CrazyAZNRocker

So I'll just go ahead and start it. What styles in your own opinion have: Best Striking Best Takedowns Best Submissions Best Grapple technique Best Ground Best Stand up Toughest Training Most Complete style ((Add more sections at your content)) Keep in mind, this is all just opionion of others and to allow some understanding of the many other styles out there.

But then again, A kicker would never allow a puncher to get in to throw a punch, using the legs to keep distance between him and the opponent.

I could have not said it better myself. And I totally agree with you there, yes my punching is not up to par, when I punch I am a tad more off place, someone could just wait for me to punch and then push me over, That is why my kicks have more balance, I have a less chance of being pushed over when kicking then I am with punching. I can punch, with decent results, but not nearly as reliable as my kicking in every aspect. Cause the last thing I want is my fight to fall to the ground, in that case i'll be toast.

I personally prefer kicking. My legs are alot stronger then my arm will ever be. My arms can probably strike faster, but faster doesn't me better. My legs can kick fast, hit harder, aim better and I'm more comfortable with kicking and yes my balance is better with kicking then with punching. In other words, it matters with fighter. A boxer is a much better puncher than a Tae Kwon Do fighter, and vica versa...

In terms of video's and facts, Wing Chun Guys usually get pretty beaten up, in any sort of tournament where different styles are involved. I have seen wrestlers break arms, I have seen Karate guys Punch the wind out of them, I have seen Muy Thai guys just mess them up. But those are video's and competition facts However I hardly think a true Wing Chun Practictioner would waste there time and energy showcasing their skills in tournaments, well as far as I know. Many great chinese practitioners in general, I know don't participate in tournaments or competitions, since they have nothing to prove. They think, as well as I, that all styles are beutiful and unique in themselves. There is no need to glorify one art from another.

You should start pumping it up. Your master then will start heating things up aswell. When ever I would spar with my master I would go with everything I had, and he would give it right back... and more so... alot more so. Its that kind of * kickin you like to get for sake of a good workout.

It takes only 4 lbs to mess up person's knee... I did the math... and i know my target...

Why would anyone want strive to be someone else? Don't you want to strive to be BETTER than everyone else?

Hmm... arn't the floppy swords used mainly for practicing forms? I ask this because of all the REAL blades I have seen and touched, are stiff... some more stiff than others, but it never could bend that much.

Rapiers, A beutiful weapon thats light, fast, and precise... definatly what i would call a gentlemens weapon haha, Seriously though its a fantasitic weapon, seeing how that think light blade can easily sever ones head if the swordmen saw fit.

Ali, why? cause he knew how to Jab... and he could Jab well. Its all about the Jab.

Attack low... Its much harder to defend ones knee than the throat, its just common sence. Why attack high, where the knife attacker can easily cut incoming appendages, when you can attack low with much less risk. A good kick to the knee will mess them up, they will not be standing up for a long while.

Thats the way it's done. In a street fight you have to be ruthless and merciless. When your own health is in threat, you have to take action and eliminate the threat quickly, efficiently, and painfully. Don't expect to go far in a real life and death situation with techniques that don't harm the opponent. When an enemy is approacing you, he wants to hurt you, why be merciless to somethin thats shows no mercy. You want to hurt your opponent that comes after your well being. Kick them in the groin, shatter there nose, hyper-extend the elbow, break their leg, mess up there kidneys, crush their wind pipe, stomp on their jaw, gouge their eyes, kick in their tail bone, take out your opponent and make sure that the enemy cannot get up. Make the enemy know that if they decide to come after you again, you'll do the same exact thing over and over. Make him wish that he never messed with you. Dirty fighting is fair fighting in the streets, it's the purest form of self defence.

Also i admit that TKD is one of my weakest points interms of history, facts and the such... sorry for making a post on somthing i didn't understand

Ahh alright. Well i suppose i was horribly mistaken. I must have read a bad article or somthing. Thanks for clearing this up.

I wanna make a comment on this, and I would think that TKD today is not the traditional, rather a very bad modernization of TKD. I'm pretty sure that TKD was originally ((and still is in theory)) a street fighting style, of course that was way back yesteryear. I doubt that the ancient TKD practioners "never hit below the belt" or "avoided hitting the face". However the mechanics can and does make the art a very flashy and very sporty. The new gen of TKD must have added these restrictions, rules, and other ridiculous standards, modifying it to what it is now. The modernization I feel this time hurt the art rather than improve it. Because, like all martial art styles, TKD was orginally made for combat. To exterminate the threat, at the least amount of time possible.

