Which Martial Art is the Best to Learn

When someone who has never trained in martial arts before makes the decision to do so the first thing they ask is “which martial art is the best”. That’s a fair enough question. Obviously no one wants to be doing something that is a waste of time and not practical. The true answer to that question is that there is no martial art which is the best. But there is a martial art which is best for YOU.

To find the right martial art for you, you need to ask yourself a few questions. Firstly, what type of martial art catches your eye. Do you like the flashy kicks of teakwondo, the dynamic throws of judo, hitting the bags in a Mauy Thai class or maybe the rough and tumble of submission wrestling. You need to know, because you’re never going to excel in a martial art if you find it boring. You’ve got to want to go training, not go just because you’ve paid your annual fee at the start and you don’t want to lose out.

Secondly, you need to be realistic about yourself when choosing a martial art. A small guy weighing 150 pounds with very little strength may go to a sumo class a few times and find that he is getting belly flopped all over the place where a big 250 pound hulk may find he/she is doing well in that martial art. On the other hand, both guys may go to a kung fu school, and because of his/her quickness and mobility, the smaller guy may love it and the big guy may find it hard to move as fast as the others. You need to look at what God gave you physically, and match a martial art to what you are suited to.

Lastly, you have to be opened minded. To find the best martial art for yourself, which should lead to the best way of fighting (for sport or street) for yourself you need to understand that each martial art has something to offer. No matter what anyone says about some martial arts being practical and others not, you will always find something that other martial artists do differently and you may be able to include this in your personal repertoire to achieve better results. There will always be those also who stick to what they know as being “the be all and end all”. Some martial art teachers claim that all they learn in there own gym or school is all that is needed, but that is far from correct. Start out with one martial art, train in that for a while, then go and cross train to gain further knowledge.

These are some points that should be reflected upon when trying to establish the best martial art to take up. It all depends on the person, there is no one martial art that stands out above the rest, and there never will be.

Marks

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