Martial Arts advice

I'm thinking about taking up a martial art...

... start with hard techniques, and transition to soft techniques as they got older and less able to rely on brute strength. Without the basics, soft styles are unlikely to be useful...

I think your age and level of fitness is the most important thing for us to know before anyone could give give you proper advice Malaysian. As pointed out by Wen Jian, if you are under 25 or so, you have the time and physique to be able to get good at something offensive.

If I could live my life again I would have started Kick Boxing or perhaps Muy Thai from a young age. Those are the guys I have hard a really hard time with when sparring one on one, even those who have just dabbled in it years ago.

Oh, and totally agree:

seriously i cant see many of us ever being able to take on multiple opponents

With two eyes pointing straight ahead, we humans just weren't made for it.