I want to learn Kyokushin karate techniques,but I live in Arkansa where there is not a single dojo to go to.Could anyone leave me a link to a downloadable guide to basic kyokushin karate that could be printed?Please,no video websites,I need a printable guid that I could read while in the local gym to while attempting to learn Kyokushin karate techniques.|||Go to a dojo. You can not learn that system by reading a book...period!|||use youtube but its better off if u find someone to teach u the only kick i can teach u is a crescent kick all my other kicks suck
beleave me learnin online n on ur own aint good cuz i been doing it 4 a long time n only thing i masterd was the crescent kick lol
Friday, November 18, 2011
Looking for a video clip of a little girl pretending to karate chop a cat and getting attacked?
The video is so funny. I%26#039;ve seen it on america%26#039;s funniest home videos before and can%26#039;t find it any where else. The little girl pretends to karate chop a cat and then the cat jumps up to attack her and misses. The little girl falls on her hands and knees and the cat clinges to her back and she crawls around. The little girl is laughing so hard.
Does anyone know where I can find this????|||try youtube, type in %26quot;AFV%26quot; or %26quot;america%26#039;s funniest home videos%26quot; or %26quot;funny cats%26quot; or... I don%26#039;t know
Does anyone know where I can find this????|||try youtube, type in %26quot;AFV%26quot; or %26quot;america%26#039;s funniest home videos%26quot; or %26quot;funny cats%26quot; or... I don%26#039;t know
What kind of shape should you be in to take up Karate or Boxing?
I%26#039;d like to start taking Karate/MMA or Kickboxing classes but I%26#039;m really out of shape. Would it be a recipe for disaster if I attempted to learn one of these sports and possibly compete?|||Learning would only improve you. You should definitely wait to compete though. Being out of shape is okay, as long as you are decently healthy when you start. Over time, Karate will make you better and bring you to where you want to be.
Karate always starts out easily and works its way up and gets tougher; as it should be. Mixed Martial Arts is going to have you doing a gym style weight lifting regime if you go there (depending on the teacher, of course) so that is something you should do at your own risk. Kickboxing is good for getting in shape and taking out some anger, but it has no self defense value or applications unless you have a quite knowledgeable teacher.|||The answer depends on how old you are.
If you are under 20, just take it easy at first. Choose a gym that is not too competetive or just take lessons and make it clear to the instructor that you are concerned about your conditioning level. After six months or so, you will be in sufficient shape to move ahead.
If you are 20 to 30s, the same advice applies, but it may take a year or so to get into really good starting condition.
If you are older than that, then it depends on whether you have ever been in top shape. If no, then I would suggest being very careful. It could take a long time before you can get into reasonable fitness. If you were once an athlete, it will take much less time to recover your fitness, perhaps a year.
That may sound discouraging, but even young athletes take years to gradually build up their stamina until they are ready to compete. (Mike Tyson was such a young champion, but he worked for years to build himself up to that.) So, enjoy your journey and accept where you are, realistically and hopefully too.
Finally, if you are out of shape, before doing any strenuous exercise, here is the best advice of all: make an appointment with your family doctor for a checkup and also some advice on starting a new exercise program. Safety first.
Boxing is a very strenous fitness program as well as a sport, and while the instructors and coaches may know what they are doing with the training regiemes, they know little about your personal health. Trust your doctor and your own instincts....it is your body, and you want to have fun and benefit, not suffer, from your new and exciting sport experience.
Good luck!|||Running will leave you short for getting into fighting shape. IT is necessary to run some but I know guys who come to the gym and they run 3 miles in the 18 to 21 min range three times a week, but still yet 9 minutes of boxing leaves them shot. Fighting is a different demand on the cardio vasculuar system. Equal aprts aerobic and anaerobic. Most people do not train the anerobic end.
I%26#039;d recommend the Bas Rutten workout on CD. He shouts it out and you do it. It lasts like 28 minutes and if you can make it through you are in good enough shape to start training at a higher level.
No weights or anything needed.|||of course its possibly, first just get in shape by building up ur stamina (running ;cardio fitness) because karate deals with all sorts of energy. also try to work on your flexibility by doing a couple of stretches now and then. eat grreen vegetables and be careful on what u digest. good luck|||No, but it will be tough going for a little until they get you in shape. Which, if they are any good, they will. You won%26#039;t be competing right away anyways, so you will have time to get in shape.
If you want to get in shape quickly, I reccomend running stairs and rowing. Both of these provide more intense workouts than running- a good rower has tremendous endurance and power. Your local gym will likely have an erg/rowing machine.|||Once you get started, your sensei, instructor, or coach will give you a fitness routine. You%26#039;ll naturally get into better shape. I%26#039;ve found that most people who put off getting into martial arts because they%26#039;re %26quot;not in shape yet%26quot; usually never do it. If you want to get into it, do it now. Fitness will flow naturally from the increased exercise.|||they get you in shape , you can do some running on the days you dont have training.|||don%26#039;t worry if you%26#039;re out of shape.
MMA , kickboxing or karate WILL get you in shape|||its okay if your out of shape.
you will lose that after 1 week when you do kickboxing or MMA!
Karate always starts out easily and works its way up and gets tougher; as it should be. Mixed Martial Arts is going to have you doing a gym style weight lifting regime if you go there (depending on the teacher, of course) so that is something you should do at your own risk. Kickboxing is good for getting in shape and taking out some anger, but it has no self defense value or applications unless you have a quite knowledgeable teacher.|||The answer depends on how old you are.
If you are under 20, just take it easy at first. Choose a gym that is not too competetive or just take lessons and make it clear to the instructor that you are concerned about your conditioning level. After six months or so, you will be in sufficient shape to move ahead.
If you are 20 to 30s, the same advice applies, but it may take a year or so to get into really good starting condition.
If you are older than that, then it depends on whether you have ever been in top shape. If no, then I would suggest being very careful. It could take a long time before you can get into reasonable fitness. If you were once an athlete, it will take much less time to recover your fitness, perhaps a year.
That may sound discouraging, but even young athletes take years to gradually build up their stamina until they are ready to compete. (Mike Tyson was such a young champion, but he worked for years to build himself up to that.) So, enjoy your journey and accept where you are, realistically and hopefully too.
Finally, if you are out of shape, before doing any strenuous exercise, here is the best advice of all: make an appointment with your family doctor for a checkup and also some advice on starting a new exercise program. Safety first.
Boxing is a very strenous fitness program as well as a sport, and while the instructors and coaches may know what they are doing with the training regiemes, they know little about your personal health. Trust your doctor and your own instincts....it is your body, and you want to have fun and benefit, not suffer, from your new and exciting sport experience.
Good luck!|||Running will leave you short for getting into fighting shape. IT is necessary to run some but I know guys who come to the gym and they run 3 miles in the 18 to 21 min range three times a week, but still yet 9 minutes of boxing leaves them shot. Fighting is a different demand on the cardio vasculuar system. Equal aprts aerobic and anaerobic. Most people do not train the anerobic end.
I%26#039;d recommend the Bas Rutten workout on CD. He shouts it out and you do it. It lasts like 28 minutes and if you can make it through you are in good enough shape to start training at a higher level.
No weights or anything needed.|||of course its possibly, first just get in shape by building up ur stamina (running ;cardio fitness) because karate deals with all sorts of energy. also try to work on your flexibility by doing a couple of stretches now and then. eat grreen vegetables and be careful on what u digest. good luck|||No, but it will be tough going for a little until they get you in shape. Which, if they are any good, they will. You won%26#039;t be competing right away anyways, so you will have time to get in shape.
If you want to get in shape quickly, I reccomend running stairs and rowing. Both of these provide more intense workouts than running- a good rower has tremendous endurance and power. Your local gym will likely have an erg/rowing machine.|||Once you get started, your sensei, instructor, or coach will give you a fitness routine. You%26#039;ll naturally get into better shape. I%26#039;ve found that most people who put off getting into martial arts because they%26#039;re %26quot;not in shape yet%26quot; usually never do it. If you want to get into it, do it now. Fitness will flow naturally from the increased exercise.|||they get you in shape , you can do some running on the days you dont have training.|||don%26#039;t worry if you%26#039;re out of shape.
MMA , kickboxing or karate WILL get you in shape|||its okay if your out of shape.
you will lose that after 1 week when you do kickboxing or MMA!
Where can I take adult karate lessons in Boston?
I am a freshman in college and am interested in starting karate lessons, for the first time. I want this to be something I can stick with and plan to eventually get a black belt.
Where can I take lessons in Boston?|||The best martial arts school in Boston is Jae H. Kim TaeKwonDo down by Fenway Park.|||seach yallowbook.com
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Where can I take lessons in Boston?|||The best martial arts school in Boston is Jae H. Kim TaeKwonDo down by Fenway Park.|||seach yallowbook.com
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What is the origin of the Washington Nationals Hat in The Karate Kid?
I%26#039;m in the middle of watching the karate kid and in one of the scenes where mr. miyagi takes daniel to the ocean and they talk to the drunk guys, one of the guys has a washington nationals hat on. It%26#039;s the hat with the W insignia but I%26#039;m sure this movie was before their time. What%26#039;s the deal?|||I don%26#039;t recall the scene in question, but Washington had two different Senators franchises long before the Nationals moved into town.
