I normally don’t like commenting like this, but some of these suggestions are really bad. At best some of these will make you lose time and money on learning some mystical bullshit pretending to be a martial art. At worst you will straight up get killed with the crap some of these ‘martial arts’ will teach you. When it comes to martial arts, you’ve got to understand that there is absolutely zero regulation on this stuff. I can open up the ‘TT17-jitsu school for super badasses’ on the corner and nobody will stop me. So you have to be VERY careful by looking deep into the program, and the instructor running it, before you sign up. I know from first hand experience, you do NOT want to sign up for a psuedo-martial art.
If they are suggesting anything on this list RUN and find a new place:
Teaching you to disarm people with a weapon, like a gun or knife.
Teaching you ‘magical thinking’ or any sort of mystical power.
Telling you what they do is ‘too dangerous’ (lmao) for competition.
Doesn’t do live contact drills (VERY IMPORTANT).
Charging you outrageous fees and making you use their pricey equipment.
Offering quick and easy solutions to being a deadly fighting machine. (This stuff takes time and practice, there are no quick solutions here.)
I’m sure there are more you can lookup, but these are things to avoid off of the top of my head.
Here’s a list of must have’s when it comes to this stuff:
The martial art must have some sort of regulatory body, either a belt system, or some sort of competitive institution.
Does live contact drills, this is absolutely necessary! This is the only way to actually practice and execute what you learn.
A good instructor that’s verified through the regulatory body. This ensures quality control.
That being said, what type of unarmed combat is right for you? Well that all depends on a few factors, time, money, and access. I’ve run extensive data on the UFC trying to find what’s ‘essential’ in unarmed combat. You’ve got to understand there are two main aspects to fighting, the ground game (grappling, ect), and your stand-up game (kicking, punching, ect.). What I came away with from pulling UFC data, is that having a solid ground game is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. THE FIGHTER WITH THE BETTER GROUND GAME WILL WIN 9 TIMES OUT OF 10! I don’t care what kind of crazy karate kicks your opponent knows, good luck trying to kick me when you’re on your ass in a pretzel! So i STRONGLY recommend building a solid ground game first before doing anything else. My suggestions would be either some type of Wrestling or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. There are others out there that work too, but those arts in particular were by far the most successful from the data.
From there, if you still have time, energy, money, access, ect. THEN you can work on your stand up game. There’s a lot more variety when it comes to the stand up game. There’s a ton of great ones out there. I personally would recommend either Boxing, Kick Boxing, or Muay Thai.
Personally I went with wrestling/boxing, I’m not the best fighter, but I can hold my own.
If all of this sounds like too much time and energy. I suggest going with what comrade puffin said. The quickest and easiest solution to self defense would be to use weapons, weapons will win over anything I just mentioned.
I want to touch on a point these magical bullshido wizards always bring up. They’re full of excuses, but by far their favorite one is this false dichotomy between ‘real fighting’ and competitive fighting. I’ve beaten the breaks off of a handful of bullshido artists in the past, and this is always their main excuse. Claiming they weren’t trying their hardest, that their fighting techniques are too dangerous to use. It is very funny and predictable. It’s also a very bad point that relies on grade school logic. Yes, in a competitive setting you cannot use some techniques and moves. Here’s the problem though, that logic works both ways, competitive fighters are aware of these dangerous moves and can use them too. For example lets use rabbit punches (punches to back of the head or neck), who do you think would be better at this illegal technique? Prime Mike Tyson who has practiced live punching on human targets that can fight back a million times? Or the bullshido master, who hasn’t ever tried live full speed sparring with another human, out of fear of hurting them. I hope that answer is obvious. If you cannot practice your technique on live human beings, you will absolutely not be able to pull it off in a situation that requires it. This is why live sparring is a must!
