What is the easiest martial art?

Answer 1

None of them are easy. If they were "easy" they woudn't be worth learning. To be a good martial artist requires years of dedicated study and practice. There are no shortcuts. Some are easier than others, but it all depends on your Strength, Speed, Balance, and Physical/Mental capabilities.

If you are young and thin: Tae Kwon Do, Karate, and Tang Soo Do

If you are short or stocky, maybe a bit older: Judo, Jujitsu, or Brazilian Jujitsu.

If you mean by not much memorization (Forms, One-Steps, etc.) : Judo, Ninjutsu ,Hapkido.

If you want to be trained in weapons and killing your enemy: Krav Maga

If you have joint trouble, Stiff, or just elderly you should take soft impact arts, such as Tai Chi

No Martial Art is easy. If you want to learn it quick and effortless, have fun doing nothing, buddy.

Martial Arts are probably the most complicated things to learn.

Answer 2

There are many different styles of martial arts. There are the more practical martial arts like Wing Chun (a style of kung fu), Jeet Kune Do (Bruce Lee's method of martial arts), Aikido (Steven Seagal's style of martial arts) and Jujitsu (traditional Japanese martial art).

Then you have the internal martial arts which focus on to improving your health, reduce stress and build internal strength (most martial arts reduce stress and are good for your health). These include Tai Chi Chuan (Tai Chi), Baguazhang and Xingyiquan (both ancient family styles of martial arts).

• Karate -Traditional Okinawan martial art
• • Shotokan
  • Shito Ryu
  • Wado Ryu
  • Shukokai
  • Goju Ryu.

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• Kung Fu - Traditional Chinese-
  
• • Wing Chun
    
  • Tai Chi
    
  • Shaolin
    
  • Pak Mei
    
  • Prayin Manti
  • Lau Gar
    
  • Hung Gar
    
  • Drunken Monkey
    
  • Eagle Claw
    
  • Dim Mak
    
  • Choy Li Fur
  
  
• Korean Martial Arts
• • Taekwondo
    
  • Hapkido
    
  • Kuk Sool Won
    
  • Tang Soo Do
    
• • Choi Kwang Do

• American Martial Arts

• • Kenpo Karate,
    
  • Jeet Kune Do,
    
  • Kickboxing and
    
  • Marine Corps Martial Arts Program.
  
  
• Other Japanese Martial Arts -
  
• • Aikido,
    
  • Judo,
    
  • Jujitsu,
    
  • Kendo,
    
  • Sumo Wrestling
    
  • Ninjitsu.
  
  
• Other Martial Arts From Around The World -
  
• • Brazilian Jujitsu (Brazil),
    
  • Capoeira (Brazil),
    
  • Gatka (India),
    
  • Kalaripayattu (India),
    
  • Pencak Silat (Indonesia),
    
  • Arnis (Philippines),
    
  • Eskrima (Philippines),
    
  • Muay Thai (Thailand),
    
  • Fencing (European),
    
  • Savate (France),
    
  • Systema (Russia),
    
  • Keysi Fighting Method (Spain),
    
  • Cornish Wrestling (UK),
    
  • Krav Maga (Israel).
  • Thai Boxing
    
  • Kendo
  • Chaku
  • Sikaran (foot-fighting)
  • Silat
  • Boxing
  • MMA
  • Sambo

Answer 3

The easiest Martial Art to learn is the one that you like, and enjoy practicing so it is entirely up to you. It also helps to have a knowledgeable, qualified instructor who will know how you learn best as an individual (every brain works differently), and one who will teach the art thoroughly, accurately, and make it fun and exciting for you.

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Some opinions include the following:

- Muay Thai Kickboxing - From the first day you start training you get to hit the bags and do pad work with a trainer. You can start sparring right away if you want, or put it off for months. Other Martial Arts make you practice the "art" which they call "forms" before you ever get to do the practical parts.

- Tai-Chi simply because anyone of any age can do it.

- Krav Maga was developed in Israel in mid 1940's to be learned quickly by both men and women and retained for use in battle.

