Most Common Street Fighting Situations?

Question

What are the most common fights a person can get into outside the dojo and what is the most common type of attacker? What martial arts style is best used to defend against a person who uses weaponry or gang fights? And of coarse what is a well rounded fighting style that teaches striking, kicking, grappling ground fighting, etc.?

Answer 1

Most common type of attack is usually one of 2 types the first is someone coming from behind you or giving you a sucker punch (sneaky dirty attack) or a full on attack. So awareness is key to any self defense situation.

Regarding martial arts styles that best suited to deal with weapons or gang fights...the answer is non...martial arts is a sport, it doesn't teach you how to use your environment as weapons at your disposal and techniques can only be effective if all the variables of the situation are exactly in place which never is.

Here's what I mean if you are fighting on the street where it's wet and you have slippery leaves on the ground you will slip when performing kicks making you valnerable, also if you are fighting in a tight or confined close quarter area most techniques will be to hard to execute because martial arts tactics are performed in wide open spaces...opposite of where most attacks happen in.

A suggestion if you are dealing with an armed attacker control the arm that has the weapon is your first priority by controlling the elbow of the arm holding the weapon. If you are dealing with someone with a knife, block the knife thrusts with your outter forearms, never expose the inside wrists because you have major arteries there and will bleed heavily. Remeber you will get cut when dealing with a knife it's not like in the movies and I have seen this in my years working a bouncer/bodyguard.

When dealing with groups of guys never get stuck in the middle of the group cause you won't be able to defend yourself. When you see a group (2 man example) coming move to one side of them this forms a line "Line Theory"... immediately kick at your attacker's shins who is in front of you and with the attacker who is furthest away from you move whenever he moves in the opposite direction this will maintain the line. Remember you are doing 2 things at once blocking and kicking and moving in the oppoisite direction when the attacker furthest away from you moves.

You have to take out the guy thats infront of you fast folow with stomping on the inside of his knee to drop him... also get him into the way of the other attacker so you use him as a shield...if there is an object such as a car or garbage can use those things to make a shield between you and your attackers.

P.S. To find out if you are dealing with a realistic system you can see if the ground tactics taught in the school lasts a long time on the ground if it does it's sport based...on the street you don't want to be on the ground for long because you never know if your attacker has buddies around waiting to stomp on you.

Answer 2

the progressive fighting system is a form of jeet kun do founded by Paul vunak. i am a student of an instructor certified in pfs and its all about street fighting. if their is one i have learned in the streets and in training is no two fights are the same. iv ben in fights were it was so dark i couldn't see my opponent, that is some scary ****. you don't know if this guy has a knife or a stick or what the hell he is doing. i haven't had a weapon pulled on me but fighting more than one person is always fun. pfs teaching a mix of fighting styles because the best art is to have no art. pfs also teaches weapons and how to defend against mass attack. the best advice i can give you about street fighting is be ready for anything and don't rely on one martial art use what works at that time. Paul vunak has made some videos called the anatomy of street fight look for those and you will see i mean.pfs has a web site you can check out to.

Answer 3

The most common situations are when you are unprepared and in a less oportunistic position.
The most common type of attacker is the person whom feels they have a superior edge on you.
San Soo, BJJ, Submission Wrestling, Hisardut or Krav Maga, certain ways of Silat, Hwrang Do, Shim Gum Do, Combat Sambo are some of the best I know of. I am sure there is so many more,....
A well rounded style is Shen Wu
Tim Cartmell is a great martial artist.
10 years in China fighting and learning after earning his masters degree in San Soo here in the US, then to go on and earn a black belt in BJJ.

Answer 4

In a street fight, the most common situation is you will end up on the ground. The two other scenarios are that the attacker has a knife (especially in England) or even a gun. There is no style that teaches specifically only weapon disarms, but I suggest learning some type of weapon style, in addition to Judo, ju-jitsu, wrestling, tae kwon doe, karate, or jeet kune doe. Basically the best plan is to focus on a weapon style, a ground style, a striking style, and to learn as many weapon disarms as you can.

Answer 5

freestyle karate is a good style thats well rounded, been studying it almost four years now and i love it.
i would say the most common type of attackers would be people who want something from you (money, phone, MP3 etc), drunks, people who are with friends and wanna prove there 'tough', people who already have a problem with you (like idiots at school or whatever) and obviously those assholes that target women.

although obviously the best thing to do in a gang situation would be to get out of there asap

Answer 6

Bar fight closed in area, learn Jujitsu mixed with a hard karate style like Goju-Ryu or shorei ryu

Answer 7

usually some big doof with something to prove. I liek to go for the solar plexus. Knock the wind out of him and he can't move a muscle for a couple seconds. In that time, you can go to work on his stupid face.

Answer 8

probably significant other. Pots, pans, knives, rope, cars, pillows. ninja style is probably most well rounded.