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Anonymous
okay /fit/fucks,

I'm looking to join a martial art for my last year in college, possibly something I can keep up with afterwards. the only martial arts my school has organizations for are:

Shuri-Ryu Karate
Goshin Jitsu
Tae Kwon Do
Shotokan Karate

I'm looking for something that's a good workout and also a little more suited for use in real-world situations (i.e. something that will help me out if I get jumped). I was hoping they'd have Muay Thai, as I'd heard good things about it, but no - only those options.

so /fit/, what's the best choice?
>> Anonymous
if thats all you got, shuri-ryu
>> Anonymous
but if you want something to help you if you get jumped, buy a gun.
>> Anonymous
anyone have any info on goshin jitsu?
>> Anonymous
How do you define suitability for real-world situations. Traditional arts ignore the time it takes to learn techniques and concentrate on their quality instead, you won't be learning many simple and easy techniques (although the principles are simple in the way it isn't hard to understand, it just takes a lot of skill).

Apparently Goshin Jitsu is some kind of modern practical minded discipline. See here (first result in google, jackass): https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ro/www/GoshinJitsu/
If you want the fastest results, go for that.

Shuri-ryu Karate is some kind of hybrid shit. Hybrid arts are shit because they are both traditional and not centered on a central skill. You have a bunch of high quality high difficulty techniques taken from many other arts and no central skill to bind them together and make improving your overall skill in all the techniques the central skill encompasses easier in the long run.

Either go homogenous traditional or practical modern. In this case, the middle road is not the optimal one.

And if you don't care about having an optimal ratio between the amount of training and the quality of the learned technique and you're more interested in the highest quality techniques that will give you something to improve at for the rest of your life, go for Shotokan Karate.
>> Anonymous
I'll answer OP very simply.

Anything BUT Tae Kwon Do.
>> Anonymous
Join a club outside of your college and stay the fuck away from most traditional martial arts.
>> Anonymous
Anything except for TKD is fine
>> Anonymous
what's with the TKD hate? i took that for 8 years (started when i was 10), and hapkido for 3 (once i was a black belt). granted, TKD won't help you much in a fight, unless you're either very fast, or have very very strong legs. hapkido is VERY useful though.

if you really want to win in a fight, take one of those, but on your own look into pressure points and something like aikido or hapkido. also, remember the whole "hard part to soft spot" idea.

and for anyone who thinks TKD/hapkido are shit... i got in a fight once, other guy started it, i was trying to stop it... i ended up getting punched in the face, but proceeded to dislocate the guy's shoulder (probably tore his rotator cuff also), broke his arm at his elbow, and smashed his face into the pavement... all in one move. all i got was a bloody lip.
>> Anonymous
find a muay thai camp, it, and bjj/jui jitsu are the only martial arts that have real world application if you want self defence. They will all get you fit and im sure you'll be beaten up a fair amount with each when learning but...

karate will teach you to punch air and punching techniques that will leave you open. Its really not valid unless you are fighting someone else who does karate, but i spose it would be of more use than tkd.

the problem with tae kwon do is that it will teach you lower powered kicking techniques (in comparison to muay thai) that you wont be able to perform with casual trousers on.

Out of your choice id go for Goshin.... but still, find a muay thai camp or a boxing gym.
>> Anonymous
Former professional fighter here.

Shotokan's good. They do full-contact sparring and all that good stuff. Nice practical, pragmatic style.

The TKD is iffy. It could be good, depending on the instructor, but since you don't really seem to know enough about martial arts to make a judgement on the instructor I wouldn't bother.

The other two are shit. Do Shotokan.