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There is a plethora of traditional martial arts and combat sports available. If you're looking for one of those, there really is no other option but to try and see for yourself. Only you will know what exactly you'll enjoy. In this case, I say good luck and hope you find something you enjoy. Before I proceed, I'll mention I have tremendous respect for all the martial arts and combat sports as such.
However, if you're looking for something extremely practical as far as self defense and combat capability is concerned, I'm willing to offer Krav Maga for you to consider. It's a combat system developed for the israeli military. The guiding principle is basically doing whatever you have to do to ensure a maximum chance of surviving a dangerous confrontation. To achieve that goal, it employs very simple techniques based on natural reflexes and gross motor skills. The idea is to go from defending to counter-attacking as soon as possible and continuing until the threat is neutralized and you can escape safely. It includes situational awareness, defense against single and multiple, armed and unarmed attackers, using objects in the environment as weapons, stress and aggressiveness drills, pre-emptive attacks and many other things.
Unfortunately, there aren't any schools in HK yet, so I can only offer to teach you personally. I don't charge anything, but I also don't have a fancy gym, so training would have to take place in a park or other public place. One-on-one training also obviously excludes multiple attacker scenarios. I don't have to be called master or anything silly like that, I've just trained in it for several years and offer it to anyone who might find it useful.
Now, it was mentioned that self defense might not be a major consideration in as safe a place as Hong Kong, but I believe you never know when or where you'll find yourself in a situation where you need to defend yourself. It might not take more than one occasion of being in the wrong place at the wrong time to end up in a morgue. Might sound melodramatic, but it's just reality.
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