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Some martial arts are designed for fighting, such as Street MMA and kick boxing, where techniques need not look good, just be effective. Although watered down versions of this arts are used in competition, the hard versions are effective in fights. These techniques may be effective for self-defense and warfare, but locks and pins can be troublesome under these conditions.

Some martial arts are designed for self-defense, such as Krav-Maga and Keichu-do, where techniques are not pretty; they down and dirty, using such techniques as eye gouges, bites, head butts, and finger breaks. Self-defense techniques cannot be used in competition, but they may use used in fighting, and should be used in warfare.

Some martial arts are designed for warfare, such as the United States Marine Corps LINE System or its MCMAP, were techniques are meant to kill the opponent. These techniques cannot be used in competition, but could be used in fighting and self-defense. Hand-to-hand combat in the military is mainly used in peacekeeping activities, similar to police duties. Soldiers on the battlefield do not have time for hand-to-hand fighting. When used in war, martial arts are used to keep a soldier alive until a buddy can shoot the attacker. Soldiers do not have a lot of time to train in a martial art, it is only one of many things in which they must be proficient.

Conclusion

All martial arts are good at the type of combat what they were intended for, but none is good at all types of combat. Thus, comparing one martial art to another is similar to comparing apples to oranges

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