Most comprehensive close up fighting art

[SevenStar]

thaiboxing and judo are excellent for infighting, as is shuai chiao.

[47MartialMan]

Boxing and Sambo as well.

[Master Jules]

Good post Shorin Ryuu.....very good points made.

[dingyuan]

Baji Quan is extremely dangerous in close range, on the other hand it is useful for close rang ONLY.

[47MartialMan]

Goju Ryu is all about "in close".....theres actually much more grappling in Goju then many people realize, due to its incorporation of Shaolin Chin Na

 

Oh really, Goju has some incorporation of Chin Na?

[longarm25]

At first, I was going to say Shorin Ryu. Then, I decided to pick a better answer: traditional Okinawan karate in general.

 

But really, there are a lot of styles out there that share very common principles, but just choose different means of achieving them. I'm not saying every style is created equal. Far from it. There are many styles out there that I do not think are best for fighting.

 

There are a lot of Chinese styles that I think very highly of. I chose traditional Okinawan karate because despite all my martial arts elitism and lamentings over all the new styles popping up all over the place, Okinawan karate really is a comprehensive, mixed martial art. It combines indigenous fighting methods with a variety of Chinese methods. Most masters learned weapons as well as empty hand in their training all over Okinawa, China, Taiwan and even Japan at times. What distinguishes traditional Okinawan karate from many modern hodge-podges in my opinion is that it was oftentimes "battle-tested" and refined by people who truly devoted their lives to its perfection. In many cases, it was their job (bodyguard, palace guard, constable) to learn how to fight, and they did it well. It contains depth as well as breadth. Striking, pressure point/muscle/joint manipulation, energy, body mechanics, and loads, loads of grappling are all signatures of true traditional Okinawan karate. And that is why I take it, love it, and live it.

 

As usual, I've rambled and let my blatant bias...I mean, preference for traditional Okinawan karate show.

First off good post

 

Second I agree okinawan karate that utilizeskyusho and tuite is formidable at any range

[Vito]

manuelito-

 

i call muay thai a more complete striking style because it uses most of the most effective strikes, teaches them better than most other arts, and doesnt waste much time with useless stuff.

[longarm25]

doesnt waste much time with useless stuff.

useless stuff?

[Vito]

useless stuff is like spinning jump kicks and crescent kicks and reverse punches and all that more fancy stuff you see in styles like kung fu and tkd a lot.

[Drunken Monkey]

i have no spinning jump kicks or reverse punches in my kung fu.

 

i practice use of punching, kicking, stamping, elbows, knees, standing arm locks/breaks, tripping, throwing, use of angles, use of lines, how to close gaps; generally different ways to hit someone.

 

i think technically, muay thai has more jumping moves than my kung fu does,

 

which has none by the way.

 

tell us again what experience of chinese martial arts do you have?