Poll: Your fighting style

[Baby Tea]

Well I don't like to fight, but I'm currently taking Krav Maga.
Basically, Krav Maga is all about 'giving and giving' until the guy is down or dead.
No rules, no regulations. It's about survival, not style.

I'm taking it to more get in shape then anything else, but it's very brutal.

 

[Lukeje]

The "Windmill"; spin your arms round very fast and try to get as many hits in as you can.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

I've done some Tae Kwon Do, then some Aikido, then some Kung Fu/MMA type stuff. Whatever. I say: find what works with your body type and disposition, and get good at that.

In real life, run away and get to a public area or business. Then call the cops or a taxi. Go with any bad feelings you have, even if you don't know why you feel uneasy. Find a makeshift weapon if you think you'll have to fight at any point in order to get away.

As regards Judo as a martial art... I don't see it as being perfectly effective 100% of the time in a real fighting situation, but what is? It's really less about the style you practice and more about how good you are at it. At the higher levels, all the styles start to kind of look the same.

 

[bjj hero]

Where is the all of the above option?

I do Karate, kick boxing and BJJ.

My strikings my strong point but Im well rounded.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Other: everything that is effective. I don't care if it looks good or not, as long as my enemy goes down without me taking hits. I'm especially very fond of countering, intercepting and parrying blows. Defence and attack all rolled into one.

 

[Aanorith]

Other, proud inventor of fatman-fu. I tackle people and slap em with my leather gloves.

 

[Sewblon]

I have a green belt in Karate but I haven't touched in in years. Most of the techniques I learned are variations of punching, chopping and kicking.

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

Running VERY fast in the other direction until i pass out from lack of oxeygen
so yeah, other i think

 

[Silver]

I dance, and everyone drops what they're doing and join me in a musical mayhem causing the entire city to break down into song and dance, interrupting traffic, trials, construction and requiring several hours of clean-up every time after the exotic and interpretive dances are done.

Beat that.

 

[Jamash]

Standard is punching, uppercuts, hooks, just regular fighting, or what some people call Brutal Style

Martial-Arts: jiu-jitsu, king-fu all that asian junk

Wrestling: Elbow drops, pile drivers, sling shot, can-openers


Im Standard style

I have to say, that is one of the worst definitions of fighting styles I've ever read.

Have you made a mistake and meant to post this in the Gaming Forum, because it doesn't seem to have much basis in reality?

Martial Arts aren't all Asian, and calling them "all the asian junk" seems a little bit... er... 'prejudiced'.

Punching, uppercuts and hooks, which you describe as brutal style is commonly known as Boxing, which is a western Martial Art. What seem to be grasping for by saying standard or brutal style is actually brawling, and isn't restricted to punches, it includes attacks with all limbs and the head, grappling/wrestling and weapons.

What you've described as Wrestling is Sports Entertainment and not actually a fighting style at all, those moves are all choreographed performances which require the equal participation of both parties. Nobody could fight using those.

Actual wrestling is also a Martial Art, again Western in nature, and part of the wider spectrum of grappling martial arts which includes Judo, Ju-Jitsu, Sambo to name but a few.

Maybe your categories should be something like Brawling, Traditional Striking Martial Art, Traditional Grappling Martial Art, Mixed Martial Arts and Fantasy. (but even those are poor categories compared to the broad spectrum of martial arts and fighting styles).

 

[Julianking93]

I study the way Batman fights.

Thats helped me out quite a bit in the past

 

[Aardvark]

I'm the fighting style whereby the moment someone's a threat, I have broken their nose, stuck a a key in their eye and are bashing their skull into the pavement/wall, breaking arms, biting, castrating with coke bottles or whatever else is required to turn them into not-a-threat.

I don't like getting into fights, so if I do, I wanna make sure the other guy shares my view once he's out of the emergency ward.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

How about flailing my arms around and hoping it'll hit someone? Does that count? *sigh* I have absolutely no upper body strenght.

 

[Mondo_Generator]

Other.

I go for the throat and wait until they change colour.

 

[oppp7]

Running. It's a very refined art.

But if I had to choose a style that didn't involve weapons, I'd go with headbutting.

 

[Toga112]

Heedbuttin' repeatedly. It's an art we scots call "FUK YU!" :L

 

[Tonimata]

I basically use what I see in films, games, and from watching others. It's the good thing about having photographic memory and being agile and not fearing accidentally smashing my face against the floor.