The MOST Effective Martial Art! (3 answers)

About 5 years ago, a JKD instructor told me boxing and Muay Thai…. I’d maybe add BJJ with Judo? Other than modern day MMA gyms, it would be hard to find standalone wrestling schools or leagues not associated high school teams or college programs…. And those kids are killers! Catch-as-catch-can wrestling schools are even more rare and hard to find.

Could point fighting be better than MMA? If a MMA fighter fought a point fighter, the MMA fighter will almost always win. The being said, I believe point fighting is a more effective hand-to-hand martial art. My reasoning behind this would be a ratio, rather than just an absolute value: toughness obtained÷injuries in practice = effectiveness In MMA, injuries are far more often and extreme than than in point fighting. In point fighting, you will not become as tough as the MMA fighter, but you will be injured far less than you would while doing MMA practice or competition. You will still gain quick reaction time, quick enough to hit an run in many circumstances. It's not like we get into street fights every month unless we are trying to just fight everyone on the streets. So, it's not good if a MMA practitioner tears a rotator cuff, tears a meniscus and gets a concussion, only to win a street fight which he likely could have avoided anyways. If life ever gets to the point where I am in grave danger from attackers, I would use multiple other resources besides hand-to-hand fighting arts, resources such as assertive speech, legal, safety in numbers, and weapons. I respect MMA practice, but I think for defense purposes the practice should be used as sparringly as possible rather than as much as possible (unless someone is doing it for pure joy).

Using a gun for self defense is all well good if you live in Yankeeland, but for most of us in the world, guns are illegal!