What martial arts does everyone study and why?

User-31f64a4e · 2018-06-25T18:08:18+00:00

Run-fu.
When shit goes down, I go away!

Reinehc · 2018-06-25T18:39:18+00:00

There is 2 big branch of Martial arts, Old Traditional like Kung-Fu and the more modern stuff like MMA.

I did traditional Kung-Fu for 4 years, 3-4 time per week. This will make you in the greatest fitness you could ever imagine. Your legs will become so strong and all you need is long jogging pants and a red stash (belt).

There is a lot of conditioning of knuckles, chin bone, fingers, fore arm and even fore head. This will hurt like Hell, but after a while, you will break wood with your knuckles, a strong layer of hard skin will form on it and they will become so strong.

They will give you a rope and you will have to undo the knot with each finger to reinforce the strength of your fingers, This is for the finger strike.

You will learn about all the pressure point on human body, place that only pressing with a finger hurt like hell. There is spot where if you hit hard with two fingers, you can kill somebody (Between the collar bone at the bottom of your neck, Just press it a little bit with a finger and you will understand).

You learn really nasty stuff, you don't learn how to fight, you learn how to save your life and kill somebody that try to kill you. You learn to always strike the weakest spot on the human body, for fuck sake, they even show how to grab your opponent's testicules and removes them by pulling in a twisting motion (YYYIIIAAARRR).

But your can't practice that, unless you get jump on the street and someone try to kill you and you never actually learn how to fight because everything they show you is so dangerous that you can only fake fight or shadow boxing.

So you end up doing the same move over and over for years, even decade, without actually testing your skills on someone...

MMA and Jiu-Jutsu is better I think, you learn more common sense and effective skills that can actually be apply and practice without hurting each other.

Jiu-Jutsu is amazing man, try it, it fucking work. After 4 years of kung-fu I could not even control those guys, I am 6 foot tall and 215 lbs and in a pretty good fitness, smaller guys than me where controlling me like a sex doll from Realdoll.com LMAO I could not do anything, there where using my strength against me so well, just putting me on the ground and lock my arm ready to break it, you just need to tap to make it stop.

If you do something, try Jiu-Jutsu it work well, if you really want to learn effective fighting technique, Kung-Fu is great for fitness and learn cool looking move, even learn how to spin weapon like Bruce Lee, but you don't really learn how to fight effectively.

make your choice

2018-06-25T19:29:45+00:00

Tai Chi for relaxation, balance, and controlled breathing. The breathing factor has really helped out my distance running endurance and VO2 Max.

anongogogo · 2018-06-25T18:35:54+00:00

JKD, it's a philosophy I can get into.

dogwoodcat · 2018-06-25T18:45:25+00:00

Aikido. What you mostly find online is demonstration footage which gets cut into the ever-popular "bullshido" videos. The person being flipped around like a rag doll is trained to avoid injury, and the routine is rehearsed many times before the demonstration. Actual free-spar competition is no joke.

mickledick · 2018-06-25T23:58:49+00:00

HEMA/ARMA, iaijutsu, kenjutsu, shodokan karate, krav maga. My practical "martial art" is using a pistol, though. It is a rare day when I'm not strapped. (my 'ma says it ain't worth it, but I'm at the shootin' range, 'cuz practice makes perfect)

I was really into SCA combat in college, so studying and practicing sword techniques was logical to me, and traditional european martial arts goes into a lot more than just swordplay. Just practicing your cuts with something that has the length and weight of a sword (like a length of rebar) will seriously tone your upper body and core, and working on a training dummy with a waster or boken is a great way to blow off steam. Wearing chain mail or plate armor works your whole body something fierce.

Solstus22 · 2018-06-26T16:39:35+00:00

Krav Maga, although not a martial arts but more self-defense system.

Helstromme · 2018-06-26T02:25:21+00:00

Good 'ol Karate.

lostapwbm · 2018-06-26T07:17:43+00:00

Muay Thai.

SerialMansplainer · 2018-06-26T16:19:04+00:00

I'm interested in getting into martial arts, mainly to stay fit (I'm naturally lean so I'm not interested in weights) but also to acquire some basic street-fighting skills.

I'm looking at BJJ, Muay Thai or Krav Maga. Any recommendations on what's the best route to take?

Title	What martial arts does everyone study and why?
Author	Science4Lawlz
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Date	June 25, 2018 6:02 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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