Good practial style?

Hey, I want to learn martial arts. I am 14 turning 15 in autum. I%26#039;m 5%26#039;9 and I%26#039;m flexible. I have a more balanced body type. If I can%26#039;t overpower my opponent I%26#039;m typically faster and if I can%26#039;t out run my opponent I can typically outpower them. My reflexes are kinda slow, but I can take a hit. I think my superb defense is a good quality of mine. I%26#039;m not sure if this a special ability, but when I fight, time seems to slow down for me. It%26#039;s not much, but I am able to think clearly and anticipated my opponents techniques. I want take a martial art that is balanced with hands and feet along with power and speed. In addition to it I want an art that is practical in streetfights and the style regularly teaches sceanarios where it is closed spaces and the enemy fights very constrictively. I was in a Mcdojo when I was little and all scenarios, the opponent attacked loosely. I know this is pushing it, but I require a dojo that has good quality, yet isn%26#039;t to expensive- money is stiff here, Thanks

Good practial style?
Recommended practical styles:





for standup: muay thai, kyokushen, shidokan karate, san shou, kickboxing.





for grappling: judo, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, sambo.





Learn at least one standup and one grappling martial art, and you%26#039;ll be well prepared.
Reply:Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is prob the most practical. It%26#039;s a combat style, not a formal martial art. Or if you can find MMA (mixed martial arts). Jeet Kune Do is also very practical.





Kickboxing is very practical and toughens you up quite a bit, but on the street, you have to know grappling. No traditional style will teach you to fight as well as BJJ in my opinion.
Reply:If you%26#039;re interested in Military type styles then I recommend Krav Maga, quite good, simple direct and battle tested and proven.





For something more traditional personally I%26#039;d go with Wing Chun as this seems to cover everything that you have mentioned, a more %26quot;modernised%26quot; version of Wing Chun is JKD, essentially it%26#039;s the same thing though.





Learning some grappling may help though if you learn Wing Chun, JKD or Krav Maga from a decent teacher they should teach you some ground fighting too and Wing Chun and JKD are both excellent at standing grappling which in my opinion is greatly overlooked by arts that focus on the ground game. Krav from what I understand doesn%26#039;t like staying in contact.





If I were you as you are quite young start with Wing Chun to get a good grounding in your skills, try and stay away from typical Hong Kong styles if you can, after you have become reasonably proficient in Wing Chun (2 years of training, and make sure you actually train or the stuff won%26#039;t work) then think about looking at other things to include such as JKD or Krav. All of these 3 arts have very similar ideas and principals so should go well together, but I believe that a good grounding in traditional Wing Chun will make you more ready for them in the long run, you may even find that you%26#039;re Wing Chun will be enough without the other styles, I personally like the training methods of Krav but don%26#039;t like the techniques as much as Wing Chun so this is why I train both.
Reply:krav maga is the best of both worlds, it teaches you worst case scenarios where the guy has the knife or gun in your face not in his pants across the street. also it teaches you ground work where you are on the bottom and he is on top. it is very practical and is used by the israeli army, it has become more widely known and is very very practical. it is a no nonsense self-defense system. there are some great krav maga demonstration videos on youtube that you should look into its all very quick and powerful.
Reply:American Kempo is what your looking for bro. Not to say you should only look into that. But it%26#039;s good in the street and its what the marines use. I just started taking classes and I’m


I’m learning from a ret. sergeant from the marines. It%26#039;s down and dirty, it%26#039;s not what looks good, it%26#039;s just what works. Make sure when you find a school it%26#039;s not watered down crap that’s flashy like so many of the Americanized tae kwon do schools. I%26#039;ve tryed lots of diffrent styles and seen my fair share of Olympic style or flash fu schools. And finding real schools can sometimes be hard. Keep your nose to the grind and look for serious %26quot;self defense style%26quot; schools that teach kempo, san soo kung fu, or jeet kune doe. It should be a practical way to get going on the right track.
Reply:Try kajukenbo or CHA 3 kenpo. Do some research on any style before you start though.