most effective street fighting style?

[Anti]

Its not the techniques alone, its the ability to land it while sparring with different sized and experienced partners who are trying to pull the same on you. Sometimes, the sparring heats up and you drop your partner with a really quick shot and it works! You help your training partner back up and you show him where he made a mistake (or vice versa)

Vey nicely put. It's times like those that keep me into MAs.

[kuk sool won]

Give me a break.

You have no clue what "cold war" means and yet still have the nads to pick on my choice of words?

Time for a history lesson Jr.

***The Cold War was the geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle between the global superpowers the Soviet Union and the United States of America, supported by their respective and emerging alliance partners. It lasted over four decades, from circa 1947 (the post-World War II period) until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The struggle was widely called the Cold War because it did not involve direct armed conflict between the contestants. The Cold War was waged by means of diplomatic maneuvering, economic pressure, selective aid, intimidation, propaganda, assassination, low-intensity military operations and full-scale proxy war from circa 1947 until the terminal decline of the Warsaw Pact in the late 1980s. The Cold War also simultaneously witnessed the largest arms race (both conventional and nuclear) in history, leading to widespread global fears of a potential nuclear war.***


If you have something worth a crap to add to the thread then by all means, post it... If all you can do is pick apart a figure of speech, I feel sorry for your silly ass.


Get a grip wonder boy...



*** Wikipedia***

Sorry Tant01 but when you lecture someone about something it isn't always good to use entire paragraphs you c n' p'ed from Google or Wikipedia, it almost shows that you don't know yourself...

[Tant01]

Sorry Tant01 but when you lecture someone about something it isn't always good to use entire paragraphs you c n' p'ed from Google or Wikipedia, it almost shows that you don't know yourself...

Or that I'm lazy, type about 6 words per minute and C&P is quick and easy.

Or maybe I just invented ALL this crap to BS you guys...

Maybe I'm three and a half years old and suck my thumb too...

[Britt]

Don't associate with people who lack self-control, are excessively controlling, ultraviolent or become loose cannons.

I can't go to family reunions anymore?

[Tom Yum]

I can't go to family reunions anymore?

No worries, we're not related....




















..... or...are....we

[47MartialMan]

C & P is not so bad....to use for any quick POR

[The_Judo_Jibboo]

my favorite cold war tidbit: The Soviet Union was extremely intimidated by Reagan's references to the "Star Wars" project which was developing satellites to shoot missiles out of the air with lasers from space. Some even argue that this did alot in ultimately convincing the Soviet Union that they could not compete with America's technology. Funny part is, these satellites were completely fictional. Reagan was told explicitly that such a project was utterly impossible. Whether he was bluffing, didn't listen to his military advisors, or just liked talking about Star Wars, I don't know, but any way you cut it it's pretty funny.

[Tom Yum]

my favorite cold war tidbit: The Soviet Union was extremely intimidated by Reagan's references to the "Star Wars" project which was developing satellites to shoot missiles out of the air with lasers from space. Some even argue that this did alot in ultimately convincing the Soviet Union that they could not compete with America's technology. Funny part is, these satellites were completely fictional. Reagan was told explicitly that such a project was utterly impossible. Whether he was bluffing, didn't listen to his military advisors, or just liked talking about Star Wars, I don't know, but any way you cut it it's pretty funny.

I remember seeing news segments on it. He convinced us as well!

[orenji]

The club i belong to in the uk combines Traditional jujitsu and kickboxing, we also study grappling. I do door work and this has been very helpful

[jeff5]

Most effective street fighting "style"?

None of the above

and

All of the above

[jaydogg72]

What about Kenpo?

[Sabin]

Yes

Well? Am I wrong?

In this case, yes, I think you are. Jiu Jitsu Monk had an accurate point.

I don't know a single person who cannot throw a pretty hard punch (here in West Texas) even if they are wild haymakers. Granted, with good striking skills I'd still have quite an advantage, but as Jiu Jitsu Monk stated, one unlucky shot could leave me ko'd.

