Kodiak

TKD for 2 and a half years. Western swordfighting for a year (no real style, we just whacked each other with wooden swords and did the occasional dagger wrestling), Wado Ryu for about 6 months, and Kenpo for the last 3 months. Now if only that wasn't spread over a 16 year period.

I just think its more fun to see the different ways people would deal with a fairly easy scenario than address the insanity that lead to the thread. And there's a good position for a two handed choke?

ideally: Easy groin shot, sweep my other arm against the choking arms (outward block motion) while I do the shot , then get the hell off my knees while clearing his arms. It took me a whole 30 seconds to come up with all that though, which is too long, so probably just a repeated groin shot in a real situation.

I had an instructor who would really hit you, without pulling punches (much) if you didn't try to dodge or block. He made it fairly easy to do (no real speed), but it kept me on my toes after he laid somebody out who didn't block a couple weeks after I started.

I didn't do it for self defense when I started (though that's more on my mind these days). But at the same time, if you don't have some kind of goal you'll never get anywhere, so either you train for self defense, or you train to get in a ring or a cage or whatever and beat the crap out of a willing participant.

That was also probably before phone books existed.

My instructor uses a regular belt and does electrical tape for the bars.

I'm not necessarily claiming that Parkour is a martial art, because there's no clear definition of martial art, it meets some (IE, self defense method) but not others (IE, it has no attacks). I just think that claiming its 'not martial' is silly when it was developed for combat operations.

It was developed my the French military. I'm pretty sure they count as a martial organization.

Why don't you think its a martial art?

Why?

What the title says, as well as other combative martial arts that lack the philosophies of more traditional arts.

I'd suggest the ice for two days heat after that doctors recommend for bruises. I've had good results building forearm muscle with those grippy things and wrist pushups.

Do you have any preference on kind?

I couldn't stand it. Mostly because of Jaden Smith.