The most effective martial art for street fighting. What are your thoughts?

Geez, you're asking an impossible question, the best art for you is the one you are most comfortable with. I learned Krav Maga in the Army (IDF) and now I teach Krav Maga and am a student of Combat Sambo, which is similar to jiu jitsu, but we work with common street weapons (guns, knives, bats, etc.), just as we did in Krav Maga. This is why I am comfortable with defending against both armed and unarmed attackers.

As a combat veteran you do recognize certain realities, if a person has a proper hold on a gun from a meter, safety off, you will die. If the person is less than competent with the gun, as you defend, if you hear the shot, you still have a chance to do what you can do, if your ears are ringing you still have a chance, we both know it is the one you don't hear that will kill you. Most non combat people are equally competent with a K-Bar, so again, you get close enough, you may have a chance.

I do enjoy Combat Sambo, I do enjoy Krav Maga, both arts are entirely military in inception and training, BJJ must have some weapons training, if not, take from other fighting systems, practice and develop from techniques you are comfortable with. Just like Krav Maga and Combat Sambo, take pieces from different arsenals and make them your own.

BJJ is great, but I'm not aware of much weapons training, maybe they have evolved to recognize weapons and now train for armed assailants. In Combat Sambo and Krav Maga we begin training against weapons and attacks from the very beginning, so a Kravist or Combat Sambo (as opposed to Sport Sambo) gets more comfortable with confronting weapons.

Bjj is a good style but honestly who has that much time on the street?

Edit- The statistic that 95% of fights winde up on the ground has never been proven. That is a statement made by the Gracie's to premote their style and is an error. Also of the % that does go to the ground, only some of those are where going to the ground was intentional, where both parties are still able to continue.

I do not know where you train, but any martial art to be good requires a certian level of fitness.

Also BJJ does not address multiple attackers. It may not be commen but it does happen. Where are you if it does? So maybe it is not the best style for self defense, which is about survival and getting out with the minimal damage done to you as possible.

When will people realize that a style does not fight, people do. it has far more to do with the individual then the style.

Lets take a quote from everyones favorite master BRUCE LEE /

"An effective martial art and martial artist should be able to end a fight without delay very quickly .At the same time the training should be such that he can last a longer fight without running out of gas"He then talked about real training with contact etc.

If that type of training is what you are doing it doesn't matter what you are training in.

I was a bouncer for 3 years in that time I saw 4 fights end up on the ground mainly because one or both were to drunk to keep their balance anyway.And the original GRACIE quote was "95% of our fights are won on the ground"They just capitilized on the mis quote and started using it themselves.

Street fighters usually come in low to grab you by the cojones not tackle.

It's always about fame and money.

I don't think, "a_l_m_o_s_t_famous," gets the fact that in the real world, u cant always avoid a fight. And also, his story basically implied that if u get big and strong, no one will want to fight you. Which is not even the point that he was making. oh yeah, about akido, its useless. There's a dark secret in martial arts. That secret is that most martial arts (not all) are pretty much made up from some guy along time ago and he thought he was the ****. Then started teaching poeple and built a following. Its kind of like a Religion. No matter how much u try to convince a terrorism, that Alla and Suicide Bombing is wrong. They wont believe u. just like if i went to an akido school and said that their martial arts is useless and a waste of time. They wont believe me. Trust me. your wasting your time. No akido master, will ever be able to take on a ufc fighter.

Okay first of all brazian jujistu SUCKS for street fighting and is only good in an octagon. I dont know where you live but where i live of where i used to live if you fight a guy a bring him to the ground where thier are glass and all types of stuff. And you start grappling with the guy along comes some of his friends start stomping on you all because you wanted to take a fight to the ground. I good martial arts should know not to take a fight to the ground but if you do go to the ground get back up as soon as possible.

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The most effective martial art for street fighting. What are your thoughts?

This is Gracie/Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I love this martial art. I was taught it in the Army, and I fell in love with its effectiveness. What do you...

I agree with Katana. BJJ is a good fighting style, but on the streets you don't have that much time. You must be concerned about multiple attackers.

The best fighting style on the streets is not to get into the fight in the first place.

Why are people on here so obsessed with fighting. Yes, I am a martial artist. Yes I am a fighter. But I train to fight and have trained my children to fight so that they will hopefully never have to fight. I'd rather them use their brain and avoid the fight if possible. If it isn't possible I know they can defend themselves well. Because they are equipped and thoroughly tested.

Hey man, what about white eyebrow and chen style tai chi? thats quite a mix. You have all the grapples and throws of chen style, plus the deadly southern tiger style of punches, kicks and locks. You can take a fight to the ground, or go low enough to control them while they are on the ground and you have the altitude and weight of force advantage (even if you are smaller(. Brazillian Jujitsu is some kick a$$ stuff, but its allways good to think outside the box and try new stuff.Chen taichi is like BJJ that you do not have to be physicaly fit to seriously do some damage or throw someone around, I wonder what brazilian jujitsu and chen style would be like together?

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it is not the art but the TRAINING METHODOLOGY that makes an art worthwhile.

if you trained ANY art even bjj without going against a resisting opponent you won't learn to properly apply the techniques.

doing compliant training where your partner just "goes along with it" the whole time doesn't teach you anything (after the first few tries to get a feel for what should happen).

you need to train against someone that will not let you get it off whether its striking or grappling, people "on the street" won't let you get it off so why should your training partner?

bjj, boxing and other sportative arts do tend (on average) to train with more resistance than other arts, but that is not true in all cases. just statistically speaking, you will find more of these types of schools that train realistically than others so they are easier to find.

will mcdojoism hit bjj- certainly it is inevitable, but it hasn't happened to any great degree yet.

Krav Maga is actually best for street fighting cause thats what it was designed for

bjj is great for one on one fast bone breaking moves

but in a street fight what if you end up on the ground going to break some guys arm

and his buddy kicks you in the face

ground fighting in the street = dangerous