MMA or Shaolin Kung-Fu?

well so my friend is going to this MMA place and he ask me to go but i said that i was more interested in just Chinese arts because most of my family is Chinese and they all took Chinese Kung-Fu so i found this place and they said they teach Southern and Northern style Shoalin as well as five animal techniques and Northern style Long Fist but my friend all that stuff is stupid and a waste of time and he said MMA is better but i dont know what to choose so witch one is better?|||Try em out and see which is better and if the teachers are any good. Choose a place you can stick with.





It can depend on your goals and focus also.





If I choose kung-fu I'd make periodical visit every now and then to the mma place. I'm sure it'd be a great help. Especially if your art lacks training in a certain area that mma can help with. (I don't see many give any ground training or protection.)





Talk to some of your family who probably have a good deal of experience with this.





Edited: true the others point out some good stuff|||they are both useful for self defense and can be artistic but things like ufc lack the art part of martial arts. besides doing kung fu you can also do mma because mma is just using 2 or more martial arts. so you can do both by doing kung fu. especially since ur school teaches multiple arts. just make sure that if you take mma don't try and be like ufc and pick fights and fight for money as it isn't nartial arts.|||I wish some true ex-Shaolin Kung Fu practicioneer would try out the best in the UFC so that we could get a taste of how one of the oldest and most efficient fighting systems from China can compare to today's cross trained prize fighting champs.|||The mma place is centered arround functional and competition fighting.





The CMA place is 99.9% focused on aesthetics and style rather than actual fighting.|||Whichever one is better is just an opinion. Into the sport or the martial art?|||MMA is a sport not a martial art





kung fu is a martial art not a sport