Bobby. wrote on Nov 13
th, 2021 at 11:59am:
Thanks Baron,
your post is sort of agreeing with my opening post.
It's not any one style that is the best but a mixture
taking the best parts from different styles.
You haven't mentioned: wrestling, Judo and boxing?
I started doing Judo around 7 years of age at Police Boys club also did Aikido and Ju Jitsu there. My father did martial arts he didn't want us knocking teeth out or breaking noses at school so we started with grappling.
I was on the high school wrestling team when i did a year of school in the US.The footbal team would do laps of the oval we had to run up and down the grandstand.
Bob Jones was really the first kickboxing promotor in Australia so punches in Zen Do Kai are based on boxing. We also did traditional reverse punch from Karate because there is a rear elbow strike with them which is good for someone in front and behind you at same time.
Like any martial art better to learn from many instead of just one. I trained under quite a few including undefeated commonwealth kickboxing champ and others who had black belts in judo aikido etc. We would train monday to thursday going to different dojos run by different people then do concert security on fri -sat nights.
Fights can degenerate into a grapple so that part needs work. I was putting submission holds on in primary and high school fights.