martial arts

[jsm]

I've taken a few nartial arts: American Kenpo, muay Thai, submission wrestling and Brazilian Jiujitsu. I eould say that a combination of both Brazilian Jiujitsu and muay Thai kickboxing is probably your best bet.

I personally feel that muay Thai is the most agressive and powerful stand up art. And Brazilian Jiujitsu is probably the most effective and in depth ground fighting art (though I am sure Frank Shamrock and his students would disagree).

If you disagree, you may want to check out Pride, UFC or King of the Cage. Almost 90% of the fighters are all cross trained - the stand up is always muay Thai (watch their shin kicks in action) and they all rip off Jiujitsu to some extent.

Anyhow, any martial art has it's good points to it and have an effective technique of some sort, just don't get oversold in the hype that they cannot back up. I've have personally taken down a lot of black belts from stand up arts using simple single and double leg shoots and going to very simple submissions (key locks, arm bars, rear naked chokes or even gi chokes) that most of them don't know how to defend from.

Good luck!

 

[Rhosin]

I took quite a few martial arts over the years. Each style has an emphasis or uniqueness quite their own. However, just see it more as a form of exercise and mental training. Real fights aren't fair, people use weapons....years of training can be blown off with a gun. Then there are the movies, those martials arts are more like dancing then fighting, its choreographed and timed so it looks like fighting.

Like people said, most fights end up on the ground. If you really wanna know how to defend yourself, cross train, learn a bit of everything and be open minded. Don't fall into the mental trap of thinking one style is better then another.

 

[Schola]

I took Wado Ki for about 12 years, it was great fun. I enjoyed my time in it but now that I am away for college I quit, although I am thinking of joining another style

 

[EmperorNero]

naw, my dad hates how I'm so inactive so it's a good thing he put me in tkd - I do like it (I would like it even more if it didn't take up so much time). the only thing I'm worried about is that the training is somewhat intensive and I might injure myself like someone said earlier..since a guy in my class also pulled a muscle too.

just wondering, has anyone ever used their martial arts in a real right? what happened?
and what exactly is cross training?

 

[novon]

ching ching bang

(gun)

 

[Basse]

Practiced kickboxing for 3 years a long time ago. Then I started drinking and getting girlfriends so my interest faded away. Still like to watch it in fights and film though.

/B

 

[Daniel]

There are lots of great styles, and do say one over another in many cases just is stupid, a person that can really do well in almost any art can beat a person of little skill in another. You can take 2 guys and give one a huge sword and another a toothpick, well if the first guy can barely lift the sword I'd be willing to bet the 2nd guy would ram that stupid toothpick in the swordholder's eye in a second and beat him silly.
That being said, tkd, for sport, competition and exercise is great, as a serious form of self defense for most people by itself, I wouldn't recommend it at all, and yet again this is based on the usually watered down "americanized" version of sport tkd taught in most places today.

 

[jsm]

Cross training more or less means training in a stand up and striking art. For instance, you could take judo (it has a few submissions and some good throws) and put it together with an effective stand up art (ie: kickboxing). Of course, you are going to want to do some kind of strength training and aerobic conditioning.

I've been in a couple scraps at some parties I through at my old house. I used some Brazilian Jiujitsu to mount a guy and put him in a "bow and arrow", which was basically a choke using his jacket. I've knocked out some of my friends using a move called a rear naked choke, which I did not mean to do. I was pretty new to ground fighting and threw the moves on without really letting go when they tapped.

Anyhow, I have gotten tons of injuries from Brazilian Jiujitsu, but very very few from kickboxing. In BJJ, I got a tons of muscle pulls, strained muscles, bruises everywhere and there were times when I could not put my head straight because someone did a neck crank that I couldn't get out of. In Thai boxing, I have had many bruises on my shins (especially from blocking shin kicks) and a split lip from taking a punch straight on, but I recovered from all of them. I've burned my elbows and knees from throwing moves wrong on the heavy bag. The worst injury in my opinion is if you tear any tendons - I've seen people do it (my roomie for instance). He had to get surgery to get a tendon from some cadaver and he had to use crutches for months. Not fun stuff. You are bound to get injured, somehow, some way. All you can do is deal with the pain and recover with a good mind still intact.

 

[lupohki]

I know drunken boxing .. but I'm a pacifist so I just do the drinking part.😛

 

[eyez]

Use to take Hwa Rang Do. I wanted something active and aggressive. I wanted to learn to fight, not dance. Kicked ass in most tournaments. Had to stop 'cus I broke my hand sparring and almost ended my career.