Thinking about learning a martial art? Consider this video first.

[B-Lemond]

Originally posted by Phoenix_of_the_ashes
Well your the faggot so the jokes on you!!!

Was that supposed to be funny?

 

[YAMON dj]

wow your both really big jerks. just shut up and continue with your life without feeling the urge to insult one another.

..and please, no smarmy smart ass remarks.. if you can restrain yourselves that is.

 

[MuayThai]

Guess what i do.

If you want street fighting technique, no frills, no drills, no bowing ****.
Do muay thai or Vale Tudo.
After 3 months of muay thai my kicks was like a baseball bat... siriously.After 2 years, well, I'd think about the situatuaion before using in on someone.

I did ju-jitsu for a year and it is a very powerful grappling art. I could easily take down and hold guys nearly twice my weight (no joke). But unless you've been doing it for a few years you won't be able to use it practically.

Muay Thai is the one. trust.

 

[Blackdragon5095]

what about burce lee fighting style ??? won't that work ??

 

[bullmoose]

Originally posted by Blackdragon5095
what about burce lee fighting style ??? won't that work ??

Sure, if you're willing to devote your life to studying a martial art. You're 20? If you started today, you might be able fight like Bruce Lee by the time your Social Security kicks in.

The guys (and girls) who excel at martial arts have a talent for it. It's no different from being able to hit a 95mph fastball, or sing with perfect pitch, or drive nails through a board with your bare hand, or do logarithms in your head.

Further, falling back on your training and being able to spontaneously analyze a situation and react with splitsecond thinking -- correctly -- while four ex-cons are trying to mash you into paste takes an entirely different talent.

A martial art is a sport, nothing more. It is NOT fighting. Successfully applying a martial art in real-world close combat scenarios is not the kind of talent you want to discover at the time you need it.

If you want to learn to defend yourself, I suggest you get friendly with a head bouncer at some rough joint, and offer him fifty bucks for a self-defense lesson some evening when he's not working. Tell him you want to learn two or three moves -- no more -- to put a guy down so you can escape a bad situation safely. Tell him you want to learn some really nasty, do-or-die stuff. Make that clear. Then practice them every day until they become second-nature and spend your life hoping you never have to use it.