Whats the best?

Question

martial art style/ or styles for real life fighting for stand up, clinch, and ground

Answer 1

Muey Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Boxing always helps but is not absolutely necessary.

Answer 2

This is going to depend upon who you ask. In my opinion, real life fighting requires more guts than technique. A real brawler, and I mean a guy who has spent his life in barrom fights, will generally just plow through any of the fancy techniques employed. He likes to fight, therefore he will just attack. If I were going to do a lot of "real life" fighting, I would just get meaner than the other guy.

Nowadays, however, the loser generally comes back with an AK and sprays your car. The best bet is to just walk away, if your can't, go for the soft body parts (eyes, groin, armpits, joints). Once you have your enemy incapacitated, leave the area.

By the way, all the high kicks and cool techniques you see in movies and on TV are pretty much BS. They are correographed and done under ideal circumstances. Ask anyone who has ever taken martial arts and they will tell you that to perform a proper round house kick, you better be awfully well warmed up; otherwise, you will tear something on you. Now, as you like on th e pavement in a great deal of pain, your enemy can kick the daylights out of you.

Just walk away...

Answer 3

for the best mma fighting system most people end up having to cross-train..

unless there is a mixed martial arts school in your area, which mma schools are popping up everywhere nowadays, but if there isn't one in your area, you are going to have to improvise..

our guys work a combination of several systems:

boxing
muay Thai hand strikes
muay Thai/kickboxing
jkd trapping/destroy, trap, lock system
submissions/finishing/grappling/ground n pound

plus cardio training w/jump ropes, calistetics, and running
also isometric, plyometrics and body conditioning..

now if you are lucky enough to live near a mma school, you can get all of this, including sparring partners, at a mma school. but if you can't find one the next best thing is cross-training.

i'd suggest taking a boxing class, incorporate a kickboxing class, and add a grappling or bjj class. wrestling is another option as well.

if you have a community college near by check them out, they often have bjj or judo classes or clubs and for reasonable prices!

i know people say try not to concentrate on stand up.. but personally i think stand up is just as important as ground fighting.. fights start on the feet!

hope this helps!

~*good luck*~

Answer 4

Trick question.
In my opinion...There is no "greatest" Martial Art. Each of the numerous arts has something good to give. It's all about doing your own research. For one to tell you that Japanese Karate-Do, Tae Kwon Do, or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, or even Muay Thai is the greatest is one sided. No one has the doctrine truth on this matter. It is when you "crystalize" something that it all becomes a classical mess. You are given a piece of clay...for you to make your own masterpiece out of...you have to hack away at the pieces. Same with the arts...as Bruce Lee said: Absorb what is useful, Reject what is useless and add specifically what works for you.

Answer 5

the answer to the question is simple: There Isn't one that is best. Finding a good school that will teach you how to PROPERLY defend yourself in such a situation is more important than finding the "best" Martial Art.

the only way you're gonna be good at both sides of the fight (stand up and groundfighting) is to study a Martial Art that uses standup (like Muay Thai or one of the classical or traditional Martial Arts which make up 90% of the disciplines out there), and then study a ground fighting discipline like Judo, Jujitsu, maybe Aikido or Hapkido to be a more well rounded fighter.

THAT is the only way that you'll be proficient in both sides f the fight.

it's a personal choice of which discipline YOU want to study, there isn't a "best" Martial Art. Only YOU can Make the decision about which one is best for YOU and what you want to get out of studying Martial arts for your personal benefit.

What many people fail to realize about Martial Arts is that there isn't a particular "brand" that is a "best fit".

There IS NOT a Martial Art that works for people with SPECIFIC body characteristics (height, weight, body type, gender, etc.)

Because the fact is that when people ask "what's a good Martial Art for me to learn?" or “what’s the “best” Martial Art to learn” has 2 major problems:

1st: these questions just beg for the majority of people here to start blurting out names of disciplines that are probably not even available in your area.

2nd: Just because they recommend a Martial Art that they may (or worse MAY NOT) have studied and it just happened to become THEIR favorite Martial Art because they’re interested in studying it or it worked for them doesn't mean that it's going to work for you or that you’ll find it interesting.

First of all, what YOU need to do is research local schools by looking in the phone book or internet search engine to find out if there ARE any Martial Arts schools in your area.

Second, if you can find at least 3 schools that interest you, watch a few classes at each one and decide which one out of those 3 schools that interested you the most.

Third, the next thing you should do is find out if they have some trial classes (up to a weeks worth to help you make a decision, hopefully without being hassled to join or sign a contract to join the class), and if you find that you like the school, then enroll in the class.

You just need to find a Martial Arts School that will provide a safe, "family like" environment for you and that the instructor(s) are going to help you become the best Martial Artist that you can become.

The discipline you may wind up studying DOESN'T MATTER because there is NO discipline that is better than another, because they ALL have their strengths AND weaknesses

What matters is that you feel comfortable in the classes (and like the classes) and feel comfortable that the instructor (and the instructor's TEACHING style and not the discipline itself) can properly teach you self defense without the "smoke and mirrors" .

The instructor should also like to do it more for the teaching aspect rather than the "making money" which it is a business to make money after all; but it should not be the only reason for teaching the discipline.

The biggest problem you should worry about in finding a school is being aware of schools that're a "McDojo's" or "belt factory" type of school.

These schools usually do a lot of boasting; particularly about how soon their students make their 1st degree black belts. A prime example of this: having several "young black belts" that're usually 9 or 10 yr old kids, which should be a rare thing to see unless the child started learning the discipline when they were 4 yrs old, or promising that as a student you’ll be making your black belt in about a year’s time (the average should be between 4 to 5 years or better) which often means that they have a high student turnout rate. This is a Red Flag

They may also try to get you to commit to (by signing) a contract, usually one that's 6 months long or more or try to get you to pay down a large sum of money for that kind of time period. This is a BIG red flag

And don’t be fooled by these schools telling you about how many tournaments or competitions their students have entered and placed in or won a trophy, which is NOT a necessity in Martial Arts. Tournaments/competitions can be good to test your own skills at point sparring but again, it’s not necessary because they are the LEAST important aspect to concern yourself with in Martial Arts.

Long story short, these schools will basically "give" you your belt ranks every few months as long as you are paying the outrageous fees per month, and you won't really learn self defense.

speed, power, agility, balance; these are all atributes that can only be improved upon by training, if you have a good training ethic, then you'll improve them and become a better martial artist, if you have a poor or laxed training ethic, then you won't be a very good martial artist and have learned very little.

Answer 6

Traditional Shaolin, taught by a good school, will incorporate all of the things you've listed. But you need to choose what feels right for you. I went to a couple of different schools before I found one that felt right to me; don't be afraid to shop around and ask questions.

BTW, the only stupid question is the honest one that's never asked.

Answer 7

I prefer kajukenbo myself , America's first mixed martial art .

Answer 8

brazillian jiujitsu is best for ground, muay thai is best for clinch, and for standing, muay thai with boxing and some judo or wrestling

Answer 9

There are no best arts, only best artists.
Do not seek a good style, seek a good school instead.

Answer 10

mixed martial arts include all of those elements (ie ultimate fighting)