Which martial art is the strongest?

Since my bolg's name is Sensei's blog, it is time for me to act like one and talk about martial arts.

A lot of people ask me the billion dollar question, "which martial art is the strongest?" Is it Kyokushin Karate? Is it Jujistsu? Is it Kung Fu? Or is it MMA? which is a new trend now a days and it stands for Mixed Martial Arts.

Are you familiar with the saying "hate the player bot not the game"? Well, this is exactly the case here.

When people ask me this question, they expect me to be biased to my martial art which Kyokushin Kai Kan Karate. (Yes this is the full name of it)

The answer is as simple as this: There is no stronger martial art than the other, they all depend on the practitioner and the practitioner depends on his teacher.

Even in the same martial art from different dojos, you can clearly see which practitioner is better and hence, which teacher is better. So how come we can decide which art is stronger?

All martial arts have some shortages but what martial art X has makes it overcome the shortages of martial art Y and vice versa.

The true case is not which one is stronger but which one is harder to master, and all martial arts experts agree that Kyokushin is the hardest art to master. Why is it the hardest to master? Well, because:

1: It is a knock out type of martial art which means no matter how many times you strike your opponent it won't matter unless you knock him out of the fight. That leads the practitioner to strengthen his weapons (hands and legs) and strengthen his last line of defence (his body) in order to withstand his opponents strikes. This leads reason 2.

2: No matter how strong your weapons and defence are, it is not enough. You have to stretch your limits everytime you reach it. That's why the symbol of Kyokushin is the kankudai which means aiming for infinity.

See how this practitioner looks at the sky through the opening of his joined hands? Imagine a tunnel that begins from this opening and ends where the sky is. Is there an end in the sky? Definitely not and this is where your skill reaches its peak, infinity.

Those two reasons make kyokushin the hardest martial art to master. But does that make the strongest?

No because When Kyokushin practitioner X fights Kung Fu practitioner Y and X wins the fight, we should ask ourselves a question, are those fighters are the spokesmen of their martial art in order for us to decide which art is the stronger one?

The only time we can decide which one is the stronger when the masters of all master of all martial arts fight in a tournament, we can never decide which art is the strongest and believe me that's not going to happen.