Originally Posted by DarkCircus

It really depends on you, what sort of person you are, what your personal strengths and weaknesses are.

I don't really buy into the whole argument of which style is superior. I think it's more a matter of the person practicing the martial art that determines how effective it is. I've seen people from a million different styles, all with different outcomes.

If you study and aggressive style, but it's not in your nature to fight aggressively, you won't be as effective with it as someone who is naturally aggressive. If you us a defensive style, but you don't have the natural patience to wait for the right moment to act, you won't be effective.

I also think that as much as some styles would like to market themselves as being for everyone, it's only true in the beginning stages.

The style that I studied the longest required that I learn the philosophy and basics needed to earn the first tested rank of two other different styles, before I could teach. That was one of the most valuable lessons of my training, because different situations call for different reactions.