If you could only train in 1 martial art for a fighting match, what would you choose?

[zerocool84]

Krav Maga

Krav Maga :sneaky:

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[iGas]

Nut cracker style

 

[Nik]

Jeet Kune Do.

When i trained, we learned grappling, weapons combat as well as martial arts combat.

What's the difference between grappling, weapons, and martial arts? Grappling and weapons are both parts of each martial art

Also, it doesn't count if you go in to watch a demo class. You have to actually get up off your ass and fling yourself across the ring, dude.

As for mine, I'd love to pick a prison style just because they're not very well known at all.

Just imagine, staring at a target that you don't know anything about, have no idea what he's capable of, etc. :awe:

 

[Perknose]

I challenge you to a duel!
Choose your weapon!

Hand to hand combat in three years!


Should have just told him "tampons at five paces".

To be fair, fully loaded tampons probably really, really sting!

Plus, you might just die from the embarrassment of it all.

 

[guyver01]

What's the difference between grappling, weapons, and martial arts? Grappling and weapons are both parts of each martial art

Grappling is "close quarters combat" .. often times referred to as "ground game"

Weapons Combat is training with specific weapons... in the case of JKD, Kali-Escrima training

and Martial Arts training, in terms of JKD, would be standard Gung-Fu kicks, punches, combos, etc.

JKD, as previously said, is not a martial art itself, but a fusion of multiple arts.

Also, it doesn't count if you go in to watch a demo class. You have to actually get up off your ass and fling yourself across the ring, dude.

i did... went for over a year and a half... ended up stopping classes because of a change in work schedule. Switched jobs and ended up working nights.. my Sifu only taught classes at certain times and unfortunately i was unable to continue attending.

 

[Nik]

Every single art has grappling techniques. All of them. You fail.

While some arts do not incorporate weapons, every weapon belongs to specific styles so you fail there too.

Martial Art is any of the traditional forms of self-defense or combat that utilize physical skill and coordination.

 

[coreyb]

brazilian jiu jitsu

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[guyver01]

Every single art has grappling techniques. All of them. You fail.

While some arts do not incorporate weapons, every weapon belongs to specific styles so you fail there too.

Martial Art is any of the traditional forms of self-defense or combat that utilize physical skill and coordination.

JKD is *NOT* a single style... but a fusion of styles.

Would it make your simplistic comprehension understand better if i stated:
For Grappling, we were taught pentjak silat
For Weapons Combat, we were taught Eskrima with Kali
For Martial Arts, we were taught Gung-Fu ??

 

[Nik]

JKD is *NOT* a single style... but a fusion of styles.

Would it make your simplistic comprehension understand better if i stated:
For Grappling, we were taught pentjak silat
For Weapons Combat, we were taught Eskrima with Kali
For Martial Arts, we were taught Gung-Fu ??

Argue all you want, but it's a style. It's a method of learning, remembering, and choosing which technique to use in the moment. Don't be defensive about it. There's nothing wrong with JKD being a style. There IS structure. There ARE specific moves, stances, weight balance between legs, blah blah.

 

[Nik]

(a pair of escrimas are my favorite weapon, btw)

 

[guyver01]

(a pair of escrimas are my favorite weapon, btw)

mine too... i have a nice pair of kali sticks at home... two pair actually... that look like the top one in this pic:

One pair i keep around just for the hell of it... one pair is all beat up from practicing forms.. i still try to keep up with my kali forms ... amazing what a pair of these can do to a tree in the park lol

 

[timosyy]

Shotokan.

HADOUKEN!

 

[sourceninja]

Just imagine, staring at a target that you don't know anything about, have no idea what he's capable of, etc. :awe:

No need to imagine it, I've done it. It's a lot of fun and I think anyone who has the drive to train should try it.

 

[guyver01]

Shotokan.

HADOUKEN!

I prefer Kaio-sama style.

KA... ME....HA...ME...HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[Nik]

No need to imagine it, I've done it. It's a lot of fun and I think anyone who has the drive to train should try it.

Yep, same. Nothing quite gets the adrenaline flowing like seeing a very well worn black belt hanging from the hips with alien symbols on it on a guy who wants to beat my brains in.

Fun shit!

 

[Greenman]

To be fair, fully loaded tampons probably really, really sting!

Plus, you might just die from the embarrassment of it all.

I'm going to go ahead and guess they're both regular users.
Think about it, three years to get ready for a fight. Three years? Really? They just couldn't make weight in two and a half? They were both busy next spring? Next winter they might have caught a chill? They just had to have the whole thousand days to prepare for this grueling challenge?

I don't blame them at all for not wanting to do it, but why not settle it like most of us men? Yell, bump chests, make a few threats, then go home feeling like a tough guy?

 

[vshah]

damn, i wish i hadn't fucking quit tae kwon do in high school. I did it for 4 years and was probably a year away from a black belt :-/

 

[techforums]

My former master had a 14 hour test to see if you're strong enough to earn the black belt. Needlessly to say, only one person out of more than 3000 people have successfully completed it.

I think some of the requirements were your head would have to touch your feet and doing a horse stance for one hour.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Surprised no one has mentioned Hap Ki Do.

From the website of my former grandmaster, Jun Saeng Yoo (http://www.yoosmartialartsusa.com/grandmaster.htm):

Hap Ki Do includes more than 3608 techniques involving:

* Closed and open hand strikes
* Blocking and parrying
* Holds and takedowns
* Defense against kicking, punching, holding and throwing
* Hundreds of different kicks
* Defense against wrist and clothing grabs
* Forms
* Throws (body, projection and leg throws)
* Human anatomy
* Grappling (pressure point grappling and grappling defense)
* Wrestling techniques
* Falls (from any position and onto any surface)
* Ground fighting
* Joint manipulation
* Finger pressure points
* Restraining methods
* Offensive choking
* Prisoner arrest and pain-compliance techniques
* “Come along” grips
* Counter-defense and counter-attacks
* Control and redirection
* Defense against attacks involving weapons
* Defense against multiple attacks
* Rolling and falling when attacked
* Chokes to subdue an attacker
* Meditation and various breath control techniques
* Joint breaking
* Combination joint breaking

Seems pretty well suited to MMA. Strange why no one in the UFC seems to practice it.

 

[Perknose]

I don't blame them at all for not wanting to do it, but why not settle it like most of us men? Yell, bump chests, make a few threats, then go home feeling like a tough guy?

Lol, so true, just can't sell much commercial time for that! :awe:

 

[Zebo]

Wrestling. a) It's free, well sorta of you don't mind near death experiences, since every school offers it. b) Everything in life will be easy afterwards c) there will be very few people on the planet who will be able to stop your takedown , controlling them, tying them in knot, and, if they are still recalcitrant, GnP with head and knees to eye sockets and nose.

 

[Nik]

Surprised no one has mentioned Hap Ki Do.

I did.

 

[Zebo]

Some of these marital arts are very lethal. eg. call for use of throat strikes, eye gouging, etc. Might as well just get a .45 and save on the training.

 

[MagickMan]

7 years of Weng Chun and then 5 years of JKD. Learn how to fight properly, then learn how to fight efficiently.

 

[guyver01]

Might as well just get a .45 and save on the training.

unless your opponent catches bullets with his teeth