I'm looking for some form of martial arts that I can use to train at home. I wanna something that has more emphasis on how to improve the movement of the body and is relaxing kinda like Tai Chi (sp ?). Because of work I don't have loads of time to go to classes, so I need something where I can get some tuition but allows me to train at home.
My background is this, when I was a kid my dad forced me to do some judo, but I packed that in after a 1yr 1/2. Then in my twenties I started going to a kick boxing school, but stopped after a few months, cause everyone there were just nutcases who thought they were Bruce Lee or something. I was thinking about yoga, but don't know anyone who's tried it, what would u guys recommend ?

SicShift is the one to talk to about this,I believe that he and his brother started a few martial arts schools and he actually taught at one...if my memory is correct.

Yoga sounds very much like what you're looking for actually. I studied Tai Chi for a while to and it definitely improved body movement however I think Yoga would emphasize that even more to be honest. It would also require less instructoin than any martial art most likely.

If you're limited with time, your best bet is to set up some private instruction. Private instruction will send a student through about 3 times faster than class instruction. You will be able to learn more so that you can practice at home.

You should contact your local schools and see if they have some type of package. I'm not sure what you do for a living but if you have something to barter or trade, many people are willing to do that as most martial arts/yoga places don't make a lot of money and are open to any type of income, trade or cash.

Cheers for that SicShift, never thought about private tuition http://www.gixxer.com/forums/images/graemlins/bitchslap.gif With Tai Chi is it an exact discipline i.e. like karate, judo etc... where you go through progressive levels, or do you have a set of fixed exercises to learn.

no, it has ranks but not like quite as many. You could train for many, many years and still not learn half of what there is. It's tougher than it looks and very popular because you can do it well into your old age.

If you don't have much time though, I'd say if you took 1 private lesson a week for 4 weeks or so and then back down to 1 lesson every 2 weeks or so you could learn a lot to practice at home with.