How to defend myself?

Question

I learned a bit of karate back when I was a younger kid.. I'm 17 now and you can understand how defense can come in handy.. In no way am I a fighter.. I love to have a good time and basically into having a good time, and messing around. However there are those guys that like to start problems, especially at parties. Now sometimes I do get insulted and usually walk out of it and laugh with my friends. However there have been a few cases one would pushing me trying to initiate a fight with me.. I'm very confident, but I will admit I'm pretty lanky. I'm 5'7 and I weigh 140 lbs.. I'm very quick and agile,but have pretty much no strength whatsoever.

Now my question for you that have knowledge and experience in martial arts, is what type would be best suited for me.. I'm not looking for a new hobby, just a way to protect myself, and self dicipline (because my dad says I need it =)

Answer 1

Hapkido would be a great choice - no forms - focuses on one self-defense situation after another.  Plus, besides strikes it also teaches grappling, weapon disarms and pain compliance rather than just hitting someone like boxing would teach.  Hapkido is the Korean art that the South Korean Military learn.  Good luck!  

Answer 2

wrestling

Answer 3

KRAV WILL MUTILATE HIS SOUL MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Answer 4

learn  karate  again

Answer 5

If you're serious about self-defense then walk away from your current lifestyle and friends.  I lost all of my friends as soon as they knew for sure that I didn't get high or party.  This has made me some what a "stand alone" guy, but I wouldn't have it any other way in life man.  My lifestyle has been the "martial arts" almost as long as I can remember now and everytime I ever gained a friend and they found out I was serious about my lifestyle ( the clean life ) they quickly walked away.  Pouring time into the arts I've studied in life as well as developing some of my own technique has kept me very confident in life, but I may have never cared about any of it had I been a "Stoner".  The martial arts are more than just something you learn, to me man, they also become manifest in all that you do through out life.  In other words I've learned more than just merely defending my self, but I've also lived by a code of morals all of my life that go alone with being a martial arts practitioner.  Hence "lifestyle".  The positive things that have come with the morals that I live by have been awesome in life including the clarity to see stupidity for what it is and being a "Stoner" at the bottom of the food chain is total stupidity.  Staying high all for the sake of social activity is beyond me man.  I fill my time with constrctive things like learning Japanese, practicing Iaido, practicing Shorinji Ryu Jujitsu and comparing technique execution notes with other practitioners of other arts.  It is built into my very soul to be constructive all because of what the martial arts have taught me in life.  "Respect for self" is just one of the small virtues I have learned through the martial arts and it's something I practice daily.  Not just words, but something I actually truely and honestly live by.  There for putting the poison of THC or any other chemical into my blood stream goes against all that I'm about.  

If you were living a decent lifestyle then you wouldn't have to worry about the kinds of people you're sweating..... and I know it's always going to be there eating at the back of your mind ... your crowd that is.  The psychology of your own words gives it away.  You're worried about the types of people you hang around ... "Fellow Stoners" that may become unpredictable and light your head up because of the ignorance that drugs and alcohol breeds.  You're worried about the types of problems that the rest of us don't even entertain other than a good laugh when we see two stupid "Stoner" teens on Spike T.V.'s "Wolrd's Dumbest Criminals".  

So how would you defend your self?   With your smarts and your wit? .... who ever said a "Stoner" had any......  You can change though.

The truth hurts doesn't it?

Answer 6

hit the bible

Answer 7

colt .45

Answer 8

krav magra is horse p**p .

try some jeet kune doe.

Answer 9

I don't know where you live, but if its possible in your area, KRAV MAGA

if not Kickboxing.

Answer 10

Get back into the martial arts training you wont regret it  

Answer 11

In any martial arts, you have to be fit (physically and spiritually). Try Muy Thai. The moves are deadly even if done by a person who has no strength. Goodluck.  

Answer 12

kung fu... very disciplined and effective