# What's a good Martial Arts style for 1 on 1 street fight? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [April 25, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847 "2006-04-25T00:02:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/1 "2006-04-25T00:02:34Z")
I’ve tried a couple of styles of martial arts (Karate, Hung Gar, Wushu) but they are way to boring. A lot of it is forms and seem way too boring. I looked through [this huge list of martial arts styles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_martial_arts) and there are way too many. Do you know any style for fun/useful 1 on 1 combat fighting? Jiu-jitsu sounds like what I want, but it doesn’t look cool when fighting heh. Anything that looks cool and doesn’t waste much time other than just fighting techniques? ---
**Author:** ![Digitalosophy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalosophy/32/1114_2.png) [@Digitalosophy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digitalosophy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/2 "2006-04-25T00:08:12Z")
> [@MTsoul](#): > > Jiu-jitsu sounds like what I want, but it doesn’t look cool when fighting heh. A good friend of mine perfected Jiu-jitsu a while back. Guy is sick, I wouldn’t mess with him. He had tons of fun learning and training too. Give it a go ---
**Author:** ![wizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/3 "2006-04-25T00:11:10Z")
Just learn this kick: [http://www.hedonistica.com/media.php?path=/videos/taekwondo-ko.wmv](http://www.hedonistica.com/media.php?path=/videos/taekwondo-ko.wmv) ---
**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/4 "2006-04-25T00:15:13Z")
Sweet. I’ll check out some training centers for that. ---
**Author:** ![SlowRoasted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@SlowRoasted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SlowRoasted)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/5 "2006-04-25T00:16:53Z")
Buy you a nice hand gun:P ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/6 "2006-04-25T00:19:25Z")
BJJ - brazillian jiu-jitsu muai thai kali jeet-kune-do i’ve got friends in that and yeah you don’t mess with them - good example of people that use these styles are people from the ultimate fighter tv shows ---
**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/7 "2006-04-25T00:21:50Z")
_“Ju-Jitsu? I’m going to learn Ju-Jitsu??”_ ![](http://kuranvebilim.com/images/matrix/41.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![wizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/8 "2006-04-25T00:22:32Z")
If only we could just upload it… ---
**Author:** ![kdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdd)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/9 "2006-04-25T01:21:45Z")
@ what wizard said: well, the other guy was totally not paying attention to what was going on… he could’ve done something to prevent being hit… ---
**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/10 "2006-04-25T01:24:41Z")
> Anything that looks cool and doesn’t waste much time other than just fighting techniques? Anything like that would seem to defeat the ideal purpose of learning a martial art. It seems like you want to learn how to fight, but not actually learn the art. ---
**Author:** ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/11 "2006-04-25T01:27:02Z")
a lot of people will poo-poo it, but i’ve heard judo is the most practical and realistic martial art you can learn. In 2 seconds you can have a guy on the ground in a choke hold he’ll never get out of. I’ve also seen a lot of stories on the news of robberies being foiled or bad guys getting brought down by someone who knew judo. It may not be as glamorous as the others but I know some top ranking judo guys and gals that I would NOT want to mess with. Plus it is an olympic sport :pleased: ---
**Author:** ![SlowRoasted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@SlowRoasted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SlowRoasted)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/12 "2006-04-25T01:30:23Z")
Yeah some of the BJJ guys on ultimate fighting can really tear stuff up. ---
**Author:** ![kdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdd)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/13 "2006-04-25T01:44:28Z")
what krilnon said is so true. “cool” isn’t what art is… example from Enter The Dragon: some guy: "what’s your style?" Bruce Lee: “my style? you can call it the art of fighting without fighting…” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/14 "2006-04-25T02:14:18Z")
Lol krilnon you are exactly right. I don’t really want to learn the art (I probably might if I had time). Jiu-Jitsu sounds pretty good then. If I remember right, Bruce Lee invented Jeet Kune Do? I thought it’s not really a fighting style, but rather a collection of techniques or something. You’d have to master everything else to learn this 😕 ---
**Author:** ![ditt0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@ditt0](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ditt0)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/15 "2006-04-25T02:27:32Z")
Martial arts are not about fighting. They are used to train your body and mind. In the worst case, you can think of them as being also usefull for **defending** yourself, but never for fighting. You don’t use your power to protect yourself, but your spirit. ---
**Author:** ![hsadan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@hsadan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hsadan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/16 "2006-04-25T02:51:55Z")
Rex Kwon Do :run: ---
**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/17 "2006-04-25T03:29:10Z")
Hmm… Okay I’ll rephrase my question. What’s a good [strong]fighting[/strong] style? ---
**Author:** ![RadioactveChimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@RadioactveChimp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RadioactveChimp)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/18 "2006-04-25T03:36:03Z")
> [@hsadan](#): > > Rex Kwon Do > > :run: hahaha nice, love them 'merican pants ---
**Author:** ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/19 "2006-04-25T04:12:09Z")
Capoeira is great to learn:) i agree with lunatic, judo is definitely good:) [ot]what was Chuck Norris’ Martial art again?[/ot] ---
**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847/20 "2006-04-25T05:15:31Z")
[ot]Chuck Norris doesn’t **need** martial arts. He just uses his… um… Chuck Norris… ness… and uh… yeah. [/ot] [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-a-good-martial-arts-style-for-1-on-1-street-fight/186847.md?page=2)