List of most deadly martial arts

[kenttiensankari]

Training in McDojos can teach you some deadly tricks, but they are deadly only for you.

[Bunkai]

For an art to be considered "deadly" to me it has to be on record of people killing others using that particular art. That's imposible.Every art has the potential of being deadly,it only depends on the practitioner not the style. As I'm sure has been mentioned before. I really think this is a silly question,but hopefully those who read it will realize that one style is not better or more deadly than any other.

[Treebranch]

MA's that have been used in historical events such as battles and such would be "Deadly" I guess. I guess MA's that teach you weaponry and such.

[CapitalKarate]

MA's that have been used in historical events such as battles and such would be "Deadly" I guess. I guess MA's that teach you weaponry and such.

Very true, but at the same time those were arts that were used against common weapons of the day. Kendo would hardly be practical against someone with a gun.

Deadly arts are whatever teaches you how to counter a weapon or approach common to that time period so that you can kill your opponent. In that case, I'd try to master the gun and knife and stick, and take some kind of course (like krav maga) that has been proven to be effective against todays weapons. If any of that makes sense.

[Treebranch]

Budo Taijutsu teaches whatever works. So there is gun, knife, stick, pepper spray, whatever. So yeah, I agree. Kendo was never used in battle by the way, Kenjutsu was.

[CQC]

Budo Taijutsu teaches whatever works. So there is gun, knife, stick, pepper spray, whatever. So yeah, I agree. Kendo was never used in battle by the way, Kenjutsu was.

Wow, I really didn't know Budo Taijutsu teaches so many weaponry disarmament techniques. I'm considering taking it. Is there any other qualities it has that other martial arts may not (although I know all have their own strengths and weaknesses).

[Grenadier]

It's not really the art, but rather the individual practitioner, that would really make for a "deadly" character. Does it really matter if someone were equally proficient at killing someone with his hands, feet, grappling skills, vital point striking, etc? Dead is dead, after all.

Also, what works for one practitioner is not necessarily going to work for another. Even though someone's kicking techniques would be deadly when executed by one person, that knowledge in the "hands" (figuratively speaking) of someone who lacks the flexibility and / or leg strength to execute such techniques would be all but useless, and not really deadly at all.

Each person has to find out what works well for himself, and then make the optimizations around such techniques.

If we compared it to the game of basketball, trying to turn Isiah Thomas (a point guard) into a rebounding, banging machine would be as fruitless of an endeavor as trying to make Bill Laimbeer a point guard.

[Muaythaiboxer]

its the man not the art!

[CapitalKarate]

Budo Taijutsu teaches whatever works. So there is gun, knife, stick, pepper spray, whatever. So yeah, I agree. Kendo was never used in battle by the way, Kenjutsu was.

*doh!* my bad.

[makiwaraman]

To quote something I read on a similar thread on another forum Robin Hood is always more important than the bow.

regards makiwaraman