What art is better for street fighting?

[Muaythaiboxer]

most fights go to the ground and if you dont know anything about grappling the guy whom your fighting just leveled the playing field.

 

oh and treebranch what is lima lama?

[street fighter]

Ok I have covered this again and again, the best art for street fighting is one you can actually do and an art that is being taught by someone who knows his head from a hole in the ground. Trust me and a few others when they say their are to many would be street warriors out there that have no clue what they are talking about. I am not saying that the teacher has to be a thug and get into fights every week what I am saying is that the teacher has to understand the difference in what is taught for a compitition or in a traditional form of martial arts practice and reality against stupid people who would kill you. There is no set plan in a street fight it just happens when it happens if it is set up by you then it is not defense its just you thugin. Back to your style or art, it is my and others belief that you should be well rounded, what I mean is understand how to use your limbs properly, understand weapon styles so that you can improvise with what is availible and understand the ground, you may not want to be there but you better know it. Never think that playing fair is the way in a street confrontation, play to win no matter what dirty trick it takes, never be affraid if you truely feel your life is in danger to deploy and use weapons. I know I know what some will say about weapons but it is your best bet to be alive to hear about it later than for your family to be at your grave side.

[Muaythaiboxer]

i dont like to fight dirty but if my life is in danger i will use anything short of killing them to survive.

[Treebranch]

Muay Thai Fighter, here's a link for Lima Lama. I took this art when I was a kid.

 

http://www.martialartsinstitute.com/limalama2.html

[Treebranch]

Street Fight I agree with everything you said and it was well put. The only thing I would change would be to replace the word "win" with the word "survive". Who cares about winning when your life's on the line. If your out gunned, run.

[Muaythaiboxer]

very interesting... i heard the polynisian arts where pretty hard core but i thought they where no longer tought. i gess i learned something thx treebranch

[Scand]

I'm not an expert in fighting, but nearly all the fights I had to undergo during the junior comprehensive school (nearly every fight naturally followed a nasty argument-war) ended up onto the ground. It was the way to go, hence none of the kids didn't want to get hit "in the face", so they tackled and grappled and pounded on ground.

 

A big, 350lbs, hairy street-thug naturally is another story... maybe.

 

Hoijeonmoosool was an interesting art, as it mixed locks, minor grappling, a bunch of striking but was low on flashy kicks. Me liked.

 

Hapkido, seems to be quite effective also, and it also is. I've experienced it once, and it was... scary. Very effective, relatively quick to learn and again, quite effective.

 

These days I practise kung-fu, and the techniques I've seen (I haven't seen much yet, as I'm only a beginner in this style) seem to be quite effective. I haven't seen none in nature, off-dojo, but some of them feel like good techniques, some are not the ones you would perform in highly living/evolving/tense situation, like a street fight.

[Muaythaiboxer]

how did those fights turn out for you?

[Treebranch]

Your welcome Muay Thai.

 

I think another thing for all of us to consider is knowing how to not get into those situations in the first place is very important. You should only use your skills to defend yourself and your loved ones. Don't let insults unbalance you.

[Straight Blast]

Treebranch,what you say is true but most people abuse their power when they feel insulted,MA is mainly meant for self-defense...not you-call-me-stupid-ill-kick-your-*..i think sometimes MA can get people over confident in themselves..also some people can get angry easily.