In your opinion, are martial arts useful in street fighting?

It depends on your art, how you train, and what your intent is. Martial arts can be very effective on the street or as useless as imaginable.

In your opinion, are martial arts useful in street fighting?
Yes martial arts are very useful in street fights. Although they aren't glamorous flying kicks from 20 feet away like in the movies the flexibility balance and overall strength you derive from practicing a martial art will greatly help you in a street fight. Street Fights are not the way to go however. Never engage in a street fight unless absolutely necessary.
Reply:Any art that I studied is very good in a street fight. We were working on street fights the other night. They would punch. we would go into front stance, do an outside block and then a rear roundhouse kick. Well, the black belts were, the lower ranks aren't ready for real stuff like that they just stopped at the block.
Reply:Yes, very useful.
Reply:yup
Reply:While you might not find the specific art that you study available to you in a street fight the way that it is in a sparring match, you will find that your increased strength, speed, coordination, balance, stamina and overall physical self-awareness(knowing your range, limits, etc), will come in extremely handy. Even a professional soccer player would have an advantage in a street fight for those reasons. It's more about learning what you're capable of. And hey, if you get the chance to do a 360 hook, **** it!
Reply:Useful yes , but not insurmountable . Remember in a street fight an opponent can bite off your nose , rip off your ear , stomp your head while you are on the ground , and squeeze your testicles till you faint away .
Reply:There's practical and impractical moves. Best way to learn, spar.
Reply:If your style teaches you things that are impracticle for fighting then it wasn't developed for fighting.





There is a time and a place for everything, I think people seem to forget that the reason that most systems are around is to teach people to fight, they're not to impress chicks or look at your self in the mirror and see how cool you look.





At the end of the day, if you learn your sytem well and it is a practical system then you can use it FOR WHAT IT'S DESIGNED TO DO DER!
Reply:yes you dont have to be einstien to figure that out.