Strong Style

Catch wrestling like Billy Robinson and Sakuraba style.

BJJ. Because if I am a master of that I can beat anyone in a fight. I would be awesome at takedowns, breaking bones and keeping/advancing positions. Shit would be so cash in a street fight.

Bruce Lee's completed form of Jeet Kune Do, dat nigga wuz boss as fuck!

The art of cat mode. I need no reason.

Ninjistu - I'd smokebomb your ass and fuck your mother before you even knew I was fighting you

>>44099
I second catmode.....they better hold on tight to their noses, yo.

Hokuto No Ken.
Because I want to make motherfuckers' HEADS ASPLODE and beat up TANKS.
Not Tank Abbot, TANKS.

Jedi, i think the reasoning is obvious.

>>44109

>MFW I will never atatatatatata my enemies to death with this playing in the background.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Vydf7a0AU

>>44135

Dim Mak.

>>44096
not sure if troll.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbfGkiecl2M

>Wu-Tang style

>Kali / Eskrima.

Ability to fight with weapons or empty hands interchangeably and ability to turn ordinary household items into lethal weapons

>Judo / BJJ

???

Kaioken. I am only level 3 now. Without a gravity chamber I'll never progress.

>>44176

lame

>>44091
Boxing...

Muay Thai would be useful too because of the knees, but I'd prefer to have intense knowledge with fists. In a street fight you might not be able to throw kicks as easily for a wide array of reasons.

I would probably go for a stand up style because in real street fights, it might not be the best idea to go to the ground where your opponent's friends can stomp on your face before you can complete your RnC.

Alternatively I would choose Combat Sambo to get a good mixture of striking and grappling knowledge.

Probably boxing for street fights

krav maga, be able to brutally and efficiently retaliate to all manner of attacks

>>44234
brother

Aikido, just to see if mastering it is worth it. I'll be getting at least six years of training for free and instantaneously.

Sinanju. Walk up walls, catch bullets, and give women orgasms INSTANTLY.

WHAT IS THY BIDDING MY MASTER?

This is the martial arts I will be a master of. Including Shin Akuma form!

SHUN GOKU SATSU!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111

Ecky Thump!

Zui Quan

Because bar fights would be hilarious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khDuTJIrGfw

>>44199

>>44271
Second.

Boxing then just win every boxing championship ever?

freestyle
I'll go baki on your asses

>>44109

I believe the proper term for the actual martial art Kenshiro uses is "Hokuto Shinken"

>>44096
In a street fight you're outnumbered as often as not. Going to ground in a street fight is a terrible idea. JJJ would be better.

Muay Thai.

It would mean that I'm in good shape, which would be good. I'd be able to defend myself for real if a fight broke out, and to use it in sport. If I were really a master, I'd also probably be able to get a job doing martial arts movies, which would be cool as fuck.

Plus, I might get to meet Jeeja Yanin.

♥_♥

Jackie Chan.

>>44742
That's cheating. Jackie Chan seems to know hapkido as well as a bit of several types of kung fu, and to be able to do parkour. You have to pick a specific martial art.

Joe Son Do

Hokuto Shinken.

Greco Wrestling

Llap-Goch!

Foxxy Boxing

>>44763

Bushido?

Bushido.

I was originally going to say BJJ but I change my answer to Bushido, for when I get my samurai sword forged in the sun to murder zombie invaders and reptilian body snatchers.

>>44853
>>44855

I'm on the Bushido bandwagon.
Katana's can cut through tanks and shit, saw it in an anime.

Ler Drit.
PSYCHO CRUSHERRRRRRRR!

I admire all martial arts but I would have to say bjj

mma....derp....obviously

Shaolin Kung Fu

You think your Wu Tang sword can defeat me?

>>45336

bjj / gjj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjvzJO-6ESc&feature=related

Oh, you guys weren't serious...

Then, Nanto Suicho Ken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuyxS6WE2vc

52 Handblock. Yeah, I'm that guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2S4BTja2Tk

hapkido. love it

Boxing. I'd want to end fights as fast as possible and nothing does that better than a perfectly placed punch.

That style that makes you stop bullets... Oh wait...

I forgot martial arts are bullshit, and are shit compared to the gun....

>>45428
This was bad and you should feel bad.

>>45428

I didn't know they allowed guns in the UFC.

