try finding a good practitioner of Hsing-Hi (it has many different spellings, but you'd pronounce it "sing- ee") it's a brutal, efficient style honed on the battlefields of china; it emphesises using the most efficient and straightforward techniques to neutralise opponents.
It's also extremely sensible and teaches you to never open yourself to counter attack. The main principals are based on four elements and (initially) 12 animals that inspire specific types of techniques and, with so much variety, there's plenty of scope for finiding your own style within the overall picture. In fact my teacher makes me learn styles that don't fit my body type so that i can hone my technique further and recently he started teaching me a bit of wing chun too as it complements the efficient nature of hsing-hi nicely.
Finally, Hsing-Hi practitioners at a high grade learn to become proficient with around 20 acient chinese/Japanese weapons including the broadsword, staff, spear, whip (chinese;not western kind), butterfly knives and the chinese eqivalent of the halberd.
The type of techniques involved are: heavy emphesis on body mechanics and the importance of your intention, locks, punches, low/med kicks, use of all parts of the body and the best way to avoid injury with them, examination of how to gain the greatest power from your body, weapon fighting and defense, floor fighting, grappling/wrestling, throws and basic hand to hand combat. You are also encouraged to go all out in practice sessions as my teacher, at least, knows that a training environment is nothing compared to the real world; so does his best to blur that line whilst maintaining safety.
All the techniques are shown with the real world applications and focus on "getting the job done" as opposed to being flashy and impressive. In fact my teacher has a saying "the uglier the movement, the more effective it could be... and you lot are looking ugly"
Edit: Just remembered that this was the style used by the bodyguards of the chinese officials in the past few decades, in fact the head body guard taught the master who taught my teacher and he never needed to carry a gun to protect the officials.
The combination of the two of them covers almost everything I've needed.
