Quote: (12-27-2017 06:02 PM)Moto Wrote:
Quote: (12-27-2017 04:14 PM)TravelerKai Wrote:
Quote: (12-27-2017 04:03 PM)Moto Wrote:
Quote: (12-27-2017 03:31 PM)Rain97 Wrote:
If you had to, in your opinion choose one style overall for being the most practical application to real world which style would you choose?
As for empty handed I'd say Muay Thai. I say this while still holding Kung Fu close to my heart. With a few months of hard training in MT at a good gym, you'd stomp all over 90% of Karate, Tae Kwon Do, and Kung Fu practitioners with years of practice.
It's got the brutal striking with 8 limps, along with upper body grappling that would give you some chance against BJJ guys.
Unless I misread him, I think he was talking about self defense (He wrote "Real World").
Muay Thai is not very good for self defense. It can have it's moments, but Muay Thai is essentially a young man's art. The younger you are and the higher your testosterone, the more powerful it is.
Once you get 35, you are not going to standing roundhouse kick some asshole's head off in the middle of the street, with one son/daughter in hand and groceries in the other hand. When you were 20, that kick would have KO'd 98% of the Earth's population, but Father Time is unbeaten and not kind to us after a while. Ask Anderson Silva's shin and it can tell you all about that. There are a ton of environmental factors to take into consideration.
That's why I wrote this datasheet out in a way that someone could consider martial arts for every stage of a man's life and all applications.
Martial Arts IS life, but it is also a tool. Sometimes you do not need a hammer but sometimes you need a scalpel. Use the correct tool for the correct application. Fight smarter, not harder.
Thank you. After you started your reply I added more about highly useful bits from other arts. I know little about Systema, but that like Krav Maga (and the Kung Fu school I trained at that was anti-competition/sports) lacks competition. It's hard to breed high levels of competence without true competition. High school collegiate wrestling is great not because of the art itself (what is the point of trying to pin someone's shoulder blades on the ground?) but because of the high levels of competition and sheer volume of competitors training very hard.
If someone is choosing just one art, I'd suggest one with competition, even though it will inevitably lack total preparedness for the street.
Though I'm likely taking your metaphor too literally, the "scalpels" in a striking style would be eye gouges, half-fists to the throat, middle-knuckles to temples and ribs... Kung Fu stuff.
So my answer to OP is similar to yours and your history: Muay Thai base and then learn other things selectively and strategically to fill up the holes in your game. I believe (kick)boxing / Muay Thai, Kung Fu, and wrestling is a decent combo, but not the only good one. There isn't just one perfect art to learn to be best prepared for a street fight. And much depends on the instructor/coach and available sparring partners regardless of art/sport.
You do not need competition to be competent at self defense. The knowledge of what to do is what is most important. Various drills (toned down for safety) is critical after that.
You do not need to be a world famous competition shooter like some RVF members are, to learn how to defend yourself on the street. Understanding core concepts like Boarding House Rules, 21 Foot Rule, +1 Rule, etc. go tremendous lengths to help you actually make the right decision on the street with your handgun.
Doing drills, like what you see with Active Shooter Training, or CQC Training, prepares you for these things. Not rolling around with another guy in combat fatigues in the dirt to get tough.
Martial Arts for hand to hand combat and street defense is no different than sport fighting in this regard. There is no reason to rely on competitive fighting to get good at disarming a knife or a broken whiskey bottle. The reason why is because if you did, you could possibly die in practice. What's the point of that? That's why Judo was created. Dudes getting killed in Japanese Ju Jitsu practice.
As time goes on, better practice and drill techniques and habits have shown us that drills work, if you take them seriously and do them correctly.
I get this kind of PM all the time in my inbox here. It's always a boxer or kickboxer looking for advice on why he cannot do better in sparring sessions, why does he hesitate in between punches, and why is he not confident during matches.
If it is not that, its one these below:
A) My combinations are not smooth and not natural.
B) I gas out too fast.
C) I lack aggression.
Anytime I ask them in detail about how much drill practice they are doing, it ends up being little to none.
Tsk Tsk....
Young men
LOVE shortcuts.
White belts love cranking submissions full power in practice. They love jumping and slamming others.
New boxers love sparring.
Oh you know the story, I might even be talking about you or Teep. "Man I just wanna get in there and learn man, and just get going!" "I feel like if I can get more mat/ring time, I will improve alot man!" so don't even bullshit about it and are straight to the point. "I just wanna get in the ring man!"
Meanwhile, boxing instructor for 25 years is thinking, "Sure thing kid. Whatever you say." Then they send their better boxing prospects to work his dumb ass like a piece of fresh meat for a lion.
Then you see pros spending maybe 20% of their training camp actually sparring...... Floyd Mayweather is not the only one that does this guys.....
Even Lomachenko catches coins and drills hand eye coordination.
These guys refine those "little things" the "typical young man" has no time or patience for. He just wanna fuggin box! He just wanna fuggin fight. Like Right the Fuck Now!
Floyd makes perfect punches in his sleep. Perfect angles, not too far, not too short, perfect shoulder ball angle. Hips, knees, and feet are on point! Everytime!
He was not born this way. He did not learn this from sparring and competition. He learned it from repetitive drills that would make most people vomit or quit from boredom.
Doug Marcaida can slice off a few tendons off your arm in a few seconds with a karambit. Did he learn this in competition? No. He learned it from repetition.
Same thing with the disarms. You do them till you can do them blindfolded.
When it really happens to you someday, it will be second nature, just like Lomachenko doing a pivot in a boxing match.
Tyson is famous for saying that everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. You may not remember your game plan. He's 100% correct. Your training and your drills makes what you do these things as second nature and that is what you rely on, even if you are hardly conscious and bleeding.
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