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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drakmar" data-source="post: 847222" data-attributes="member: 1318">LGodamus, I would have to disagree with you with regards to street defence.  Personally, I believe that all martial arts can be used for self-defence on the street... it is all about how hard you train, and how you train.  The way I see it is that if it was used as a Fighting Art in the past.. there has to be some merit in it somewhere.. you just have to find it.For example.. the one I do, Hung Gar, would be quite effective in a street fight.  But ONLY if you trained hard, and effectively.  One of the major flaws with most schools is that they only teach you how strike and attack.  They don't condition you to take real blows.. Boxing teaches that.. so does Kickboxing.  Some kung fu schools that use traditional training methods do.Personally.. I doubt my knowledge of Hung Gar, and the amount I have trained in it would have much impact in how a street fight went.  Give me 10 years of training properly, and it would.one of the things my sifu says is.. pick a defence/attack combo.. one that you feel comfortable doing.. one that is fairly generic.. and practice that one 10,000 times (actually he says that about everything).  Just like everything.. you want to be good at it.. you rinse and repeat.One of my sifu's students.. has been training with my sifu for about 15 years.  he likes bars.  he has an aggresive personality, especially when under the influence.  He trained HARD for a quite a long time.. my bet would be on him in a street fight... now.. another one of his students.. trained for the same time.. nope.. he'd lose, but he is really good at forms.</blockquote>

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