Originally posted by cdtm
Pretty much anything can be effective, if you get the muscle memory down.I studied some Tae Kwon Do, Kung Fu, Jujitsu and Karate up to Black Belt, and it's basically all reflexive at this point.
I did Us Army combatives and Judo for a while
Originally posted by Badabing
Srank and Golgo, stop flaming or use the ignore. I don't care who started what or when. I'll warn the f*ck outta both of you.
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Why? Prep-man and I are good. We like each other just fine, we even have lengthy pm discussions from time to time... but it's fun to make fun of one another. It's all in good fun, neither of us are taking it seriously...
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Do Aikido. I totally watched the **** out of all these Youtube vids, and it looks good.I also did it for a bit, and its pretty gentle.
Aikido is completely useless unless you are a student Aikido who will run at you sensie in zombie drills and let him toss you around.
Muay Tia. Boxing. Wrestling. BJJ. Full contact Karate. Anything else is probably a waste of time. Judo can give you a good base to build off of and prevent take downs... but that's a lot of work. Learning one of the above would be more beneficial. Most of the traditional martial arts don't have full contact sparing, where you practice using your techniques against someone who will actively try to stop you... which is useless and completely impractical.
Originally posted by srankmissingnin
Aikido is completely useless unless you are a student Aikido who will run at you sensie in zombie drills and let him toss you around.Muay Tia. Boxing. Wrestling. BJJ. Full contact Karate. Anything else is probably a waste of time. Judo can give you a good base to build off of and prevent take downs... but that's a lot of work. Learning one of the above would be more beneficial. Most of the traditional martial arts don't have full contact sparing, where you practice using your techniques against someone who will actively try to stop you... which is useless and completely impractical.
Yah, but he has a dodgy knee....which is why I recommended Aikido. Muay Thai would be the worst for him, I'd imagine.
Or he could just take some markmanship courses, then get a concealed permit lol.
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Yah, but he has a dodgy knee....which is why I recommended Aikido. Muay Thai would be the worst for him, I'd imagine.Or he could just take some markmanship courses, then get a concealed permit lol.
Yeah but the small joint manipulation and wrist locks of Akido are incredibly impracticable against an assailant.
BBJ would probably be easy on the knee (unless you are getting knee bared lol) and is still an incredibly effective fighting style.
Originally posted by pym-ftw
Most of combatives is bjj, I'm looking for something just to stay in shape with
Lift weights. That's what I do, it seems to work. My right knee is pretty jacked from skateboarding in high school too, so cardio is *****. I try to alternating from cycling and running every other day before I hit the weights... but it sucks.