>>45437

>Implying the UFC is true martial arts

and not watered down sport versions of out dated fighting technology.

>Martial arts = "Arts of Mars," the Roman god of war.

>>45428

>he doesn't know that Llap-Goch practitioners can easily deflect bullets with their mind

LaughingMartialArtists.jpg

>>45441

One guy with a laser belt can take out any number of gun wielding martians.

muay thai...

not very creative, but I would kick the fuck through any notion of physical defense, and you could hardly avoid a real strike like that. All my nerves would be dead from conditioning. Any measly block wouldn't sustain that kind of pressure or force. And I doubt you would want to get close enough for me to use my elbows or knees, and risk the possibility of an elbow lock.

Eight points, all to beat the fuck out of you with.

Capoeira, because I can take that shit to the club.

>>45473

What if the club has a gun?

>>45472
Nice I agree. Good use of words.

>>45451
9/10

For creativity haha

>>45428

I guess you always have a gun with you 100% of the time? And I guess a gun is always the optimal tool to handle a situation? I also guess no one can disarm your gun or get to you before you can draw it, right? Oh! I almost forgot that you have unlimited ammunition and guns never jam or break.

Get the fuck out of here and go fellate some guys at your NRA meetup.

BJJ joe rogan seyz it gewd

>>45474
Breakdance the fuck out of there obviously.

ryu. street fighter 2 turbo edition.

>>45498
Everyone knows Chun-Li and Dhalsim are top-tier characters in competitive play (SFII turbo ofcourse)

>>45498
>>45499

Streetfighter is just spam.
Tekken is where it's at.

Boxing or Aikido
Catch wrestling would be sick too.

>>45506

>Aikido

Lol...

To answer OP's question, I'd go for Muay Thai. I think striking arts are more useful than grappling in real life situations... I WOULD have chosen boxing because it can be hard to land kicks in many situations (inside a bar or something), but the clinch work and knees are invaluable IMO.

By the way, the reason I say striking arts are better is because you can have your head kicked in whilst rolling round on the floor. If he has friends with him why would you go down to the ground? A foot in your face is all you can expect at that point.

>>45517>>45517
He thinks aikido is about rolling on the ground

No, it was made my midget japanese wizards, not bazilojolly african-americans.

You don't need to drop to the ground to do a good armbar. You can use use it to throw people too.

>>45517
Today's ground grappling sucks for the street, stand up isn't bad.

JJJ and Evolutions are legit, it takes forever to learn. Like Aikido.

>>45522
Implying I think Aikido is ground grappling and didn't just lol because every Aikido practicioner I know has tried to tell me to "grab them right there... No... Other side..."

>>45533
I find JJJ to be absolutely abysmal. Not seen anyone at the highest levels but as an intermediate BJJ practitioner I have NO problem defeating a brown belt JJJ player. Oh and I can take them down very easily too because without the gi my wrestling training REALLY pays off. In the gi they just grab the belt when you crouch down and use that to gain control... Luckily I never wear a belt when I'm at the bar, and I don't think it's as easy to get such a good grip on the waist of some jeans.

I might be wrong though.

>>45540
Today's grappling from JJJ, is a lot like wrestling in some ways. Of course BJJ and Judo are better when you take them to the ground.
Both are a refinement pointed more to not using a weapon, and of course more productive moves.

JJJ is Broad as fuck, Its like a lower jack of all trades (or lesser so then jack of all). Not only that its a weapon supplement type of art, you grabbed your sword and if you did not have that you had a knife. If some fucker tried to take your weapon, or if you were in a tricky situation you would use it. Not only that JJJ prefers you to stay standing and does not train to you stay on the ground ( for a long time). Pure JJJ students when fighting pure judo students and BJJer's are like a fish out of water.

>>45539 ( that's why he was saying grab this way, most movements are based on the sword, or if some one was trying to take away his weapon)

>That said Judo is fucking awesome for the street

If some one tries to take your weapon, or tries in ANYway to grab, control, get closer to you can swiftly and powerfully with out second thought, SMASH them into the earth. Then it covers basic ground fighting to get untangled and get up (or pull a swift submission) if you some how end up there (BJJ is way better for this). Roll falls are useful as well.

>>45540
Yea I speaking more of Judo. But I am biased. Right now, I am training under a judoka (4th dan) (I am trying to get my stand up grappling up to par) who is also a 9th dan in JJJ so it gets mixed in a lot.

