How many of you have used martial arts in a real street fight situation.please describe what you did and if it worked or not.Those of you who feal they are a victom of a Mcdojo due to a failed technique please describe.

This was ages ago. For whatever reason, I blanked out during the fight until the guy tackled me. Having only had Isshinryu karate, I got pounded pretty good after that.

As far as blanking out goes, my friends told me that I was doing great while in stand-up mode.

The part that really sucks - I'm a frickin' bleeder. I always look worse than I feel when getting injured. Got popped in the nose a few times while on the ground in that fight and bled like a stuck pig.

He let go when he saw all the blood and I jumped up and was ready to go....

This was in jr. year in HS, btw.

Failed training? NO GRAPPLING!!! Gotta make sure my two kids get grappling experience.

Last time i fought in the street was in 89 (my last year at university). A guy attacked me with a folding knife, three round kicks in his ribs and game over.

I was taken to the police station for "kungfuing" a guy but no charges because the police found the knife.

BTW, if faced with a knife, i still recommend RUNNING as first option, and RUNNING MORE as second.

This guy got in my friend's face saying some racist remarks. I came over as my friend is quite a bit smaller in stature than myself and much smaller than this guy. The guy ovbiously got up in my face as I stepped in front of my friend. After a few minutes of the guy badgering me and me backing down, he decided to swing at me. I moved a bit but still got smacked pretty hard. By instinct, I lunged in, did a double leg, picked him up, jumped, and spiked him into the ground. From there, I controlled the hips and switched into mount and then high mount and dropped a few on his face. I stopped punching and secured his arm around his head for a choke. Then I said, "Are you done? Because I can keep hitting you." The bouncer then came over and I got off of the guy.

I start walking out the door and get about a block away from the bar when the guy's huge samoan buddy comes running up at me. He throws a huge haymaker and I raised my arm up next to my face so that I could just see over my forearm (common boxing defense). The shot hit and I pivotted off to the side. Just then I noticed about a half dozen of the guys friends running at me. The all kind of stopped and stared as I spun around the samoan guy. I thik they were expecting me to get KTFO. I took this oppertunity to run back to the bar where I knew a couple of guys.

When I was in high school, I was waiting for the bus when two guys started to make fun of me, calling me names, ... When I said that they had to leave me alone. They started threatening me and all of a sudden one of the two used a right hook. I just ducked, punched him in the stomach an used a hipthrow (o-goshi) and then I kicked him in the ribs. When he was down, the other came at me and I simply kicked him in his groin (yeach I know) and then I gave him an uppercut on his shin.
Then I calmly went to another busstop

This was last Summer. I was at a friend’s house having a BBQ and we ended up playing beer pong. His neighbor came over (already drunk) and began to play with us. If you never played beer pong here is a quick summary - you just throw a ping-pong ball in a cup of beer about a table length away. If you get it in the other person has to drink whats in the cup. Well we were using psych-outs and name calling to make the other person miss. Apparently the neighbor didn’t like it when I was psyching him out. We began to play teams and he was my partner. He mentioned he did Kara-te and that I should not make fun of him anymore… I said ok not a problem cause we are on the same team and we need to make fun of the other guys. It kinda gets fuzzy as I was really drunk but the ball bounced off the table and I went to get it and bumped him a little (probably a lot I was drunk).

Next thing I knew he grabbed my shoulders and was trying to trip me. I do a simple duck under and broke his grip. He then began throwing groin height front kicks at me. I did a front kick to his mid section to push him back… he came again and I did another front kick a little harder to push him back some more. I kept asking him to stop but he continued to press forward. It gets fuzzy again but I remember he managed to get in a decent kick in to my groin and it hurt like hell… drunk or not. So I managed to gain a considerable amount of distance and asked him to stop for the last time. He charged and I did a moving side kick and landed square in his belly. He hit the ground.

I walked over to him with the ping pong ball and said we can finish our fight after we beat the other guys at beer pong. He agreed. After the game I faked that I was throwing up behind the shed and said I was too sick to fight and went in my friend’s house to “recover”. My friend walked his neighbor home.