Here%26#039;s links to team logos (some including caps, scroll down a bit). See if any one matches what you saw in KK.
Original Senators (1901-60, relo%26#039;d to Minnesota)
1901-04: http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=1...
1905-54: http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=9...
1955-60: http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=9...
Second Senators (1961-71, relo%26#039;d to Texas): http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=7...
Washington Nationals (2005-present): http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=5...
The curly-cue W on the cap is very similar between the second Senators and the current Nationals.|||Washington Senators.|||The cap you are talking about ins the Original logo of the Nationals before they were known as the Senators.
Here%26#039;s links to team logos (some including caps, scroll down a bit). See if any one matches what you saw in KK.
Original Senators (1901-60, relo%26#039;d to Minnesota)
1901-04: http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=1...
1905-54: http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=9...
1955-60: http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=9...
Second Senators (1961-71, relo%26#039;d to Texas): http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=7...
Washington Nationals (2005-present): http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=5...
The curly-cue W on the cap is very similar between the second Senators and the current Nationals.|||Washington Senators.|||The cap you are talking about ins the Original logo of the Nationals before they were known as the Senators.
What type of kung-fu karate is best for a 6 foot skinny guy?
i am 6%26#039;1 and am looking to find the best type of kung fu/karate for me to take up. I really want it to be fun and also prepare me for a fight or defense.|||Ashihara Karate. Its more modern and traditional but Teaches good street fighting and self defence.|||depends on your physical ability. If you are very agile and flexible, I would recommend taekwondo if you are not that flexible or agile, you could try kempo or moy yat kung-fu. they are all good for fighting and defense. just depends on your personal ability|||any martial art. none is best for your size but the one which is best for you is the one you have the most fun in.|||It must be you personal choice . What you like better ? Kung Fu or Karate ? I would suggest Tae Kwon Do , because is %26quot;more%26quot; friendly for beginners .|||Shaolin Long Fist kung fu.
http://ymaa.stores.yahoo.net/shaollonfis...|||Escrima|||just get into mma or take up mauy thai, both are fun and work in real life situations, unlike karate|||leopard kung fu
http://ymaa.stores.yahoo.net/shaollonfis...|||Escrima|||just get into mma or take up mauy thai, both are fun and work in real life situations, unlike karate|||leopard kung fu
What should I look for in a karate class?
I%26#039;m looking for a serious karate studio, not one that%26#039;s for casual students just looking to stay in shape or for little kids that want to have fun. The problem is, I don%26#039;t know anything about karate classes, so I have no idea what to look for and what to avoid.|||My best advice to to call around and find ones that will let you attend 1 class (or moe) for free and that will let you observe a higher ranking class. I also suggest that if they ave competitions in the area, that you attend one. You should also check out the reputation of their parent organization.
Avoid schools that:
require you to sign a long term contract
make a promise that you will reach black belt in a certain amount of time.
That are not a part of a national or world organizations that certifies their black belts.|||Ask if they spar full-contact or no/light-contact. Full-contact schools are generally serious: no-contact schools generally aren%26#039;t. There are exceptions in either direction, but not many.
Kyokushin Karate and any style derived from it, World Oyama Karate, Ashihara Karate, Enshin Karate, Seid艒 juku, Shid艒kan, Karatedo Shurenkan, Seidokaikan, Kansuiryu, and Byakuren are all full-contact styles. Using Google Maps to search for any of those in your area would probably be a good place to start.|||I run one of those %26quot;serious%26quot; dojo. We have students of all ages but our adult classes are very traditional, hard, sweaty and require a committment for you. Now that being said...there are many great dojo out there but finding on is very hard to do. Here is a list of things you should remember to help you with joining a good and authentic Karate dojo.
1. Be respectful when you meet the Sensei. A good dojo does not have to accept you as a student...learning the art is a priveledge not something you pay for.
2. Watch the first couple of classes. Most good dojo do not let you %26quot;try%26quot; a free class anymore because that is a waste of their time. They are there to train the ones who want to learn and not waste time with window shoppers but they should welcome you to watch the classes a couple of times.
3. Make sure they offer 6 month or 12 month memberships. If you cannot commit for this length of time then you are a waste of their time. Good dojo want good students...not come and go wanna bees.
4. Verify the Sensei titles, certifications and claims. This is easy to do if they are verifiable and real. Ask for a letter of recommendation from their own Sensei or the head of their association.
5. Talk to the students and parents of the students. They will tell you their non-black belt opinion of the dojo which is important.
6. Watch for discipline. A good dojo is very disciplined with the Sensei in charge...kids running around, dragging their belts or horseplay is never tolerated.
7. If their entire focus is money walk out the door. I teach full time and make a living from what I do but I do not charge high rates or high belt exam fees. If the Sensei has honor and integrity within the community it will show in their dojo and their students.
8. Understand that Karate is not a hobby. It is not just something to do. It takes a serious dedication to become proficient at it and that will not happen in a few months.
All this being said if you are still looking for a real Karate dojo to join post your location on here and I will see what is available in your area. Good luck.
Edit - nice to see some uninformed person gave me a thumbs down. It is a shame that people out there speak little of what they do not know...those of us who know realize the truth.|||nwohioguy took the words right out of my mouth. I wasn%26#039;t even going to comment after reading his excellent answer, but for the dumb thumbs down thing. Every real martial artist on this forum gets a ton of those. The sad part is the fact that there are people on here from whom we may learn if we open our minds and learn, but many (kids I hope) have their cups way too full. J|||It depends on what you want....do you want to gain self-confidence, displine, etc... I would join karate *anything but tai kwon do*
If you want to train to become a fighter, or someone that can at least defend themselves in real-world situations...take MMA|||nwohioguy for the most part nailed it.
I would add look at the higher ranks techniques are the crisp and striking their targets or are they just thrown out there.
watch the teacher. is he/she explaining why a technique is wrong or better if you do it a certain way.|||Look for a place that trains hard. Look for a place that spars a lot, but uses a lot of good equipment. Make sure that you don%26#039;t end up in one of these studios where the instructors are simply abusing the students. I have seen studios where young boys were being knocked out by grown men. That isn%26#039;t training; it is child abuse.
Short answer: Sparring a lot with good equipment and no training knockouts.
Avoid schools that:
require you to sign a long term contract
make a promise that you will reach black belt in a certain amount of time.
That are not a part of a national or world organizations that certifies their black belts.|||Ask if they spar full-contact or no/light-contact. Full-contact schools are generally serious: no-contact schools generally aren%26#039;t. There are exceptions in either direction, but not many.
Kyokushin Karate and any style derived from it, World Oyama Karate, Ashihara Karate, Enshin Karate, Seid艒 juku, Shid艒kan, Karatedo Shurenkan, Seidokaikan, Kansuiryu, and Byakuren are all full-contact styles. Using Google Maps to search for any of those in your area would probably be a good place to start.|||I run one of those %26quot;serious%26quot; dojo. We have students of all ages but our adult classes are very traditional, hard, sweaty and require a committment for you. Now that being said...there are many great dojo out there but finding on is very hard to do. Here is a list of things you should remember to help you with joining a good and authentic Karate dojo.
1. Be respectful when you meet the Sensei. A good dojo does not have to accept you as a student...learning the art is a priveledge not something you pay for.
2. Watch the first couple of classes. Most good dojo do not let you %26quot;try%26quot; a free class anymore because that is a waste of their time. They are there to train the ones who want to learn and not waste time with window shoppers but they should welcome you to watch the classes a couple of times.
3. Make sure they offer 6 month or 12 month memberships. If you cannot commit for this length of time then you are a waste of their time. Good dojo want good students...not come and go wanna bees.
4. Verify the Sensei titles, certifications and claims. This is easy to do if they are verifiable and real. Ask for a letter of recommendation from their own Sensei or the head of their association.
5. Talk to the students and parents of the students. They will tell you their non-black belt opinion of the dojo which is important.
6. Watch for discipline. A good dojo is very disciplined with the Sensei in charge...kids running around, dragging their belts or horseplay is never tolerated.
7. If their entire focus is money walk out the door. I teach full time and make a living from what I do but I do not charge high rates or high belt exam fees. If the Sensei has honor and integrity within the community it will show in their dojo and their students.
8. Understand that Karate is not a hobby. It is not just something to do. It takes a serious dedication to become proficient at it and that will not happen in a few months.
All this being said if you are still looking for a real Karate dojo to join post your location on here and I will see what is available in your area. Good luck.
Edit - nice to see some uninformed person gave me a thumbs down. It is a shame that people out there speak little of what they do not know...those of us who know realize the truth.|||nwohioguy took the words right out of my mouth. I wasn%26#039;t even going to comment after reading his excellent answer, but for the dumb thumbs down thing. Every real martial artist on this forum gets a ton of those. The sad part is the fact that there are people on here from whom we may learn if we open our minds and learn, but many (kids I hope) have their cups way too full. J|||It depends on what you want....do you want to gain self-confidence, displine, etc... I would join karate *anything but tai kwon do*
If you want to train to become a fighter, or someone that can at least defend themselves in real-world situations...take MMA|||nwohioguy for the most part nailed it.
