I do judo, which is unrehearsed physical fighting. But in judo combos are easier to come up with because there are already certain throws. With sword fighting you have techniques, but good free-style fights are hard to find because most people who do them aren't even familiar with the basics.
And I can't stand Kendo because it's too rigid. People don't fight like ginger-bread men. Then again, Kendo is a sport, not a fighting style, so my anger is misplaced.
I remember I used to be fairly good at fencing. One time a friend of mine and I randomly picked up meter-sticks and started fencing in the middle of one of our shops classes in grade 7 (it was the stage production one, actually... though it mainly dealt with how to operate a camera rather than how to act). My teacher came back and found us fencing and decided that it was awesome, so he had the class film us doing it.
Well, technically it wasn't really fencing, because we didn't adhere to the actual rules of foil-fencing, it was more free-style with fencing tones where it didn't matter who hit and if they had the touche or not.
But, yeah... I'd like to do some of this stage-fighting stuff... it's awesome.
--------------- Added 20 Jul 2008 at 05:54 pm ---------------
Oh, dude! Sidenote: This is fucking AWESOME!