Too many to list. The highlights include:

Kicking people in the face/head
Groin kick followed by strikes with a kubaton key chain (guy acted like he was armed)
Mass attack when after getting knocked down I put someone in guard and when his friends started to kick me, I made them kick their buddy.
Disarming someone who attacked me with a stick
And eye gouging someone (same person with the stick)
And the best was when I cut some bouncers with a bottle who jumped me. 36 staples and 64 stitches. - I still count that as martial arts cause I am a knife fighter.

I don't get into fights alot (I'm a nice lil boy), but there was this one time a bully at school was showing off by hurting this skinny guy who can't speak English well. There was already a big crowd. So for some reason, one of the guys there said, "Hey, let's see if you can take on Jet Li (my nickname)!" So, they just kinda pushed me in and got us to fight. He stuck out his hand and told me to kick it. Let me say upfront that I don't believe high kicks would work effectively in a real encounter. But I just had to demonstrate mine cuz let's face it, I hate bullying, and I just had to show this guy that pushing others around isn't right.
He stuck his hand out in front of his face about neck level, so I kicked it hard with a left roundhouse. I guess he didn't think I'd actually reach that high, or kick that fast, cuz it turned a real ugly red, and skin split and bled a little bit when it hit. He started coming at me, but before he reached me, there were teachers there to break things up.
(OK, maybe that wasn't the realest situation ever, but that was about as real as it got for me.)

Originally posted by lost future
I simply kicked him in his groin (yeach I know) and then I gave him an uppercut on his shin

You are straight up lethal, man...glad I have never faced anyone with a proper shin uppercut technique...

Originally posted by Michael
I don't get into fights alot (I'm a nice lil boy), but there was this one time a bully at school was showing off by hurting this skinny guy who can't speak English well. There was already a big crowd. So for some reason, one of the guys there said, "Hey, let's see if you can take on Jet Li (my nickname)!" So, they just kinda pushed me in and got us to fight. He stuck out his hand and told me to kick it. Let me say upfront that I don't believe high kicks would work effectively in a real encounter. But I just had to demonstrate mine cuz let's face it, I hate bullying, and I just had to show this guy that pushing others around isn't right.
He stuck his hand out in front of his face about neck level, so I kicked it hard with a left roundhouse. I guess he didn't think I'd actually reach that high, or kick that fast, cuz it turned a real ugly red, and skin split and bled a little bit when it hit. He started coming at me, but before he reached me, there were teachers there to break things up.
(OK, maybe that wasn't the realest situation ever, but that was about as real as it got for me.)

lol, if he pulled back his hand right before you kicked it you would have looked stupid and like a tool.

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At work a guy came at me with a box cutter. I got some distance making him come forward, when he stepped up and planted his front leg (left) I did a thai kick to it. He fell down. I walked away and he threw the boxcutter at me, the handle hit me in the leg. I ended up wit ha standed choke on him using his shirt like a gi choke.

Too many to list.
Suffice it to say:
Chokes, arm locks/breaks work.
Throws: maybe 2 or 3
Strikes: Reverse punch, hook, upper cut and elbow.
Kicks: low round, cross kick and ol' faithful ( knee to the nads, rinse and repeat).
That is pretty much it.

I train alot in MA yet the last time I fought I still was mixing boxing and blocking. I found myself on the ground for a moment, luckily I got my hands free and proceeded to rattled his face.

"the only thing promised in life is death so don't expect so much"

Lol, yeah ok, mine's pretty sad since my "Application of Self Defence" was a high kick into some guy's hand. I guess the moral of my story is....wait 'til the teacher comes and breaks it off?

Hmmm...was at a dance club in Cancun. Short mexican guy tried to punch me in the side of the head. Honestly don't recall what I did about it. It all happened so fast. Next thing I knew I had his arm pinned painfully behind him and I led him gently out of the bar. When I walked back in I had a bunch of people come up and ask me what style of martial arts I studied, how long, etc, which I thought extremely curious since I didn't remember doing anything martial artish. Maybe I did something fancy but I seriously doubt it. I hate the fancy stuff.