Why did you pick striking?

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Simple question. Just curious what made everybody here pick the standup game over a grappling art. And feel free to share which art you chose and why.




P.S. I know alot of people cross train, but I'm sure you either made your initial start in either grappling, or striking.
 
Basically because it was available and at the time grappling wasnt. :icon_chee

I chose and still choose whatever art is available. As long as the instruction and training is good i'll learn it.
 
It just feels better to me to kick something than do an armbar. I have respect for grappling, but find it no where near as cathartic as hitting things. I lost interest in BJJ after a few months.

I've been intrigued by boxing and striking in general ever since I first saw the training montages in Rocky, with him hitting the bags and choppin wood and all that shit. And when I watch a good guy shadowbox or do pads, it just looks so fluid and cool--I want to look like that :D
 
To me, it feels more satisfying to punch someone than to wrestle them.
 
Had already done years of wrestling so I needed a change.
 
It's fun to punch people in the face. Pretty simple.
 
Striking with someone gives you that rush, when your within range exchanging, its like a game, one wrong move and you could be out or in trouble, this what gets my heart racing..
 
LEGS MAHONEY said:
Basically because it was available and at the time grappling wasnt. :icon_chee

I chose and still choose whatever art is available. As long as the instruction and training is good i'll learn it.
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Lol, pretty much the same thing here. When I was younger I had a punching bag and my gym (weights n all that) had kickboxing once a week. Then I wanted to do judo in university, but they had kickboxing instead.

Now I joined a gym and the have grappling, btu I can only do the advanced stuff in a couple months, so I signed on to the boxing classes and muay thai for now to get my fitness up.
 
I do both and striking just captures the imagination in ways that grappling can't. Grappling is fun and challenging but it just can't deliver the way striking can. And it's more than just the ability to hit someone in the face. I think striking is harder to pick up actually and I've always wanted to do something like the MT program I'm in..
 
I wanted to train something where I get punched in the face.
Hello boxing!

On a serious note, I stopped wrestling years ago (many reasons,
injuries, relationships etc.) Then one day I walked past a gym
and thought "fuck it why not" and been loving it ever since.
 
it feel more badass to strike with someone. its way more risky then grappling. so you are a bit more "hard" then those who only grapple IMHO..

But i like the effectiveness of grappling and wrestling.
 
Frode Falch said:
it feel more badass to strike with someone. its way more risky then grappling. so you are a bit more "hard" then those who only grapple IMHO..But i like the effectiveness of grappling and wrestling.
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agree,

striking does to an extent make you come off as harder, as chuck liddel said you can take to a choke or being hurt off a throw or armbar/leglock; but you gotta be a total b*tch to tap from strikes.

when you lose in grappling its cus you can't take anymore; your arm will be broken, you knee torn up, you lose conciousness or get something else dislocated or whatever. There is an intellectual connection to what is happening to you and why you won't go on.

but when you lose in striking, unless your straight koed, its often cus you DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE ANYMORE.

or to use brock as an example when you don't want to go on the ground, its often due to a lack of skill; but when you get it taken to you on the feet and your covering up, running away..its often considered a lack of heart. I.E. you get put on the ground against a superior grappler, not much you really can do; an people respect/acknowledge that. But when your put up against the wall or cage or whatever against superior striker you always have three choices, cover up and wait for them to stop it, quit or FIGHT back. IF you do anything except the last one, then your gonna catch some hell from coaches...training partners..observers and opponents.

noone cares if your scared to get tapped; everyone pays attention if your scared to get hit, sorry its a fact.

noone laughed at brock getting subbed and tapping quickly to a bjj blkblt; everyone mocked brock for not once but twice, running flinching and turning away from two below average strikers who hadn't even really hurt him when he retreated.

an my final point when i tell people i grapple, they respect it; but noone considers it tough or considers me tough for doing it. When i tell people i used to train boxing and sparred fighters or currently do muay thai and sparred w/very skilled people, everyone is like i didn't know you were that tough man; that shit is brutal and you do it.
 
I didn't, I looked for a place I could learn realistic martial arts and I ended up taking Shotokan karate classes.

It's not like there's no grappling in Shotokan though.
 
I have two major reasons. The choice for me was between two gyms, BJJ and MT, the only ones realistically available to me. I went and watched a class at each one. At the BJJ gym, it seemed pretty good, but everything they did required a partner, and it was just a big empty room with padded floors. At the MT gym, some of them were shadowboxing, or working on heavy bags, or lifting weights, and I wanted that independence. Especially because I'm in Korea and I don't speak the language, so it's a bit more difficult than normal to work with a partner.

The other thing, and this may sound silly, was just aesthetics. The guys at the BJJ gym were in good shape, fairly big, looked tough and all, but the guys at the MT gym were fast and lean, all slim muscle and quick movements. That's something that I really wanted for myself, and I knew it would be something that would motivate me to keep going to the gym when times got rough.
 
Because it's just so much more primal to hit and get hit. I don't get the same rush in grappling than in striking. The adrenaline dump is ridiculous.
 
I took boxing just because it felt "more realistic". In a street fight, 9/10 people are going to use their fists. (Yes, I know, NO martial art can prepare you for a street fight, you can do whatever you want). I just wanted to have an upper hand.

However I do have my rad respect for grappling and I enjoy it a lot. Everyone has a punchers chance, but when you take someone and toss them to the ground, it opens up a whole new world. All of a sudden there punches aren't as hard and they don't know what to do when your twisting there arm off.
 
well i do both started both at the same time.

i do MT & BJJ...i like mma. i feel like having grabbling makes me ready for ground and because i spend a lot of time there(in bjj) thats expected but its REALLY badass to have a solid striking game...to me thats like my secret weapon that i can get off the ground and really kick ass.. i like to kick people
 
I actually started my martial arts by training in BJJ only. It was fun learning the basics for a few months but there are a few reasons why I switched...

The main reason being I felt like some random joe could still knock me the fuck out with a random punch. That was the biggest reason why I switched to Muay Thai, I really wanted to learn how to fight with my fists and feet. After a few months of Muay Thai oddly...I still felt a bit vulnerable with my fists.

That was when I made the switch to Western Boxing. I got instantly hooked and have been addicted to Boxing ever since. I have since pretty much abandoned BJJ and Muay Thai. Boxing is the shit. :icon_twis
 
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