VinnieDaChin

sevenstar put it really, really well. id just like to add that wrestlers have a tendency to move more while bjj people can tend to not want to maneuver (usually a bad thing), but bjj has a lot more ways to hurt someone.

i didnt say to kill him. but a kick as a guys kneeling or whatever oughta knock him out.

well, come git me mente, cause i wanna see bruce lee in a real fight, not that movie nonsense. other than that, what the hell, all of them! lets see some fights!

haha! youve been watching too many movies.

youd both benifit a LOT from training together.

i am so addicted to street fighter 3 (whatever the latest one is, thats on ps2 now) at the moment.

experience indeed. but hey, shakes wont kill your game if your kickin *ss and takin names.

sh*t happens, learn from it. try laughing at the guy next time, its the opposite of mad, makes them incredibly mad, so in a way you come out a winner. and hey, if you really wanna kick his *ss, maybe you can provoke him into attacking you first. but all in all, this incident will soon be old news, just dont forget (cause then you wont learn.)

5- never too late too start (unless youre decrepit)

nooo no no. yes, BJJ is one of t he most brutal when applied, but in class its, i think, one of the safest martial arts to learn. in fact, you get to roll (the grappling version of sparring) every day because youre not taking hits and beating yourself down. and hey- theres nothing wrong with that beat their face in and break their arm mentality if youre being attacked. thats what gets you out alive.

cross train bjj, if you want different striking, definitely check out the muay thai.

bjj is the way to go!

mma almost always involves muay thai (kickboxing to the next level) and BJJ, wrestling, or both. youll probably train both individually and put them together later.

id say bjj, but thats because i train in it. you will learn throws in bjj, but youll get a LOT of experience on the ground, which is experience youll need in a lot of real fights.

actually sevenstar, i think, and i may be wrong, that the issue is what 'traditional' martial arts have become today, at least in america; and i guess how they stack up to the more hardcore arts like muay thai. although, i have to throw in my two cents- lots of things taught in say, kempo, are either innefective, or at least inferior techniques compared to, again, muay thai.

my (limited) experience with wing chun has shown me that its useful in close, but very limited in what it can do for you in a fight.

seems like the guy wasnt a very good martial artist. and experience counts for a lot. i bet you the aggressor doesnt even spar with contact, if at all... and you guys do. next time, tell your friend not to let the guy get up, but to kick his head as hes getting up so to finish him of.. and, you know, end the threat.

theyre good, yea, but you wont become good just by watching the video. i suppose its better than nothing, but dont stop trying to find a teacher.

while grappling knowledge is helpful in this case in that it can enable you from rolling on the ground to begin with, with limited time id say go for something like muay thai or boxing. the most effective striking arts, simple, quick to learn, no nonsense. personally id go against kempo- in a street fight boxing and the likes seems to work much better. oh, yea, definitely get that gun, and maybe a knife too.

at 7 years old, theres not much he can do. go beat up the kids pickin on him yourself, when hes 12 or 13 see if he wants to get into boxing.

man... dont think little of boxing, its one of the best out there. i think the next step would be muay thai- the ultimate striking art. or, you could go to the other half of martial arts: grappling. naturally id recommend bjj, wrestling, or maybe judo.

videos wont help you learn without actual training

the line between fancy and effective is really more of a giant gap.

kicks to the stomache are occasionally called for in a street fight. friend of mine got in a fight with three guys (unskilled guys, where as hes been wrestling all his life and been doin muay thai for 5-6 years or so) and one of them left his stomache wide open, so he thai kicked across it and actually made him projectile vomit. head kicks though, no way.

i used to do double claps when i was benching 225 back in the day...