Martial arts range from very simple exercise and completely internal, to extremely challenging and violent.

The rise of modern mixed martial arts has given many different disciplines a chance to compete against one another and see how they fare. Some styles tend to always do well while others vary depending on the situation.

For health and wellness medical Qigong is very powerful and useful.

For self-defense, styles like krav maga, ninjutsu and other deadly arts add various levels of weaponry as well.

Bruce Lee was famous for saying that the only technique that works 100% of the time is the element of surprise.

Modern schools have had a chance to benefit from one another’s wisdom and many styles are useful for a variety of things like learning how to fall off of a vehicle, how to be more agile in another sport, and being able to withstand extremes of temperature and danger.

The question is often asked what’s the best style, it’s typically whichever one you can actually use.