Most practical martial art?

Well, in a street fight you need to know how to box to an extent. I imagine kickboxing would only make you more efficient since most people don't even have defenses lined up in their mind when it comes to reacting to a fucking kick to the legs. But fights, a lot of times, tend to go to he ground and you need to know your shit there too. Any sort of grappling would help. And don't worry about your fight turning into some goofy UFC LETS LIE ON TOP OF EACHOTHER FOR FIVE MINUTES because most people can't wrestler their way out of shit.

This Krav Maga sounds interesting. And isn't Aikido what that goof Steven Seagal does? Someone mentioned Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee's technique, and it's great in the sense that it teaches you to be open and ready for any/to do anything in any sort of fight scenario. If you let form and set in stone guidelines/technique dictate your style, you become predictable to anyone that knows a damn thing about what they're doing.

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Originally Posted by Shin

Just run away, take up track running or something.

This is probably some of the best advice you can get. It'll also work in your favor if you need to run away from the polies as well.

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if the cops turn up and see you martial artsing someone

lolies. You need to be able to run here too.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

The balance and footwork learned in ninjitsu is fucking amazing. I was seeing a variety of martial artists trying to do their art while balancing on some stumps of various lengths and only the ninjitsu practitioner could do it fucking cat like.

Originally Posted by LordsSword

The experience of practicing violent encounters is valuable but the important part is not the moves, its keeping yourself under control.

EXTREMELY TRUE. Check out this video. It has tons of examples of people that lose their fucking mind while fighting. But check out the fight at 2:49. Guy defending his girlfriend very well against two people. Kept his cool. Not sure if he's a boxer or just a naturally intelligent fighter. I'd be so ashamed of myself if I got my ass kicked this way, worse yet if I had a friend "helping" me.

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This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well, defensively speaking thats sound. But look at the problems Obi Wan had using Soresu, a purely defensive lightsaber style.

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