Krunk–not to beat my own drum here, but Shotokan would probably work pretty well for you. Here in Minnesota, the tall, storky types seem to do really well. My sensi’s about 6’3", maybe 200 pounds. All those dang Swedes and Norwegians make us 5’9" irish/english types look like midgets.
Or fencing. That might work for you, too. Kendo, maybe?
My choice of Shotokan was that, due to a back injury sustained in a ju jitsu class, I was looking for something that didn’t use throws; since I wasn’t as flexible as I was when studying TKD in college, I needed something that didn’t emphasize high/spinning/jumping kicks, and Shotokan does all that.
I started in Tae Kwon Do because a teacher at my grade school saw me getting incessantly beaten up and wanted me to, at the very least, learn how to not make it so easy on them. So I start going to her dojo when I was . . . 12 or so?
I stopped a little more than two years and a little better than a 1st degree black belt later, mostly because I was bored with it and partially because I was gonna be going off to high school many moons away.
It was in my TKD training, btw, that I learned the move Joe_Cool and I discussed in Sua Na’s GQ thread.
I’ve thought a lot about kendo. I’ve been having a lot of problems finding anything in my area, though. I remain hopeful, though - kendo’s always fascinated me and it’s been something I’ve wanted to try.
God. Any art that involves bonking people from a medium distance would be benefited by a long reach and storky build.
I don’t think Ethilrist is being unreasonable in beating his drum at all on that point.
Having said that, my martial art seems to draw two general sorts of people: storky (medium to tall) types that would be in more mainstream forms of karate if they were in an area with more schools and people who are built like fireplugs (better for soaking up and dishing out damage).