when i practiced Pencak Silat, we would have fighters from every style in to spar. In every case, it broke down to KICK BOXING !!!! As soon as somebody got hit, their technique was out the door and they were kick boxing. Yes, kicking is highly effective in the street, but you cant use spinning high kicks. What you should do is NOT JOIN A CLUB as most of them are for sport, not killing. Take up kick boxing and enhance it with some techinque from Krav Maga, Systema and some other no bs stuff. Forget any style and just practice highly effective moves from any source you see; get a friend to go along and learn too.