These frauds that push this bullshido rely on this unfalsifiable orthodoxy. They lie to you about how badass you can be by disarming people with weapons, or how they know some secret technique that any dumb ass can do like eye gouging, and pass that off as a ‘martial art’! They are absolutely full of shit and are trying to scam you out of money. When they pick themselves up off of the floor after getting their ass handed to them, they’ll go back to ol’ reliable. ‘THAT WASN’T REAL FIGHTING BRO I WASN’T TRYING MY HARDEST BRO IN A REAL FIGHT I WOULD’VE WON BRO!!!’ These clowns are very predicable. It’d be funny if they weren’t scamming people and giving people false confidence that can get them killed.
I normally don’t like commenting like this, but some of these suggestions are really bad. At best some of these will make you lose time and money on learning some mystical bullshit pretending to be a martial art. At worst you will straight up get killed with the crap some of these ‘martial arts’ will teach you. When it comes to martial arts, you’ve got to understand that there is absolutely zero regulation on this stuff. I can open up the ‘TT17-jitsu school for super badasses’ on the corner and nobody will stop me. So you have to be VERY careful by looking deep into the program, and the instructor running it, before you sign up. I know from first hand experience, you do NOT want to sign up for a psuedo-martial art.
If they are suggesting anything on this list RUN and find a new place:
I’m sure there are more you can lookup, but these are things to avoid off of the top of my head.
Here’s a list of must have’s when it comes to this stuff:
That being said, what type of unarmed combat is right for you? Well that all depends on a few factors, time, money, and access. I’ve run extensive data on the UFC trying to find what’s ‘essential’ in unarmed combat. You’ve got to understand there are two main aspects to fighting, the ground game (grappling, ect), and your stand-up game (kicking, punching, ect.). What I came away with from pulling UFC data, is that having a solid ground game is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. THE FIGHTER WITH THE BETTER GROUND GAME WILL WIN 9 TIMES OUT OF 10! I don’t care what kind of crazy karate kicks your opponent knows, good luck trying to kick me when you’re on your ass in a pretzel! So i STRONGLY recommend building a solid ground game first before doing anything else. My suggestions would be either some type of Wrestling or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. There are others out there that work too, but those arts in particular were by far the most successful from the data.
From there, if you still have time, energy, money, access, ect. THEN you can work on your stand up game. There’s a lot more variety when it comes to the stand up game. There’s a ton of great ones out there. I personally would recommend either Boxing, Kick Boxing, or Muay Thai.
Personally I went with wrestling/boxing, I’m not the best fighter, but I can hold my own.
If all of this sounds like too much time and energy. I suggest going with what comrade puffin said. The quickest and easiest solution to self defense would be to use weapons, weapons will win over anything I just mentioned.
I want to touch on a point these magical bullshido wizards always bring up. They’re full of excuses, but by far their favorite one is this false dichotomy between ‘real fighting’ and competitive fighting. I’ve beaten the breaks off of a handful of bullshido artists in the past, and this is always their main excuse. Claiming they weren’t trying their hardest, that their fighting techniques are too dangerous to use. It is very funny and predictable. It’s also a very bad point that relies on grade school logic. Yes, in a competitive setting you cannot use some techniques and moves. Here’s the problem though, that logic works both ways, competitive fighters are aware of these dangerous moves and can use them too. For example lets use rabbit punches (punches to back of the head or neck), who do you think would be better at this illegal technique? Prime Mike Tyson who has practiced live punching on human targets that can fight back a million times? Or the bullshido master, who hasn’t ever tried live full speed sparring with another human, out of fear of hurting them. I hope that answer is obvious. If you cannot practice your technique on live human beings, you will absolutely not be able to pull it off in a situation that requires it. This is why live sparring is a must!
These frauds that push this bullshido rely on this unfalsifiable orthodoxy. They lie to you about how badass you can be by disarming people with weapons, or how they know some secret technique that any dumb ass can do like eye gouging, and pass that off as a ‘martial art’! They are absolutely full of shit and are trying to scam you out of money. When they pick themselves up off of the floor after getting their ass handed to them, they’ll go back to ol’ reliable. ‘THAT WASN’T REAL FIGHTING BRO I WASN’T TRYING MY HARDEST BRO IN A REAL FIGHT I WOULD’VE WON BRO!!!’ These clowns are very predicable. It’d be funny if they weren’t scamming people and giving people false confidence that can get them killed.