What do you think is the best martial art?

Question

Why do you think so?
Also, what arts do you reccomend staying away from and why?

Answer 1

Muay Thai by far. the definition of Muay Thai is as follows (thank wikipedia for this): Muay Thai is referred to as "The Science of Eight Limbs", as the hands, feet, elbows, and knees are all used extensively in this art. A master practitioner of Muay Thai thus has the ability to execute strikes using eight "points of contact," as opposed to "two points" (fists) in boxing and "four points" (fists, feet) used in the primarily sport-oriented forms of martial arts. Muay Thai is an especially versatile, brutal, straightforward martial art. Mix that in with brazilian Jiu-jitsu aikido and some judo and you are set my friend. By far it has to be Mixed Martial Arts for the reason that a good fighter is not one dimentional but well rounded. Muay Thai is by far the best striker art but also don't just train one area train them all!!! Be sure to know how to box with excelent footwork and balance mold that into Muay Thai.

Answer 2

I looked into alot of different Martial arts before I chose the one thats right for me. I choose Karate because it has actual self defence capabilities. It lets you take control of the situation before it gets to the ground. Alot of other martial arts are good for tournaments but not very good for real self defence (Tae-Kwon-Do, Kung-Fu, Tai-Chi) I would not be trying a flying roundhouse kick or an animal style on the streets.
Other good ones are Judo, Aikido, Brazilian Ju-Jitsu.
Those are good if the fight gets to the point where you are on the ground with your opponent. I'd rather not be. I'll finish things standing, thank you.
Look around and visit different training halls, find something that interests you and go for it. Having fun doing it is the most important thing.

Answer 3

There is no BEST martial art since every art has its weakness. The only way I can think of learning the best martial art is to learn all of them. The Shaolin Academy might be able to help you there because it is named after (possibly even created from) the great Shaolin Temple where many different styles were taught under the same roof. They even used to say that the person who learned all their styles would be invincible to both armed or unarmed attacks. I would say to stay away from the Arts of the Assassins. Learn all the Arts needed to stun or knock out an enemy but stay away from killing moves as killing is only justifiable when there is no other choice.

Answer 4

1. How many people believe that martial art systems were much simplier than they are today back in 1900, 1800's and 1700's? and why? I think they were in general less specialized, because they were actually used for defense. Because of that they needed to cover a wider variety of attacks and defenses, . With the current popularity of MMA do you feel that martial arts is losing the honor, respect, code of ethics and proper culture that made it so great? You better believe it.

Answer 5

Martial Arts means the Arts of War. In the old days, warriors fight with swords and bare hands so martial arts were invented. Nowaday, warriors fight with guns also so if you talking about which martial arts is best, I think a quickdraw in gunfighting is the best. If you talking about eastern martial arts or kungfu, it suppose to be use for self defense only according to eastern martial arts philosophy. If you need to learn some self-defense techniques then running away from a fight is probably another best choice when faced with multiple opponents or a stronger opponent.

a far as the martial art styles, each has its plus and minus.

Kickboxing,taewondo or Karate are good empty hands fighting styles on your feet but offer few solution for ground fightings.

If you want to control your opponents then aikido and Juijitso are good for that. Police like these because it teaches them to how to control a target with their hands but Hwarangdo and Hapkido offers kicking techniques with some control techniques also.

Groundfighting techniques like juijitsu or russian sambo are goods for one-on-one on the ground but it will be impractical if fighting on the streets with multiple attackers and on hard cement.

weapons styles are also goods but it's illegal to carry some of these weapons with you most of the time.

Most of the best martial artists usually studied many styles and take the best of each to apply to their body styles.

And finally, there are also some mysterious unorthodox martial arts out there that utilize poisons and etc.that you are not faced with. Remember, there are always taller mountains then where you are and practicing martial arts for sports and mat competition is different than practicing martial arts for self defense.

Answer 6

Comhrac Bas. Comhrac Bas really is the best art. I have studied Systema and even attended classes, it's great for exercise and fitness but questionable in fighting.

Plus I even used to think that at one point artists like Paul Vunak and Demi Barbito we're teaching some seriously good material and then later to find that Matt Thornton improves on what they have done.

Later I discovered Defendo and Vee Arnis Jitsu and though very different I did at one point think they were close to the best. And I still say they are good.

Around the same time I met these arts I also saw Richard Ryan's Dynamic Combat which I will say is close to Comhrac Bas at it's early intermediate level and at the time I was certain it was the best thing ever. Well this was about four years ago.

Later on I discovered Comhrac Bas and was amazed at the incredible depth of effectiveness it possesses.

Since then I have come across several new systems that have been labeled the best thing ever. Not one of them has come close to Comhrac Bas. I wont name them hear because in this page I only want to tell you the things I have at some point considered cutting edge. I can safely say that Comhrac Bas at it's fundamental level is more cutting edge than whatever else you or I have seen.

I need to comment though on a fairly popular bad review that one of his tapes has recieved. The person that reviewed his tape obviously had no knowledge of this incredible art. This person stated that there are six rules when there are actually nine. The review also says that no other videos are needed before that particular one to understand the material when in fact the TRS produced "Combat JKD" is absolutely essential before you get any other TRS produced Chris Clugston tapes.

If you want to take that first step in learning the world's best Self Defense system then what you could do is order the Two DVD or three tape package "Combat JKD" at http://www.trsdirect.com/. Or going to http://www.webspawner.com/users/luchador... and ordering "Nexus 1" AND "Nexus Two" at the same time. Either one of these orders I have suggested will motivate you to buy the other DVD's and make you want more and more and more. Before you know it you will be owning all the DVD's.

Remember that if you want to get off to a good start you absolutely must get the orders I have told you about. Buying these tapes in the wrong order will confuse you and turn you off the best Self Defense technology in the world.

Comhrac Bas is all you need to handle yourself in a street encounter. The only other material I would suggest to you is some Mark Hatmaker material if you want to learn the absolute best in MMA training, and either Vee-Arnis Jitsu, Defendo, or Dynamic Combat if you want to learn more about weapon attacks and such.

Comhrac Bas is the truth. I promise you this. All others reading this question get informed as well.

Answer 7

Jeet Kun Do is the best. But, it's not taught much. I'm just a huge Bruce Lee fan, and since he created it, I'm a fan of it, as well. It combined all of the techniques that are necessary to defend oneself without all of the unnecessary movements that are incorporated in many martial arts just for visual style. It was short and to the point. Great exercise, as well.

Answer 8

Taekwondo is the best martial art in the world right now, because it teaches the use of feet and fists. And also one of two olympic Martial Art Sports like Judo.

shahzad

Answer 9

Muay Thai Freak say pretty much all of it. He is very correct about everything.

Also you want to look for a gym that have bags work, pads work, full contact spar with minimal pads (head gears, shin pads, elbow pads, gloves) or gym that encourage students to grapples with eachother as hard as possible when sparring/grappling. Stay away from gym that have students stand in row and punch/kick air whole time or put much focus on spirit and chi. Stay away from gym that claim to teach death touch.

Think about this, who would you trust more? A driving instructor who have you practice in a car that don't run and claim you're doing great then give you a certificate. Or do you perfer a driving instructor who take you into a real car that run and have you drive it for real and eventually drive it into the street? That's the same thing with martial arts. If you can't practice it against other person for real then you won't be able to fight for real.

btw if you want to give me 10 points, give it to Muay Thai Freak please, he deserve it more than I do.

Answer 10

Bruce Lee!! coz he's the legend and he's like idol for today's martial artists
Dark Arts coz is sounds scary~~