If you get into a street fight would it be better to learn martial arts or boxing?
dunhate235 asked:
Say you got in confrontation with someone. He starts getting really physical and you want to beat the hell out of him. He looks reasonably big.
Would you rather be good at boxing or martial arts in this situation. If you say martial arts, which one exactly (jujitsu, kartate, etc.)
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7 Responses to “If you get into a street fight would it be better to learn martial arts or boxing?”
Learn whatever suits you. Try out a few styles and see what feels most comfortable to you. My friend has naturally quick hands so he does boxing. My legs have always been strong from years of Soccer, so I picked up Muay Thai as a result.
For a street fight, many styles work. Boxing will definitely work, but personally I think for a street fight Kali is the best suited. It teaches you how to quickly disarm someone if they have a weapon. It incorporates close quarter grappling to take someone down. And it is all around a very efficient style.
If you are good at either martial arts or boxing it doesn’t matter, as long as you hit him with something. It doesn’t matter if you use a right cross or a front kick, if you strike someone with a good shot, it will have an effect. In my opinion as long as you commit yourself to attacking and move forward with elbows, kicks or punches his body doesn’t know if it was hit with a technique from karate, boxing or a bat.
it would be better to learn MMA because it is all types of fighting.
Boxing is a martial art. Martial art means a combative form of fighting. So ANY art including boxing and wrestling would help you if applied well.
boxing used to be a martial art now it is almost exclusively a sport many other martial arts have gone this way or are going tai chi is sadly very far down a worse road. Personally I would say an escrimador “or any of the other Filipino arts” or muay tai meaning muay tai not mma. but still boxing can be a real asset in a fight. the most important thing is the will to act to save your life or the lives of others, with that knowing a fighting style “including boxing and the other styles I mentioned” are not always needed
As previously stated boxing is a martial art.As to which one, it would be whatever style i found that had a good instructor, a good school, one i liked and trained hard in, and one that fit me. Anything else beyond these is secondary.
you could just combine the two and use sanshou or mauy thai. but really the only thing that really wins a fight is fitness and warrior spirit. a very strong fit guy would put the same amount of hurt as a trained boxer.