I would add look at the higher ranks techniques are the crisp and striking their targets or are they just thrown out there.
watch the teacher. is he/she explaining why a technique is wrong or better if you do it a certain way.|||Look for a place that trains hard. Look for a place that spars a lot, but uses a lot of good equipment. Make sure that you don%26#039;t end up in one of these studios where the instructors are simply abusing the students. I have seen studios where young boys were being knocked out by grown men. That isn%26#039;t training; it is child abuse.
Short answer: Sparring a lot with good equipment and no training knockouts.
Which type of Karate should i learn to enhance my kick,punch,blocking and weapon using techniques?
Tell me which type of karate should i choose to learn if my requirements are:
1-Learn defending techniques
2-Learn Punching techniques
3-Learn kicking techniques
4-Learn how to use different weapons like Nun-Chukuu etc.
Also tell me about the martial arts schools in Rawalpindi(Pakistan) which offer such courses.|||I cannot tell you specificly about your location, because I am in America, however I can answer the other part of your question.
Almost any style of Okinawin karate will give you the 4 things you ask for, plus more. Most Okinawin styles incorperate a lot of standing grappling, and include locks, throws, sweeps, chokes, and clinch fighting. Most traditional schools also havea heavy emphisis on body conditioning.
Some of the major Okinawin styles:
Shoryn-Ryu
Goju-Ryu
Euchi-Ryu
Isshin-Ryu
I study Isshin-Ryu karate, and we study the Bo, Sai, and Tonfa, as well as short stick and knife use, however the last two are school specific, and are not part of the Issin-Ryu system per say.
Be aware that most if not all Okinawin karate focuses on non flashy realistic self defense motion.
Japanes styles of karate if they have a good instructor will also teach you good self defense, but most do not teach weapons, to my knowledge, and many are geared toward sport more then the Okinawin styles. Again it mainly comes down to the instructor and school, and what their main focus is. There are many good answers on here about what to look for in a school and what to avoid, all you have to do is use the search feature.
Hope this helps.
Edit for Zenshu- I did not forget Shotokan, but this is a style that was developed by Funikoshi to be taught in Japan, and bears more resemblence to Japanes karate%26#039;s then original Okinawin karate. Also notice I said %26quot;SOME%26quot; major Okinawin styles, not all.|||Well I dont think any karate club will use weapons, as the word karate translates into %26quot;empty hand%26quot;. I heard the whole point of karate was learning to fight without weapons. However, Im pretty sure most styles of Kung Fu use alot of weapons, defencive techniques, punches and kicks.
I do wadokai karate, which is fun, has a lot of good techniques, but uses no weapons whatsoever.
Im sorry but I have no idea about clubs in Rawalpindi, as I live in the UK.
Hoped I helped.|||Jeet Kune Do. Martial arts devoloped by Bruce Lee, derived from many different styles of fighting.
Or try Krav Maga.|||i anwser to %26quot;katana17%26quot;:
in the Okinawan styles you forgot shito ryu and shotokan
1-Learn defending techniques
2-Learn Punching techniques
3-Learn kicking techniques
4-Learn how to use different weapons like Nun-Chukuu etc.
Also tell me about the martial arts schools in Rawalpindi(Pakistan) which offer such courses.|||I cannot tell you specificly about your location, because I am in America, however I can answer the other part of your question.
Almost any style of Okinawin karate will give you the 4 things you ask for, plus more. Most Okinawin styles incorperate a lot of standing grappling, and include locks, throws, sweeps, chokes, and clinch fighting. Most traditional schools also havea heavy emphisis on body conditioning.
Some of the major Okinawin styles:
Shoryn-Ryu
Goju-Ryu
Euchi-Ryu
Isshin-Ryu
I study Isshin-Ryu karate, and we study the Bo, Sai, and Tonfa, as well as short stick and knife use, however the last two are school specific, and are not part of the Issin-Ryu system per say.
Be aware that most if not all Okinawin karate focuses on non flashy realistic self defense motion.
Japanes styles of karate if they have a good instructor will also teach you good self defense, but most do not teach weapons, to my knowledge, and many are geared toward sport more then the Okinawin styles. Again it mainly comes down to the instructor and school, and what their main focus is. There are many good answers on here about what to look for in a school and what to avoid, all you have to do is use the search feature.
Hope this helps.
Edit for Zenshu- I did not forget Shotokan, but this is a style that was developed by Funikoshi to be taught in Japan, and bears more resemblence to Japanes karate%26#039;s then original Okinawin karate. Also notice I said %26quot;SOME%26quot; major Okinawin styles, not all.|||Well I dont think any karate club will use weapons, as the word karate translates into %26quot;empty hand%26quot;. I heard the whole point of karate was learning to fight without weapons. However, Im pretty sure most styles of Kung Fu use alot of weapons, defencive techniques, punches and kicks.
I do wadokai karate, which is fun, has a lot of good techniques, but uses no weapons whatsoever.
Im sorry but I have no idea about clubs in Rawalpindi, as I live in the UK.
Hoped I helped.|||Jeet Kune Do. Martial arts devoloped by Bruce Lee, derived from many different styles of fighting.
Or try Krav Maga.|||i anwser to %26quot;katana17%26quot;:
in the Okinawan styles you forgot shito ryu and shotokan
What do you think about people that say that Karate is for wussies?
They say that Muay Thai or box or bjj is much more real and useful for street situations. What do you think about people doing karate?|||uninformed propaganda used by ppl to bolster their own and their styles weaknesses and their own cowardice by big noting themselves.also anyone who derides karate obviosly hasn%26#039;t got a clue what their talking about and wouldn%26#039;t make a real martial artists as.hole.|||Tell them a little about Sosai Masutatsu Oyama.Also they may have a pint, all the McDojo%26#039;s and sport karate *** sh*t has given real karate a bad name. The thing about karate is that it is very straight forward, no fancy moves, just kicks and punches.The secret to karate is punching a makiwari and strengthening your self.Basically they train to punch and smash bricks and stuff.Peoplewalking around saying their black belts bcausetheyknow how to do forms and katas will generally get stomped by a amateur powerlifter or a first year kickboxer who has been hitting the bag and relentlessly working on strength and conditioning.Being a tough s.o.b helps a lot too. If you know katas and some fancy moves, but can%26#039;t take a hit or are scared of blood than you suck.Mas Oyama himself stated that you can go nowhere in karate withput breath control, except for maybe a few fancy moves. He meant Abdomen strength and pressure breathing to create a powerful strike.Karate is straight forward , you ahve to put in very hard training to make it effective, unlike AikiJujutsu or Aikido, or Bjj.Also BJJ will get your had stomped on the street when fighting multiple attackers. if you don%26#039;t wnat to puyt in the extreme training it takes to be abvl to break a rib with your punches than I reccomend AikiJuJutsu, Aikido or some other soft art that utilises joint manipulations and not striking speed and strength.I have kicked a few jkarate blue be;lts and taekwondo dudes asses. One guy threw a kick and I (unknowingly at the time) used a Muay Thai grappling maneuver by meeting his shin with my armpit before it gained power and proceeded to punch the sh*t out of his face before throwing him down and ground and pounding.He was hopping backwards on one leg while I was punching him. Here is a quote froma famous UFC fighter%26quot;runners, run ,swimmers swim,fighters fight%26quot; You ahve to fight to be good at fighting. Thats all there is to it. You cna%26#039;t expect to be good atb naything unless you actually do it. And nobody is going to poke your eyes, or throw a rock or smash your balls in sparring practice.|||People who diss karate are generally speaking from experience. Most karate training has clearly been shown to be ineffective, even detrimental, for fighting skill (MMA or self-defence). However, there are exceptions, Kyokushinkai is excellent, and is very much like Muay Thai.
It would be unfair to say that people who do karate are %26quot;wussies%26quot;. Sure, some of them might be cowardly and unwilling to do training that requires hard contact. However, I find that most are merely ill-informed, and really believe that karate is as effective as anything else.|||Authentic Karate taught correctly is very effective, unfortunately most of what is called Karate today in the West is McDojo Cr*p. The people that diss Karate probably have either experienced some McDojo or are just arm chair warriors that are even bigger wussies because they don%26#039;t train at all.|||bjj/muay thai//mma//kick boxing etc are arts designed for fighting between skilled equals who know full well the capabilities of their opponent and fight by mutual agreement.
Trad karate is the art of surprise where your opponent does not know you have any skill or any knowledge of how and where to hit plus throwing locking choking technique that you are knowledgeable in the use of your environment as a weapon or advantage.Very few people who study karate are actually studying trad karate but something that looks like it.
If your 1st reaction is to get into a stance and go HAI KARATE you will probably get your butt kicked because you have given away the element of surprise or say things like %26quot;dont mess with me I know karate%26quot;or the ridiculous%26quot;I cant fight you because I am considered a weapon by the law%26quot;just what a thug needs to convince himself you won%26#039;t fight back or defend yourself.
Wearing dojo crests or style crests is another way to have someone hit you from behind with a chair or bottle.
I have trained for 48 years in trad martial arts forms I have in that time had to use my skill to defend myself once against a tire iron once against a baseball bat and twice against edged weapons not to mention the times that involved just fists and feet and street wrestling .I have never lost came close a few times tho.
