What self defence should I learn?

oddsbodikins · 3 Jul 2009 at 10:33

Guerrilla · 3 Jul 2009 at 11:00

Hellsmk2 said:
The biggest mistake I ever made was to take up a martial art. I got my black belt and a whole host of problems to go with it...

I learned Choi Kwang Do when i was younger, it was started to avoid this very problem iirc.

It was pretty good, although i was probably a bit too young and not interested to fully take in what was on offer.

They did teach to defend agaisnt knife/bottle etc attacks, and was quite defensive based.

Edit: link if it helps.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Kwang-Do

dekez · 3 Jul 2009 at 11:07

+1 for boxing, hardest physical thing I've ever done, that with one of the more real life based defence martial arts.

MG42Maniac · 3 Jul 2009 at 11:12

Muay Thai & Krav Maga

Throw some dummy punches which will cause the chav to bring his/her hands up to cover their head. With their guard diverted you can either get them in the clinch and knee them to pieces or low kick them in the side of the kneecap causing them to either fall to the ground or drop to their knees in which case you can either finish them off or back off and start explaining your actions to the police

Boxing is also good but a lot more limited than Kick-Boxing or Muay Thai.

Sash · 3 Jul 2009 at 11:23

rsatd said:
I am a 7'th dan in KeyFlicking. ill gladly take an aprentice .

"keyflicking" eh? is that a euphemism?

rsatd · 3 Jul 2009 at 11:26

Sash said:
"keyflicking" eh? is that a euphemism?

Not really, it is flicking keys, except that sounds a bit gay, keyflicking, a tiny bit less.

*Prepairs for daily practice by getting out three keyboards*

Sash · 3 Jul 2009 at 11:27

rsatd said:
Not really, it is flicking keys, except that sounds a bit gay, keyflicking, a tiny bit less.

*Prepairs for daily practice by getting out three keyboards*

Oh.
Bet your girlfriend is happy though.

Caseh · 3 Jul 2009 at 11:48

Sash said:
Oh.
Bet your girlfriend is happy though.

Nope. She left him because he became too obsessed with Keyflicking, and never had time for her.

Sash · 3 Jul 2009 at 11:58

[Cas];14407575 said:
Nope. She left him because he became too obsessed with Keyflicking, and never had time for her.

She will fall for him at the end when he gets a critical injury in the final of the Keyflicking World Championship and she will declare her love for him, this will help him beat the deadly soviet in a 10-11 victory of the century...

Wait, what?

Caseh · 3 Jul 2009 at 12:01

Sash said:
She will fall for him at the end when he gets a critical injury in the final of the Keyflicking World Championship and she will declare her love for him, this will help him beat the deadly soviet in a 10-11 victory of the century...

Wait, what?

You sir, have lost your marbles.

Yamahahahahaha · 3 Jul 2009 at 12:02

Leaked script from Keyboard Warrior: The Movie.

Sash · 3 Jul 2009 at 12:04

[Cas];14407651 said:
You sir, have lost your marbles.

Yeah...its Friday, I am stressed and am cracking up.

@topic I always wanted to do Jeet Kune Do.

Alpherah · 3 Jul 2009 at 12:14

At a very young age i learnt Karate up untill brownbelt.
At that age its great, tought me to control myself basically both physically and emotionally, and great for drilling respect into people (something severly lacking in the UK imo .. offtopic!).

When i got older i jumped ship into Kickboxing , which imo is better for real-world defensive situations, but deffinatly value the stuff i learnt previously! It made me a better person, imo.

Starting from adult, i would suggest KB over a more traditional Martial Art however.

~>Dg<~ · 3 Jul 2009 at 13:16

at end of day a lot of fights are just brawls not legal refereed matches. so while martial arts might help a little basically most are a waste of time.

rsatd · 3 Jul 2009 at 13:29

[Cas];14407575 said:
Nope. She left him because he became too obsessed with Keyflicking, and never had time for her.

Tis true

Sash said:
She will fall for him at the end when he gets a critical injury in the final of the Keyflicking World Championship and she will declare her love for him, this will help him beat the deadly soviet in a 10-11 victory of the century...

Wait, what?

Speaking of that, I have signed up to... not the world championship... its more of a drive around the "hood" doing drive flicks. Its good practice to hit moving targets. I get 100% of the OAP targets!

Sash · 3 Jul 2009 at 13:30

rsatd said:
Tis true

Speaking of that, I have signed up to... not the world championship... its more of a drive around the "hood" doing drive flicks. Its good practice to hit moving targets. I get 100% of the OAP targets!

When you hit them to them make the "Bid-Ding" noise like when you pick up coins in mario?

Side5wipe · 3 Jul 2009 at 13:51

Wing Chun
MMA

Chaos · 3 Jul 2009 at 14:11

Ry@n said:
I wouldn't mind learning some kind of self defence but I'm not sure what would be the best thing for me to learn? Some sort of martial art?

See whats in your area and try a few out and see what you like.

http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/

waso_dude · 3 Jul 2009 at 14:17

Male Art of 'Flap Flapping'.

No one will dare come near you if your doing that to them

DrDee · 3 Jul 2009 at 14:43

meghatronic said:
Well that shows what you learnt, that isn't even aikido.

And you fall/flip to prevent injury to yourself. If you went for no reason at all then shame on your partner.

And I've said it so many times.... all those that say running is the best strategy, put on an old white T-shirt and give a mate a marker pen. Get him to confront you with the marker pen and attack you as he sees fit (stab, slash etc), whilst you run away.

LOLOL

Ok, Ill do the experiment with you, we both take turns, I'll run away first and you try and see how much ink you get on me in critical areas, then we swap and you can try and defend yourself and we see how much ink you get on you while im trying to "stab" you/punch you in the face :rolleyes: