Which martial art is most effective for self defense?

[il ciclista]

Originally Posted by TyCooN

Isn't the ground the last place you want to end up when you're fighting a couple of hood niggas?

hell no that's where i work my magic, i tell you when you fight two or three people at once, when you get one to completely pass out the other two don't are not about to jump in there. Once i got into it with three cholos i knocked out one in about 5 seconds with two hits to the chin/jaw the others took off. That's the way street fights go.

 

[imhotep]

Originally Posted by NorCal

Craplatsu-Fu.

Basically you *********** on a paper plat and carry it around with you. If anyone ***** with you, just hit him ker-blamo, right in the kisser with a plate of ****.

But it won't ever get that far, nobody and I do mean NOBODY ***** with a man crazy enough to carry around a plate of ****.

also easily converts to a wide-radius biological weapon if you can access a microwave

 

[thekunk07]

that's well and good but i have fucked up a lot of martial artists with sambo and blind rage.

Originally Posted by Thrift Pirate

although those are good as well, discrediting all other forms is total bullshit

 

[Lendo]

Any martial art that you can train in a live manner will do you some good. Sambo, old-school Judo (kodokan, precursor to bjj), boxing, Kyukushin (sp?) karate, pretty much anywhere you can go full or almost full speed & strength will give you skill and at the same time help to minimize the adrenaline dump you'd experience in an actual fight.

 

[TyCooN]

Originally Posted by Thrift Pirate

hell no that's where i work my magic, i tell you when you fight two or three people at once, when you get one to completely pass out the other two don't are not about to jump in there. Once i got into it with three cholos i knocked out one in about 5 seconds with two hits to the chin/jaw the others took off. That's the way street fights go.

damn so you're a real *****?

 

[ZackyBoy]

Originally Posted by thekunk07

krav maga and sambo. the rest are most effective as interesting conversations at cocktail parties.

Sambo yeah, Krav Maga no.

Muay Thai and BJJ are by far the most important but in reality none are effective when you bring in circumstances like multiple opponents. And this is from a bjj brown belt and lots of muay thai guy.

 

[il ciclista]

Originally Posted by thekunk07

that's well and good but i have fucked up a lot of martial artists with sambo and blind rage.

blind rage won't get you **** but out of breath. Martial arts is about self control for one thing, i fought a guy one time that i thought karate was stupid and got ****** whipped

 

[NorCal]

Originally Posted by TyCooN

Isn't the ground the last place you want to end up when you're fighting a couple of hood niggas?

Dude, stop using the word "*****."

 

[LA Guy]

Originally Posted by NorCal

Dude, stop using the word "*****."

Word.

 

[Nereis]

Some sort of baton, or any heavy bludgoning weapon is good for defending yourself from your average crack-infused-mugger. Good enough to get a few shots in and stun him, then run away. Realistically, if you pull a gun or a knife out on him it's likely he won't survive. That isn't good for him, or you. But bringing your fists into something where you're most likely to be able to carry some sort of weapon would be bordering on insane given most criminals at the very least have a pocketknife.

 

[GiltEdge]

Aikido ftw! My father is a black belt, a high level, I forgot the number. But he has been able to implement its teachings to his work in the inner-cities to teach teens self-defense and a way to spiritually release anger and emotions. For those of you in medicine if you ever went to a Robert Wood Johnson convention, you should have seen him demonstrate his teachings.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by Nereis

Some sort of baton, or any heavy bludgoning weapon is good for defending yourself from your average crack-infused-mugger. Good enough to get a few shots in and stun him, then run away. Realistically, if you pull a gun or a knife out on him it's likely he won't survive. That isn't good for him, or you. But bringing your fists into something where you're most likely to be able to carry some sort of weapon would be bordering on insane given most criminals at the very least have a pocketknife.
This is the genius of craplatsu-fu. You always have a weapon and/or ammunition, but you can conceal it.

 

[benjamin831]

Originally Posted by NorCal

Craplatsu-Fu.

Basically you *********** on a paper plat and carry it around with you. If anyone ***** with you, just hit him ker-blamo, right in the kisser with a plate of ****.

But it won't ever get that far, nobody and I do mean NOBODY ***** with a man crazy enough to carry around a plate of ****.

+1 That's been my self-defense philosophy for years.

If some dude's trying to mug me, I'll just scrape a hand-full of **** from ****** and try to smear it on their face. Even the most hardened gangsta don't want **** on their lip.

 

[bbaquiran]

Originally Posted by PaoloM

Aikido ftw! My father is a black belt, a high level, I forgot the number. But he has been able to implement its teachings to his work in the inner-cities to teach teens self-defense and a way to spiritually release anger and emotions. For those of you in medicine if you ever went to a Robert Wood Johnson convention, you should have seen him demonstrate his teachings.

I did aikido for seven years (on and off) and while it's beautiful to watch/perform it's pretty much useless for SD in the real world because of how people train in it.

 

[ZackyBoy]

Originally Posted by PaoloM

Aikido ftw! My father is a black belt, a high level, I forgot the number. But he has been able to implement its teachings to his work in the inner-cities to teach teens self-defense and a way to spiritually release anger and emotions. For those of you in medicine if you ever went to a Robert Wood Johnson convention, you should have seen him demonstrate his teachings.
Some guy who did Aikido came to my BJJ club once wearing that weird gown thing. He had been doing it for like 10 years and I pretty much murdered him with my ground game and I was only a blue belt, and his strange gi ended up getting all torn up. Cool that it can do what you said, but not viable in reality.