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Originally posted by dig420
DAMN people, you don't have to guess! Just grab some NHB tapes, these questions have been answered time and again. Kung Fu doesn't work. Aikido barely works. Ninjitsu is a fairy tale, so is pressure point fighting, totally worthless in real life unless you scare someone away with your flashy poses. TKD works against unskilled guys only, and you better hope he's not bigger than you.
Judo is ok
boxing is ok
kickboxing is quite good
MT is great
wrestling is great
BJJ rules all
This isn't theory, this shit has been proven.
http://www.gracieacademy.com - get Gracies in Action, you'll be doing yourself a favor.
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You mean the same tapes of the guys that have all their information highly inflated like their weight and heights? The ones that most real martial artists NEVER enter nor would ever enter even with the big pay outs? The ones with story lines and antics becoming more and more like wrestling? Most martial artists watch this stuff just because we enjoy conflict but UFC and even the once venerable K1 have fallen to the allurement of money. The Gracies are a respected family in most circles of fighting but even the old man has been beaten before as has the poster boy Hoyce, you win some and you lose some. I will say that I personally judge an art on how well common people can do it, how long you have to train to be proficient and its general efficiency against multiple forms of skilled and "unskilled" fighters.
I trained in TKD and Karate first, they were crap, it takes forever be fighting efficient and you have to weed out all the bad things you will learn like kicks over the head, mentally going over and picking strikes, POINTS SPARRING. I train in boxing now, very unatural and not effective against anyone who is going to kick or pick something up and hit you with it, just good for mancho toe to toe guys or in the ring where you can use endurance and the ropes. The day I walked out of my first training day in my kung fu school i had a back fist that would break a nose, I had been shown how to punch with way more power, control and efficiency by rolling my fist over and a ridge hand that would stop most people from breathing for a second. It took my natural ability and cleaned it up and made it effective, this is as much the teacher as the art itself. If you devote the time the originators put into developing of the art you will be a great fighter, but people have work and a lack of ethic and discipline now so i go with arts that allow you to learn how to defend youself as second nature and can be practiced while still having a life. These have worked well for people I know and are EXCELLENT because I have and will devote major chunks of my life to it giving me an advantage over other fighters.