None of these situations could be called street fighting on my part tho my opponents thought that is what they were doing and were stupid enough to press the situation rather than leave it alone.|||it%26#039;s propaganda, from other styles trying to sell themselves to the unknowing general public... or it is from people who have never trained a day in their life... either way their opinions dont matter at all... me being curious, when all i heard was TKD is crap, and Muay Thai is great... i went to a Muay Thai gym to find out... and guess what .. Muay Thai is great... I did learn some things i never trained for... but i know many things that they have never trained for... its not better or worse... but it is different, and does have much to offer.. and its not really the difference in techniques, but more in the difference in the way it is trained.... i realized, that my TKD training was great when I went to a boxing gym, but I also learned that i cannot %26quot;side block%26quot;, a jab cross hook uppercut combo... so i still had my TKD training, but the application changed.... in a MT gym i learned that my TKD fighting stance was terrible against MT leg kicks (in leg kick range, but perfect if they cant reach me :).. they are too fast and too low to block, and must be absorbed, by the shin or knee... but there are times when i have the perfect block and counter to a MT technique that they havent seen (if they try to kick me above the waist, because that is what i trained for) .... the fact is every style has something to offer, and if you enjoy training a certain style have fun doing it, and dont worry about what anyone else says... but if you are curious like me... find out for yourself... good luck|||Karate is great (particularly in japan)
It teches you to strengthen your body like a shell if taught by the right school.
All martial arts are good in their own way in techniques.You can definitaly use that in the streets unlike jujitsu unless u want to be on the ground|||I run from people that show me thier fists and when cornered I shoot them.
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If I had to use a martial art, it wont be because I want to. street cred? more power to ya :) I like some korean styles. (the ones where they pull your eyes out using your nutsack)
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the only reason you should hit someone with your fist is because your feet are nailed to the floor.
street fighting is a brutal bussiness, maybe you should try to get along. (before I step up near you and brain you with a chair leg)|||I agree that it aint for street fights but karate is awsome. I think karate or tae kwon do is for discipline and strengthening your muscles and technique. If you want to fight for real do that and a form or MMA (muay thai kick boxing , bjj) both will make you unstopable.|||bjj, MT are fads that are big because of MMA right now. Karate is great. It is a traditional martial art that focuses on the true martial art rather than beating people up. Martials arts isnt about beating people up. If anyone feels the need to call others %26quot;wussies%26quot; they need to look in the mirror first.|||that they are dumb. i do tae kwon do and they show us to respect all kinds of martial arts. nah its not for wussies. the one laying down in the ground is the wussy F that! dont care bout ppl think. just the fact that its a martial arts makes it not be wussy. watever!!! if you really enjoy the type of martial art you want to do then you will be dam good at it.|||most people who believe that karate is useless on %26quot;the street%26quot; are people who have never trained in it themselves. Its best to ignore these people because you know that your style is effective, regardless of what other people think. Train for you not for them.|||I don%26#039;t do Karate but i%26#039;ve been doing TKD for 6 years now. And i%26#039;ve used it in real street fights.
All those haters are just idiots...send them to my neck of the woods and we%26#039;ll show them what Martial Arts is about.|||To those people, karate just wasn%26#039;t the right art for them. If they do BJJ or Muay Thai, then that indicates that they are more interested in harder, more competition like arts.|||All forms of Martial Arts are useful under different circumstances. There may be certain situations where one style would serve you better than others.|||I think people doing karate are awesome.
Let the haters think what they want to think, good for them. Big Whoop.
Phillip|||Why do so many people not realize that their are many different forms of karate, and they all have different phylosiphies and training methods? It is like saying all Blondes are dumb. It is definetly not true, but that is the problem with all blanket statements. The fact is that Traditional Okinawin karate if taught and trained correctly can be devestating on the street for self defense.
So if traditional karate, which was developed in Okinawa to combat armed attackers with your bare hands is not effective on the street for self defense, what is? Karate was developed at a time when losing dodn%26#039;t just mean having your ego bruised, it in all likelyhood meant that you were dead.
Even some of the answers that have said karate-ka%26#039;s are not wussies have stated karate is not effective for the street, which is BS. Now most of your MMA people like to talk about street fighting, which is not what karate is for. Karate is for self defense.
A street fight is a clash of ego%26#039;s that 99% of the time would not be necessary if one of the parties involved would check their ego%26#039;s and refuse to fight and walk away. Self defense is the 1% of the time where it has to get physical. Self defense is not about ego, or money, or making yourself feel like a big man, it is about survival pure and simple.
Yes there are many newer styles of karate and many McDojo%26#039;s who give karate a bad name. They point spar and think that it is reality, or they train exclusivly for sport. I hear people all the time say Kyokushin karate is awsome (and it is), but that it is the only style that is effective. It just so happens that this style was featured on fight Quest, and I also think it is the style that JSP studies. Coincidence? Probably not.
The truth is that Okinawin karate was developed for survival, and I am sorry but a punch or kick back then is the same as a punch or kick now. It is all in how it is taught and trained, period.
If you watch a good traditional karate-ka fight, it will look a lot like a Muya Thai fighter. Okinawin karate has elbows, knees, clinch fighting, low powerful leg kicks, throws, locks, chokes, and take downs, not to mention very tough body conditioning. If you don%26#039;t beleive me check out these clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yA-WuPkR...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p2l1YI1L...
Most of the negative things about karate stem from two things:
1) Belt factories or McDojo%26#039;s.
2) UFC/MMA%26#039;s fans that think if it is not reperesented in the ring it is no good. Most Okinawin karate principles, phylosiphies, and teaching go against fighting in a ring for sport. Most advanced karate-ka%26#039;s do not feel the need to prove themselves to others. Maybe that is why you do not see many top level karate people fighting in a ring.
Many marines(warriors) who were stationed in Okinawa thoguht that it was good enough to train in and bring back to America.
The fact is that karate helped me survive a knife attack. Yes i have a scar but I am also alive. My suggestion to people is to train what you want to train, but do not make blanket statements about something that you do not really understand, especially if you do not even train, and all you know about martial arts is what you see on TV or read about on here. If you do not train it, you really can%26#039;t understand it, and you have no basis on which to state an opinion.|||karate is not for wussies but karate is not an effective martial arts for the streets like mma bjjj or muay thai
It would be unfair to say that people who do karate are %26quot;wussies%26quot;. Sure, some of them might be cowardly and unwilling to do training that requires hard contact. However, I find that most are merely ill-informed, and really believe that karate is as effective as anything else.|||Authentic Karate taught correctly is very effective, unfortunately most of what is called Karate today in the West is McDojo Cr*p. The people that diss Karate probably have either experienced some McDojo or are just arm chair warriors that are even bigger wussies because they don%26#039;t train at all.|||bjj/muay thai//mma//kick boxing etc are arts designed for fighting between skilled equals who know full well the capabilities of their opponent and fight by mutual agreement.
Trad karate is the art of surprise where your opponent does not know you have any skill or any knowledge of how and where to hit plus throwing locking choking technique that you are knowledgeable in the use of your environment as a weapon or advantage.Very few people who study karate are actually studying trad karate but something that looks like it.
If your 1st reaction is to get into a stance and go HAI KARATE you will probably get your butt kicked because you have given away the element of surprise or say things like %26quot;dont mess with me I know karate%26quot;or the ridiculous%26quot;I cant fight you because I am considered a weapon by the law%26quot;just what a thug needs to convince himself you won%26#039;t fight back or defend yourself.
Wearing dojo crests or style crests is another way to have someone hit you from behind with a chair or bottle.
I have trained for 48 years in trad martial arts forms I have in that time had to use my skill to defend myself once against a tire iron once against a baseball bat and twice against edged weapons not to mention the times that involved just fists and feet and street wrestling .I have never lost came close a few times tho.
None of these situations could be called street fighting on my part tho my opponents thought that is what they were doing and were stupid enough to press the situation rather than leave it alone.|||it%26#039;s propaganda, from other styles trying to sell themselves to the unknowing general public... or it is from people who have never trained a day in their life... either way their opinions dont matter at all... me being curious, when all i heard was TKD is crap, and Muay Thai is great... i went to a Muay Thai gym to find out... and guess what .. Muay Thai is great... I did learn some things i never trained for... but i know many things that they have never trained for... its not better or worse... but it is different, and does have much to offer.. and its not really the difference in techniques, but more in the difference in the way it is trained.... i realized, that my TKD training was great when I went to a boxing gym, but I also learned that i cannot %26quot;side block%26quot;, a jab cross hook uppercut combo... so i still had my TKD training, but the application changed.... in a MT gym i learned that my TKD fighting stance was terrible against MT leg kicks (in leg kick range, but perfect if they cant reach me :).. they are too fast and too low to block, and must be absorbed, by the shin or knee... but there are times when i have the perfect block and counter to a MT technique that they havent seen (if they try to kick me above the waist, because that is what i trained for) .... the fact is every style has something to offer, and if you enjoy training a certain style have fun doing it, and dont worry about what anyone else says... but if you are curious like me... find out for yourself... good luck|||Karate is great (particularly in japan)
It teches you to strengthen your body like a shell if taught by the right school.
All martial arts are good in their own way in techniques.You can definitaly use that in the streets unlike jujitsu unless u want to be on the ground|||I run from people that show me thier fists and when cornered I shoot them.
