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Styles: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Wrestling, Tang Soo Do, Muay Thai
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I dont wear shoes during class but when I go to the beach and train on the sand I like to use wrestling shoes. I've always found that the split sole shoes are the best FYI.
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We can wear shoes or go bare foot the choice is ours. If we wear shoes they have to be very flat and to have no exposed laces or adornment that could cause injury to an opponent when sparring. Personally I prefer training in shoes as if I am out on the street and i have to fight,I cant halt the other person so I can take them off....Only time I prefered not to wear shoes in training was when I was on my blue belt as 75% of the syllabus is spinning, the shoes would grip really well and id end up injuring myself.(pride usually as I fell flat on my face!)
Styles: Cloak and Sabre,longsword style wuthout a name.
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Depends on wether I am using a Odachi,or katana.When I use my katana I use my fencing shoes.When I am training with my Odachi,I train in my thick leather boots.
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Styles: Western Boxing, Tai Chi, Animal Form Kung Fu, and Wing Chun
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Chinese styles wear shoes when we train. In the kuen I attend we wear tennis shoes, but will probably switch to wrestling shoes when we get wrestling matts to fall on. I wonder why the Japanese/Korean styles train without and the Chinese styles train with shoes?
We always train barefoot, and in training camps one of the specialties is a class on concrete at noon, so it's sizzling hot... We also run barefoot on dirt tracks, both help greatly with foot toughening.
Chinese styles wear shoes when we train. In the kuen I attend we wear tennis shoes, but will probably switch to wrestling shoes when we get wrestling matts to fall on. I wonder why the Japanese/Korean styles train without and the Chinese styles train with shoes?
Because the Traditional Korean shoes are a lot different to Chinese... I can tell you this: They are the opposite of comfortable...
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We can wear shoes or go bare foot the choice is ours. If we wear shoes they have to be very flat and to have no exposed laces or adornment that could cause injury to an opponent when sparring. Personally I prefer training in shoes as if I am out on the street and i have to fight,I cant halt the other person so I can take them off....Only time I prefered not to wear shoes in training was when I was on my blue belt as 75% of the syllabus is spinning, the shoes would grip really well and id end up injuring myself.(pride usually as I fell flat on my face!)
You should use shoes designed specifically for martial arts...
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Japanese "CowBoys": "Yee Haw, Rope 'em Dawggies" - 47MartialMan
White, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Green, Purple, Blue, Brown, Red, Black - 1st Dan, Black - 2nd Dan
You should use shoes designed specifically for martial arts...
We do but some still have laces and sticky out bits.....and it didnt matter if they are designed for martial arts or not, I could still fall flat on my face spinning kicking til i got used to it!
Our school prefers us to go barefoot, but once in a while we will wear shoes to simulate being outside the dojang (like on the street). It helps us get a feel of how it affects the kicks.
i currently wear tiger claws, and i used to wear fei yue for martial arts. i also war them for anything else
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I agree with tearing the bags up. We stopped wearing them in our dojo after too many torn bags. I liked the Adidas ones, but I like to feel my feet on the floor and on the bag though I could have saved my poor toes from many breaks if I would have continued to wear them during training. It is good for some things and bad for others. Trish
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