went to that kinda centre and now i got like over 80% like 10 year olds and im in da older class but ther only like 10-15 of us

so yeh join up!!!!

[Aku_Shinta]

contrary to popular belief vo vi nam is a really impractical style when you actually see it in action... well applying it to any combat situation is hard with those scissor kicks. If you want cool kicks do taekwondo (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/icon_smile.gif) which also have scissor kicks i might add.

[Nam]

but vovinam has a system for scissor kiks and taekwondo wouldn't how much does it have like 2-3 scissor kiks well vovinam has 21 and diff ways of applyin them plus vovinam isn't all bout martial art its bout makin beta citizens which means we dont use our techniques to kill we use it to dis arm but in da vietnamese army they do to kill and vovinam does have good kiks but then again all martial arts are da same with kiks cause ther are only a numba of ways to kik

[Nam]

but then again i guess taekwondo would have been an alternative for me so it aint all bad

[Jun]

^yo whoami this is my friend that i told you about earlier this year (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)