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joelr · 10-17-2009, 10:48 PM

Depends what you are looking for?

If you want to learn how to fight for real MMA is best. Krav Maga is close, it covers things like how to deal with multiple attackers, knife attacks, gun attacks etc... For one on one mixed martial arts is best as it incorporates boxing, real kickboxing and wrestling/grappling. A large portion of the time is spent actually sparring with gloves/pads and full out submission grappling.

But training is hard and the meditation/spirituality aspects are left out.

The traditional arts usually include some philosophy and meditation such as:

Kung Fu - primarily a "show" activity, and is the most elegant dance like art.

Karate is similar but uses more straight forward punch-kicks. Less fancy movements.

Tae quon do is just like karate but with emphasis on kicks.

Jui Jitsu is mostly grappling, throws, take downs, wrestling

Akido is similar to jui jitsu

The "actual fighting" sports operate more like a boxing or wrestling class, lots of conditioning, drilling basics and contact sparring. Some are:

San Chow - in China when full contact fights are done the fighters do not use Kung Fu they use San Chow or Chinese kickboxing.
Mui Tai - kickboxing
Brazilian Jui Jitsu - sport grappling with gi and no gi
Boxing - America's very effective stand up fighting
Wrestling - olympic sport
Judo - much like Jui Jitsu
American Kickboxing - boxing plus kicks

Those are some of the basics.

10-17-2009, 10:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
joelr Family Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2,225	Depends what you are looking for? If you want to learn how to fight for real MMA is best. Krav Maga is close, it covers things like how to deal with multiple attackers, knife attacks, gun attacks etc... For one on one mixed martial arts is best as it incorporates boxing, real kickboxing and wrestling/grappling. A large portion of the time is spent actually sparring with gloves/pads and full out submission grappling. But training is hard and the meditation/spirituality aspects are left out. The traditional arts usually include some philosophy and meditation such as: Kung Fu - primarily a "show" activity, and is the most elegant dance like art. Karate is similar but uses more straight forward punch-kicks. Less fancy movements. Tae quon do is just like karate but with emphasis on kicks. Jui Jitsu is mostly grappling, throws, take downs, wrestling Akido is similar to jui jitsu The "actual fighting" sports operate more like a boxing or wrestling class, lots of conditioning, drilling basics and contact sparring. Some are: San Chow - in China when full contact fights are done the fighters do not use Kung Fu they use San Chow or Chinese kickboxing. Mui Tai - kickboxing Brazilian Jui Jitsu - sport grappling with gi and no gi Boxing - America's very effective stand up fighting Wrestling - olympic sport Judo - much like Jui Jitsu American Kickboxing - boxing plus kicks Those are some of the basics. Last edited by joelr; 10-17-2009 at 10:51 PM.