So here ' s the thing anything that shows up in entertainment manga , TV , action movies where the protagonist doesn ' t rep a style as part of the movie is just gonna be a mishmash of martial arts moves that fit the style of the production . Depending on the style of movie you could get something like Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragon very clean motions , totally unrealisticnot even martial moves , the scenes and movement are the point or something like Rocky actually less pretty movement wise than many boxing fights , a lot of just standing there and hitting each other , depending on what the filmmaker wants to emphasize . And stuff where the protagonist reps a style e . g . Ip Man is often even more confusing because scenes will be set up such that the style looks really good , whether or not that makes sense from a would it work standpoint . As far as that scene goes you could find the movies in that scene in many many kung fu styles basically anything that does any grabbing and any high kicking , probably muay boran , any japanese karate style , the armlock but not the kicks in Fiorean swordplay . You wouldn ' t find them in styles that don ' t allow grabbing or jointlocking e . g . boxing , or kicking say Judo . As far as what would teach you to hit those two moves , probably knockdown karate for the kick but they don ' t do ANY work like that jointlock at realistic speed and . some kung fu or oldschool karate school for the jointlock . Problem is it ' s SUPER hard to do quality control for styles that do that kind of thing , because they can ' t shatter your elbow . Therefore until you ' re pretty good it ' s hard to guess if someone saying oh , we don ' t practice that fasthard because you ' ll get damaged is actually right , or if what they ' re saying is I ' ve never tried to do that move at speed and don ' t actually have any practical experience with it . Edit I was seeing the grab face elbow as a jointlock . Since it ' s not it ' s even more broad MT , Karate , and many Southern kung fu styles would have moves like that .