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I cannot take credit for this comment, but it came up in another discussion on who the best martial artist in the world is.

It certainly convinced me that the clear answer is martial artist, and it's not even close.

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Impossible to answer as I have not seen and been able to rate every martial artist in the world.

How do you rate different forms of different styles? an excellent practitioner of one style would beat an average practitioner of another style, so you cannot say that it would be a Karate or MMA or Judo or JuJitsiu or a taiji person. Personally, from the years of research I have done into martial arts in general, it is highly unlikely to be anyone in films or sport. so the UFC champions and Jet Li would be seriously owned by some of the serious practitioners. By serious I mean some of the experts in India and China. and some of the other serious internal practitioners who have travelled and trained hard, without ego, with these people and then tested themselves with it in special ops or personal protection in some of the most dangerous places on earth.


I train in a martial way and I believe that I am pretty good at what I do, but I would not live more than a second (and I mean live) against some of these people.


There are elderly women in China that could rip Jet Li a new one and he knows it. The way these people generate energy and anticipate their opponent seems to defy the laws of physics and has to been seen to be believed, and still it is difficult to believe.


So in answer to your question, stop believeing the hype of the heavily coreographed movies and enjoy the UFC matches for what they are: Two highly skilled atheletes trying to hurt each other for your entertainment.


Real martial artists of the calibre of the world's best do not train to fight for 10 or 15 minutes, they train to fight for a few seconds and that fight ends in incapacitation or death.


You cannot have competitions for that kind of martial art and it happens too quickly to be an effective form of entertainment in movies.


The people themselves tend to be devoid of ego, are very humble and kind and have no desire for fame or fortune, so unless you go looking for them, you are not going to know they exist.

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This is just the usual "we train techniques that are too powerfull/dangerous to use while sparring so we can't show them to you"-baloney that many of the traditional/realitybased trainers say when asked about why they don't do sparring, and it's pretty much nonsense. There's no superhumans in China/India/Japan and only a fanboy or a fool would believe that there was.