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If I had to use a martial art, it wont be because I want to. street cred? more power to ya :) I like some korean styles. (the ones where they pull your eyes out using your nutsack)
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the only reason you should hit someone with your fist is because your feet are nailed to the floor.
street fighting is a brutal bussiness, maybe you should try to get along. (before I step up near you and brain you with a chair leg)|||I agree that it aint for street fights but karate is awsome. I think karate or tae kwon do is for discipline and strengthening your muscles and technique. If you want to fight for real do that and a form or MMA (muay thai kick boxing , bjj) both will make you unstopable.|||bjj, MT are fads that are big because of MMA right now. Karate is great. It is a traditional martial art that focuses on the true martial art rather than beating people up. Martials arts isnt about beating people up. If anyone feels the need to call others %26quot;wussies%26quot; they need to look in the mirror first.|||that they are dumb. i do tae kwon do and they show us to respect all kinds of martial arts. nah its not for wussies. the one laying down in the ground is the wussy F that! dont care bout ppl think. just the fact that its a martial arts makes it not be wussy. watever!!! if you really enjoy the type of martial art you want to do then you will be dam good at it.|||most people who believe that karate is useless on %26quot;the street%26quot; are people who have never trained in it themselves. Its best to ignore these people because you know that your style is effective, regardless of what other people think. Train for you not for them.|||I don%26#039;t do Karate but i%26#039;ve been doing TKD for 6 years now. And i%26#039;ve used it in real street fights.
All those haters are just idiots...send them to my neck of the woods and we%26#039;ll show them what Martial Arts is about.|||To those people, karate just wasn%26#039;t the right art for them. If they do BJJ or Muay Thai, then that indicates that they are more interested in harder, more competition like arts.|||All forms of Martial Arts are useful under different circumstances. There may be certain situations where one style would serve you better than others.|||I think people doing karate are awesome.
Let the haters think what they want to think, good for them. Big Whoop.
Phillip|||Why do so many people not realize that their are many different forms of karate, and they all have different phylosiphies and training methods? It is like saying all Blondes are dumb. It is definetly not true, but that is the problem with all blanket statements. The fact is that Traditional Okinawin karate if taught and trained correctly can be devestating on the street for self defense.
So if traditional karate, which was developed in Okinawa to combat armed attackers with your bare hands is not effective on the street for self defense, what is? Karate was developed at a time when losing dodn%26#039;t just mean having your ego bruised, it in all likelyhood meant that you were dead.
Even some of the answers that have said karate-ka%26#039;s are not wussies have stated karate is not effective for the street, which is BS. Now most of your MMA people like to talk about street fighting, which is not what karate is for. Karate is for self defense.
A street fight is a clash of ego%26#039;s that 99% of the time would not be necessary if one of the parties involved would check their ego%26#039;s and refuse to fight and walk away. Self defense is the 1% of the time where it has to get physical. Self defense is not about ego, or money, or making yourself feel like a big man, it is about survival pure and simple.
Yes there are many newer styles of karate and many McDojo%26#039;s who give karate a bad name. They point spar and think that it is reality, or they train exclusivly for sport. I hear people all the time say Kyokushin karate is awsome (and it is), but that it is the only style that is effective. It just so happens that this style was featured on fight Quest, and I also think it is the style that JSP studies. Coincidence? Probably not.
The truth is that Okinawin karate was developed for survival, and I am sorry but a punch or kick back then is the same as a punch or kick now. It is all in how it is taught and trained, period.
If you watch a good traditional karate-ka fight, it will look a lot like a Muya Thai fighter. Okinawin karate has elbows, knees, clinch fighting, low powerful leg kicks, throws, locks, chokes, and take downs, not to mention very tough body conditioning. If you don%26#039;t beleive me check out these clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yA-WuPkR...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p2l1YI1L...
Most of the negative things about karate stem from two things:
1) Belt factories or McDojo%26#039;s.
2) UFC/MMA%26#039;s fans that think if it is not reperesented in the ring it is no good. Most Okinawin karate principles, phylosiphies, and teaching go against fighting in a ring for sport. Most advanced karate-ka%26#039;s do not feel the need to prove themselves to others. Maybe that is why you do not see many top level karate people fighting in a ring.
Many marines(warriors) who were stationed in Okinawa thoguht that it was good enough to train in and bring back to America.
The fact is that karate helped me survive a knife attack. Yes i have a scar but I am also alive. My suggestion to people is to train what you want to train, but do not make blanket statements about something that you do not really understand, especially if you do not even train, and all you know about martial arts is what you see on TV or read about on here. If you do not train it, you really can%26#039;t understand it, and you have no basis on which to state an opinion.|||karate is not for wussies but karate is not an effective martial arts for the streets like mma bjjj or muay thai
How often should i practice my karate?
How often should i practice my karate? how much is too much? is training every day in karate just crazy?|||As often as you (conveniently) can. If a student is serious about their karate practice then it is inevitable that the more you train the better you will be. Sporadic training will inevitably lead to under-achievement, possibly even injury.
%26#039;Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.%26#039;
(Attributed to 19th century German writer Johann Goethe.)|||Being a MA instructor, I can answer this one with somewhat ease. There are a number of factors to figure into this. 1. Work/school schedule; 2 Your physical condition; 3. How badly you want it. I myself train nearly everyday, but then I am a BB and my body is used to working out, so it doesn%26#039;t bother me hardly at all. But also remember, just because you work out, doesn%26#039;t mean that you have to go through all your techniques you know. I would suggest on some days, work on kicking, others work on hand techniques, some work on forms and some throw in a mix of all. Even if you dont go hard, you still get a good workout. In times like that, it is called perfecting your technique. Especially if you are in a school that does a lot of tournaments, then you want to work on technical techniques. Make sure of your placements and stances and weight differentials. Two of my students work out nearly 7 days a week, while others only do it 3 to 4 times a week. It all depends on the person. There is no real wrong answer to it. If you are head strong with it, then do it as much as you wish, just don%26#039;t burn yourself out with it. Myself, I workout pretty much 7 days a week. Unless one of those days I have to work 10 hours. Then, if I work out, I do pretty much only forms, working on the technical part of them. Just do what you feel right and good with. And there is nothing wrong if you want to to take a day or so off of it, especially if you workout really hard, to give your body time to recupe.|||it really just depends how badly you want to get better at it.|||well.....5 days a week should do you well..i wouldnt say everyday..because if your doing anything with intenstity..you need to have at least one day of total rest....|||At least a little bit every day-- bare minimum of 30 minutes a day. I do at least that much.|||you can practice karate as much as you want. physically just know how your body copes with fatigue and regeneration...if you think youre body is getting too tired or is injured, just mentally visualise practicing karate or meditate on its meanings if youre that way inclined.|||practice daily in the morning.for some people it may be crazy and for some it may not be.|||evry day
or a minimum of 4 days a week|||depends on your lifestyle dude... Many people are very busy so aim for 7 days and get more like 4-6 days because of unplanned factors.
If you have a physically demanding job you will have to take that into account.
really as long as you have one day of rest you are all good. Everyone seems to foget that rest doesn%26#039;t have to be totally nothing, go for a slow swim, walk, do kata or technique slowly to get technique paths perfect ect. It is still rest as long as you don%26#039;t finish the session panting and sweating from head to toe.
Realistically, you should be able to train every day, but don%26#039;t do high intensity training back to back and make sure you watch what you eat and get at least 8 hours sleep everynight. train your **** off, your body will tell you when you%26#039;ve over done it.|||24/7|||Mas Oyama (the founder of kyokushen) used to practice over 10-12 hours a day, he%26#039;d do katas hundreds of times, in the icy mountains, and at night he%26#039;ll read philosophical books.
He became knows as %26quot;hand of god%26quot; , as he could win matches with only one punch, knocking out his opponents or breaking their bones if they blocked.
He did this by pushing his body to the limit, there%26#039;s no such things as overtraining, just know your limit.|||You practice Karate when you kick, punch and block. You practice Karate-Do 24/7. Google Master Gichin Funakoshi%26#039;s 20 principles for your answer.|||Even if you don%26#039;t practice the kata everyday, you should be working on self discipline and meditation.|||The answer depends on how hard you train. I train jui jitsu and all the guys i train with are fiercely competetive, so every time we come to class its kill or be killed, dog eat dog you know what i mean. When your training a grappling/submission style you never want to be submitted. So we roll hard. 3 times a week is all I manage. I need a days rest after trainig to let the soreness disipate. i have been to other gyms that focus more on learning techniques and mastering them through drills and light sparring. if this is how you train five days a week should be manageable|||train as much as u feel is necessary to become a good fighter . that is the most important thing u should feel confident that your training will help you defeat anyone who threatens u. above all incorporate foul tack ticks (shots to the groin,eyes,and knees) not to mention hair pulling,pinching and biting just think of judo and things like that most of the time u can get them off of u with a simple bite|||I think Karate should be practiced every day to gain perfection,but upto a certain limit.I being a girl like karate and am a green belt|||Every school I%26#039;ve encountered (Karate and other Martial Arts) usually recommends going to class a minimum of 3 days a week and practicing at home a minimum of 1 hour a day 3 days a week. If the school you go to doesn%26#039;t offer 3 classes a week (which is starting to become common for the smaller schools) I suggest trying to do private lessons if they provide them to make up for the missing classes.
