Which martial art to do?
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Soldato
Judo, I did it for a while in high school and college. Absolutely great sport/ MA.
Great for fitness, and great for self defense.
Great for fitness, and great for self defense.
Soldato
Judo useful for self defense? 
That's a bit like saying Brazillian JuJitsu is useful for self defence too.
Whilst you're getting all tied up on the ground, your opponents mate has just stomped on your head and kicked you to the kerb.
Don't get me wrong, ground fighting has its place. It's useful for self defence but arts which rely on it as a primary factor aren't really biased towards modern self defence since these days you don't find yourself going up against one attacker. Every fight I see these days is 2v6 etc, and in these circumstances I'd rather stay on my feet thanks very much!
/edit - oh and OP, Jujitsu.
That's a bit like saying Brazillian JuJitsu is useful for self defence too. Whilst you're getting all tied up on the ground, your opponents mate has just stomped on your head and kicked you to the kerb.
Don't get me wrong, ground fighting has its place. It's useful for self defence but arts which rely on it as a primary factor aren't really biased towards modern self defence since these days you don't find yourself going up against one attacker. Every fight I see these days is 2v6 etc, and in these circumstances I'd rather stay on my feet thanks very much!
/edit - oh and OP, Jujitsu.
Jitsu.
Aikido is good if you have a beard, but not much more as it's essentially a 'nicer' version if Jitsu. My experience of Karate was limited and I wasn't impressed, either. And Judo is just a sport - not a practical martial art.
Kung Fu has sparked my interest, too, however.
Aikido is good if you have a beard, but not much more as it's essentially a 'nicer' version if Jitsu. My experience of Karate was limited and I wasn't impressed, either. And Judo is just a sport - not a practical martial art.
Kung Fu has sparked my interest, too, however.
Soldato
st00dent said:I have the chance of doing one of the following for free at uni.
Which would be the most useful to do, regarding basic self defence and general fitness?
Aikido
Jitsu
Judo
Karate
Kung Fu
Thanks in advance
What uni, should be the most important question as the tuition is sometimes more important than the art.
Soldato
Lowe said:Whilst you're getting all tied up on the ground, your opponents mate has just stomped on your head and kicked you to the kerb.
Fair enough, hadn't really occured to me as i've never been in that type of fight
Associate
Try Drunken Boxing
On a more serious note, Capoeira is quite fun ( a brazillian martial art/ think Eddie from Tekken), Karate and Kung Fu are the classics, Judo if youre into holds and throws, Kendo if youre into sticks and finally
Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lees invented style.
On a more serious note, Capoeira is quite fun ( a brazillian martial art/ think Eddie from Tekken), Karate and Kung Fu are the classics, Judo if youre into holds and throws, Kendo if youre into sticks and finally
Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lees invented style.
panthro said:
This is the best advice to be honest.
If we did a poll on here, lots of people would say karate was great, lots would say it was rubbish, and equally the same would be true of any martial art.
Best thing to do is to try for yourself. I went to karate and jitsu so see what they were like after hearing mixed things about them both, my intention was to pick the better one and drop the other, yet I enjoyed them both and carried them both on.
Everyone is different, best trying them out yourself in my opinion.
Associate
I started JKD a few weeks ago and Am really enjoyng it
Soldato
What uni?
Associate
electric ant said:Try Drunken Boxing
On a more serious note, Capoeira is quite fun ( a brazillian martial art/ think Eddie from Tekken),
dont you basically have to be an acrobat type person for that though? its all crazy flips and stuff isnt it?
Associate
jdickerson said:
This is indeed an excellent point. There is loads of debate about what martial art is best at this and that and always will be. But, like jdickerson says, its no good finding a club based on what style you think is good if the teacher is rubbish.
brocksta said:
Yeah capoeira does get pretty crazy in the crazy flips stakes. This is a valid point though. What do u want from an art? What i mean by this is, when i started martial arts I wanted basically to do something that looked good, like art whilst still being able to fight if it came down to it. So I did kung fu and wushu (at the same club). The forms are pretty amazing to watch, lots of flashy aerial kicks to impress the girls with but the kung fu was much more traditional self defensive, sparring stuff. A word of advice though, sparring is good. If you go do a good club where people aren't twits, then they will take it easy on you if you aren't too hot but should still put you through your paces. If you go to a club where they do not do sparring, or only do non contact sparring, in my opinion (others may not agree) you will not be able to judge properly your fighting ability and will not be properly accustomed to being attacked. So if you are keen on the self defence side of things, go somewhere where they let you do light contact sparring.