HaiTien78 said:
Elephant Boxing is the style Tony Jaa used in Tom Yum Goong aka "The Protector", Samurai-Do is a semi fictional style Hiroshi Fujioka (aka Kamen Rider 1/Hongo Takeshi) created.
Impulse is basically right; Muay Boran is a complete fighting system with the kind of joint locking and grappling that the movie sort of showed, but this "Elephant Boxing," if it was ever even a real martial art, was probably only used in ancient wars and thus not advisable today, kinda like how the traditional chambered karate punch is obsolete because it was slow and deliberate and designed to smash through bamboo armor, which made the wearer slow enough to be hit by it. Nobody wears bamboo armor anymore so punches have to be faster, agile, and more efficient overall.
I don't know anything about Samurai-do but it sounds stupid.
I've seen Ninjistu/Tae Kwon Do mix, and it works well. If you ever saw that one martial arts show on MTV, the champion used Ninjitsu TKD mix. If you think about it, both styles could compliment each other
First off, I guarantee you've never seen Ninjutsu. It's almost as obscure an art as finding a student of Merlinian magic in present-day Britain. Some of its techniques have been integrated into other martial arts, but some of them came from other martial arts to begin with, so for all practical purposes there's no way to differentiate what is true Taijutsu and what is just a widely used technique. I assume the show you're talking about is Final Fu, every contestant of which was basically a gymnast with lots of flippy, spinny skills but nothing combat-applicable, which showed in the pathetic rules. I never really kept up with the show myself but I would bet both of my testicles that the guy claiming to be practice Ninjutsu was either full of **** and knew it or full of **** and has no idea.
ninjutsu and tae kwon do do not mix, tae kwon do is a kicking style which is for face to face fighting, ninjutsus.........................it's for assasinations right? which require stealthm meh do what you want, television martial arts shows are usually for show and are unpractical in real life.
Taekwondo is a sport, which evolved from a game, some of who's techniques are reported to have been
maybe used to kick heavily armored soldiers off horseback hundreds of years ago. Not a lot of cred there. Really, I wouldn't entrust my life to any of TKD's mostly for show kicks, as pretty much all of the except the back kick have been gaudied up for performance and aren't (maybe never have been) for actual use in a fight.
People often think of Ninjutsu as the "art of l337 stealth shadow killing" or whatever, but from what I know a "ninja" is a martial artist not limited to physical proficiency alone (as in someone able to adapt and fight intuitively in a way that suggests natural awareness), and not always used as a spy or vessel of espionage (and very rarely for assassination). Ninjutsu is mostly a very complete form of martial arts for use in real fighting situations with an emphasis on natural movement, breathing, and posture.
