# Martial Arts?

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**Created:** [July 15, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/martial-arts/32420 "2007-07-15T21:10:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/martial-arts/32420/40 "2007-07-16T13:49:09Z")

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I started taking Hung Gar Kung Fu a few months ago. It’s a Shaolin system which uses the movements of animals for self defense.

Great exercise, though if you are looking for grappling, look elsewhere. It’s almost entirely a striking system.

It’s not one of the “popular” arts right now, mainly because very few people use it in a cages, but it’s a very agressive fighting style. You spend very little time not on the offensive, which definately keeps the average person on the defensive.

I’m a complete n00b, but I’m already confident that I could defend myself with it if I had to…at least against an average person. Then again, guys who train in martial arts typically aren’t out picking fights, so in theory if I ever need to use it, it would just be againt some drunken idiot.

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