Your preferd style of fighting

[AkJay]

As they talk about how much they are going to kick my ass, I punch them where it hurts.

 

[Terramax]

Running like a sissy hasn't failed me yet. I'm a good runner.

 

[ilion]

i have been doing shotokan karate for 10 years, its great especially the zen parts but in the end its just a tool,... in real life experience is everything.

 

[DeadpanLunatic]

I have removed my words from this site.

 

[Yokai]

Yeah, I'd have to say Krav Maga. It's hard to mess with a fighting style in which practitioners don't disarm an attacker's knife, but instead just grab it from them and stab them in the balls with it. It'd be a lot more useful for actual fighting than Taekwondo or karate or the various other popular recreational martial arts. Most people are probably scared to learn how to kill someone with your finger, so the various schools pass martial arts off as a form of exercise and meditation, forgetting the literal meaning of the phrase--a way to fight. Krav Maga doesn't f*ck around, and I appreciate it for that.

 

[Reklore]

KRAZY!!

 

[Thaius]

*shrugs*

I've just been learning freestyle swordfighting lately. I started learning two-handed swordfighting, and I definitely liked that, but it became clear that I should master single-bladed combat first. Boffing swords: an inexpensive way to swordfight each other without causing serious injury.

 

[Treblaine]

Ok, so if I am dealing with a drunk, wait, who needs martial arts to deal with a drunk... he's drunk, anyone could just push him over if he's a threat.

It was just an example to illustrate that real life fighting isn't like CoD 4.

But seriously, the idea of talking about self defence where I live is utterly nonsense, not only because the chance of being mugged is so low but my rights to self defence are EXTREMELY limited to the point where I have two options:
(a) run away
(b) hope they only want to give you a severe beating

That is if you want to stay on the right side of the law.

Fighting back will likely land you in the same jail cell as your attacker, especially if you are able to get the upper hand which is the entire point of fighting back.

Irrelevant.

The title of this thread is "favoured fighting style" not "practical self defence techniques"

And your military fantasies have nothing to do with the subject.

Take it seriously?

THIS IS THE FIFTEENTH STUPID 'Martial Arts' THREAD WE'VE HAD IN AS MANY DAYS!

I've been regularly reading this forum for months now and I can't remember any martial arts threads.

Excuse the rage, but you've just jumped down someone's throat for indulging in a bit of fantasy, instead of being another random idiot listing something they don't know much about, or bragging on how they could take three armed guys in a dark alleyway. Sod it. Can't we talk about better things?

If he wants to share his military fantasies he can start a new thread.

No, it is VERY relevant. You are just dismissing it because to consider it you would have to admit you are WRONG.

Why do you get so pissy about COD4 or anything military related? What the hell is your problem?

Anyway, it clearly frustrates you so I might as well screw with you some more.

So may I present to you my ultimate anti-hobo weapon:

Guaranteed to eliminate all your pan handling woes, with this weapon you can solve 6000 problems per minute as you buzz through at 100 miles per hour and 60 feet of the ground.

 

[Colours]

With a pair of High-Speed Chain Claws, in a blood frenzy. In my dreams, anyway.

 

[white_salad]

I call it fook-yu-fu. Go wild. Dodge until you find an opening and then just wail on the fucker. Tackle him down, beat him, just don't let him get on the offensive.

But in all actuality I'd probably just avoid the fight in general. I'm not very burly and I doubt my physical strength is enough to stop some drunken douchebag. This is why I have friends who are burly. Some are lumberjack-like in strength wise.

 

[cthulhu257]

Grapple them and break something, or swing a blunt object at them. That's about all I'm good at.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

I built my own fighting style. various martial arts, mostly aimed for pressure points.

@ that video, first post; I hate to burst your bubble, but those are just HORRIBLE side-spins to Jujitsu, 2-3 are just horridly done Hip-Throws and the 1st was a badly done Naked Choke breakout, His technique was that terrible I almost cried to be in Jujitsu with a guy who cant even do a simple technique right. :|

(I just hate when people flog the styles from something, try to rename it and do a horrible job of performing it)

 

[DCFowl]

Hit and Run
they hit i run

 

[FluffyNeurosis]

I don?t think it needs to be much more complicated then hitting someone somewhere important when they aren?t looking, preferably with a heavy object. For example some drunk in a bar gets all up in your grill for checking out his girlfriend, just apologize profusely and offer to buy him a round then cave his skull in with a barstool when he turns away.

Back to serious land for a minute, if you?re worried about self defense get a gun and learn how to use it. Fisticuffs are all well and good but it helps to bring a gun to a knife fight. But since you asked my favorite combat style is the old school English cane fighting, it consists mostly of dodging your opponent and in the same motion hitting them on the top of the head with the metal knob on the end of the cane.

This thread has given me many lolz

 

[Ushario]

Boxing and Judo, with elements of Karate and Aikido.

I'm not as fast as I want to be, but I'm a very solid fighter for my weight, with a very centered and balanced fighting style.

 

[Biek]

I prefer boxing. Not merely for the technique, wich is overall usefull. But mostly for the confrontation element that comes wih sparring. This is very usefull in "real life" because it helps me with others things than fighting as well.