Best Martial Arts

What you are describing here is fighting styles and are not true martial arts. Let me explain.

My teacher taught me a lot and spent about 10% of the time teaching fighting techniques and 90% of the time in the healing arts. There were no belts no grading as each student would receive individual instruction. Before he would teach anyone you had to spend 12 months practicing stances and only then would he decide if you were worth teaching anything else, luckily for me he decided that I was worth teaching.

I took my Oath and we parted 20 years ago and his last words were: "learn, practice and help others if we meet again, I will decide if you can use the Arts in a fight and if you can teach".

I have gone back to where I was taught each year and we still haven't met again, he would be a very old man now, maybe he has gone back to China. He told me I was the only "foreign devil" that he ever taught.

I've been in "fights" and have honoured my Oath and the only thing I am allowed to use is my "Reptilian Brain" otherwise I just avoid as much as I can.