>>45624
Yes a lot of Japanese arts include moves to defend from ancient unused weaponry. Maybe if a ninja jumps me one day and holds me at sword-point I'll wish I trained ninjutsu or something...

I enjoy the traditional Japanese arts because of the kung-fu movie quality.

But I don't make the mistake of thinking it's superior to more things like BJJ, freestyle wrestling, SAMBO etc.

>>45638
I think you might be misguided somehow.
Most trad MAs like Judo try to end the fight ASAP.
And just as well. A nicely played uchi-mata onto concrete will result in someone's heart exploding out of his chest.
Chinese Kung Fu as well, many forms, yes, but many demobilizing techniques like eye-rakes, twisting the neck, etc.

I remember in Hong Kong, some Kung Fu dudes in a park asked me to spar with them since I had my gear with me, and they feigned striking my balls and gouging my eyes and striking the neck. He then explained to me that the stuff that Jackie Chan did was influenced by Chinese Opera, where you see the long drawn-out melees happening. It makes sense, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, wtc did come from an Opera School.

>>45640
That's because Judo is one of, if not THE most practical Japanese martial art. But still, I think wrestling is far greater for takedowns and slams, and even greco-roman though I assume freestyle is better due to leg takedowns which I feel are far more effective.

>>45642
Like when cutting down a tree, you attack the base. I think the same is true for takedowns, I think a human's weak point is at the lower regions assuming you want to floor them... Take out the base and the body will crumble. When you attack the upper body for a takedown you're going to meet more resistance than you would from a well timed double as they have the legs to stabilize them and the added strength that provides.

Only disadvantage to leg takedowns is that sometimes dropping down will open you up to a sprawl or a guillotine if you misplace your head.

Naike Kenpou.
Not as pretty as Hokuto Shinken, but if you got to make a motherfucker deader than dead...

>>45642
I seriously don't know why people talk about judo being useful. If someone stands the way the Olympic judo fighters do, with the body hunched and head forward, tugging at my clothes, I'll simply headbutt him or punch him in the face.

If I get tossed on the ground and he's on top of me, his ground game won't do shit - because I am doing to bite the shit out of him, put my fingers in his eyes/mouth, and grab his genitals. What good is putting me in an arm bar if I am going to bite a chunk out of your calf?

>>46506
I'm 50/50 on this.

Sport judo is complete trash. I've ranted on this many times but here it goes: neck clinching prohibited in stand-up phase, no leg takedowns, no fireman's carry slam, no wristlocks, no bicep cutter or muscle targeting, no neck cranks, no spinal locks (twister), ground phase is extremely limited, turtling forces a stand-up, it costs money (a lot of money) to get belt promotions, and probably more.

But I do respect judo's effectiveness in clinch-fighting and balance. These chokes are applicable on the street and a good throw can seriously hurt someone on the street. Grabbing someone's sleeve who has no idea about judo is pretty much game over.

>>46507

>Sport judo is complete trash
>implying there is another kind of Judo

Judo has always been a sport first. Same with BJJ. You can certainly use the techniques you learn in a self defense scenario, but from the very beginning Judo was trained specifically for competition.

>>45643

Judo throws attack the base just like any freestyle takedown. In a double-leg, you block the legs with your arms and drive your opponent's body weight over them, knocking him off balance. In a harai goshi, you block your opponent's legs with your legs and pull his body weight over them, knocking him off balance.

The ONLY difference between the two sports is the gi. Western wrestling developed without the gi so pushing/driving attacks are most prevalent. The Judo gi allows strong pulls which make driving into your opponent more dangerous.

Of course, morote gari exists in Judo, and hip throws exist in freestyle wrestling.

>>46506

>and grab his genitals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZKZsqWdFw

A judo throw on concrete or any hard surface should knock the wind/paralyse someone
>>46506

>>46506
Also, you could take a chunk out of someones calf, but he is still going to have the armbar. And when your ulna gets dislocated from the rest of your arm, 10 to one your losing that fight

>>44091
tai chi, chen style. in those pretty liquid movements are locks, throws, strikes and sweeps aplenty. also, I'm tall and heavy, so I don't want to be jumpin and shit.
I should have my bud train me and cross train with some j/jj and kenpo a bit.