On the other hand, I know very very few people who have any clue what an armbar is, much less how to apply one. So I'd feel relatively confident when taking the fight to the ground that my opponent would not be able to apply any armbars or chokeholds, whereas I could do so. Much less chance of me losing this fight than if we were both just standing and slugging it out. This is especially true if your opponent is bigger and stronger than you are (and I doubt he would pick a fight with you if he didn't have a size/strength advantage).

Of course, this is all workable only in a one-on-one match with no weapons involved.

Let me know what you think.

[cam427]

In this case, yes, I think you are. Jiu Jitsu Monk had an accurate point.

I don't know a single person who cannot throw a pretty hard punch (here in West Texas) even if they are wild haymakers. Granted, with good striking skills I'd still have quite an advantage, but as Jiu Jitsu Monk stated, one unlucky shot could leave me ko'd.

On the other hand, I know very very few people who have any clue what an armbar is, much less how to apply one. So I'd feel relatively confident when taking the fight to the ground that my opponent would not be able to apply any armbars or chokeholds, whereas I could do so. Much less chance of me losing this fight than if we were both just standing and slugging it out. This is especially true if your opponent is bigger and stronger than you are (and I doubt he would pick a fight with you if he didn't have a size/strength advantage).

Of course, this is all workable only in a one-on-one match with no weapons involved.

Let me know what you think.

Your argument doesn't really work. Everyone has some natural ability to fight. If you believe it is enough to negate all of the training you have done standing then why would that not also be true on the ground. What about the fact that there are a huge number of wrestlers in the US. Average joe would have very little chance of landing a punch on an experienced striker (I am speaking only for Boxing and Thai which are the only striking styles I know). If they did hit you then as an experienced striker you would be far more used to getting hit and it would be very difficult to knock you out.

[medic06]

In this case, yes, I think you are. Jiu Jitsu Monk had an accurate point.

I don't know a single person who cannot throw a pretty hard punch (here in West Texas) even if they are wild haymakers. Granted, with good striking skills I'd still have quite an advantage, but as Jiu Jitsu Monk stated, one unlucky shot could leave me ko'd.

On the other hand, I know very very few people who have any clue what an armbar is, much less how to apply one. So I'd feel relatively confident when taking the fight to the ground that my opponent would not be able to apply any armbars or chokeholds, whereas I could do so. Much less chance of me losing this fight than if we were both just standing and slugging it out. This is especially true if your opponent is bigger and stronger than you are (and I doubt he would pick a fight with you if he didn't have a size/strength advantage).

Of course, this is all workable only in a one-on-one match with no weapons involved.

Let me know what you think.

I wouldn't assume that most people don't know what an armbar is.

[cam427]

In this case, yes, I think you are. Jiu Jitsu Monk had an accurate point.

I don't know a single person who cannot throw a pretty hard punch (here in West Texas) even if they are wild haymakers. Granted, with good striking skills I'd still have quite an advantage, but as Jiu Jitsu Monk stated, one unlucky shot could leave me ko'd.

On the other hand, I know very very few people who have any clue what an armbar is, much less how to apply one. So I'd feel relatively confident when taking the fight to the ground that my opponent would not be able to apply any armbars or chokeholds, whereas I could do so. Much less chance of me losing this fight than if we were both just standing and slugging it out. This is especially true if your opponent is bigger and stronger than you are (and I doubt he would pick a fight with you if he didn't have a size/strength advantage).

Of course, this is all workable only in a one-on-one match with no weapons involved.

Let me know what you think.

If you got an armbar in a fight would you be prepared to break his arm or would you just let him go when he tapped. Armbars are less than useless in the situation you describe above (single attacker, no weapons)

The only way to finish a real fight (where no ones life is in danger so deadly force is unreasonable) is through head trauma or chokes to unconciousness.