I've recently decided that I would like to start learning some martial arts so I could preform better in a fight. The issue is that in the past I broke my right arm severely, and it will never fully heal. I cannot extend my arm to make it fully straight. I have almost full range of motion, but if someone tried to force my elbow straight (like pinning me to a mat) it would be extremely painful. I also cannot use my tricep with much strength.
Which kind of fighting technique will be impacted the least by this disability?
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Kickboxing use long pantaloons as far as I know...
Capoeira and Taekwondo are your only options, bro.
Why don't you go to a doctor or surgeon?
I did have surgery on my arm, but they could only do so much. Without the surgery my arm would have been useless for the rest of my life.
Damn anon, that sucks... You'll definitely want to stick with striking, and probably one that uses kicks.
If you want a more combat-focused striking martial art with kicks, I would recommend Muay Thai.
If you are interested in flexibility and more elegant things and whatnot, and not interested in combat, I would recommend karate or taekwondo, whatever is the best gym for adults in your area.
He is right. Striking is way more forgiving in terms of your approach and you can make do with only one arm working. You can just as well build your style around dangerous kicks and use your arms for setups. Grappling on the other hand would injure you instantly.
I sparred with a one-armed boomer muay thai fighter and the guy was barrly hrld back by it.
Get really good at Kendo with one arm. That would be pretty sick
This would be so fricking based, except that he would never be able to show this outside the gym.
Better learn to use a gun.
How the frick did your elbow end up like that?
Can you still hit things with your elbow? If so muay thai is good. It involes lots of kicks, knees, and elbows in addition to regular punches.
>what would happen if i straightened up your arm
>it would be extremely painful
>for you
kek
I could if I need to in a fight, and I have a titanium plate there now so it'd be extra effective, but it would be very painful as well. Perhaps that will subside with time, though
I ain't planning to carry a sword around very often so kendo probably ain't for me
>OP has a minor disability?
>and he wants to PRACTICE fighting to help compensate for that?
>what an idiot
moronic homosexuals
Taekwondo
MAYBE Kendo, the sword can be swung without fully extending your right arm
>i have a crippling vulnerability which makes it very easy to defeat me in combat, with horrible consequences
>i would like to take part in more combat situations
Room temperature IQ, no wonder you shattered your limb beyond repair
KEK this
The mentality alone that develops with training a martial art will make him infinitely superior to anyone that doesn’t.
anyone listing these moronic subscription services where you just turn up for a few years and get a black belt like karate or bjj is lying to you. there is no need to learn any art form other than wing chun, your arm may even give a slight advantage at it.
wing chun sounds interesting! however I am 6'4 with long arms, so I am concerned my large size would handicap my ability to fully utilize this technique, would that not be the case?
thanks, I will look into these
if you're tall capoeira, muay thai, Karate(not the competitive), kick boxing and maybe taekwondo. Also can you use both of your elbows? cause would be good for muay thai.
I can physically use my elbow, the bone is healed, but the plate under my skin would make it quite painful to do any sort of training with it.
how are you trained differently?
im 6’3 and my master has been teaching me slightly different to his other students but its not been a disadvantage at all
I wouldn't expect being tall to be an overall disadvantage for any martial arts asides from something super niche like fencing. however size is a nearly universal advantage, and it seems to me like wing chun would not utilize the advantage well. I am no expert though, so I'm unsure if this is true
The only handicap is that wing chun is bullshit
wingchun is boxing but chinese and only works in movies
it can definitely work in real life but most wing chun practitioners are extremely unathletic, have unrealistic outlooks on their combat effectiveness and don't actually practice for real combat i.e. spar
I trained boxing, Jkd, and wingchun. I have used wingchun a handful of times while sparing. When applied with the power you develop with boxing and Jkd it can be useful in a clinch or if you can bind you opponents arms. That being said it is a niche set of skills that is nice to have, but not necessary
>where you just turn up for a few years and get a black belt like bjj
Surely this is bait.
As someone who does kendo I gotta agree. Anyone pretending it's anything other than a sport is a fricking moron. Japs will get pissy at me for this but Korea does it better.
One armed boxing
For you.
Omar Isuf? Get the frick outta here
Martial arts make use of the whole body, so you should be looking into partial arts.
underrated
Picrel was a pro MMA champion
Which means he boxed, trained muay thai, wrestled and grappled BJJ
So you can do any of the above, if you want
Just keep yourself safe, meaning if you're drilling armbars in BJJ, tell your partner not to extend your arm, and if he does, be a b***h and refuse to train with him. Stick up for yourself, your health is your own responsibility
>I've recently decided that I would like to start learning some martial arts so I could preform better in a fight.
Not doing it for the right reason. If you want to learn how to win street fights all you need is stamina + grappling since all fights end on the ground. Otherwise, dont waste your gyms time with your bullshit
People that get into martial arts hoping to do better in the streets never amount to anything
Why would you want to train so hard only to be able to fight random crackheads? You need to be able to destroy people that actually train and know how to fight. That's why sports like Wrestling, BJJ, boxing and shit are so effective and so addictive, you can actually test your strength against other people. Once you've done this, fighting untrained people is like playing with a child.
Whatever you do please don't join a no sparring art
Only thing I disagree with is karate. I’m not even a karate gay, but I’ve sparred with some real practitioners and they were good. If it is a good school that trains to compete it can be very useful, however karate is the Kleenex of martial arts and the few good schools are drowned out by the mcdojos claiming to be karate.
Capoeira is good for exercise and general movement skills. Gay and useless in a fight
Filipino Martial Arts.
You'll learn stick, knife, hand, improvised weapons.
There was a master that got his left arm shattered by rivals that ambushed him, still made the art work for him.