Aikido, Krav Maga, or Ninjitsu.

Aikido teaches you as much about how to be a balanced person, as it does how to snap someone's arm like in a Steven Seagal movie. There's also moves you can show women to initiate Kino, which ties into pickup.

Krav Maga is a great workout and an effective fighting/self defense system. It will get you in shape and teach you how to maintain an advantage over adversaries in any situation. There's not much philosophy behind it though.

Ninjitsu, well, just look at my username. I'm a ninja, and that's no joke. They say that combat is the least important skill a ninja can possess, and that's true. In Ninjitsu I learned to always ask myself these two questions: "What outcome can I expect out of this?" and "What is my ultimate goal here?" The guys dressed in black pajamas snapping necks is just in Hollywood movies. Ask yourself those questions, then apply it to all aspects of your life.

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Please dont ever reference Steven Seagal when asked a serious question about martial arts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRrQOrvdtY

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I agree with a couple of previous posters who've mentioned Ninjustu. It's a martial art that draws from most of the others out there and is designed purely for practical use in real life. It's in no way glamorous and is a "dirty" for lack of a better word, way of fighting, but the only rule that applies in a fight is "I Survive"... How you accomplish that is irrelevant.

That's my recommendation.

Kens.

From my experience, Aikido is very much more directed at keeping control of the 'opponent' while also avoiding injury. Sure, some of the techniques hurt, and quite a bit in some circumstances, and of course there's always risk of injury in any form of physical activity, but I've never encountered a technique where the goal was to snap someone's arm.

Also, Seagal, while he used to be a respected practitioner, really doesn't stick to Aikido in any of his (horrible) movies.

Dude, look at any utube video on aikido moves. When the people flip to the ground, that's when their arms would break if it were a real fight. Aikido practitioners use a technique called a breakfall to prevent themselves from being injured. But in real life your enemy wouldn't do that. His arm, wrist, or shoulder would simply snap as you execute the move on him. The goal is to control the enemy by using their limbs against them, and you can pin them or throw them if you want. But if you were intent on destroying your opponent, it would require very little effort to snap their bones and arm joints all the while maintaining control as they lay there screaming in agony.

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“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!” ~Audrey Hepburn

I actively practice Aikido and I'm not insinuating that a street situation wouldn't result in the opponent getting hurt, I'm saying that the art itself doesn't actively *teach* techniques with the goal of causing injury, but rather teach techniques that focus on control and causing as little injury to the Uke ("attacker") as possible. Not arguing possible outcomes, as I have seen people get hurt during practice, just arguing the philosophy. =)

Philosophically, Aikido is an art of peace.

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MMA. Because it's Mixed Martial Arts. It teaches you how to handle any situation. Kapap (a form of Krav Maga) is also good.

While I respect Aikido it doesn't have much defense for getting sucker punched or for when someone dumps you on the floor and sits on you.

And doing MMA is a DHV. "This is my friend, he's a cagefighter"

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Look up Russian Systema. It's sort of similar to Krav Maga in regards of it's practical use. Both teaches you fighting vs knives, guns, multiple opponents...

I'm just researching which one to start training, but it seems Systema got some advantages like ground fighting, using whatever you got near you to overpower your opponent etc...

Also, as I saw in my short research, Krav Maga likes balls kicks (got nothing against it) and Systema likes head grabing/twisting etc.

Completely agree with this. I've been introduced like that before and it sparks interest straight away. I've also been at a few parties where random (and often pretty hot) girls who I didn't even know came up to me and opened me by saying "You do MMA?" because they've heard about me from someone else.