A person's Tao element is like a zodiac sign, everyone is born into one and there are some vague, mystical predictions about how this affects their personality and dealings with the other signs. There might be some cosmic truth to it, or it may be a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are free to ignore it or mix it up. It's there to provide ideas for how a particular matchup might unfold, a baseline, so that we know going into a matchup what's<em>expected </em>to happen, even if this isn't the case.<br/><br/>Since it's an ephemeral quality, I don't believe your element says anything about your skill at all. It's a circle without end, there's no best or worst.