Anyone here been in a street fight that knows a martial art?

If you have tell me what martial art you know and what happened. Even if you lost tell me what happened. Everyone loses eventually. I got bored and just started wondering about martial artist getting in fights so i decided to post this question.

Anyone here been in a street fight that knows a martial art?
It looks like I am the only one who has ever lost a fight.
Reply:i have
Reply:Throughout school I was a bit small so I got beat up a lot I had a friend who's dad was very confident of his muay tai and ju-jitsu throughout High School I studied 4 arts including these and the immense physical training involved with juggling all 4 of these arts helped greatly in both in body mass and in tone, high school kids are generally not very smart so large usually deters conflict, I can think of a couple instances though where someone either drunk or full of pride has tried to show how tough he is only to end up in the hospital from a floating knee or torn ligaments, more often then knot I only have to use martial arts in sparring with my peers in a controlled setting. If you are trying to gear your question as to wether or not martial arts is applicable to someone fighting dirty, the answer is absolutely yes, the knowledge of center of gravity as well as the focus of energy in a strike plays a key role in placing attacks that more often then not will stop an oppenent quickly and effectively, in some countries forms of judo are used in place of firearms to subdue assailents, this is usually due to its effectiveness and the lack of firearms in these countries.
Reply:i have. i won. because he threw a punch at me! so i threw him on concrete! LOL. n i am in judo!! :p


come on judo is great for street fighting if not, WHY DOES THE U.S. GOVERNMENT USE IT FOR THE BASIS OF OUR SOILDERS!!
Reply:Yes. I take Jeet Kune Do at a place that uses over 30 different martial arts styles. We learn stand-up, ground, close quarters, weapons (knife, stick, gun, OC spray), fight psychology, and mass attack. The mass attack helped when I was jumped by 3 guys and a girl a few years ago in high school. I have to agree that just understanding center of gravity, centerline strikes and locks mixed with holds are great for real life situations.
Reply:yes i have been in fights. and yes i won the fight with my Aikido training. it was really a no contest. but if you really think about it we both lost, he lost the fight but i lost the battle meaning i shouldnt have even got to that point to want to fight
Reply:Yeah, i got attacked by an angry 40 year old guy when i was 16 because his son lost a scrap to me. He spent the night in hospital for cuts to the face, i spent the night in my warm bed. At the time i had trained for 7 years in kickboxing and 1 year in boxing.
Reply:Yep. When I took Tae Kwon Do for several years, I nearly got owned in a back alley fight, until I reverted back to my boxing.





If you want to kick *** in fighting, learn boxing, Not Muay Thai. Real boxing.





If you want to kick *** period, learn judo or jiu jitsu or both!





Don't learn it to be a bad ***. To do so makes you my enemy.
Reply:Wrestled in high school, 3 yrs. Have been in several fights in my younger years, they all went the same way. Shoot, takedown, sit on guy, punch him until the bouncers come.





People often make the mistake of thinking that grappling just means 'fighting on your back'.





In reality, anything with alive training will teach you how to react in a real situation way better than kata. The closest you can come right now is the MMA ring, but you can get good at fighting via boxing, wrestling, bjj, muay thai, sambo, judo, and some others.