14 Kempo
Grandmaster
In principle, I agree with everything that's been said, but we tend to fight the way we train and after you achieve a certain level of proficiency, you don't choose the techniques you use, they just happen.
There are several techiniques in the style I study that I just knew I'd never use, not in a million years, only to have them happen all by themselves, and quite effectively. Who knew:idunno:
I study the same style that Morph studies and we have a saying in our style..."You don't choose the technique, you're attacker does by the attack he gives." As for which one I'd never use...with some of my luck it'd be the one technique that'd actually work.
These two nailed it, if you ask me. When I first read the question, my mind went immediately to this fact, you're asking me to think about what technique I wouldn't use in a real situation and the answer is, if I have to think about it, I should never use it. You can't take time to think in a fight, it needs to be reflex. That means you train with what works for you. If you are into looking like a kung fu movie while you spar, then you may be in serious trouble in a street altercation. It's survival mode, once the decision is made to throw down, don't think, let it happen.