Answer 4

The simplest and easiest styles, are considered to be;

1) Boxing, if you can find a bare knuckle old time Irish brawler that is, bare knuckle Boxing is still practiced in the British isles, and those guys I've heard are ridiculously tough. Its practiced mostly by poor Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and the Cockney British lower classes, traditionally white Cockneys tend to be composed overwhelmingly of Britains original Cymry tribes, the native Celts. What is now Wales and England, the lion's share of Britain, belong to the Cymry, while what is now Scotland belonged to the Picti, a Celtic tribe so malicious and so savage, the Scotti from Ireland exterminated them, in fact there are no Picti left alive today, as they were loathed both by the Scotti and the Cymry. Scotland gets its modern name from the Scots, obviously. Since the poorest people within the British Isles are of Celtic ancestry, bare knuckle Boxing is practiced most among them. If you wish to learn old time bare knuckle fighting in the traditional of that racist swine John L. Sullivan, you may have to trek to Ireland, and be willing to live in the tough parts of either Ireland, Scotland, or Wales.

2) Wing Chun Kung Fu, which you can acquire expertise in it only 4 months if you work fanatically hard at it, and are willing to annoy your neighbors by banging on a training dummy.

3) Muay Thai is broadly respective for being both simple and effective.

4) Savate, or "French Kickboxing," which is considered by many to be an underrated fighting style given how effective it is. As a general rule in the crime filled streets of Paris, if a Frenchman has the misfortune of finding themselves in an Arab area, if a Savate guy, a Judo guy, a Kickboxer, Muay Thai Fighter, or MMA guy walked in there, it is said that the Savate fighter is more likely to walk out of there. In fact, the weapons of choice for French police when it comes to unarmed combat, are Savate and Judo. The sport has not spread, because they use brutal training methods, and few people are willing to handle the training. In Savate the fighters are really pushed, both when it comes to calisthenics, technique drilling and one thing more, during sparring, they always fight for an actual knock out. In Savate training there is no sparring at all; they fight.

5) Straight forward Kickboxing

6) Believe it or not San Shou, or castrated Kung Fu; true enough, Cung Le has taken the combat sports world by storm with his Sanshou skills, he is both a formidable striker, as well as an outstanding grappler all his techniques are flawless, and so far in MMA he has only lost once, and even then the loss is considered a fluke as the man was ill. San Shou is an amalgam of various Kung Fu techniques, the emphasis being primarily Chinese Wrestling styles, and Chin Na joint locks, simplified to be easy to learn. The problem with San Shou though, is that none of the people involved who developed it were martial arts masters, people who acquired savant skills in martial arts, they were athletes, or sports wushu types. Nevertheless, because many of its techniques come from various Kung Fu schools, its up to the fighter whether or not they use the effective ones or not, and that depends solely on the fighter. What I'm trying to say is, it is more Cung Le's own work ethic, sheer drive and yes talent, which has given him success, not his style. Being of Vietnamese origin, obviously growing up here in the U.S. he has no doubt taken a lot of crap over it, as some Americans are still smarting over that war.

7) Karate; Gichin Funakoshi said, you only need 15 katas at the most, and to perform the pre-arranged solo routines will take you about an hour to do all of them, if you do more than one repetition. With the forms it isn't as simple as just doing them, and then quitting; you have to drill, drill, drill and drill more, until your body's dexterity develops. Sparring is valuable when it comes to instinct, and learning how to read other's intentions, but, its limitations are that while sparring you go in there with what you got and you don't develop anything. Before you test yourself in sparring, make yourself coordinated; that is the thinking behind Katas. If you walk into a good Karate school, studio or club with no training whatsoever, even a 14 year old black belt will carve you up like a roast. A person who has performed Katas or other forms for years, usually has a tremendous level of coordination and dexterity, some people practice forms with such intensity they even develop agility.

In Shaolin Kung Fu, they do not teach any gymnastics, or any acrobatic moves; the reason Shaolin Kung Fu monks are so agile, is because they acquire that agility from constantly doing their Kung Fu forms. If you train in doing forms long enough, the body becomes so coordinated, it eventually becomes agile. An extremely well trained Karate guy, or a Shaolin Kung Fu expert, they don't drill in gymnastics stuff, and even that "head jump" shaolin monks do is relatively simple in gymnastics terms. That incredible agility, again, it is acquired from intensive forms practice; something you may not know about the Shaolin temple, is that they do not teach any of the acrobatic moves they do, those moves come to them on instinct after they have done Kung Fu long enough.

Those are the simplest styles I could name at the top of my head; there are many others.

Answer 5

None of them are easy. They all require dedication, hard work and practice in order to be good and to be effective. Otherwise, your wasting both your time and your instructor's time.