Ultimately, with any fighting style it ultimately boils down to the practitioner's own willpower, intellect, and work ethic, tragically REGARDLESS of character. In martial arts fiction, who do you think it was inspired the villains? Its possible even for a very bad man, to have an exceptionally strong will, always a dangerous situation. Whole reason why martial arts "super powers" are considered a myth, is because to achieve the kind of things you see in anime, video games, and high production values special effects driven movies, the power of your will has to be match well, the power you want. The more personal power you want, the stronger your will needs to be. As a general rule considered myth because of the idea that NOBODY, is that strong-willed.

In Japanese video games the reason you see the word "will" so much, is drawn from their culture and folklore. Namely legendary, well, ninja and samurai, whose will became so strong, they achieved superhuman powers. Basically with every fictional character you see in games, the developers assume they are that strong because of a strong will. Ultimately, in the real world, the strength of a martial arts style really depends on how it develops you, the individual. How well it helps you cultivate, and strengthen willpower.

In the end though without the ability to hold the difficult Ma Bu stance

For at least 2 hours, without pain mind, mastery of any kung fu style or any east asian style is impossible. REAL mastery; given modern life, schooling, work, how money and technology driven modern life is, very few people have the discipline to set aside 2 hours to hold that position. If you MUST know which FAMILY of styles is considered the most powerful in China, it would be the neijia, or "internal" styles, of which Tai Chi Chuan is a part. Tough to swallow I know, that all those slow motion movements, sometimes absolutely no movement at all can grant "ultimate martial arts power" but in China its conisdered true. Still though the direction of the energy they call "chi" is will-driven. Without a strong will, training in any kung fu style is useless, ANY fighting style really.

However if we are going to get into an "all things being equal" thing, one guy knows Kung Fu, the other guy does MMA, the strength of their will is the same, Kung Fu guy will win believe it or not. The vast majority of traditional practitioners the MMA world has encountered have been, overwhelmingly weak-willed individuals. MMA fighters haven't exactly been in there with Shaolin monks

also don't listen to the moron who posted this thing. At precisely 24 seconds you can see the monk's hands, are not moving with choreographed precision. He just kind of, waves his hands, but does not block the kicks with exacting precision. Not wanting to nitpick but both practitioners make several mistakes, they get sloppy in places, although I'm sure an expert would be better able to see it. If you show this video to a 10th dan they will confirm with their expert eyes, this video is NOT choroegraphed. Call it racist western nay saying; the a-hole who posted the video likes to think, western made MMA is indestructible. Let them ride the ego train; doesn't make it true.

Still though, not denying the point, that assuming an MMA guy was capable, that if THEY held Mabu for 4 hours THEY would probably be really tough themselves. Think man, Shaolin training combined with Mixed Martial Arts? Gives ME the goosebumps. Again though in most circles "ultimate power" is chalked up to superstition, and if you happen to believe that stuff best keep it to yourself. But what if you really DO learn how to fly, like superman? STILL, keep it to yourself. Seriously man you run around publicly talking abou chi energy and ultimate martial arts super powers its a quick trip to the looney bin. Although in this era of internet weirdos, people tolerate crazyness more. Anyway to more directly answer your question nobody really knows, but in China, it is generally considered to be the internal, meditative martial arts, such as Tai Chi Chuan.

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