"Traditional jiu jitsu"? Is there such a thing, outside some super-secret Japanese secret society (of which one does not become a member)? I wouldn't expect to find any such thing in the US; look at what the typical "ninjutsu" school is for instance.
>>6
Unsurprisingly, this thread has attracted the "PUNCH PUNCH YEAH MORE PUNCHING AND SOME KICKS PUNCH PUNCH SOCK WHAM BIFF YEAH!" guy. And sure, muay thai is apparently the shit if what you're looking for in martial arts is getting punched in the face and/or learning to punch others in the face
really hard.
I have to wonder though: what exactly are you studying once you've learned how to punch people really hard? How to win matches against other hard-punchers? Yeah. That sounds really interesting. Prolly works really well too on the mythological
street where niggers and crackheads line up to come at you single file.
If I had to give one piece of advice to
>>1, it'd be this: will the martial art you end up training teach you that people can be dealt with, or will it teach you that some people are possessed by demons and therefore cannot be reasoned with, only punched in the face really hard?