If you think martial arts are to learn to fight and beat people up, then you might as well not try it out.
Its not a competition or a way to get the better of people, or beat others up, it is what it is said to be....an ART.
Yes it teaches you to fight but it dosnt teach you to be a fighter, it is made for defence, self discipline, becoming one with your self, and over all self improvement.

Now I could go on all day about what martial arts can do for you but...I'm not going to.
So after stating the above, we come to comparing martial arts.
Martial arts can nott necesarialy be compared as which is better or worse, but should be compared on which is better or worse for YOU.
Even then there are advanages and disadvantages to all the martial arts.
The best you can do is to really learn and study untill you've found your style, your blend, and your inner self.
Now instead of comparing martial arts to other martial arts, lets compare them to other arts in general.

When compared side by side, all arts are in some what the same.
In fact, some martial arts are even based and practiced through the ART of caligraphy.
And its also quite the same as drawing.
As an artist learning and developing drawing skills one doesn't follow one set of drawing patterns but, should draw all sorts of things, learn and practice new techniques, new ways and styles, and most artist do, all the way back to Leonardo Di Vinci and Van Goughe.
The most famous artist in the world practiced and conformed to many different styles and concepts untill they fell into their own style, so why would not do the same in martial arts?
After all its called martial ARTS, not martial rules.
For instance:

Taekwondo is the art of kicking and learning basic punches and self defence, but what if someone gets a hold of you and you can't land a puch or a kick. Are you just gonna freeze up and die? or would you rather blend it with the art of Akido, which is a grapiling art that is purely defencive and uses others momentum and joints against them, after all isn't martial arts supose to be a method to defend your self?

So when all is said and done, martal arts can't be compared on a better or worse basis because they all have the basic princibles but are just simply different.
So instead of trying to find the best one, we should just find the ones we can learn most efficiantly and blend together with the greatest diversity.

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