Good self defense class?

[rdk409]

I will throw my vote into Hap-Ki-Do. I took Tae Kwon Do/Hapkido for about 7 years. TKD is great for sport and fun, while HKD is great for self defense. You learn how to stop a fight QWICK with either little damage, or a lot of damage. I have had to use it several times in Bar Fights and I never came out with a scratch and they all ended rather quickly. I'm not saying that I am a badass, most of the time I was up against a drunken fool. That makes a fight easy....

[skyman]

Turns out that the d1ckhead started a fight with my friend. My friend was to drunk to hit the d1ckhead so he tried backing off multiple times but d1ckhead just kept coming after him. At any rate, they went thru a window and d1ckhead took off after the cops were called. D1ckhead was banned for life from the bar for that fight and all the other sh1t he's been causing over the last month.

I haven't found a class yet that fits my schedule, but I will keep looking. Turns out that our small town doesnt offer much so I am probably just going to take what ever I can get to fit my schedule.

[bad2woo]

Last year was my first year wrestling at my HS... i blew at first but as my cardio improved as well as my ability to actually wrestle i became like superhuman. Anytime my friends would mess with me they'd be on the ground in a second. And now whenever i wrestle with my dad... who is about 2" taller and about 40lbs heavier than me i can whoop his ass.

A lot of this has to do with grappling though... I belive than no matter who you fight or when if you can control the head (like i learned in wreslting) you basically win right there. Anyone who fights you and does not have any experience would jsut wear themselves down if you just pop thier head and drop to a front headlock (once you are here... a knee or two might dissuade the person from wanting to fight any longer). Its a beautiful thing...

[Gooseneck]

The majority of fights end up on the ground, so grappling in a necessity. Brazilian Ju-Jistu is awesome for this type of martial art. Any type of mixed-martial art is going to be good in a real world environment.

[skinny]

i feel active practice with a thinking, responsive opponent is the only way to learn self defense skills. i've tried karate, submission wrestling, judo, boxing, kickboxing and an unstructured self defense "street class". judo and boxing stand out as the most effictive in the real world because of the volume of interactive training. these, also, are the ones i spent the most time in, and are the ones i return to when time, money, and circumstances allow. grappling or striking? on the street a good boxer can knock you out before you see an opening to grapple, and a grappler can tie up a boxer and make him scream (hopefully not in a sexual sense) it's down to the skill of both people and chance. (my only real fight went: dodge punch, throw, pin, choke. happened in front of a cop and i put the bad guy away and walked away laughing. if i'd used striking skills i'd probably have spent the night in jail.)