I prefer muay thai.The kicks and the punches are very powerfull and very fast.Also it is from the best martial arts for self defense and you can use your knee and elbow.The primary moves are punches and kicks and the secondary elbows knees and you can clinch your opponent.I have black belt in taekwondo but i believe that muay thai is the best

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Of these Muay Thai, yet if your goal is to learn Self Defense, why not just do Krav Maga? You will master Krav Maga a lot quicker than either Muay or TKD, a good instructor will have you doing the basics in six months.

the better instructor

larken obviously knows nothing about mma, first its not the end all to martial arts second there are a number of mma fighters that use tkd including, Anderson Silva, Benson Henderson, Anthony Pettis, Dan Hardy, Cung Le, Bas Rutten, Mirko Filipovic are just the beginning of the list.

second muay thai is not the only style with clinching, traditional tkd as well as karate contains cliching and grappling as well as ground fighting.

all arts have real world applications its all depends upon the person not the style. larken is just full of bs

Muay thai!!!! There is a reason you don't see any mma fighters trained in tang soo do. Muay thai works! It teaches distance, clinch work, everything! Dont get roped into to arts that wont serve any real world application.

Muay thai.

Both of these arts are good but I need to choose one only...my priority is just to learn self defense and survive possible street fights. Competitions are not important to me. Btw I'm 14, normal body, a bit taller Former yellow belt in Taekwondo.