Poll: Your fighting style

[Ghostkai]

I teach Shotokan part-time. The choice is obvious for me.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

I am a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, as well as a beginner in Yoshukai(offshoot of Okinawan karate). But I don't fight like I was taught , I have incorporated stuff from other style like Krav maga and Jeet Kun Do and thus have a very improvisational style.

 

[ddon]

martial arts. im pretty good when using a sword in the japanese stance.

 

[ae86gamer]

I have no fighting style. I just throw punches and kicks and hope that one of them will land.

 

[Sovvolf]

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).

Yes this is very true and I was going to write this the second I saw the poll.. but I was Ninja'd... I hate it when people think all Martial Arts are Asian, the Martial Arts isn't even Asian the name is of Greek origin.

Anyway for me it's Muay Thai, Brazilian Jui Jitsu, Wrestling, Boxing and still doing Kyukushin Karate and getting pretty damn good at it.

 

[Mcface]

i doubt 90% of the people posting here know any of those styles.

And that stuff never works in an actual street fight, so its useless to me.
I have some boxing experience, and some basic takedown from my buddy who trains MMA, so to sum it up, i punch a lot. But I can also get you down, and punch you a lot more.

 

[Valiance]

Jeet Kun Do.

 

[Nmil-ek]

I know how to box and throw a straight punch thats all you will ever need to get out of most any bar/street fights, try and get them under the jaw or in the stomach, get them down and start going to work on their nuts until they resemble scrambled eggs.

 

[Chipperz]

My first move is to try and confuse them with logic, or just with random words:

"My wall is not four foot tall!"
"...what?"
Chair to the face.

"What came first, the chicken or the egg!?"
"...what?"
Chair to the solaplexus

"If God is all knowing and all powerful then do we as human beings have free will?"
"Well, if we were to examine this from a Kantian perspective, then one could determine-"
Chair to the knee-caps.

Only thing I would not do is go for the genitals, everything else is fair game.

I tried this once in a quick spar me and my mates were doing. It works really, really well. I'll have to remember "My wall is not four foot tall!" - love it

 

[Jindrak]

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

That's not wrestling, wrestling involves trips, slams, carries, sweeps and grappling.
Martial Arts includes a lot of other things than Asian disciplines, Sambo is Russian, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is amazing, wrestling is Western, Krav Maga I believe is Middle-Eastern (but trainers are rare).

But anyway, I generally stick to Muay Thai (Thai Boxing). The eight point striking system of Muay Thai is absolutely amazing (Kicks, Knees, Elbows, Strikes) and is great not only in a competition but in real life as well, I've only ever had to actually fight someone once since receiving training, and I really shouldn't because I can be charged for more as I have training, I ended the fight in three strikes, right straight, left body jab, elbow to side of the head. Fight over, moron crawls away.

 

[Treefingers]

My fighting style involves shitting my pants and then running as fast as i can.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I do kendo... swords aren't usually at hand though, so I'll just peg it if there's a fight.

Cowardly? Me? Never.

 

[Nutcase]

martial arts. im pretty good when using a sword in the japanese stance.

I can't wait to hear what "japanese stance" is.

 

[Lonely Swordsman]

I own several swords, so I'll use those of possible. In hand to hand combat I go for very basic Jiujitsu or Aikido stuff (wristlock, hammerlock takedown, armbar)
I'm also a bit of a wrestling fanatic. If there's a table or any other high ground nearby, expect a dropkick or a flying elbow at some point or another.

 

[JWAN]

Get in there and improvise. Use what you can to win. (A bit like what you do with your girlfriend....)

e.x Green Berets and an E-tool
*CRACK the top of your skull flops off

 

[JWAN]

I do kendo... swords aren't usually at hand though, so I'll just peg it if there's a fight.

Cowardly? Me? Never.

You better not be a coward
*rips off avatar
you need to EARN that

 

[JWAN]

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

That's not wrestling, wrestling involves trips, slams, carries, sweeps and grappling.
Martial Arts includes a lot of other things than Asian disciplines, Sambo is Russian, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is amazing, wrestling is Western, Krav Maga I believe is Middle-Eastern (but trainers are rare).

But anyway, I generally stick to Muay Thai (Thai Boxing). The eight point striking system of Muay Thai is absolutely amazing (Kicks, Knees, Elbows, Strikes) and is great not only in a competition but in real life as well, I've only ever had to actually fight someone once since receiving training, and I really shouldn't because I can be charged for more as I have training, I ended the fight in three strikes, right straight, left body jab, elbow to side of the head. Fight over, moron crawls away.

Don't forget bends and pressure points. Once you can manipulate another persons pressure points with their own appendages you pretty much win.

Also folding chairs

 

[Arsen]

I swing my wrists around like an uncloseted homo fratboy, kick him in the nuts, poke him in the eyes, punch him in the nose, then run like a woman.