%26#039;Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.%26#039;
(Attributed to 19th century German writer Johann Goethe.)|||Being a MA instructor, I can answer this one with somewhat ease. There are a number of factors to figure into this. 1. Work/school schedule; 2 Your physical condition; 3. How badly you want it. I myself train nearly everyday, but then I am a BB and my body is used to working out, so it doesn%26#039;t bother me hardly at all. But also remember, just because you work out, doesn%26#039;t mean that you have to go through all your techniques you know. I would suggest on some days, work on kicking, others work on hand techniques, some work on forms and some throw in a mix of all. Even if you dont go hard, you still get a good workout. In times like that, it is called perfecting your technique. Especially if you are in a school that does a lot of tournaments, then you want to work on technical techniques. Make sure of your placements and stances and weight differentials. Two of my students work out nearly 7 days a week, while others only do it 3 to 4 times a week. It all depends on the person. There is no real wrong answer to it. If you are head strong with it, then do it as much as you wish, just don%26#039;t burn yourself out with it. Myself, I workout pretty much 7 days a week. Unless one of those days I have to work 10 hours. Then, if I work out, I do pretty much only forms, working on the technical part of them. Just do what you feel right and good with. And there is nothing wrong if you want to to take a day or so off of it, especially if you workout really hard, to give your body time to recupe.|||it really just depends how badly you want to get better at it.|||well.....5 days a week should do you well..i wouldnt say everyday..because if your doing anything with intenstity..you need to have at least one day of total rest....|||At least a little bit every day-- bare minimum of 30 minutes a day. I do at least that much.|||you can practice karate as much as you want. physically just know how your body copes with fatigue and regeneration...if you think youre body is getting too tired or is injured, just mentally visualise practicing karate or meditate on its meanings if youre that way inclined.|||practice daily in the morning.for some people it may be crazy and for some it may not be.|||evry day
or a minimum of 4 days a week|||depends on your lifestyle dude... Many people are very busy so aim for 7 days and get more like 4-6 days because of unplanned factors.
If you have a physically demanding job you will have to take that into account.
really as long as you have one day of rest you are all good. Everyone seems to foget that rest doesn%26#039;t have to be totally nothing, go for a slow swim, walk, do kata or technique slowly to get technique paths perfect ect. It is still rest as long as you don%26#039;t finish the session panting and sweating from head to toe.
Realistically, you should be able to train every day, but don%26#039;t do high intensity training back to back and make sure you watch what you eat and get at least 8 hours sleep everynight. train your **** off, your body will tell you when you%26#039;ve over done it.|||24/7|||Mas Oyama (the founder of kyokushen) used to practice over 10-12 hours a day, he%26#039;d do katas hundreds of times, in the icy mountains, and at night he%26#039;ll read philosophical books.
He became knows as %26quot;hand of god%26quot; , as he could win matches with only one punch, knocking out his opponents or breaking their bones if they blocked.
He did this by pushing his body to the limit, there%26#039;s no such things as overtraining, just know your limit.|||You practice Karate when you kick, punch and block. You practice Karate-Do 24/7. Google Master Gichin Funakoshi%26#039;s 20 principles for your answer.|||Even if you don%26#039;t practice the kata everyday, you should be working on self discipline and meditation.|||The answer depends on how hard you train. I train jui jitsu and all the guys i train with are fiercely competetive, so every time we come to class its kill or be killed, dog eat dog you know what i mean. When your training a grappling/submission style you never want to be submitted. So we roll hard. 3 times a week is all I manage. I need a days rest after trainig to let the soreness disipate. i have been to other gyms that focus more on learning techniques and mastering them through drills and light sparring. if this is how you train five days a week should be manageable|||train as much as u feel is necessary to become a good fighter . that is the most important thing u should feel confident that your training will help you defeat anyone who threatens u. above all incorporate foul tack ticks (shots to the groin,eyes,and knees) not to mention hair pulling,pinching and biting just think of judo and things like that most of the time u can get them off of u with a simple bite|||I think Karate should be practiced every day to gain perfection,but upto a certain limit.I being a girl like karate and am a green belt|||Every school I%26#039;ve encountered (Karate and other Martial Arts) usually recommends going to class a minimum of 3 days a week and practicing at home a minimum of 1 hour a day 3 days a week. If the school you go to doesn%26#039;t offer 3 classes a week (which is starting to become common for the smaller schools) I suggest trying to do private lessons if they provide them to make up for the missing classes.
When do you start learning to use weapons, in Karate?
Is it when you%26#039;re a higher belt or something? Because I always thought it was part of the karate, like once every so often, there%26#039;d be a weapon class. But my school doesn%26#039;t do it at all.
I%26#039;d really like to learn weapons as well.|||I believe that it depends on what style of Karate you are learning. I studied Shotokan and we were introduced to weapons at the green belt level. My Sensei wanted us to learn some sword techniques (katana) and one other weapon of our choice by black belt. The weapons we had to chose from are bo staff, sai, nunchucku, kama and tonfa. There are more, but I think these are the ones that my teacher felt most comfortable teaching.
The word Karate was originally translated to mean %26quot;China Hand%26quot; because of its roots from Chinese kenpo. When Master Funakoshi brought Shotokan to the main land Japan, he new that Japanese would not accept something that was Chinese in origin. So he changed the name to %26quot;the way of the empty hand%26quot; or Karate-do. The Japanese symbols for both meanings of the same word are very similar.
Funakoshi consulted many in his efforts to modernize Karate and Kendo was one of those influences. So, in conclusion, the fact that Karate is %26quot;the way of the empty hand%26quot; does not necessarily exempt the art from weapons training. Most of the weapons in Karate are derived from farming implements so that poor farmers could defend themselves with what was on their property, rather than having a vast arsenal that would be confiscated by the Samurai. |||Some styles and organizations don%26#039;t teach weapons or require them for testing and promotion. Others do and they usually start with an un-bladed weapon first like staff, nunchaku, or tonfa before going into kama or sai. Some styles also teach boken and will even move into the sword. I do not teach a student a weapon until they reach blue belt (4th kyu) generally speaking as they have enough to learn and practice without adding to it. I do make exceptions for those that are diligent, dedicated students and currently have such a female student that works out several times a week and practices daily. I do relate some weapons techniques to empty hand techniques though like turning your hand over when doing a punch or doing a thrust with a staff for better focus and power. It helps reinforce things and keeps things a little fresher for students and gives them other ways of thinking and relating to those concepts and techniques where both empty hand and weapons techniques correlate with one another. |||There is no clear answer here. Karate is a stand alone art. It does not have weapons training/ Kobudo. Kobudo is a also a stand alone. One or several weapons may be taught. Some styles/organizations will teach both karate and kobudo. Those that do each has its own way of incorporating the weapons training into the mix. Some start teaching the weapons early on. Others require that the student attain a certain level before beginning weapons training. Usually this is because many of the stances used in kobudo training are like those used in karate.
My first few karate instructors did not teach weapons. It was more than ten years after beginning my training that anyone ever began to start teaching weapons.|||In our organization you are not allowed to start weapons training before green belt. To all the people who say karate does not have weapons, you are wrong. Weapons on Okinawa fall under Kobudo, as Shihan J said, but many styles of Okinawin karate have incorperated them.
I know for a fact that Isshin-Ryu has 3 bo katas, 3 sai kata%26#039;s, and 1 Tonfa kata in it%26#039;s official style curriculam. The japanese styles do not contain weapons, but the okinawan styles do, so for all those who said they don%26#039;t yu are wrong, so why don%26#039;t you actually answer questions that you know about. |||Most classic karate systems do not include weapons in their curriculum. Exceptions are, I believe, Isshin-Ryu and American Kempo, and in those two cases the weapons forms are learned around brown/black belt. My first sensei taught a bo and a nunchaku kata at brown belt, but this isn%26#039;t common. Occasionally you get a karate dojo that teaching Okinawan Kobudo (traditional weapons) as well as karate, but again this is more the exception than the rule.
Weapons based systems include Okinawan Kobudo (bo, sai, tonfa, nunchaku, kama), Escrima/Kali/Arnis (fighting with single- and double-sticks, knives, other impact and cutting weapons of different lengths and styles), Kendo/Kenjutsu (Japanese fencing), Iaido/Iaijutsu (Japanese art of drawing and cutting with the sword), Western fencing (foil, epee, and saber), Kumdo (Korean fencing), jodo/jojutsu (Japanese art of fighting with a 4-foot staff), and other, harder-to-find systems from around the world.
Systems that include both weapons work and empty hand techniques are most systems of Chinese martial arts (%26quot;kung fu%26quot;), some classic Jujitsu schools, Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu, many Silat styles, some Aikido schools.
Best of luck in learning weapons!|||karate doesn%26#039;t teach weapons it means %26quot;empty hands%26quot;
kobudo teaches weapons, and is more accurately what you are trying to ask.
not all karate dojo%26#039;s teach kobudo. and the rank and age depends on the instructor.
i don%26#039;t teach any one weapons to someone under 12 or below 5th kyu(purple). i have my reason i don%26#039;t make exceptions. for iaido and kenjitsu i don%26#039;t start my student until they are 1st kyu (3rd stripe brown) or higher.
i have seen some dojo%26#039;s start them at white belt with weapons. i don%26#039;t agree with this. but is is up to the sensei%26#039;s to decide and not all sensei%26#039;s do weapons|||i%26#039;m just repeating what everyone else has said really but Karate means %26quot;open hand%26quot; and the basics of karate are to make your body parts weapons.
