WEll I am glad you did not ask a question that gets asked every single day...I mean its not like you could do a search and find the answer.
And of COURSE there is one best martial art...and the 10s of thousands practicing other arts just have not figured that out yet...they are all deluded fools...
WEll I am glad you did not ask a question that gets asked every single day...I mean its not like you could do a search and find the answer.
And of COURSE there is one best martial art...and the 10s of thousands practicing other arts just have not figured that out yet...they are all deluded fools...
I have seen a lot of comments on BB rank and is it worth anything. THought I would ask everyone what their 1st dan test was like.
I will start
in 1987 I did my 1st Dan test in karate.
I had a 2 mile runfollowed immediately by 3 one on one sparring matches
Had to execute all forms properly as...
I see many hear extolling the virtues of MMA/BJJ/etc. and denigrating traditional martial arts (karate, TKD, hapkido, etc.). While I practice traditional martial arts, I agree there is a real problem. But it is not the arts themselves.
Here is what I see happens: A guy gets a legit 2nd or...
Why do you guys ask this same question 3 or 4 times a day? The answer is always the same: it is not the art but the practitioner. Any art in which one trains hard and realistically with a quality instructor will be fine. IF there where one 'magic' art that beat all others then everyone would...
Well you see this is number 1042 of the list of christian hypocisy. They basically say "Killing is wrong...unless your government tells you to.."
If a man rapes your child and you kill him, they call it murder. But if the government orders you into a foriegn land to kill a man that never...
A lot of people here have agreed that it is not the art you choose, but how you train in that art. I agree. But let us define (for the less experienced) what training hard means. Frankly doing a front kick (or any other technique) twice a week 10 times each, is not training, you have not even...
There is constant bashing of 'sport' oriented martial arts, particularly any TKD school that does sport competition.
But at the same time most posters darn near worship MMA which is SPORT, and speak highly of Judo which was created solely as a sport....
Do you realize how hard one has to...