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

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.

How many styles of Vietnamese martial arts are there?

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

About how many 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

Nice kicking style.

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. Enjoy!

OUCH! That's gotta hurt.

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

So anyone actually practice a vietnamese martial art?

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^_^

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.

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?

^ that sucks. parents wouldnt let you huh? anyways, martial arts is fun and help you stay in shape too . I've taken Tien Shan Pai Kung Fu for like 7 years. i think i'll start taking Tai Chi lessons now 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.

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!!!!

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 which also have scissor kicks i might add.

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

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

^yo whoami this is my friend that i told you about earlier this year

i practiced vovinam from 7 to 21, plus other vietnamese styles, and taekwondo.
it's very nice when you watch a show, but these martial arts are not effective.
I practiced later judo, kykushikai and thai boxing, these are real martial arts

hahaha........is judo really that effective

oh hey cool. you guys live in australia right, are there a lot of vvn schools there? hey Jun, did you get to start takin wing chun lessons yet?

heya man of course ther alot o vvn centres here u want da toughest in vic go to either footscray richmond or kensington ther da hard asses

[quote=WhoAmI,Apr 18 2004, 10:16 AM] [QUOTE=Jun,Apr 15 2004, 12:35 AM] hey Jun, did you get to start takin wing chun lessons yet? [/quote]
thanks for asking but sadly no i havent started yet

how is your kungfu training whoami?

[quote=Jun,Apr 20 2004, 02:22 AM] [QUOTE=WhoAmI,Apr 18 2004, 10:16 AM] [QUOTE=Jun,Apr 15 2004, 12:35 AM] hey Jun, did you get to start takin wing chun lessons yet? [/QUOTE]
thanks for asking but sadly no i havent started yet

how is your kungfu training whoami? [/quote]
I see. just dont give up.

I just started up training again. its going pretty good. though it been almost a half year since i last practiced.

^
thanks whoami
haha don't worry i wont give up!
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hahaha well at least your back at training
good luck with your training whoami

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hey i have heard of a martialart called viet-fu from a friend of mine
can anybody here tell me more about it?

Hey thanks . Hmm.. Viet Fu? i dont think ive heard of it before.

ouch that looks like it hurts lol.
I used to teach kickboxing...before i got run over by a truck lol.
i swear i should write a book about my life lol
Jenny

i heard Viet-fu is like the vietnamese version of kung fu but thats all i know....

Hi Aku_Shinta,

May I ask you when/where did you see Vovinam in action for you to formulate such irresponsible statements.

All arial kicks of any martial arts styles are impractical in application unless they are used as a "finishing" technique. TaeKwonDo now a day, may I say - is directing like a sport, much like Judo. It's original defense applications and the use of hands are no longer emphasized in its training curriculum. I had been a 4th Degree Black Belt in TKD ... I feel sad that TKD leaders in WTF chose this path.

All arial kicks in Vovinam and other arts when seen in demontrations are being used to show the high level of athletic ability, team work, self-confidence, and accuracy due to deligent practices of the performers.

Vovinam is an esteemed and popular martial arts of Vietnam that culminates 4,000 years of national and cultural development - much of it was from warfare. Like any other martial arts, it is not the art style that is impractical - it is the practitioner's inexperience and lack of practice that cannot demonstrate its applications.

To say the least most fighting style that depends on stand up alone is utterly useless in real life, you need ground skill along with the stand up to be practical, so essense tkd or vo vi nam is useless in the real world unless you fighting someone who doesnt know anything

This is only to show how little you know about Vovinam - Viet Vo Dao. The ground fighting skills can be effective when facing one-on-one. When facing with multiple attackers ... ground fighting skills alone will become "sitting duck." Ground fighting skills exist in Vovinam as well. In fact, it's one of its corner stones. Just because you don't see these skills at demonstrations, that doesn't mean they are not there.

you have got to be joking vovinam has the capability to chop a huge tree down with one hand. being in deep meditation while crouching down will provide maximum strength throughout the body but especially the right arm. thus, chopping a huge tree down can be quite easy. no need to bring a chainsaw when you have vovinam in you.

I have heard of this, but have not seen. However, I have seen ground fighting, very low, similar to snake style.

I think this is the sort of stuff they teach in the Vietnamese Army.

I dont know much about vvn, i was really answering to the guy that said TKD is more effective

I concur to this.

That's great to see that we've got our own style in martial arts.

Yah, Vovinam has been in existence since 1938 and codified in the early 60's. I was a little bit disappointed when Dat Phan made a joke about Vietnam doesn't have its own martial arts the other day on Comedy Central. I still support him, though, cause his jokes are really funny.

Everyone is encouraged to read more about Vovinam history (English and Vietnamese) at http://www.vovinam.com/his/en1912.htm or http://www.vovinam.com/his/v1912.htm

It's quite unfortunate that all of the regimes have chosen to promote other martial arts styles other than Vietnamese in the country. As if somehow, foreign is better. This is the one thing that irks me the most about Viet leaders.

China has Shao-Lin, Tai-Chi, Wu-Dang ... etc.
Korea has TKD
Japan has Karate, Judo, Aikido ... etc.
Indonesia has Pankrit Silat
Thailand has Mua Thai

Vietnam has Vovinam.

I like to learn Vo Binh Dinh, but I never have had a chance to learn. The three brothers Tây Sơn learned this great local martial art.

think its time i learn vovinam.

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I like to learn Vo Binh Dinh, but I never have had a chance to learn. The three brothers Tây Sơn learned this great local martial art.

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Hi Binhdinhner,

Binh Dinh martial arts is really unique and excellent. Emperor Quang Trung was certainly a military genius and Hero in all Vietnamese hearts. Although I am not so sure during his time people knew it as Vo Binh Dinh. Binh Dinh is a region in Vietnam and there are many styles (most past down from generation to generation) within the region. It's true that in the present day, most of Vo Binh Dinh authoritative figures contribute Vo Binh Dinh to the Tay Son brothers, especially to Emperor Quang Trung.

Nguyen-Nhac and Nguyen-Lu, each created his own style of martial arts, one of which continues to be famous today in Vietnam: Kim-Ke (Golden-c@ck).

Of all styles of Vietnamese martial arts, VOVINAM is the only art that has codified into a unified and systematic training curriculum. It's also unique that VOVINAM is not attached to any particular region in Vietnam. VOVINAM since its inception has been a major influence in the development and creation of other popular martial arts and well known figthers today, such as Cuong-Nhu Karate (stlye) and Le-Cung (fighter).

You know what they say about "con gái Bình Định".

Con gái Bình Định biết lấy cây "roi" đánh đòn mấy anh chồng "ham" của lạ. Right? 2

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I like to learn Vo Binh Dinh, but I never have had a chance to learn. The three brothers Tây Sơn learned this great local martial art.

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Hi Binhdinhner,
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been a major influence in the development and creation of other popular martial arts and well known figthers today, such as Cuong-Nhu Karate (stlye) and Le-Cung (fighter).



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If you watch Cung Le fight, he does alot of high scissor kicks. is there another name for VoViNam? i don't see it mentioned in his website.
http://www.cungle.com/cungle/about.html






Female student

cuong is a sanda fighter isnt he?

I see three red worms are trying to invade Binh Dinh's proud culture. Well it will be some 60 year Yellow crap now.

This post was recently posted. It's in Vietnamese, so I am sorry if anyone is not a Viet reader. However, its content is really, really good. It gives me a different perspective.

http://vovinam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4