>>46528
This so fucking much

>>46506
If you are a skilled fighter it is very easy to avoid or even employ biting / ball kicking or grabbing.
If you fight a dude one on one unarmed ,that is good at grappling and you do not your self train in them, I suggest you pray and as a last ditch effort try those dirty techniques.....

Your senses are fine tuned, and your fast as fuck with your movements / technique compared to the untrained. To have any chance to use dirty moves you better be athletic as fuck and muscular.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakom

Since OP proposed a genie-wish question, I'm gonna wish to be a master of this style that uses overwhelming striking to kill people.

baquazhang

>>46531
Chen style? Bolo Yeung fuck yeah! I like the look of Old Yang style myself, that Erle Montaigue had some wicked looking punches, but Bolo's tai chi is amazing, never seen a guy that big move so fast.

>>46540
This, dirty fighting isn't a magic bullet, good positioning will neutralise it, check out the old Gracie challenge against the Hapkido fighters, one tries a cheap ball shot after losing and gets shut down. The only effective way to use those skills against a real fighter is to set them up with superior control skills and positioning, like Filipino Kuno Mutai, or Thai Lerd Rit. There's no free pass, you still gotta train.

Wing Chun

Had to say it

Better yet, the hybrid art Yong Tjun, which incorporates a lot of wing chun, but mixes it up with other styles, much like Jeet Kune Do

>>46554
its sort of amazing to watch a 50yo woman who you KNOW has a bad hip be able to lock and disable a 250lb man with the "flowers in the basket" early part of the form. Yang really looks cool, but Chen seems way more technically dangerous.

>>44096
BJJ in a streetfight. biting, eye gouging, ear tearing, concealed weapons, multiple opponents. LOL. im pretty sure you could knock them out before they could count to potato

i would want to master either the supernatural aspects of shaolin kung fu, or krav. shaolin kung fu has the best defense because of their intense ironbody training. or krav because its a compilation of all of the practical moves in martial arts.

Hokuto Shin Ken

Boxing. No contest. Other than it having its own sport to excel in, its also head and shoulders the best stand up game you could have to knock guys out in MMA. There's no real style that would serve you well in MMA without learning anything else. Gotta be well rounded these days.

>>46753

Not to start a shitstorm, but a boxer would propably get a knee, elboe og shin to the face he even knew what hit him...

It's simply not versitile enough

Thai/kick boxing is the best way to start off an MMA career, though judo/anykind of jiujitsu works fine as groundwork as well

>>46778
I'm gonna go on a limb and say that buffman was joking. nb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK98JoX_tns&feature=plcp

>implying Catmode isn't a real martial-art

>>46839

I enjoyed that demonstration.
Immensely
moar?

>>46839
It's like an unrelenting riverdance of pain.

>>46839

>someone is offering instruction in cat-mode

Keith Jardine opened an academy? Brace yourselves; the new breed is coming.

>>46839
1:14 he goes all Bruce Lee in his mannerism, especially at 1:16

>Shaq Fu

>>46839

>>44096

most BJJ guys suck at takedowns, and if you try to jump guard in a street fight you are retarded.

Muay Thai all the way, i already have a purple belt in BJJ and being able to use all my limbs to beat your ass standing is all i need, im not dumb enough to go to the ground in a fight unless it absolutely has to happen.

>>46938
It's crazy how I watch BJJ tourneys and highly ranked BBs 70% of the time just go for guard-pulls to grab the first point and to safely get the fight to the ground. If they cross-trained Judo then they'd be nigh unstoppable since they have the gi.

And likewise Judo dudes suck at ground-game. It's bizzaro world man.

>>46939
I saw some vid on youtube where Nick Diaz and Ronda Rousey were like "here we first train judo a bit, then BJJ a bit, and then end the day with both mixed".

>>46939

Guard pulling is a tactically sound tournament strategy if you are confident in your guard. Attempting a takedown is risky. if you attempt a takedown, you open yourself up to losing points on your opponent's takedown or counter. I personally think it's easier to score an advantage from guard than from the top (though statistically, the guard puller wins about half the time at high levels). Many of those guys who you think don't cross train Judo are actually Judo black belts. They just follow the path of least resistance given their skill set.

