If you had the chance

[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.