Karate was made for two reasons, firstly it was pretty much stolen from chinese martial arts %26gt;.%26gt; Secondly during a period, can%26#039;t remember which, okinawa had all its weapons removed from them by the shogunate,It was after this that they began weapon training using common tools for them, such as the sai, which was for planting seeds, and nun-chaku (i can%26#039;t spell) which were for taking down grain or whatever.
The most common styles of karate don%26#039;t really teach much if any weapon training, the most i%26#039;d normally expect to see in a lot is anti-weapon drills, such as disarming a knife, (although they always stress that if they have a knife your first reaction should be run like hell)
If you want weapon training then perhaps you should ask your sensei / shihan if he can recommend anywhere so you can train along side your karate
|||To answer your question it really depends on the martial art. Arts like Kenpo, Okinawa and Escrima (kali) all depend very much on the incorporation of weapons but they may also use only one weapon versus multiple. Other arts may use them as a means of disarming an opponent versus using them as offensive tools. The best thing for you to do is do some research, make a list and put down what you want to see and ask around. Shoot an email off to the instructors and ask them if they use weapons and if so which ones and why they use them. |||It depends on the style and philosophy of the master. I take a karate style and we start teaching bo at an early level if the student has demonstrated proficiency in certain empty hand forms.
However, we restrict teaching certain weapons to higher belts. Nunchaku cannot be taught before green belt and only if certain other kata are proficient. Bladed weapons must be brown or black.|||In my American Kenpo Karate class, the first day you walk on the mat with a brown belt you pick up your first weapon.
Our defense moves are %26quot;open hand%26quot; as with some Kata%26#039;s, however we learn five weapons in Kata form. Once we earn a Black Belt we will learn a few other weapons through a Kata form as well.|||Generally when you have reached brown belt status, remember karate is like building a house! you must prepare the foundations first, but weapons are not a real part of karate, karate means open or empty hand.|||I have a friend who teaches Kobudo and he begins kihon at advanced green belt.
That%26#039;s the general time frame, but if you noticed, I said %26quot;kihon%26quot;. |||I didn%26#039;t know that Karate taught weapons at all!
I used to do kungfu and weapons training only begins when you are a higher belt.|||you don%26#039;t us weapons in Karate! the word Karate means empty hand, so you will need to learn combat training of a different kind that uses a weapon of your liking i.e. sword, flail or other type of killing implement.but I don%26#039;t think you can just walk in to this type of club without some knowledge so look be-for you leap is the best plan.|||you dont learn to use weapons in Karate
They do in tai chi though so you could start practicing that if you want to use weapons|||In karate the weapons are your hands and feet.
You use weapons with kung fu or ju jitsu.
You%26#039;re doing the wrong martial art!
DOH!|||colombine here we come
I%26#039;d really like to learn weapons as well.|||I believe that it depends on what style of Karate you are learning. I studied Shotokan and we were introduced to weapons at the green belt level. My Sensei wanted us to learn some sword techniques (katana) and one other weapon of our choice by black belt. The weapons we had to chose from are bo staff, sai, nunchucku, kama and tonfa. There are more, but I think these are the ones that my teacher felt most comfortable teaching.
The word Karate was originally translated to mean %26quot;China Hand%26quot; because of its roots from Chinese kenpo. When Master Funakoshi brought Shotokan to the main land Japan, he new that Japanese would not accept something that was Chinese in origin. So he changed the name to %26quot;the way of the empty hand%26quot; or Karate-do. The Japanese symbols for both meanings of the same word are very similar.
Funakoshi consulted many in his efforts to modernize Karate and Kendo was one of those influences. So, in conclusion, the fact that Karate is %26quot;the way of the empty hand%26quot; does not necessarily exempt the art from weapons training. Most of the weapons in Karate are derived from farming implements so that poor farmers could defend themselves with what was on their property, rather than having a vast arsenal that would be confiscated by the Samurai. |||Some styles and organizations don%26#039;t teach weapons or require them for testing and promotion. Others do and they usually start with an un-bladed weapon first like staff, nunchaku, or tonfa before going into kama or sai. Some styles also teach boken and will even move into the sword. I do not teach a student a weapon until they reach blue belt (4th kyu) generally speaking as they have enough to learn and practice without adding to it. I do make exceptions for those that are diligent, dedicated students and currently have such a female student that works out several times a week and practices daily. I do relate some weapons techniques to empty hand techniques though like turning your hand over when doing a punch or doing a thrust with a staff for better focus and power. It helps reinforce things and keeps things a little fresher for students and gives them other ways of thinking and relating to those concepts and techniques where both empty hand and weapons techniques correlate with one another. |||There is no clear answer here. Karate is a stand alone art. It does not have weapons training/ Kobudo. Kobudo is a also a stand alone. One or several weapons may be taught. Some styles/organizations will teach both karate and kobudo. Those that do each has its own way of incorporating the weapons training into the mix. Some start teaching the weapons early on. Others require that the student attain a certain level before beginning weapons training. Usually this is because many of the stances used in kobudo training are like those used in karate.
My first few karate instructors did not teach weapons. It was more than ten years after beginning my training that anyone ever began to start teaching weapons.|||In our organization you are not allowed to start weapons training before green belt. To all the people who say karate does not have weapons, you are wrong. Weapons on Okinawa fall under Kobudo, as Shihan J said, but many styles of Okinawin karate have incorperated them.
I know for a fact that Isshin-Ryu has 3 bo katas, 3 sai kata%26#039;s, and 1 Tonfa kata in it%26#039;s official style curriculam. The japanese styles do not contain weapons, but the okinawan styles do, so for all those who said they don%26#039;t yu are wrong, so why don%26#039;t you actually answer questions that you know about. |||Most classic karate systems do not include weapons in their curriculum. Exceptions are, I believe, Isshin-Ryu and American Kempo, and in those two cases the weapons forms are learned around brown/black belt. My first sensei taught a bo and a nunchaku kata at brown belt, but this isn%26#039;t common. Occasionally you get a karate dojo that teaching Okinawan Kobudo (traditional weapons) as well as karate, but again this is more the exception than the rule.
Weapons based systems include Okinawan Kobudo (bo, sai, tonfa, nunchaku, kama), Escrima/Kali/Arnis (fighting with single- and double-sticks, knives, other impact and cutting weapons of different lengths and styles), Kendo/Kenjutsu (Japanese fencing), Iaido/Iaijutsu (Japanese art of drawing and cutting with the sword), Western fencing (foil, epee, and saber), Kumdo (Korean fencing), jodo/jojutsu (Japanese art of fighting with a 4-foot staff), and other, harder-to-find systems from around the world.
Systems that include both weapons work and empty hand techniques are most systems of Chinese martial arts (%26quot;kung fu%26quot;), some classic Jujitsu schools, Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu, many Silat styles, some Aikido schools.
Best of luck in learning weapons!|||karate doesn%26#039;t teach weapons it means %26quot;empty hands%26quot;
kobudo teaches weapons, and is more accurately what you are trying to ask.
not all karate dojo%26#039;s teach kobudo. and the rank and age depends on the instructor.
i don%26#039;t teach any one weapons to someone under 12 or below 5th kyu(purple). i have my reason i don%26#039;t make exceptions. for iaido and kenjitsu i don%26#039;t start my student until they are 1st kyu (3rd stripe brown) or higher.
i have seen some dojo%26#039;s start them at white belt with weapons. i don%26#039;t agree with this. but is is up to the sensei%26#039;s to decide and not all sensei%26#039;s do weapons|||i%26#039;m just repeating what everyone else has said really but Karate means %26quot;open hand%26quot; and the basics of karate are to make your body parts weapons.
Karate was made for two reasons, firstly it was pretty much stolen from chinese martial arts %26gt;.%26gt; Secondly during a period, can%26#039;t remember which, okinawa had all its weapons removed from them by the shogunate,It was after this that they began weapon training using common tools for them, such as the sai, which was for planting seeds, and nun-chaku (i can%26#039;t spell) which were for taking down grain or whatever.
The most common styles of karate don%26#039;t really teach much if any weapon training, the most i%26#039;d normally expect to see in a lot is anti-weapon drills, such as disarming a knife, (although they always stress that if they have a knife your first reaction should be run like hell)
If you want weapon training then perhaps you should ask your sensei / shihan if he can recommend anywhere so you can train along side your karate
|||To answer your question it really depends on the martial art. Arts like Kenpo, Okinawa and Escrima (kali) all depend very much on the incorporation of weapons but they may also use only one weapon versus multiple. Other arts may use them as a means of disarming an opponent versus using them as offensive tools. The best thing for you to do is do some research, make a list and put down what you want to see and ask around. Shoot an email off to the instructors and ask them if they use weapons and if so which ones and why they use them. |||It depends on the style and philosophy of the master. I take a karate style and we start teaching bo at an early level if the student has demonstrated proficiency in certain empty hand forms.
However, we restrict teaching certain weapons to higher belts. Nunchaku cannot be taught before green belt and only if certain other kata are proficient. Bladed weapons must be brown or black.|||In my American Kenpo Karate class, the first day you walk on the mat with a brown belt you pick up your first weapon.
