Long time martial arts practitioner here. Don't know what to practice? Stop making threads and just read this one.
Veeky Forums guide to choosing a martial art - ultimate edition
Jaxson Long
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Josiah Murphy
Disturbingly bad information.
Ryan Perez
Absolutely accurate you mean. Ive trained my whole life, have a bjj black belt, fought as an amateur in boxing, practiced shaolin kung fu and capoeira as a teenager , and have sparred/am friends with fighters of countless styles of karate and grappling and it's 100% correct.
I could have added catch wrestling but it's dead aside from Japan and maybe Erik Paulson in the US... I dont even know who teaches it anymore. Also at this point it's indistinguishable from submission wrestling as well as no-gi BJJ except for some submissions which you'd find in Sambo anyway.
Karate is point sparring except for Kyokushin. Point sparring is a joke.
Everything in that post is accurate, sorry if it busts your kung fu mental masturbation pal
Michael Rodriguez
So should I go boxing or krav maga?
Gavin Roberts
Are you afraid for your life? Are you a security guard who needs to immobilize drunk people and throw them out? Krav Maga.
Are you just a regular dude who occasionally might need to get rough but don't necessarily fear for your life? Boxing of course. In fact, do both. Do a few months of krav maga and get some solid techniques to use in tough situations and keep drilling them forever.
Just find a school that has full contact sparring with gloves and headgear. Do NOT fall for those bullshit "self defense" schools that only teach you locks like "he does this then you grab here then you twist there"
this shit will give you a false sense of security and you will get knocked the fuck out the first time you try to grab someone's wrist
That's the thing, there are no boxing mcdojos.
Nathan Reyes
boxing hands down. you will learn to slip punches and move. you dont learn that anywhere else.
once you can box, add whatever you want.
boxing is the SS of fight sports.
Jack Russell
boxing will be better for nearly every situation you might encounter. also better overall fitness and form.
krav maga will be better if you find yourself in an actual close combat life or death situation. this is very unlikely unless you live in syria, ukraine, mexico or chicago.
Aaron Baker
You learn that in every single striking art with full contact sparring, including savate and kenpo. The thing is though they aren't as realistic or they're too stylistic and they definitely don't focus enough.
Hunter Wood
Boxing is amazing. I watched a dude beat the fuck out of bigger guy at a Target. It wasn't special techniques or anything like that, he just knew how to avoid a punch and punch the shit out of that dude's face like there was no tomorrow.
Austin Davis
You literally list boxing as better than Muay that for the only fact that it's more available, yet say Muay Thai is better than boxing because you have more options, then list kickboxing as lower than boxing and Muay Thai, shitty logic.
Where did you get your bb from? Who gave it to you? What's your lineage? You don't fucking know what you're talking about stop misinforming people.