Undecided between 3 martial arts.

[tsdshep]

I would go with hapkido simply because it combinds karate and grapling.Y ou will find you learn moves you learn most karates and most grapling and selfdefince arts combined into hapkido.Thast my choces for you as far as styels go >personly i would cheack out thear teachers and see what one best sutes me

[Mr Pockets]

My general advice would be to do both judo/bjj (which ever school you're more impressed with- I like BJJ more, the school will probably be better for straight learning to fight, but Judo is great too) and Kyokushkin. Kyokushkin, based on my limited experience, seems pretty hardcore. Muay Thai I think is harder still, but I've seen some pretty good Kyokushkin fighters.

All that said- you have to make sure the people at the schools are good to train with, instructor especially.

[Goju_boi]

I would personaly go with either hapkido or jeet kune do.Because both cover all areas of fighting.Go with hapkido if u want something more traditional or jkd if u want more modern things that just get the job done.

[CrazyAZNRocker]

It really depends also how much money you want to shuff out.

If you only want to choose just one, go with the Hapkido. You learn the basis of striking and grappling all in one package making it a bang for your buck. Also Hapkido is a great combatitive basis for fighting in general.

ONLY IF you could afford to actually cross train, then skip out the Hapkido, and cross Kyokushin and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. You'll pretty much be getting the same crash course as your Hapkido course, only to a much higher degree, with a much more solid striking skill and much more competent ground game. It will cost more to train better though.

Good luck in your training.

[MMACHAMP]

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

[italian_guy]

I would personaly go with either hapkido or jeet kune do.Because both cover all areas of fighting.Go with hapkido if u want something more traditional or jkd if u want more modern things that just get the job done.

Yes if you like to mix grappling and striking JKD+BJJ is a powerful mix. KK is more striking with some grappling, the quantity of the grappling depends on the school. Once I met a KK girl who had very limited experience in grappling even if she was a Black Belt.

[dragon29]

More than anything you'll get from us, you've got to spend some time with the instructors and the students and get the right vibe. Ask yourself if you want to hang with the students and instructors. Look at the senior students and instructors to see if there are any abilities or traits you'd like to acquire yourself. As the three schools are different styles of martial arts, ask yourself what you want to get out of your time and money spent.

i totally agree with this puote from meguro. it really depends on the people who you are working with. If your instructor is a jerk and you really don't like working with him, then i doubt that you'll get anything good out of the class.

a good thing to know about instructors, besides how they act, is how indepth they go into the martial art. my karate instructor not only teaches us techniques, but tells us when it is useful, different ways it can be used, etc.

Back to the styles, I have a personal favorite in karate, considering i am about three tests from black , but Hapkido is an excellent form also, even though it doesn't do as much traditional stuff. unfortunately, i really don't know to much about the other style(s)

[UseoForce]

In my humble opion, training methodology matters FAR more than style.

Example: Boxing only has 4 techniques (basically) but is extremely effective because they constantly train full contact.

The hapkido school would be great IF they train full contact A LOT!

Otherwise, BJJ/JKD for sure.

Shy away from the karate, you need to know some grappling.

[CrazyAZNRocker]

In my humble opion, training methodology matters FAR more than style.

Example: Boxing only has 4 techniques (basically) but is extremely effective because they constantly train full contact.

The hapkido school would be great IF they train full contact A LOT!

Otherwise, BJJ/JKD for sure.

Shy away from the karate, you need to know some grappling.

I personally would put Kyokushin above JKD because, 1>JKD schools can be gimmiky, and 2> Kyukushin has lots of full contact sparring.