Do karate classes really help kids fight?

I got suspended for fighting a kid back even though they started it. My dad wants to enroll me in a karate class so i can learn self defense without hurting someone. Do karate classes actually help kids defend themselves?|||Yes.





Most people will mock martial arts training, usually because they don%26#039;t have the discipline to train themselves. Others will argue that martial arts training is moot, because society expects us to mysteriously protect ourselves without hurting the attacker. But, the answer is %26quot;YES%26quot; it will help kids defend themselves. Listen:





Let%26#039;s say you and another kid gets into an argument. A trained martial artist will have learned to control their emotions, and be aware of the situations and surroundings. BIG DEAL... right? yes it is. There is no warning for the outcome, perhaps you aren%26#039;t trained in the martial arts and think that letting your instincts take over is the best response. Then, the person you beat up returns with a gun and shoots you. Or, on another day has a group of friends beat you down as they stab you in the face when you are not looking. This could all happen because you were not trained to practice self-control, and not skilled enough to keep a petty argument from escalating. In the martial arts, the more you know, the less you use. Why, because you have confidence in yourself; because you have trained your body to be strong, and your mind to be tough enough to make sound decisions. You can rise above a situation because you maintain self-control.





Don%26#039;t be mistaken, even if you train in karate, you will get suspended for engaging in a fight that ends in harm. Training in karate, from a good instructor or coach, will help you mature emotionally. Your skin will toughen, and you won%26#039;t overreact to what others say or think. Furthermore, you%26#039;ll know when you really need to fight for your life, or if things are just being blown out of proportion.





Your parents are right, and must care for you enough to consider martial arts training.|||Karate DOES help kids defend themselves- very well in fact.


But, you said that %26quot;so i can learn self defense without hurting someone%26quot;. If you dont want to hurt the person when your defending yourself, thats gonna be pretty hard with karate- strikes like punches and kicks ARE gonna hurt someone...


so if you wanna defend yourself and at the same time minimizing damage to your opponent, take aikido, judo, or jujitsu. I personally would take judo or jujitsu as you can control the amount of damage that you deliver. Aikido is a pretty good martial art for defending yourself, but you cant use it offensively- only defensively.





=)|||Karate is perfectly desinged to protect oneself and also to destroy an attacker.


However, only a small percent of the schools train in the full art. Most schools will focus only on one narrow area (tournament training or body toughening or family fun time or beat each other to a pulp, and so on....).





That being said, MOST of those same dojos (schools) - good and bad - will teach the members stuff that will improve their chances to avoid or scale down a situation.


This is in big contrast to a lot of the different martial arts that focus on %26quot;reality%26quot; (sorry folks, most fights do end up on the ground, but ROLLING on the ground isnt always the end of the fight...just watch a bunch of YouTube vids of real fights...the ground is where the loser ends up...). The focus in those schools isnt in making %26quot;better people%26quot; but rather %26quot;better fighters%26quot;...


And by the looks of your post, your Dad doesnt want you to be a %26quot;better fighter%26quot;.... So, Karate might be the right choice. Check out different Karate schools carefully and maybe you will learn both. Good luck!|||As Joe Rogan once said, %26quot; Martial Arts are not about the pretty kicks and flowing punches. Martial Arts are about what you do in a fight.%26quot;|||Taking up a martial art i fully agree with. Even a little knowledge on how to fight is power, but karate isn%26#039;t the best one to sign up for, as was mentioned above, karate doesn%26#039;t so much teach you how to defend through defense. In many classes its they teach you to defend by damn near killing your opponent, (shattering the kneecap, throat thrust, temple strikes etc) But you don%26#039;t learn that until a higher grade.





Personally, i would recommend that, if you wanted to learn to defend yourself for a school fight, you%26#039;d want a grounded fighting style





Judo


Juijitsu


Brazilian Juijitsu


Aikido (i think this s the right one)


Sambo


Wrestling.





Those will all teach you how to take somebody down and how to apply holds and locks etc, Lets put it this way.





You break their arm, you look like a monster, and breaks dont look that bad.





You hyperextend his arm, he starts screaming and crying like a baby, then when you let him go there%26#039;s practically nothing wrong with him. Your image doesn%26#039;t take a smearing, he looks like a total idiot.





This is just my personal opinion though, i took karate when i was a kid. Sometimes it came in useful but i only applied a few things i%26#039;d learnt by accident (such as watching the advanced adult classes where i spotted the sensei showing an elbow to the solerplex, that was entertaining to use)





But yeah, for self defense in a school fight, i%26#039;d go for one of the above grounded fighting styles.|||Pshhh...karate classes dont help you defend yourself. Ok...if you were walking down the hallway at school, and someone came up to you from behind and punched you, would you turn around and karate chop his a** or would your instincts take over and punch him back. I think the latter one is the most likely to happen. Thats just what i think..|||No. For the most part, karate is a waste of time and money. There are forms of karate that are worthwhile, like Kyokushin, but it%26#039;s not worth bothering with them. Take something listed by wowfood. (Except for aikido, which is a bigger waste of time than karate.)





Boxing, muay thai kickboxing, judo, BJJ, sambo, even regular old junior high school wrestling -- can%26#039;t go wrong with any of them.|||Yes.|||Protect is more like it.|||yes and no..if you begin taking karate you wont be able to fight kids anymore because you run the risk of seriously injuring or killing them..if you want to be able to throw down on the playground start wrestling or boxing..karate is a combat art that focuses on completely incapacitating the attacker, so you%26#039;ll just end up kicking him in the balls, chopping his throat, and stomping his face which will get you a little more than suspended to say the least.|||u have to learn to defend urself, but theres no way of winning a fight, unless u are taught to fight back.|||I know it sounds weird, but any traditional Martial Art training will give you the strength and attitude not to fight. that being said and no other way around it then yes it will help you protect yourself. And there are many more techniques than just a karate chop.|||yes yes and yes! any art will help