Originally Posted by Uber_Tap

I don't think Wing Chun is what u r looking 4. Wing Chun has some awesome trapping techniques and hand strikes, but it doesn't necessarily encompass the types of ground fighting I believe u r looking 4. I've read about but never studied Krav Magna, so I really don't know for certain how applicable it truely is. My suggestion is this, which ever you decide on keep this in mind, you have to be able to practice pretty much full out with someone else in free sparring. I know a lot of people will scream that sparring is for sport and blah blah blah, but that's not true. Point sparring is for sport, free sparring is pretty much anything goes. If you don't practice all out against someone you will not be prepared to fight in a real world scenario.

I've been in real fights, and to be honest 9 out of 10 times regular boxing would serve you as well as most martial arts, if not better. It happens 10x as fast as sparring, so everything has to be reflex. Hitting and reacting to being hit are equally as important. Don't believe u r just going to Seagal someone, that shit doesn't happen. Someon that can't fight for shit might land a lucky punch, and you need to be able to react to it.

Sparring isn't close to the real thing, but it's the closest thing short of having full out brawls with your training partners. Don't buy into that pre-arranged drill crap and expect it to work when your heart is beating a million times a minute and someone is trying to kick the crap out of you. Unless you are fighting an absolute shmuck you are probably going to get hit and unless you have trained with someone hitting you at or almost at full power you won't really have that much of an advantage when it comes down to the come down.