What's The Best Martial Art? My Personal Tier List Ranking!

Real Shaolin disciple makes a ranking of all the martial arts he has trained. Its a tierlist. Now he is writing a description in the third person. Now he has to go to the bathroom

ok i'm back. martial arts tier list is divided into Aesthetic, Fitness and Selfdefense

ELDEN RING KUNG FU REVIEW

Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro - What are the parameters of the Tier List?
01:39 Aikido
02:24 Wing Chun
03:52 Karate
04:47 Best Martial Art in the World
04:58 Taekwondo
06:09 BJJ
07:03 Judo
08:08 Kickboxing
08:59 Shaolin Kung Fu
10:42 Final Tier List

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[RealRanton]

Check out My Elden Ring Review!

Also shoutout to Karaty and Buhjajay

[lowang]

I didn't realise how useful judo is until I was forced into a street fight, it was extremely easy how they deliberately come close to u and u just easily throw them with little to no resistance. The hopelessness on their faces when they realise how quick they were thrown, priceless.

[chillikoala]

As a martial arts practitioner for almost 40 years across various styles, I'd generally agree with most of your scores, except BJJ's effectiveness is limited to one-on-one effectiveness. It's extremely dangerous to end up on the ground in a street fight with multiple attackers.

[dave.]

You should include the 100 metre sprint. That us by far the best self defense technique and martial art. I often use it when I have to defend myself or run away from problems in my life.

[allegrarestellidellafratta]

about judo: as a girl, got attacked by a group of 5 guys at night. One judo flip and immobilization of one guy to the ground, coupled with their surprise, did the trick and got them to leave.
Not sure about practice rating though - you're missing all of the judo "ground fight", very similar to BJJ. I love your content and want to get into kung fu more, thanks for the inspiration.

[flyingrumble]

Bro! Ranton’s editing remains unmatched 😂 always makes me laugh!

[yosefpollack]

I like how you added aesthetics as a factor. It’s really an overlooked aspect of martial arts. Thanks for the great video

[ElJuanoVideos]

Love it and I wanna see a second part of this.

Suggestions for it:
- Muaythai: Similar to kickboxing, but you also add elbows and knees to the combination, and this is crucial during trainings.
- Krav Maga: Used in military, very dangerous and basically has sparring, locks and tackles
- Hapkido: Lots of similarities to karate, but requires diversity compared to stiffness and lots of grapling
- Capoeira: Not very effective in a real life situation, but boy oh boy is it amazing and stunning to see (just like yo mama)
- Sipalki-do: Not very effective in my opinion, but I'd like to see your take on it regarding the posture and techniques.

Even if it's not a review on these martial arts, at least a reaction to them to see your take on them would be something I'm more than eager to watch

[Xayvong]

As someone who practices Taekwondo and has taught for almost 20 years at this point, you're not wrong. Self defense training usually doesn't focus on athletic ability, but focuses on practicality. Any good martial art's school should teach practical self defense, but diving in deep into the style you're learning is a whole level that doesn't get spoken about. First off, kicking is hard. Kicking a lot is even harder. Kicking being the only thing you practice is just brutal. Practicing Taekwondo has probably been the best thing I've ever done for myself. I competed, I trained, and I learned discipline. My biggest issue is that Taekwondo being an Olympic sport kind of ruined it.

You don't have people practicing strong and effective kicks anymore, you only have people practicing the best way to score points. Back when I was competing, we just beat each other up and then hoped we had more points. Now we have sensors in our socks, helmets, chest guards, and gloves. As long as you make proper contact with power, you get points and it's displayed in real time on a screen. If you're trying to win at the Olympics, being a better fighter doesn't matter. Only being able to score more points does.

Don't get me wrong though, I still love it. I just have to accept that things have changed. I still teach my students the "old ways" so to speak, but also make sure they're competitive if they want to win at a competition. I still believe to this day that no other martial arts has the same level of dynamic kicks that Taekwondo has. If you really want to learn how to add kicks into your repertoire, go find a good Taekwondo school.

[zacharyellis]

As a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, I completely agree with your opinion. I trained traditional Korean TKD for 10 years, taught by a family that has been teaching since the early 1900’s. I completely agree that it is a beautiful looking martial art, it’s incredible hard on the body and great for staying in shape, it’s also great for self defense if you train other martial arts. I myself had to also take BJJ, and a little bit of American boxing before I could consider myself a good “fighter.” However we have to remember that it’s called Martial ARTS, and it’s not always about messing people up, it’s an art form.

