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<blockquote data-quote="TheKitten" data-source="post: 2013555" data-attributes="member: 565946">Kung fu movies are just about as good an argument as any in the eternal battle of the styles.The whole thing is based on a misconception. The basic misconception is that everybody is into martial arts for the same reasons, that they all wish to attain the same goals, and that a given martial art will do the same thing for everyone practising it.If you&#039;re discussing it from an MMA point of view, that&#039;s fine. But you&#039;re discussing a very precise sport application.Why don&#039;t they teach MMA in women&#039;s self defence? Because that&#039;s a very different application. Of course she doesn&#039;t want to go to the ground with her attacker. That would be nuts.When they teach martial arts to police officer, they tend to focus more on restraining techinques and, for legal reasons, keep the more harmful stuff to a minimum, on a &quot;if absolutely necessary basis&quot;. (Besides, they&#039;ve got weapons for these situations)Other people still practise Zen archery today. That&#039;s also a sport application, but it also really underlies the word art in martial arts and it&#039;s a whole system of personal and spiritual development.The fact is there is no one size fits all martial art. Not to mention different people have different needs. I wouldn&#039;t recommend Sumo wrestling to a 95 pound man. Etc...Etc...Whenever people say what&#039;s the best martial art, I always have to ask: Better for what?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheKitten, post: 2013555, member: 565946"] Kung fu movies are just about as good an argument as any in the eternal battle of the styles. The whole thing is based on a misconception. The basic misconception is that everybody is into martial arts for the same reasons, that they all wish to attain the same goals, and that a given martial art will do the same thing for everyone practising it. If you're discussing it from an MMA point of view, that's fine. But you're discussing a very precise sport application. Why don't they teach MMA in women's self defence? Because that's a very different application. Of course she doesn't want to go to the ground with her attacker. That would be nuts. When they teach martial arts to police officer, they tend to focus more on restraining techinques and, for legal reasons, keep the more harmful stuff to a minimum, on a "if absolutely necessary basis". (Besides, they've got weapons for these situations) Other people still practise Zen archery today. That's also a sport application, but it also really underlies the word art in martial arts and it's a whole system of personal and spiritual development. The fact is there is no one size fits all martial art. Not to mention different people have different needs. I wouldn't recommend Sumo wrestling to a 95 pound man. Etc...Etc... Whenever people say what's the best martial art, I always have to ask: Better for what? [/QUOTE]

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