I want to find a martial art that actually teaches you to fight.
Go with a fight sport and don’t use the excuse about rules. If you really want to fight then competition is your guarantee that you will fight. Converting fight sport skills to “reality” shouldn’t take any real effort. Most of being able to handle yourself on the street is awareness and smarts.
Liokault,
Please, not that kind of fight club! The group trains together, developing each others ability.
mickey
Re: I can’t find an art to suit me
Originally posted by stubbs
Nobody holds their arm out long enough to do what the drills try to teach us to do… I just get a bit frustrated with the ‘mess’ a lot of martial arts teach.
You’d be suprized at what a person will do. Any-who, if the teacher never has your opponant speed it up from just holding out your arm, then it is indeed a “mess”. You also don’t fully learn the technique. Once you get good at applying the technique on someone who knows what you are about to do, applying it to some Joe-Shmo who throws out sloppy punches is a cake-walk.
But put the blaim where it needs to be. The “mess” is the failure of the teacher, not the art.