I wouldn't recommend high kicks even if you were good at it. Lower kicks are much more effective ways to end a fight. A head is much harder to hit than the knee, and if the knee is out, then the fight is practically over. Not only is it easier to hit a person with lower kicks, but they are executed faster, and have more power since the kick is going downwards, hence you are not working against gravity which is a powerful force. Also the recovery of a lower kick is fast, your balance is intact, and the over all strain on the kickers body is considerably less.

Ohh yea the marines is crazy... thats the real deal. People don't get discharged from the marines... people quit cause its so tuff. If you can go through the marine training, you have my upmost respect, cause its gonna be a hell of alot harder than any black belt test your ever gonna take.

Well remember though, you still want to be careful when using weights to train with, you can really damage the elbow if you are careless.

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I personally don't like the bouncing, noticing that when i sparred people that bounced and when i used to bounce myself, instead of being unpredictable they were the exact opposite. When someone is bouncing, it may give more mobility and keeping you on the toes, however there is an ever so slight pause right before an attack because one must make the proper weight distrabution to make the attack effective. I also want to mention about the bouncing that ITF does, which is the 80/20 20/80 bouncing. No personal attack on ITF of course, but to me, that constant weight distrubution with a rhythm has a very bad flaw. the problem with rhythm is just that, its rhythm, a pattern, once an opponent pattern is figured out, its easy to predict. Lets say the boucning the 80/20, 20/80, is at a rate of 2 bounces per second and the height of the bounce is about half and inch at its highest point, one half of a second you are on 80/20, At that point, one would expect attacks with the foward leg or arm, without any worry about the back leg, since the force of the downward motion when bouncing makes that leg very hard to use effectivly. Now in the second half which would be 20/80, I could expect a kick from the back leg, or punch from either hands. One again, the one bouncing is limited because the use of the front leg is hammered down with the force of the bounce. Then you have the highest point, which in this example is a half an inch, and from there, its very difficult to use an attack effectively since one is not high enough to do a full effective kick, and punches would have little force in them, also since in the air ones balance can be knocked off with the slightest force. An opponent then could wait for that highest point, for the most ideal time to attack since it is the weakest part in the pattern, there for is easily disrupted. A weakest point is never ideal for anysort of fight, wether it be competition, or on the streets. That is why i don;t like bouncing, of course i might be a little too analytical, but a rhythm can be easily memorized if one observes. What a fighter i think must do, is have the broken rhythms, that is what makes techniques truely unpredictable.

I would have to say Kung Fu, simply because of longivity and health. Taking harsh martial arts stlyes like krav maga are hard on the body. Though when someone is young, its ok since the body "seems" to heal itself. However you unfortunalty find out that later on in life, old injuries begin to haunt you. Take Mohamed Ali for example. He took alot of hits, and always seemed to come out just fine, however you see now that he is hit with parkinsons. And then there is Mick Foley, a professional wrestler, if you ever see his matches even though the matches are choreographed, the slams and hits are real. No matter what anyone says, being slamed from the top of a cage is gonna hurt alot. Well, good ole mick has a hard time even getting up in the morning. And take football players. They take some very nasty hits, and in there young years they seem to bounce right up. However some end up with really horrible back problems. Now with kung fu, I have seen some very healthy "old" folk. And though they are old, they can defend themselves, I should know I sparred one. I would like it to be 70 years of age, and beable to hop, seriously hop, out of bed.

My Favorite will always be Donnie Yen, The way his kicks are on the movie screen are incredible, like his shadowless kick in iron monkey. Just awsome.

OHH YEA!!! Matrix Reloaded was great stuff... the fight scenes were just plain pants wetting sh*t droppingly awesome. Especially the fight with Neo and million agent smiths.

Well alot of things have to be accounted for, like for example, the skill of the knife user. I know one well trained knife fighters, and i assure you they are very dangerous. What makes good knife fighters really dangerous are the knowledge of tendon areas and nerve areas. Also a good knife handler will usually hold the blade in an upsidedown fashion, and the blade would rest on the forarm, however thats not always true. However I sparred with the knife fighter for my own training ((he had a rubber knife)) and i noticed that he wouldn;t attack with the knife, but rather defend using the knife. Instead of blocking with the inner for arm, he would have the knife make the block, and cutting the attacker. When attacking with the knife he would do a hook like a boxer only using the knife as the extention of the punch((as martial artist stated in a previous post)). Though he would usually have the blade upside down, he showed me some ways of a good knife fighter if the blade was rightside up. One thing about holding it that way is that the grip is not as good and can get knocked off, however if the fighters hand is quick enough, he can use the knife to slash incoming attacks, like defending with the blade upside down. Also the good knife fighter will rarly Slash for an attack, but will mostly go for rapid speed thrusts, in other words a jab. With all that been said, a good knife fighter is much more of a threat than some thug with a poket knife. I just think that should be accounted for. But then again i might be overdoing it