I have a general problem with martial arts.
I have taken several different style of martial arts, some for just a week to others for almost 3 years: Tae Kwon Do, Boxing, Kickboxing, Jeet Kune Do, Tai Chi, Aiki Jiu-jitsu, Submission Wrestling, Judo, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu and Aikido.
The problems being is some of those martial arts (Tae Kwon Do, Tai Chi, Aikido, Aiki Jiu-jitsu) have been too soft or I have seriously doubted their efficiancy in preparing me to defend myself.
I firmly don't beleive that taking any martial art will help you learn to defend yourself as well as another style would. I think it is quite obvious that is not true.
These arts have tend to be too soft. They have obvious gaps in their system (like groundfighting). I was able to take these for usually longer times because they were less stressfull and demanding. But, I think about all of them excetp Tae Kwon Do would be near useless against an attack. TKD was slightly better but not by too much.
The other arts (boxing, kickboxing, BJJ, JKD, Submission Wrestling, Judo) I felt were definetly at least decent for basic self-defense. I didn't doubt them as much at all.
The problem with them is that were very stressfull, tiresome, not a whole lot of fun. I did ok with them but kind of got tired of having to be super-competitive to keep up in them (if you ever taken one of those arts you know what I mean).
So, I get tired of the soft arts and I get tired of the hard arts.
Is there any happy medium arts that you would recommend? Any general advice what I should do? Am I doing anything wrong? Has anyone else had this problem?
I have taken several different style of martial arts, some for just a week to others for almost 3 years: Tae Kwon Do, Boxing, Kickboxing, Jeet Kune Do, Tai Chi, Aiki Jiu-jitsu, Submission Wrestling, Judo, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu and Aikido.
The problems being is some of those martial arts (Tae Kwon Do, Tai Chi, Aikido, Aiki Jiu-jitsu) have been too soft or I have seriously doubted their efficiancy in preparing me to defend myself.
I firmly don't beleive that taking any martial art will help you learn to defend yourself as well as another style would. I think it is quite obvious that is not true.
These arts have tend to be too soft. They have obvious gaps in their system (like groundfighting). I was able to take these for usually longer times because they were less stressfull and demanding. But, I think about all of them excetp Tae Kwon Do would be near useless against an attack. TKD was slightly better but not by too much.
The other arts (boxing, kickboxing, BJJ, JKD, Submission Wrestling, Judo) I felt were definetly at least decent for basic self-defense. I didn't doubt them as much at all.
The problem with them is that were very stressfull, tiresome, not a whole lot of fun. I did ok with them but kind of got tired of having to be super-competitive to keep up in them (if you ever taken one of those arts you know what I mean).
So, I get tired of the soft arts and I get tired of the hard arts.
Is there any happy medium arts that you would recommend? Any general advice what I should do? Am I doing anything wrong? Has anyone else had this problem?