Poll: Do you know self defense?

[blankedboy]

It's a pretty simple question.
I used to do Tae-Kwon-Do. I was a red-belt two-stripe.

AAAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAA

Yeah, you did the shitty Korean Government's rip-off version of Tae-Kwon-Do where you can grade about once a month...

I did ITF Tae-Kwon-Do (the real one, invented by General Choi Chong Hi when he was in prison) until red stripe (most of the belt is blue), then I got bored with it and lost interest.

 

[Nickolai77]

Tried TKD last year for a short while, but i couldn't get into it so i quit. This year i've decided to go back to archery instead.

On a good day i can hit a human sized target at 50 yards with my bow, giving most martial artists a run for their money. Unfortunately, it's not like you can carry a big recurve bow on your back all day.

 

[imnot]

no, butthen never tried I could proberly be brutal if i really needed to though, as in
I think if you attack, you just dropped the right to live.
[small]not that Id manage that though[/small]

 

[Redingold]

Well, I've been training in Krav Maga for the past 2 years, but I've never gotten into a fight (which is a shame, 'cause I'd really love to try some things out on certain people), so I don't know how I'd do in a proper fight.

 

[Adventurer2626]

11 years Tang Soo Do. Plus I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about how everyday objects could be used to maim/kill. As long as I'm not inebriated, injured or cripplingly depressed I'll do okay.

 

[demoman_chaos]

While I never did any official training, I know a good chunk of MMA from my brother who is obsessed with it. I am self-taught in the ways of the sword, mixing Japanese and Western styles into 1 that probably would get me killed if I were to fight a real trained swordsman but would work well against a thug with a knife or a baseball bat.

 

[ShakerSilver]

I took Karate for 3 years, got a green belt. I stopped about 2 years ago, after moving to Lebanon.

 

[Nealran]

Been about a year since I've attended but I hit my black belt in Tae Kwan Doe.

 

[rockera]

I am training in aikido no belt in that and I'm an orange belt in shotokan karate
belt scheme white>blue>red>orange>yellow>green that's as far as I know but my brothers a black belt in taekwondo and my sister is a brown white stripe in shoto karate and a green belt in ju jitsue my parents know no martial arts. yeah were a half violent family.

 

[SalamanderJoe]

I would have loved to learn but my knee developed some strange ligament problem which gives the impression that me kneecap 'pops out' from the muscle when bent. Even the doctors have no idea but regardless of that, I would have liked to learn karate. Or whatever Tony Jaa knows. That stuff is brutal. And also makes you fridge proof according to Ong Bak...

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

Yes, I used to do Tang su do. (I was red belt)

But before I learned from that, I was an exelent "brawler" since I was fighting almost every day in primary school/high school. meh, rough neighbours.
Also, I have been blessed with tremendous upper body strength. How? I have no idea, I exercise about once in a blue moon.

[Edit]
Also some of the guys at my high school came up with a game where they would see who could throw the hardest punch to the gut. Mine won, much to their surprise since I dont look perticually imposing.

 

[the rye]

i have absolutly no way of defending myself, i am short, skinny and weak so my only option is to hide behind a friend.

 

[cavemano727]

Boxing
I was a damn good fighter before I started to train too. And if anyone says well you can't kick or block a kick, their wrong, and shall pay for their insolence.

 

[Talshere]

Ive done a collection of martial arts due to constant shifting of club locations and when lifts were were not available and if I could walk it.

The 2 I have done longest are Karate (when I was young) and Taekwondo (Through most of my time at college. Thatw British college, 16-18, not US College with is actually university, and have recently taken it back up at uni)

I have also done to varying degrees from only a few lesson to a few belts:

Tai-chi
Wing chun kung foo
Akido
Jujitsu
and judo


My biggest flaw so Im told I I almost totally lack a killing instinct I practice the art but have never used it because given the choice, of which Ive always had one, I will walk away, or delay while playing defensive to get to somewhere like a pub, so I honestly have no idea how dangerous I may or may not be. I hope I never find out.

 

[Doclector]

As in any sort of martial art, no.

As in "I will eat you if you attempt to attack me...literally" then yes. My fighting style could indeed be likened to that of the infected in 28 days later.