Keyboard Warrior generalizes and fails to realize that every individual school teaches the arts differently. Every MT school does not train with full contact. He's so anti TMA that his posts often do not make any sense, like this one.
And Liondancer is correct, there is a difference in self defense concepts and sport concepts. If you train with "rules" then it will become habit and muscle memory and that's what will appear in a real life situation.
Why did you ask?
This question gets asked at least 2 or 3 times a day. 365 days out of the year. And there are about 7 years worth of Q&A in Yahoo's databases. That's about 7,500 questions, asking the same fùcking thing.
And every single time, there is always some numbnut who will choose a martial art from a list you provided, or a numbnut who suggests a martial art. Already, you've got 5 answers like this. At this average, there's about 38,000 suggestions of a martial art over another. And a similar average that tells you that the style doesn't matter. In total, that's about 77,000 answers!
What kind of answer did you expect to get on the 77,001st answer?
So here's a suggestion: why not go through all of the answers provided by the regular contributors (not just the top contributors), or just research the question (search "best style") and see the reasoning behind all the answers.
You'll soon come to an easy conclusion as to which answer is the better one just by reading the coherent explanations provided for either side.
There is no best martial arts and arts are not inherently better than each other. It all depends on the person teaching it and the person learning it. I don't know why you stated these facts in your question but still must ask.
The best thing you can do is visit both and pick the school that is better. Both are good for self defense if taught and learned properly. So give them both a look and then decide. Goo luck.
Now go forth, and choose wisely.
MuAy Thai most definately...it is the most dangerous striking art in the world
Krav Maga is expensive and do u really need to pay money to learn to kick ppl in the nuts, gouge out eyes and break fingers as well as second rate kickboxing workouts/rolling around on concrete?
Muay Thai beats Krav Maga any day. Krav Maga is made to defend yourself. Muay Thai is made to kill.
You have several options... Best option is MMA. There are plenty of MMA schools in each area all around the world. Other options are training one style. For example, you can train wrestling and you will learn how to take down opponent and control him. You can train boxing to punch someone out. You can train muay thai to develop full standup game. BJJ offers full ground grappling arsenal. If you ask me, train wrestling.
Sports training is not self defense training. They are very different training methods. MMA is sports. Muay Thai can be taught for sports. Make sure you find a school that teaches self defense and not sports. This is for all styles of martial arts. Picking a style does not guarantee that you will learn self defense if the school teaches it for sports purposes.
Eskrima
Smith & Wesson
Here's the question.
I want to know what's the best martial art (or combat system, if you will) between these two:
1.Krav Maga
2.Muay Thai
To kick someone's *** on a real life situation.
I have been going to the gym for two years and I have decided to do combat training. I just want to be able to defend my self on a real life street fight between anybody, I do not want to appear on any Kung Fu movie, if you know what I mean.
Therefore, what combat system is better? I know it depends on the fighter, on the instructor... but if we are talking about the system itself, what is the best between these two?
Plus, what is easier and quicker to learn?
Thanks very very much.
