My first street fight since boxing

[Invader_Stu]

I dont know that much about Bruce Lee, but I used to learn Tai Kwon Do. I know everyone here is a boxing fan, and some of you hate that 'martial arts ****', but the Instructor at my gym had been to the Olympics and so had his wife. He was this really cool Korean guy, anyways there is no way in hell I would want to take this guy on in a street fight. Whether you won or lost you'd have your hands full. He was so quick in self-defense etc. literally before you had a chance to move you were on the ground going 'wtf happened'. He used to tell us about his hardcore training in Korea and how he used to 'chop' his hand into a pigs stomach and rib out the guts for street entertainment etc. Pretty cool hehe.

That said, thankfully I've never been in a street fight, although I want to take up kickboxing for the fitness and confidence. Just so if some addict ever hassled me I could at least defend myself.

[elveiel]

I dont know that much about Bruce Lee, but I used to learn Tai Kwon Do. I know everyone here is a boxing fan, and some of you hate that 'martial arts ****', but the Instructor at my gym had been to the Olympics and so had his wife. He was this really cool Korean guy, anyways there is no way in hell I would want to take this guy on in a street fight. Whether you won or lost you'd have your hands full. He was so quick in self-defense etc. literally before you had a chance to move you were on the ground going 'wtf happened'. He used to tell us about his hardcore training in Korea and how he used to 'chop' his hand into a pigs stomach and rib out the guts for street entertainment etc. Pretty cool hehe.

That said, thankfully I've never been in a street fight, although I want to take up kickboxing for the fitness and confidence. Just so if some addict ever hassled me I could at least defend myself.

Yeah, some martial arts fighters would be good in street fighting(against non trained people), but i'd bet if that Korean dude did boxing or Muay Thai he'd be a lot more effective.

If you want to take up Kickboxing thats cool, i'd recommend boxing because your more likely to find a good coach, there are a lot of dumb ass kickboxing instrutors who just earn a black belt and think they can teach. Having a black belt is only useful if you want to show off or intend to strangle your opponent with it.

If you do decide to do Kickboxing for self defence i'd suggest only using low leg kicks and adopt the punching style of a boxer. i once watch a lad try a high kick in a street fight and fell over, LMAO!! i'd probably suggest Muay Thai(good use of elbows and kicks) but it can lead to future problems and they cant punch for ****.

[chilly9876]

True say about black belts meaning nothing,if you want to learn how to be a kik azz fighter,i suggest you do the following...
Take muay thai twice a week for 2 months,then do boxing twice a week and muay thai once a week.
After a few months add some sort of ground fighting class.
Do muay thai one day,boxing one day and ground fighting one day every week. You probably wont be excellent at any of them but all around you'll be very good.
I had a friend who used to do similar,he used to take a range of classes like i mentioned above. The guy was amazing what ever position he was in he'd fnd some sort of attack be it a kick elbow punch or hold. This guy once owned three guys at once.

[leff]

Muay thai is great for streetfighting cause its dirty, id say with som jiu jitsu would be the perfect combination.

Kicks,punces,knees,elbows,headbut,grappling and other dirty but useful technics youd learn them all.

[Dyl-G]

Just Thought I Would Revive Some Old Good Threads For Some Newcomers

[Dkknight]

Martial arts is not practical in a street fight, unless you incorporate an art that uses lots of grappling moves and holds. A good base martial art is Wing Chun. Good for close fighting and teaches you how to get an opponent to the floor.

But as a few people mentioned, you should try and do EVERYTHING to avoid a fight. People nowadays will just shoot you or stab you or hit you with something. Fighting is dirty so don't expect someone to box you. Its best to avoid confrontation at all costs. Don't try and be Superman. You don't need to prove your manhood to anyone by bucking up to someone. Always defend yourself of course, but try to avoid a fight at all costs.

[leff]

Martial arts is not practical in a street fight, unless you incorporate an art that uses lots of grappling moves and holds. A good base martial art is Wing Chun. Good for close fighting and teaches you how to get an opponent to the floor.

But as a few people mentioned, you should try and do EVERYTHING to avoid a fight. People nowadays will just shoot you or stab you or hit you with something. Fighting is dirty so don't expect someone to box you. Its best to avoid confrontation at all costs. Don't try and be Superman. You don't need to prove your manhood to anyone by bucking up to someone. Always defend yourself of course, but try to avoid a fight at all costs.

Ofcourse your supossed to avoid them but sometimes you dont realy have an option, i box activ and ive also done some kickboxing and jiu-jitsu,thats a great combination.

If its tasnding fights (which is how a fight useally begin im good) and if ends upp on the ground which also is the useall way i know what to do there to.

And im sorry to say so but wing chu, karate, kung fu and tae kwon do suck ass.

Boxing, kickboxing, muay thai and jiu jitsu is based on being effective, not to be beatifull.

[Fistecles]

if you ducked to the left then you would have had to throw a left hook to the body.

You would throw a left hoo against another boxer. But this guy was throwing sloppy punches. Its open season.

[Fistecles]

Lets not use Bruce Lee's name in vain. I fyou know anything of the man, you know that he had the most respect for american boxing. So many of his techniiques were based on boxing movement and strikes. Dr. Pugilist said it perfectly. He hit the guy right on his jaw at the jaw line. Took his man down. Thats the boxers mentality in a street fight doing its job. As for boxerdog taking down bruce with a bat. Bruce Lee grew up beating and getting beaten by people in hong kong. I believe mostly with british people. You think noone ever came after him with a stick?

[- Evil -]

An elbow in a street fight can very effective.