how many styles of martial arts do you think there is and wich one is your favorite or the best one?

Answer 1

There are thousands of registered "styles" however all come from 6 basic roots; Korean style TaeKwonDo, Meditative arts (Qi Gong), Japanese style manipulation arts (AiKido) - which are closely related to Qi Gong, Chinese "commonfolk" arts (which is where the use of weapons like the Nunchucku and Siah come from), South American arts (Capoeira, and other dance styles), and Western Europe (boxing). I prefer Tang Soo Do, which is a style of Korean TaeKwon Do. It is the first I learned and is the style that opened my eyes to others. I also enjoy Ju Jitsu and Qi Gong. There truly is NO "best" martial art. All of them evolved out of people's need for defense. One example is the Nunchucku. Originaly Nunchucku were used to beat rice into flour by the peasants. They began to use them to defend themselves against invaders and the Nunchucku weapon was born. The same is true of the Siah, which were used to aerate soil originally and looked a bit different than they do now. Peasants realized they could disarm the nobility of their swords quite easily with them, and the Siah was born.

Answer 2

There are almost as many styles of martial arts as there are practitioners - people seem to develop a new style every day.

As for the best style, each martial artist needs to find one that takes into account his or her physical attributes, goals, environment, and abilities. This isn't just ducking the quesion - a 90 lb woman who wants to fend off 400 lb. muggers might not be well-suited to greco-roman wrestling, though it is GREAT training for someone who is bigger.

Having studied a wide variety of styles for almost twenty years, I will say that many martial arts systems can be street effective, depending on the artist, but in my opinion, to develop your fighting abilities and to find a style that works for you, you need to find an art (and a school) where they simulate real fighting as closely as possible without everyone getting hurt. Some of the arts where you can do this are Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, freestyle wrestling, some muay thai schools, some JKD schools, judo, and MMA. If you want to learn more brutal self-defense techniques from other systems such as Krav Maga, Japanese Jiu-Jtisu, or others, techniques such as eye-gauges and ear-slaps (which can be very useful), I believe you should really start with a basis in a realistic sporting art, so that you can keep your head about you and avoid getting quickly knocked out in a real fight, rending ALL of your techniques useless. Further, by actually testing your techniques in a relatively realistic simulation, you'll know if the system that you are studying makes sense for you or if you are wasting your time.

Overall, though, most of us who train martial arts for many hours every week are probably only going to be in a few minutes of actual fights and confrontations in our lives -- you should enjoy your training, whatever you do.

Answer 3

There are so many types of martial arts that I don't think there is an exact number. I'm always learning of new ones.
My favorite is Karate. I've studdied it for a long time and am very comfortable with it. That doesn't mean it's the best... it's just right for me.

Answer 4

Style is a specialization in a particular range of combat. For example Tae Kwon Do is a specialization of long kicking range. No one style is better than any other. All areas of combat are necessary for survival. Learning a complete system is ideal ... HFY

Answer 5

There are so many martial arts styles to mention. In general, we can classify martial in two groups. First group are focusing more on punch and kick (i.e. karate, taekwondo, muaythai, boxing), and the other group are focusing more on grabbing (i.e. judo, aikido, wrestling).

I do not think there are any best martial arts ever, taken account the uniqueness of the artists him/herself. For myself, i do taekwondo and aikido. I love taekwondo for the beautifully kick, and love aikido for real life self defence.

Answer 6

Depends on what country. There's chinese, japanese, korean, south american, and so on. Each have their own styles. I take korean. If you want to learn and you're starting fresh, you might ask to see if there's lessons for taekwondo. It's pretty much kicks, but there are strikes and blocks involved too. I'm a blue belt in taekwondo.

Answer 7

There's probably only about a thousand styles and variations out there. I think I like the Drunken style

Answer 8

ALL Styles have good aspects about them but some are more practical than others.

I like...

Answer 9

capoeira. i think its the deadliest and hardest to learn

Answer 10

idk how many styles but hapkido won my heart. its a korean syle
based on cicrular motions