Striking, Grappling, Weapons

[Leo_E_49]

Which of these do you primarily train in?
Multiple answers are allowed.

N.B. Primarily means if, for example, you train a striking art with a little bit of grappling on the side, answer only with striking.

[KageAkuma]

I do all 3, :-P. Although admitedly the weapons I train in are simple, such as knife or double stick.

[Davey Bones]

All of the above :)

[thunderingchops]

I practice with buterfly knifes and strike with iron palm.

[Sever]

Mainly striking and grappling with a bit of weapons work thrown in for fun

[LoveIsUnity]

Almost all striking.

[ShadowWarrior]

Pretty much all striking, TKD.
But im starting to get into Grappling.

[nightcrawlerEX]

All of it...

Taekwondo (striking)
Haidong Gumdo (Sword) (Weapons)
About to start BJJ (Grappling)
About to start MMA (Striking/Grappling)

[neryo_tkd]

i have trained tkd for many years, but this summer i might give bjj a try

[Ma Bu]

Mainly striking, some grappling thrown in for t3h str33t :D , not much groundwork though.

[Ma Bu]

I'd like to add that there is actually more groundwork in my kung fu style than I before knew.

[narcsarge]

Striking 90%. Weapons 10%. I just have this thing about weapons. Call it "The Bigger Stick" syndrome.

[Yohan]

probably

60% kung fu
40% judo/jujutsu

[Who?]

Striking mainly with M/T and TKD, grappling and weapons in JJJ.

[Cosmo Kramer]

i voted all three because i spend a lot of time on all three. TKD for striking and weapons hapkido for grappling/joint manipulation

[Emil]

All three. i think for a martial art to be, for want of a better word, 'complete', it must incorporate all three aspects of combat into it's teachings. Striking is important as it is better to strike your opponent than end up grappling around on the floor with him/her. But is is also important to know how to grapple in the event that you do end up grappling . As for weapons, I will quote Dr Masaaki Hatsumi:

If one relies only upon unarmed techniques and cannot combine weapon handling, it will result in endangering oneself in a situation. People are different to animals as we tend to use a weapon when in danger. Perhaps the whole idea of the basics in budo is to be able to use the balance between armed and unarmed techniques.

[pmitch89]

Yeah, I'm more of a grappling kinda guy. Considering I spend the entire winter wrestling and then the rest of the year doing Judo and Juijutsu and Ninjutsu.
Maybe alittle striking and weapons from Ninjutsu. :cool:

[Kraken]

I prefere stand up ,But i train in both striking and grappling just about evenly

[aikiMac]

grappling (aikido) and weapons (sword and staff).

People better at me can do aikido as a striking art rather than as a grappling art. I'm not that good yet, but hopefully someday I will be.

[MingTheMerciles]

Kendo , Kyudo and Classical Jujitsu .

[Myst Kitty]

Tkd

[jamie1976]

have done all three but always go back to grappleing love it sooooooo much neva wana stop well until i have to because of age which is a long time off yet as i'm only 21.

jamie :woo:

[Cudgel]

in KDF we use weapons to strike and in some cases as grappling aids in additon to empty handed grappling, against unarmed and armed opponents.

[SifuJason]

I put all three. In WHKD we have striking, grappling (mostly throws, sweeps and locks but a bit of wrestling and jujitsu as well), and weapons (mainly FMA).

[forever young]

wing chun, kali and recently started sub grappling and love it

[Hapuka]

I do striking at the moment. Where I live there aren't really in grappling clubs around.
I practice Muay Thai and ITF TKD. I hope to start doing BBJ when I move out.

[MingTheMerciles]

btw , also train in San Shou and JKD for Stand up

[wayne649]

it handy to have a good knowledge of all 3, but i mostly train in weapons cause their more fun IMO