There is no Best Martial Art

[ahgao]

I've search thru the board and found alot of practisioner will compare this art against that art, or how good this art can be...

 

My personel views will be: There ain't no Better Martial Arts, There is always a Better Fighter.

 

July 2002, a gp of Wingchun exponent was invited to Thailand for a friendly match. The art of Muaythai won the match.

 

Apr 2001, Mauythai practisioner was invited to China to exhange with San Shou fighter. The winner: San Shou.

 

In the nutshell, there are no superior art over any other, but the practisioner will have to work hard to overcome other arts, yar

[TJS]

Ultimately it comes down to the person yes, but thats why you look at generall succes rate.

 

look at K-1 for example, a mixed event where karate,TKD,kung fu, muay thai, etc can all compete against each other in a standup event.

 

is it pure coinsidence that Nearly every top standup fighter in the world trains in Muay thai?Or that Kyokushin karate is the only one you see winning there?

 

Is it just conisidence that just about every top MMA/NHB fighting team(chute box,Brazilian top team, Millitech, etc.) uses Muay Thai as their standup style of choice?

 

if it all relied on the fighter then why do you not see more fighters from other stlyes winning serious events?

 

When certain stlye continually dominate fights again and again and other never have success it's hard to sit there and say it "ALL" comes down to the fighter...

[AndrewGreen]

Nope, comes down to the training method, and the training method will dictate the techniques.

 

Styles are usually defined largely based on there training methods.

 

Depending on what you want to do some training methods are good, some are better and some are counter productive.

 

Saying that all are equal is nonsense.

[mArTiAl_GiRl]

That's right.

 

The training method and the fighter. It depends on that. And of course, on the instructor too.

[King of Fighters]

There may not be a best martial art, and no style is completly better than another, but there are stronger arts and weaker arts in my opinion.

[mArTiAl_GiRl]

Most true.

[Raiden]

There may not be a best martial art, and no style is completly better than another, but there are stronger arts and weaker arts in my opinion.

 

I agree

[JerryLove]

If there are no better arts, then there are no worse arts either. This means that the art you train makes no difference what-so-ever. if that is true, there is no point learning any art, as the art you just make up will be euqally good.

 

Since we do not believe this conclusion, the premise must be similarly flawed.

 

There is not a "best" martial art; because there is not a singular person or situation in which to test... but there are certainly "better" martial arts based on presumption of circumstance.

 

For example, Boxing is better than wrestling for a boxing match. conversely, wrestling is better than boxing for a wrestling match. A fencer will take a boxer... if he has an epee; but he will not if they are unarmed.

[Treebranch]

Best for Competition, or best for the street, or best for Combat, or best for your health? If you break them down like this maybe we might get somewhere. Just because a fighter is Champion in a certain style doesn't mean that style is the best, the fighter is. This fighter might be just as effective if he or she had trained in a different style as well. But there are MA's that are better at some things than others.

[metamorph]

No MA can be the best on its own but when cross trained the greater whole beats the sum of each part alone, my point is crosstraining is best. Mix a standup art with a grappling art like muay thai with BJJ.