I do Judo and BJJ and it's very difficult to get the grips you would classically need for a "judo" throw in a BJJ tournament. Once a guy feels you beating him in the grip fighting he pulls guard. Typically, I attack from armdrags/russians which are semi-illegal in Judo (you can't hold "unorthodox" grips for more than a couple seconds) because it puts you to the side and prevents a guard pull. Getting a lapel/sleeve grip is very unlikely unless your opponent is a Judoka too. Getting the strong grips is even more important when you remember the very real danger of getting your back taken on any turning throw. I've only hit one "big" throw in a BJJ tourny and I spent the next 2 minutes trying to keep the guy off my back. Not that you can't use it; it's just very hard to implement under BJJ rules. personally I think you should give up an advantage for pulling guard

Really, your best bet at a takedown, at least at low levels of BJJ, is to fake the clinch and shoot a power double. Half the time you catch the guy trying to pull guard and get a free 2 points. If you let the other guy get a hand on you he can pull guard.

I just realized something.
When BJJ dudes feel threatened, they pull guard.
But when Judo dudes feel threatened, they turtle.

Haha

>>44271

So worth it, but get a good teacher.

>>47032
Good to know thank you. Are there any decent youtube videos to get me motivated to look more into it?

>>47288
Aikido isn't relevant to MMA, blah blah. Aikido teaches some very good things, I love the jo and bokken work. It teaches good principles and techniques that CAN be applied to MMA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyxe1PMXGBM&feature=related

>>46948
pulling guard is worse in judo because it prolongs the ground-game, turtling for more than a few seconds means both fighters are taken back to their feet and the fight is continued. Judoka want to win by ippon, not by submission.

>>45321

Wing Chun, mebbe Juijitsu, not sure if Japanese or Brazilian, I do Krav Maga atm but it'd be great to know the fundamentals of Wing Chun and the likes..... or JKD.
Fuck, I'm indecisive.

Pradal Serey or Muay Boran (old war form of muay thai). Any martial art that was actually used by people in war effectively. And I like the indochinese ones more than the ones with hierarchy and other stuff like that. Also Eskrima would be cool to master.

>>46839
This. Is. Beautiful

Ninjutsu.

Not because LOLNINJA but because it basically means I'd be amazing at parkour, survivalism, lockpicking, espionage, moving around silently, etc., and semi-decent in a fight if it somehow ever came to that.

It's a martial art in that it has been used in war.

>>49437
Oh shit, yeah this.
Ninjutso also has basic chemistry and the likes as well as a heap of other stuff.

>Ninjutsu

The only street certified martial art I do is Ameri-do-te
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryArHjjACBc

Drunken Boxing hands down

>>49443
10/10

>>49443
They've made a t-shirt that says "ASK ME ABOUT MY BRUISES"

>>44287
tfw you cant master shin akuma

Jeet Kune Do. Its where its at.

Jiu jitsu

What is the most suave martial art
I will master it
I was thinking about savate because you can hold a drink while kicking people but eh I don't think raising your legs that high is suave

>>49854
La Verdadera Destreza.
You will be the most suave motherfucker ever.

>>49858
Naaaah.
Naaaaaaaaah.
I'd say aikido is the smoothest but I am unsure if it is nice against non-charging dudes.
But i

>>49884
Aikido is not SUAVE. Nothing wearing a hakama is SUAVE.
Destrezia is the Zorro martial art, it makes women SWOON.
An entering throw is not a SWOON.

>>49888
Aikido is fluid and shit. And you can be going commando in hakama and flash your balls which is alpha. Destreza is like, you have to move and stuff. If I thought moving is suave I'd choose capoeira.

>Aikido sucks ass.

It has been declawed, defanged.

If they trained alive and sparred and try to kill each other I would be a devote Aikido-ist.
Now all the clubs I find teach this screwy religion with some odd form of yoga or dancing.

>>49890
I bet if there was a martial art that taught people to shoot lasers out of their eyes everyone would bitch "oh it's so impractical I mean they don't even shoot lasers at each other while training laser-fu sucks in a real street fight that's why you don't see it in mma championships"

>>49893
How good at laser-fu can you be if you never use your laser vision in a training way. you would be attacked on the street, try and Cyclops a bitch, then realize a fist to the eye keeps you from hitting them, now your fucked

>>49895
what if I also have a gun

>>49895>>49898
Also what if the gun knows muay thai
Then you're beaten even if you are overeem or something
Then we'll see you laugh at the aikido
Pansy