If you had the chance

[ppko]

If you had the chance to train with anyone in the past who would it be.
My choices would be:
Gichen Funikoshi
Oyama
Remy Presas
Wally Jay (though still around he no longer teaches)
Hohan Soken
Myamota Musashi

[terryl965]

Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, Remy Presas, Here in now the lopez family...God Bless America

[MichiganTKD]

Won Kuk Lee.

Would love to compare what and how he taught to what and how I practice and teach Tae Kwon Do, as well as get his input.

[karatekid1975]

I'm a TKD gal, but I would like to train with Gichen Funikoshi. And train with my old TSD grandmaster (he's still around in NJ). There's others, but I can't think of them at the moment (haven't had enough coffee LOL).

[The Kai]

Mas Oyama

Nick Cerio
Ed Parker

[Firona]

So far as hand to hand (or foot to foot) goes mine would all be more modern because sport style fighting appeals more to me. So for this it would be Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Bill 'superfoot' Wallace. For the sword though we are going to jump into the past and go with Miyamoto Musashi, Okita Souji and Tajima Juubei (yagyuu shinkage ryu)

[WLMantisKid]

Wong Long, the founder of our system.

[ShenChuan_Ninja]

Bruce Lee with out a doubt! But also, Reme Presas, George Dillman, and in october i actually do get to train with Wally J. he and my instructor Joe R. Lansdale are friends and he has agreed to do a seminar at our dojo! Also i would love to train with Uncle Bill. Anyone who knows who he is would have to agree! he has a difficult name and tells students to call him that. he is in my opinion one of the greats.

[Eldritch Knight]

Yagyu Munenori
Bruce Lee
Lu Bu
Bodhidharma

[ppko]

Bruce Lee with out a doubt! But also, Reme Presas, George Dillman, and in october i actually do get to train with Wally J. he and my instructor Joe R. Lansdale are friends and he has agreed to do a seminar at our dojo! Also i would love to train with Uncle Bill. Anyone who knows who he is would have to agree! he has a difficult name and tells students to call him that. he is in my opinion one of the greats.
Where is yous school located, I was just wandering because last I heard Wally was really sick, Me and my instructor were wanting to go out to see Wally as my instructor is also good friends with Wally. I have been to a bunch of Dillmans seminars as I am in DKI we are having George down for a seminar at Nov 11 in Florence Ky just 20 min outside of Cincinnati Oh if you want more info pm me

[Tames D]

Bruce Lee
William Chow
Adriano Emperado

[tntma12]

I would have loved to have trained with O Sensie, the founder of Aikido.

Bruce Lee

Bill Wallace

[searcher]

Seisho Aragaki
General Choi-in his prison days
Ed Parker
Dr. Chitose

[Tez3]

Hironori Ohtsuka

[Cirdan]

Like Tez, I would of course want to train with Hironori Ohtsuka

Others:
Choki Motobu
Sokon Matsumura
Fang Qīniáng
Toru Takamizawa

[qi-tah]

As strange as this sounds, at this stage of my development i wouldn't want to train ba gua with anyone other than my current teacher, Master Shao Zhao Ming. Not because he knows everything, or is the best practitioner of Ba gua zhang (although he's at least 500 times better than i can ever hope to be!), but because he is a good teacher with a strong syllabus and i trust him to have my best interests in mind as a student.
I recognise that the time will come when this may change, but that's a long way off right now.

[thetruth]

O Sensei

Ed Parker

Jigoro Kano

[Tabris]

Yip Man
Yim Wing Chun
Toshishiro Obata (Not dead I know)
Chan Kong Sang (also not dead, but hell, my choice :P )
and of course Lee Jun-Fan.


:ultracool

[Fushichou]

James Mitose: At least in part to discover firsthand if he was really a great master or not.

Fujita Seiko: A chance to learn Koga-ryu before it became extinct.

Miyamoto Musashi: Learn kenjutsu from the greatest swordsman to ever live.

Morihei Ueshiba: Enough said.

[baron]

Tatsuo Shimabuku

Prof. Henry S Okazaki

[MBuzzy]

Hwang Kee
Mas Oyama
Gichin Funakoshi

[Balrog]

I'd love to have one more class with Grand Master H. U. Lee.

[Phoenix44]

Bruce Lee. He was a great martial artist, and a really bright guy.

[Langenschwert]

For me, it would be some of the great European Masters of Defence. In order of preference:

1) Johannes Liechtenauer, the founder of the German school of longsword fighting, who lived in the mid 1300's.

2) Ott the Jew, the wrestling master to the Hapsburg dukes of Austria, whose teachings were an important counterpart to Liechtenauer's.

3) Sigmund Ringeck, fight master to Albrecht, duke Palatine of Bavaria and the Rhine, whose manual is one of my all-time favourites. He himself taught Liechtenauer's methods as well.

4) Fiore dei Liberi, the great Italian swordsman from the mid 1400's. I'd just like to see what my rivals were up to. ;)

5) The anonymous writer of I.33, the oldest European martial arts manual (from 1290-ish), written about sword and buckler.

Best regards,

-Mark

[Em MacIntosh]

Bruce Lee
Chuck Norris
Bill "Superfoot" Wallace
Steve Irwin
Gene LeBell
Pat Morita lol

[DavidCC]

If I had my time machine I would travel to pre-1928 China, say maybe 1920 or so, becasue I think that year a lot of knowledge was lost in China with some of the political problems and the burning of the Shaolin temple (again). I don't know who I would go to first, or where, but having a time machine I could of course figure that out at my leisure.

I'd have to learn chinese first. But I have a time machine so I can do that in no time.

I'd go back in time until just before kung-fu arrived in Okinawa, and I'd be there waiting for it... "Oh, look, a ship-wrecked sailor, I wonder if he knows any kata?" LOL

I would be waiting outside the cave on day 40 when Boddhidharma finally decided it was time to teach the monks...

I guess I should probably do these things in chronolgical order...

And, or course, I would be waiting on the docks for little Jimmy Mitose to get off the ship from Hawaii, and I would use my time machine to periodically monitor him so that I could find out what the heck he really learned and from who.

I don't know if I would train with Musashi, but I would certainly travel to see his duels. Especially the on with the master of the spear, because I want to see what Musashi meant when he wrote, after the duel, that he "fought him in the style of jujitsu" and that the opponent "could not get with 5 feet" of the unarmed Musashi.

[stone_dragone]

Ed Parker
Sokon Matsumura

Ed Gruberman...may his soul rest in pieces

[Sukerkin]

As with some of the posters above, I would like the opportunity to travel a few centuries back and see some of the swordsmen of that era run through what I learn week in and week out. That way I could see just what temporal-drift has done to the style.

[Christina05]

Bruce Lee hands down Reme and Oyama. Oh hell Chuck Norris too

[Em MacIntosh]

I would have loved to see Musashi take on twenty lance-preists. Funny thing is not only was he so skilled but he was also a giant at almost six feet tall, brawny as they come, scruffy as a ronin can get. Compared with the hungry peasants and general small stature of everybody back then he must have been quite a sight.

[chrismay101]

General Choi hong hi - founder of ITF Taekwondo

[thardey]

Like someone mentioned above, I'm pretty well challenged in the school where I'm at, but just for fun . . .

Chuck Norris, I have taken a seminar from him (the only one he's done, to my knowledge) and I want more.

King David, while he lived in the desert with the crazy soldiers, before he became king.

Achilles - even if he didn't exist by that name, and in the manner we know him, someone had to be a crazy fighter to inspire that story.