Wht style is most efficient in a realistic self defense situation?
2006-07-20 01:47:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
Kick boxign is the best in a realistic fighting situation. many martial arts are based on gettign your opponent away, boxign and kick boxing you have to get up close and havea prolonged fight. Kung-Fu as much as i love it, for an example, many of the kicks although take skill duress and practice are very impractical, but kickboxing and boxign you get in get out. Learnign to ground fight is essential as well. So ide recomend taking some judo or brazillian jujitsu.
As for the Flexibility ide recomend gettign a book on stretches read it one day and start doing them. don't get stuck on the theory and wonder and awe at what they do. just jump in its wasting time. abotu tewo weeks after you are done starting stretchign than beggin trainign and practicing. stretch for about an hour a day, seriously not liek it won't pay of it does. When your stretching ever inch gained counts. because in the martial arts an inch can be teh case of 1 point or death in soem cases.
2006-07-20 06:24:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes, you can, although it takes some time. I haven taken up martial arts before and my body was not flexible, but I have an instructor who is very good and he has helped me a lot. He is from China and has practise martial arts as a full time. He has told me before that you have to be consistent in doing your warm-up exercises and all others to become more flexible, as this does not happen overnight.
If you are really interested in martial arts, I suggest you find a group that is of small size, so that the instructor is able to have more attention on the students in the group.
There are many styles in self defence, no one style can designated as no one knows what will happen during a REAL situation. I guess the only way is to stay calm and alert so as to see your opponent's movements.
2006-07-20 01:58:37 · answer #2 · answered by carebears0408 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if you are committed enough and tell yourself that you can do it. The reality is that you will never be as flexible as you would have been if you started at a young age. But don't give up hope, I am 26 and started Taekwondo late and now I can do the splitz!!
Impossible is nothing!!
I think by choosing Taekwondo, I decided that it was good as a martial art as well as being practical in self defense too
2006-07-20 02:05:20 · answer #3 · answered by Mister Man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can, absolutely. But how much flexibility you need is debatable. Once upon a time I could do the splits, but I gave up a lot of my flexibility training years ago because kicking above knee/groin height is just not practical unless you're willing to spend several hours a week just maintaining your high kicks.
In terms of efficiency, if you need an "express elevator to the fifth floor", look into military combatives. If you have very little practice time, again look into military combatives. If you've got a few hours a week, and a more long-term focus, check out Scott Sonnon's FlowFighting.
2006-07-20 03:57:13 · answer #4 · answered by Nick jr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a million. what number of people believe that martial artwork platforms were a lot simplier than they're on the prompt again in 1900, 1800's and 1700's? and why? i imagine they were typically a lot less truly good, because they were surely used for protection. because of that they necessary to cover a significantly better kind of assaults and defenses, . With the present popularity of MMA do you experience that martial arts is dropping the honour, comprehend, code of ethics and excellent way of existence that made it so tremendous? You extra proper believe it.
2016-10-15 00:04:17 · answer #5 · answered by filonuk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you could. Flexibility gets better with practice. My son is learning Bushido (self defense). There are several men taking these classes as well, most well over the age of thirty, all beginners. None were "flexible" at first but after a year, they can all kick as high as the instructor.
2006-07-20 01:58:31 · answer #6 · answered by K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started at age 38, don't worry about your age. You will develop flexibilty and strength as you go. Don't worry so much about the high kicks, the higher the kick, the less power in the kick. If your kicks are in your height range, they will have much more strength behind them. I was asked once if I could kick someone who was 6' tall in the head (i'm 5'), I answered sure, kick their knees out, they'll go down, and then I can kick their head all I want. :) Have some fun with this, it is a fun thing to learn.
2006-07-20 04:03:06 · answer #7 · answered by mightymite1957 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 49. I started last Feb. It's tough at first, but it gets easier. The only thing is, the older you are, it takes a little longer to bounce back from injury.
We do TKD, judo and hapkido, the combination of which would help you inany fight.
2006-07-20 08:10:28 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. October 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,but you will have to take it in steps,if you try to rush you may injure yourself.Take it easy with the stretching and you will be fine.
Kenpo Karate or Benny Urquidez's school (Jet Center) will fill the bill
2006-07-20 08:19:16 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
KENPO its about street fighting and it teaches you every thing u need to kno on how to munpulitate the human body
2006-07-20 06:46:31 · answer #10 · answered by toast4_3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