What should be the second style I learn?

Question

Alright so I am a 13th year old teenage boy wanting to learn some Martial Arts.

I am in good physical condition from rock climbing and I am small in both weight and height for my age.

I am willing to work very hard.

I asked a question earlier about how to start off, I am planning on first taking Taekwondoe to get my feat on the ground and then progressing to another style.

There are two questions here,

Would Jui-Jitsu be a good second style choice?

If not what are your suggestions for a second style?

Answer 1

study jui jitzu or boxing

Answer 2

just find out what is close to you and what you can afford just because somone in here says that one martial art is c**p and one is awesome doent mean its true the guy who said tae kwon do is c**p obviously didnt have a good instructor. just go to some classes and find out what you like.

Answer 3

1)  Follow a fitness regiment using the Charles Atlas system, followed to the letter, and meditating and following all instruction at a Buddhist or Zen temple, a Daoist temple if neither is available, any will do.  Do this for about a year, or actually do it until you are 15 or 16.

2)  Upon turning 15 or 16, as a "foundational" style that is easy to learn and you'll be able to use right away, learn Judo.

3)  Upon completing Judo, hopefully after earning your black belt (not during), take up boxing.  Yeah, you heard me, boxing.  The modern boxing stance looks very similar to a judo "ready" stance, meaning you can switch between Judo and boxing on the fly if you had to.

4)  Follow meditation, the Atlas system, Judo and Boxing, for life, and in your late 20's or early 30's, take up yoga.

In your position at least that is what I'd do.  Lastly, if you do take up Judo don't get your head full of itself from the fact you practice it, or get a superiority complex over wrestlers.  Catch Wrestling and Judo, although different and separate grappling styles, are equally effective, and the two early in the 20th century readily exchanged techniques.  For instance prior to its encounter with Judo the hip throw did not exist in catch.  Prior to its encounter with catch, the double leg did not exist in Judo because of its Jiu Jitsu roots.  In fact, in traditional Japanese Jiu Jitsu, for some strange reason the concept of the double leg was never developed.  Some speculate that has to do with the fact that if you do it against a Samurai, all they have to do is pull out a tanto and drive it into your back.  Or, simply sidestep while you attempt to tackle them and relieve you of your head.  Sidestepping to avoid attacks is one of the weapons of Kenjutsu you know; in fact, Kendo and Kenjutsu experts are nearly impossible to tackle.  Aikido, in fact, has adopted the side step from Kenjutsu for use against attempted tackles, it is also used to set up throws.

Ultimately though, being a pragmatist; if I was a big hurry to use whatever it is I was going to learn right away, I would just use Judo + Boxing.  Combined with meditation, after enough years of training, c**p man a Judo + Boxer could probably even beat up a Shaolin monk.  Not that I would still recomend attempting it, even with that background.....

Yeah, if I had to pick it, it would have to be Judo + Boxing.  Those are the two styles that can make up for weight and size difference in the fastest possible time.  True enough, weight makes a difference in power, but power withou accuracy, is as useless as speed without accuracy.  Also, Boxing has a graceful dodging repertoire; matador-like heavyweights who weighed 190, taking on 250 lb ogres, and winning, is what made the sport so popular.

Boxers that can make up the difference in weight, and they are very rare, often have matador-like dodging skills because lets face it, unless he received Shaolin iron shirt training, a little dude can not take a punch from a big dude.  Assuming you don't suffer from brain freeze at the moment of truth as they say, Judo + Boxing will give you a two fold weapon.  You can, for instance, deftly avoid an attack, and then quickly position yourself to execute a throw, and then turn around and run.  See Judo by itself does not have anything even ressembling the notion of bobbing, weaving, or slipping.  Like many Japanese styles, it is stiff as a marionette.

Judo + Boxing create a very deadly weapon against an attacker; the slipping and weaving, and clinching, all harmoniously merge with Judo to set up throws or trips.  You ever see a boxing match with a Judoka in the room?

It is extremely annoying; they will spot (and let you know) of up to 10 opportunities to do a throw within the space of one round.  Judo's principles of effortlessness, combined with boxing's efficiency of movement regarding the principle of rolling, bobbing, weaving, and slipping, all work together effectively with Judo when you think about it.

Ducking under a hook for instance, you can use that very same motion to do a double leg.  Slipping a straight or a jab, you can immediately turn, grab their arm and do a throw.  To be able to do it though, you have to be trained in both Judo and Boxing; those are just two examples from what I've seen on youtube and what was explained to me regarding Judo.  From having dodged a blow using a boxing technique, it sets up literally countless ways to apply Judo immediately afterwards.

Frankly I think Judoka and boxers should just get together and merge the styles already.

Again if I was you I would take up Judo, and after earning my black belt train under a boxing coach for about a year or so, its really all you need to earn your, ah, "black belt" in boxing.

good luck.

Answer 4

Japanese Jiu-jitsu or Aikido or wing chun.

Best wishes :)***

Answer 5

definitely krav maga for street fighting

Answer 6

u should take Krav Maga 2 win a real street fight. TKD is c**p in a scrap. i did it 4 a year 2 much jumping around. KM will help u rock ppl standing, grounded, sitting, sleeping whatever u want. it works.