[R-SXX]

Ranton is this kind of guy I really wann play videogames with. A real trash night, he seems like fun.

[thegreatdodo]

So I started Judo at age 13 in school, so 15 years ago. During all these years, when I told people that Judo is one of the best foundations for actually being able to defend yourself, I got laughed at.
I mean I didn't care, as I knew and know better. Not only theoretically, but also from putting my learned stuff into practice two times by now (as defense that is).
But now! NOW I have a real Shaolin Monk (disciple) actually confirming the very truth about the awesomeness of Judo as foundation for self-defence!
Danke dafür 👍🤣

Also: Depending on your goal, Judo training can be very exhausting. E.g. leg training, flexibility, endless Randori, etc. can really exhaust you. It's hardcore dependent - in Germany at least - in which Verein you are. There are a lot of "non competitive" Vereine, where you only practice throws and techniques, true. But there are also some with competitiveness in mind, going to contests etc. where you have to actually train insanely hard to get any podium position at the end.

[pank]

As someone who practiced judo and japanese jiu-jitsu I can only say that jiu-jitsu is a lot more complete in terms of real life situations. Essentially, on jiu-jitsu we practiced karate, judo and BJJ all at once and everything is equally important. A fight consists at 3 stages 1) karate 2) judo 3) floor. I can't even emphasize how many competitions I won by simply being good at karate and not allowing my opponent to grab me.

[Otherfabbros]

I'm a brown belt Shotokan karate and i can say this:
Sparring with other people with other style will help you to get out of your confort zone and since traditional martial arts are so concern to stay in the comfort zone YOU REALLY NEED to get out of it, it will make you better and more humble

[mareksimurda]

I was practicing judo for 8 years when I was younger and I have say, that it was actually really straining. At least our sessions were all around, not just practicing one technique, but also work out, matches and also some lessons were directly targeted to practice fights on the ground. So the experience from the martial arts lessons may vary and it depends on the coaches.

[tobiasgretenkort]

I'm so happy Judo gets so much love from you and I agree that classes on average could be more challenging physically. Interestingly, Judo was actually designed to fit the affordances of a complete physical education system with a martial arts at its base, so that it would be useful as opposed to gymnastics. So there's that...

[Xilotl]

Judo can really hurt, especially when it's on brutally hard ground. I've trained BJJ for 2.5 years, and I completely agree with your opinions. Combine it with Judo, and you got a powerful tool when transitioning to the ground and the ground itself.
Not matter the art, you learn the vulnerable parts of the human body, and in a fight, that can really change the tides.

[user]

Shame that you never got to experience how hardcore Judo training can be. My trainer alwas liked to put us through the meatgrinder in warmup so we couldnt rely on strength and then didnt let us leave until each of us had done 500 throws.

[nathaniellamb]

The more I passively pick up snippets from watching this sort of content, the more I realise how lucky I was growing up that the local Judo club I joined was run by people who learned it in the 60s. A 2 hour class was 15 minutes of warm-up and conditioning, 45 of stand up work, 45 minutes of ground work theory and application, and 15 minutes of free play. That last 15 minutes was mixed, and you went as hard or light as your partner, idea being to use up whatever you had left in the tank. It seems like a lot of clubs have abandoned the groundwork.

[makesenz]

After practicing martial arts for 33 years (Judo, Kyokushin, Kickboxing, Kung Fu, Muay Thai, Capoeira & BJJ), i noticed that in terms of fitness, Kyokushin & BJJ are by far the hardest styles to learn cos it's very taxing on the body, and it's very effective. The training in Kyokushin was absolutely nuts (when it comes to taking punches, endurance, etc.) and BJJ was very frustrating cos it's very dynamic (there's literally a counter for every move). In my country (The Netherlands), Dutch kickboxing is rooted in Kyokushin (quite probably the reason why Dutch fighters have produced some of the best kickboxers in the world). Sparring is key in every art imho. I think Kung Fu could use more sparring (not talking about Sanda, i think it's amazing for kickboxing). But mixing arts (like you said) is the best way, it'll keep you sharp!