Official Martial Arts Thread

[nicky g]

Thought I'd break this off from Men's Pride gambling thread into a separate thread. Anyone do martial arts here? I've been doing a sort of self-defence-oriented mixed martial arts class for the last couple of months; not a proper MMA class cos we don;t fight competetively and it's nothing like as hardcore, but it's basically a mix of styles including some boxing, grappling, karate and others plus a lot of self-defence drills taught as self-defence, rather than ring fighting. I do it mainly because it's fun and good exercise. I'm not really interested in learning how to fight and I think the only way you can really do that is to fight a lot, which I think is -EV. At college I did a year of Japanese JuJitsu, which was basically self-defence applications of Judo. Anyone else do one?

Any more opinions on the best martial art? Bruiser has said Kung Fu and CCass Tae Kwon Do. I think that a half-decent boxer could beat the crap out of most high ranking KungFuers and TKDer, because they're practice what they preach hard and can take hits, as could a relatively inexperienced grappler/Brasilian JuJitsu player (for the simple reason that it's relatively easy to take someone to the ground, and once you're there the Kung Fu and TKD guys are screwed). Any other thoughts?

I did a poll for this earlier but my PC crashed and I can't be arsed to do it again.