Another "Suggest a style" thread

[Kane Fan]

I've been wanting to do some kind of martial art for a while

A little history... I did bullshit tae kwon do when I was in grade school. I hated it, too focused on tradition and seemed extremely impractical with all the forms and "ki-yah" etc.

Wrestled in high school, which I very much enjoyed. So you could say my groundwork is decent, although I've only ever focused on pinning people.

I'm looking for a style that is a sort of no-bullshit, here's-how-to-actually-fight system. From what I've heard krav maga sounds quite optimal, but it would be logistically difficult for me to attend a krav maga gym (although I'm willing if it's the right style)

any input?

my friend is a teacher of MMA style fighting
there are different styles of fighting of course
his preference is a Boxing BJJ mix I believe
(Western and Thai style Boxing)
or if there is a MMA style school in yoru area that would be fine
but, be preared for injuries
the better a fighter you want to be, the more you should spar
spar = injury chance
ground game is good, if you find someone really good at standup but with not much ground experience grounding them is great
but, grappling has one major disadvantage in real life situations, if you are outnumbered you are screwed
you MIGHT be able to take 2 on 1 grappling if you are very good, but 3 on 1 will just about smash any grappler unless the 3 are the 3 stooges
but you could go with Boxing and Ground And Pound ifyour takedowns from highschool are still good

 

[Kane Fan]

The styles offered by my college gym are...
taekwondo, hankido, judo, karate, taiji, wushu

Local gyms/dojos... I'm seeing
-kuk sool won?
-mixed martial arts, this sounds cool http://www.moderncombatives.com/adults_intro.html
-capoeir and tai chi. heh, right.

And lastly I could do krav maga, of which there are two gyms 30-45 minutes from me by public transit

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say there is roughly a 1 in a million chance you can learn somthing truely effective at a college gym
no offense to the people that are teaching people there
but of those options I'd say Judo is the best, on the other hand Judo has some weaknesses for overall fighting, like striking for example
of those options, go with mixed martial arts

 

[casualbb]

Thanks for the input... I ended up going with the MMA gym.

It's pretty cool, they're in association with SBGi, which apparently is a big name in MMA. The techniques are pretty solid, my one caveat is they move too slowly. Most of what's going on isn't that complicated, and while I'm down with drilling I just hunger for more, man!

 

[Big Rick Rock]

Thanks for the input... I ended up going with the MMA gym.

It's pretty cool, they're in association with SBGi, which apparently is a big name in MMA. The techniques are pretty solid, my one caveat is they move too slowly. Most of what's going on isn't that complicated, and while I'm down with drilling I just hunger for more, man!

Basics, basics, basics.... Don't be in a rush.




-BRR

 

[Judo Tom]

definately!

if you start to develop bad habits now it will be hard to break them and you will most likely make them at bad times

stick to the basics and build a solid base a year or two from now you will be happy they moved you along slowly..

good luck

 

[Sy Ali]

The techniques are pretty solid, my one caveat is they move too slowly.

Hey.. if you can't do it slow, then you shouldn't think that you can do it fast. Once you get confident, maybe you could ask a couple of students to stay late for faster stuff, just to see what it feels like. Just try to keep the aggression to a minumum (for now.. hehe).

 

[casualbb]

heh... I don't mean move slowly in the physical sense (shoot, we do alive training against fully resisting opponents)

I mean that new material is presented almost frustratingly slowly. That may change later because right now most of the ground game overlaps with the wrestling I already know

 

[Judo Tom]

sounds cool!

have you learned any attacks while you are on your back.. thats normally something wrestlers take a lil getting used to cause they are coming from a sport where there is really no way for them to win while on there back but in judo there are tons of ways to do this.

good luck!

 

[Sy Ali]

I mean that new material is presented almost frustratingly slowly. That may change later because right now most of the ground game overlaps with the wrestling I already know

Aah, I understand. Well.. maybe if you understand the immediate material well, you can begin to perceive the more subtle things.. balance, footwork, tension and such. You can pay attention to the lesson at its face, and once you understand it and it's repeated a little later, you can try to look at it from another angle... and try to keep yourself mentally occupied with those other angles.

 

[casualbb]

sounds cool!

have you learned any attacks while you are on your back.. thats normally something wrestlers take a lil getting used to cause they are coming from a sport where there is really no way for them to win while on there back but in judo there are tons of ways to do this.

good luck!

lol, my "roll to the stomach" instinct didn't take long to banish. I've taken very quickly to BJJ, it's a lot of fun. Using wrestling instincts I can usually pass guard or defend guard on more experienced foes but I have no actual techniques. So I'll get to mount or side control and then be like "haha, you're pinned! I win!... oh wait... not really"

oh, and I know a basic armbar and triangle choke using the legs. So the repertoire is expanding. I like BJJ because it's very technical, with move-and-countermove stuff.