Poll: Which is better in self defense?

[fluffylandmine]

I was just wondering, which type of martial arts is better(or which you prefer).

The poll has broad east/west, but if you have one in specific go ahead.

This is not like Rosst(I can't remember the rest of his name)'s thread. He wanted to know which was best for him. I want your opinion on the whole subject of how one type is better over another.

 

[B-lockdown080]

Does CQC count as Western...or even as martial arts??

 

[Amnestic]

A gun, assuming you've got a quick trigger finger and aren't looking in the other direction.

Truthfully? Neither. Your best bet is probably a mixture of the two, or not fighting at all.

 

[Aries_Split]

Does CQC count as Western...or even as martial arts??

CQC as portrayed in the Metal Gear Solid series is actually a more offensive version of Defendo from Japan.

So Eastern.

 

[B-lockdown080]

Does CQC count as Western...or even as martial arts??

CQC as portrayed in the Metal Gear Solid series is actually a more offensive version of Defendo from Japan.

So Eastern.

Yea but it was really adopted by the us army (i forget which branch but one of them uses a derivitive of it in some way or another) so i guess it could be either one

 

[axia777]

Almost all effective versions of Western Martial Arts are based off of Eastern martial arts. I recently watched a video of a champion level normal Japanese Boxer fight a champion level Muay Thai kick boxer. Guess who got their ass handed to them?

Imma go with Krav Maga. Which I wanna learn cos its so damn cool.

Which is also largely based off of Eastern martial Arts. And yes, it is very damn effective. It is made for subduing and killing people very quickly. It is also unfortunately very hard to find a good place to learn it.

 

[B-lockdown080]

A gun, assuming you've got a quick trigger finger and aren't looking in the other direction.

Truthfully? Neither. Your best bet is probably a mixture of the two, or not fighting at all.

*cough* Gun-kata *cough*

 

[speedcoreXdandy]

I would recommend the noble ancient art of running like mad from any situation that would require self defence.

 

[B-lockdown080]

A gun, assuming you've got a quick trigger finger and aren't looking in the other direction.

Truthfully? Neither. Your best bet is probably a mixture of the two, or not fighting at all.

*cough* Gun-kata *cough*

Grammaton Cleric for the extreme win wooo.

Can you tell I love equilibrium.

Why of course

 

[Doug]

A gun, assuming you've got a quick trigger finger and aren't looking in the other direction.

Truthfully? Neither. Your best bet is probably a mixture of the two, or not fighting at all.

Failing a gun, a knife.

 

[B-lockdown080]

A gun, assuming you've got a quick trigger finger and aren't looking in the other direction.

Truthfully? Neither. Your best bet is probably a mixture of the two, or not fighting at all.

Failing a gun, a knife.

...and were back to CQC(knife and gun out at the same time)

 

[NeedAUserName]

There's Western martial arts?!? Call me Naive but I though all martial arts were Eastern...

 

[fix-the-spade]

There's Western martial arts?!? Call me Naive but I though all martial arts were Eastern...

No, there are plenty of western Martial arts. Mostly they fell by the wayside when us enterprising europeans discovered guns. The (current) traditional English martial art is Bartitsu. Although it only dates back to 1898 and has largely been superceded by the Glaswegian kiss.

The Swiss have Schwingen
The Italians called it Italian Swordsmanship (how imaginative)
The French have Savate
The Portugese do Jogo do Pau
The Greeks came up with Pankration in 648BC, clever bastards...

 

[hamster mk 4]

The difference between western and eastern martial arts is documentation. Training in melee combat is a universal need when combat most often takes place at melee distances. However with the invention of fire arms melee combat training is easily forgotten by any society even ones with a proud martial tradition. In the West the Literate people (monks and merchants) were a different class from the people who maintained martial traditions. Thus the actual training and techniques that we assume to have existed back in the day have been forgotten. The East, especially Japan, has not had this issue since the Samurai class were keepers of both literacy and martial tradition. Thus we see more eastern martial arts not because the easterners were particularly better but because they kept unarmed combat traditions as part of their cultural heritage.

 

[Lusperus]

the gun martial art is called gun fu- they hold their gun SIDEWAYS (yup gangsters copied)
and empty as many cartridges as possible
I would choose hung gar if you are really going to go and get to fighting, keeping a rooted stance to the ground not a lot of things can or will topple you.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

If you're looking for something for solely self-defence then it's actually very simple.

Learn how to kick someone in the balls and then run away

Martial arts, as pretty as they are, often complicate the actual defence of self.

 

[savandicus]

Well i think the french have the best form of self defense, running away like cowards Although being serious (and less insulting to the french) i'd say that eastern martial arts are alot more disciplined focused which is absolutely required for self defense so if you start winning the fight you have the discipline to peg it and not get shot by the gun in the other guys pocket.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

Huh...I'd probably opt for Krav Maga if I had to pick. Israeli death commandos scare the piss out of me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_Maga