Wing Chun, Tang Soo Do or Muay Thai for street fighting?

[Sam]

depends how you train - which is my point....lol

[elbows_and_knees]

doesn't martial arts give u physical strength and endurance anyways?

Not really. Look at all of the overweight black belts and instructors there are out there.

Also, strength is achieved through progressive resistance training. Your average football player, powerlifter, etc. is stronger than your avg. MA. Also, not all arts emphasize endurance in the same manner. I can take you to 10 dojos, 10 kwoon and 10 dojang and I will bet that none of them have the same conditioning as a boxer. The reason is because that's not what they train for.

[elbows_and_knees]

depends how you train - which is my point....lol

but how you train shouldn't be the point - how the school trains you should be the point. If only one person in a kung fu class (for example) trains in such a manner, then what does that do for the school as a whole, or for the art? Nothing. Thai boxers have the reputation they have for intense training because it is a standard for them. same with boxers and wrestlers.

[Goju_boi]

so only thai schools tend to train like that?

[elbows_and_knees]

No, but they have a known rep for it style wide. Pretty much all combat sports do - wrestling, thai, boxing, etc. In addition, there are some more traditional styles that have a similar rep - like bando, which developed along similar lines of muay thai. the traditional muay boran is tough as well.

There are plenty of traditional schools that train hard I'm sure, but they tend to be limited to particular schools and are not known for it like the sport styles are.

[Goju_boi]

gotcha.kinda off topic now,isn't muay boran what was used in ong bak?

[Menjo]

Whichever your best at, but thats not a very original answer lol

[elbows_and_knees]

gotcha.kinda off topic now,isn't muay boran what was used in ong bak?

yeah, basically. It was boran combined with some of jaa's own innovations.

Simply put, all of the traditional thai stuff is now generically called muay boran. It's a mix of what is left of mae mai, luk mai, lon lon, chaiya and all of the other old styles.

[Sam]

i meant how you train in general - as in at the school.... im not talkign about benefitting the art either - just about training in general.

Some schools in TKD train for just sport sparring, some train for more traditional areas, and some train in similar styles to MT - not completely the same the same but the parallels are there.

I would agree though i have a lot of respect for the way MT trains in general.

[Goju_boi]

yep