The best style of fighting

Given the warrior origins of all martial arts, it's natural that discussions often lan on what's more effective than what. Most of the times debating effectiveness on the streets or in big competitions like ufc as the ultimate ring. Natural, but likely shortsighted, if you look at this field as an ecosystem.In combat sports it’s crucial that athletes focus on a few high percentage techniques they can master while at their peek.But since athletes are different, they need coaches that will know all the high percentage techniques to recommend them the few that work for them.Since percentages eventually mutate once an innovator changes the game and turns an obscure low percentage into high, these coaches also need masters with a complete knowledge of the art, regardless of percentage in competitions, even if that takes a lifetime to achieve.And those masters sometimes need a different perspective, a source they can go to to find other ideas for challenges they face, ideas that will trickle down the entire system, and often those ideas will come from other styles that were previously considered ineffective until one genius of that art showed how it can be done (as an example, take mma and how Machida made karate dangerous again, or Ronda made Judo badass once more... those two arts, at that time, were considered dead that by many “specialists”)My point is martial arts is an ecosystem that relies on the deep passion of each individual like a natural biosphere requires each species to survive so everything can thrive.Passion should be celebrated, not debated. For whatever tickles their fancy - competition, coaching, encyclopedic knowledge, cultural preservation... Athletes, coaches, masters of fashionable arts and the preservers of lost arts are all fundamental to this crazy thing we do and love so much. Therefore, the entire discussion of what's the best style denotes either one's small perspective on combat arts, a comercial bias, or just the fact that you haven't grown enough into it to develop perspective.Unfortunately, after 30 years in martial arts, I can tell that true perspective requires distance and experience-- it's not something you can build fast like a competitive edge, or easy, like watching people fighting from the comfort of sofa.#martialarts #mma #bjj #karate #tkd #judo #boxing #muaythai #sambo #wrestling #taichi #kempo #wingchun #tkd #kungfu