Our defense moves are %26quot;open hand%26quot; as with some Kata%26#039;s, however we learn five weapons in Kata form. Once we earn a Black Belt we will learn a few other weapons through a Kata form as well.|||Generally when you have reached brown belt status, remember karate is like building a house! you must prepare the foundations first, but weapons are not a real part of karate, karate means open or empty hand.|||I have a friend who teaches Kobudo and he begins kihon at advanced green belt.
That%26#039;s the general time frame, but if you noticed, I said %26quot;kihon%26quot;. |||I didn%26#039;t know that Karate taught weapons at all!
I used to do kungfu and weapons training only begins when you are a higher belt.|||you don%26#039;t us weapons in Karate! the word Karate means empty hand, so you will need to learn combat training of a different kind that uses a weapon of your liking i.e. sword, flail or other type of killing implement.but I don%26#039;t think you can just walk in to this type of club without some knowledge so look be-for you leap is the best plan.|||you dont learn to use weapons in Karate
They do in tai chi though so you could start practicing that if you want to use weapons|||In karate the weapons are your hands and feet.
You use weapons with kung fu or ju jitsu.
You%26#039;re doing the wrong martial art!
DOH!|||colombine here we come
What is the best kind of self-defense/karate to learn that simply teaches you how to kick someones @$$?
I want to learn how to fight well and take a aggressive hands on self-defense class.. I don%26#039;t want something that teaches you, and your body, to be one or, hands out different colored belts while you jump around high kicking in white outfits..I simply want to learn how to kick someones butt with my hands or objects, as if i were really in the street with my clothes on (not barefoot in a karate outfit) and someone happened to approach me.. What would i take and if possible is there any places that offer this around Los Angeles, CA?|||It sounds like traditional training may not be what you are looking for based on your description. Krav maga seems to be popular, perhaps you should look into that.
You should look for combat systems.
Please be careful with these teachers, make sure they check out. Do background research on their claimed credentials.|||You want to learn Krav Maga. It%26#039;s an israeli martial art that focuses on pretty much killing someone as fast as you can.|||Martial Arts is for defense only my friend, it%26#039;s not an offensive sport, that is completely the wrong reason to study ANY Martial Arts discipline.
and besides that, we don%26#039;t wear our uniforms (whatever the uniform is for the particular discipline) every day, just to class to train in. besides that, you never know when your training will ever come in handy but usually it will be in the street and at that point there%26#039;s no holds barred, no rules, you do what you gotta do or use to survive.
find a school that interests you the most, and take a trial class or two. But with YOUR attitude I%26#039;d reccommend not doing it due to your temperament, Martial Arts is NOT for kicking someone%26#039;s a** but defending yourself to survive your opponents attack.
check your local phone book for some nearby schools for a start|||Muay Thai for striking and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu if you want the best ground game out there.|||If you want to fight, learn boxing, Muay Thai Kick boxing or kick boxing, and/or wrestling/BJJ/Juijitsu. I have heard good things about Krav maga. You should be able to find a good school.
It is funny to me that traditional training now means forms/kata and such. Traditional training used to mean hard core sparing, body conditioning and such. I digress.
Best of luck.|||I don%26#039;t know, but it doesn%26#039;t matter. With your attitude, You will have plenty of oportunity to learn while you are in jail,|||muay thai|||I did a search a while back for free online tae kwon do lessons and there was a few websites,don%26#039;t remember them,but try search the same thing.You can practice these moves,as I did,in your street clothes and in your house.|||Just buy a gun, you know you want to.|||In a real fight you need wrestling skills, jujitsu and boxing.|||For Karate, go with Kyokushin karate, Seido Karate, and Eshin karate .
For other style try Muay Thai or most of grappling arts.
Edited: To the guy below me; PLEASE change your name, you%26#039;re embarassing all Muay Thai fighters with your answer.|||Muai Thai and Kickboxing would be good remember a while back hearing how a kid got jumped by 2 thugs but knocked them both out as they didn%26#039;t know he was a Kickboxer.|||use muay thai and muay boran. muay thai is the advanced martial art of Muay boran. gymnastics combine with these will be perfect. like back flip, front flip, butterfly kick, and more. exactly like what tony jaa uses. if you use tony jaa and bruce lee all together, whoa!
You should look for combat systems.
Please be careful with these teachers, make sure they check out. Do background research on their claimed credentials.|||You want to learn Krav Maga. It%26#039;s an israeli martial art that focuses on pretty much killing someone as fast as you can.|||Martial Arts is for defense only my friend, it%26#039;s not an offensive sport, that is completely the wrong reason to study ANY Martial Arts discipline.
and besides that, we don%26#039;t wear our uniforms (whatever the uniform is for the particular discipline) every day, just to class to train in. besides that, you never know when your training will ever come in handy but usually it will be in the street and at that point there%26#039;s no holds barred, no rules, you do what you gotta do or use to survive.
find a school that interests you the most, and take a trial class or two. But with YOUR attitude I%26#039;d reccommend not doing it due to your temperament, Martial Arts is NOT for kicking someone%26#039;s a** but defending yourself to survive your opponents attack.
check your local phone book for some nearby schools for a start|||Muay Thai for striking and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu if you want the best ground game out there.|||If you want to fight, learn boxing, Muay Thai Kick boxing or kick boxing, and/or wrestling/BJJ/Juijitsu. I have heard good things about Krav maga. You should be able to find a good school.
It is funny to me that traditional training now means forms/kata and such. Traditional training used to mean hard core sparing, body conditioning and such. I digress.
Best of luck.|||I don%26#039;t know, but it doesn%26#039;t matter. With your attitude, You will have plenty of oportunity to learn while you are in jail,|||muay thai|||I did a search a while back for free online tae kwon do lessons and there was a few websites,don%26#039;t remember them,but try search the same thing.You can practice these moves,as I did,in your street clothes and in your house.|||Just buy a gun, you know you want to.|||In a real fight you need wrestling skills, jujitsu and boxing.|||For Karate, go with Kyokushin karate, Seido Karate, and Eshin karate .
For other style try Muay Thai or most of grappling arts.
Edited: To the guy below me; PLEASE change your name, you%26#039;re embarassing all Muay Thai fighters with your answer.|||Muai Thai and Kickboxing would be good remember a while back hearing how a kid got jumped by 2 thugs but knocked them both out as they didn%26#039;t know he was a Kickboxer.|||use muay thai and muay boran. muay thai is the advanced martial art of Muay boran. gymnastics combine with these will be perfect. like back flip, front flip, butterfly kick, and more. exactly like what tony jaa uses. if you use tony jaa and bruce lee all together, whoa!
What should I look for from a Good Karate class?
I want to take Karate with my 11 year old daughter. What questions should I ask of the studio?
What should I expect in enrolling in a class?|||Hi - I teach Okinawan Martial Arts - aka - Karate.
As someone before mentioned - if there is a high number of black belts - especially younger kids... stay away.
Look for direct lineage to one of the major branches from Okinawa.
If I knew your location, I could point you in the right direction. I realize many are skeptical about posting their location openly - you can send it to me via email.
There are several others here that can also help you but most are people with no real knowledge of martial arts just giving uneducated opinion.
You should look into Judo, Jujutsu - not the Brazilian kind, but the more complete Classical Japanese. Classical Chinese Arts - not the Internal Arts, as kids should learn External Martial Arts if Chinese becomes the choice.
Good luck.|||Depends what you are looking for:
If you are mainly focusing on fitness: Then any class is as good, kick boxing or a competition based Taekwondo or Karate.
If you are mainly focusing on self defense then you need to go to a NON-competition based school. Go to a traditional martial arts school. You will get proper self defense technique there.
If you are looking to foster discipline, motivation and respect in your daughter, then definately a traditional school with a good instructor. Speak to the instructor and ask him/her what they value in life. Don%26#039;t go to a place where there are thug-looking people. And find a place where there is a strict code of conduct, like bowing to the instructor and other forms of basic etiquette. You might think that etiquette is silly in this modern age but if a kid can%26#039;t follow etiquette for its own sake then a kid wont be disciplined in future.
So the best all round martial arts school for self defense, fitness, discipline and good social environment is a traditional respectable school. Don%26#039;t be afraid to shop around.|||first off find out how many black belts the school gives out, because if it is a high number then stay away, that school is a mcdojo.
find out how long the sensei has been teaching and how long he has been a black belt, the longer the better usually.
also asking around at different schools would be helpful|||Put him in Judo.|||Lot of kick and flips
What should I expect in enrolling in a class?|||Hi - I teach Okinawan Martial Arts - aka - Karate.
As someone before mentioned - if there is a high number of black belts - especially younger kids... stay away.
Look for direct lineage to one of the major branches from Okinawa.
If I knew your location, I could point you in the right direction. I realize many are skeptical about posting their location openly - you can send it to me via email.
There are several others here that can also help you but most are people with no real knowledge of martial arts just giving uneducated opinion.
You should look into Judo, Jujutsu - not the Brazilian kind, but the more complete Classical Japanese. Classical Chinese Arts - not the Internal Arts, as kids should learn External Martial Arts if Chinese becomes the choice.
Good luck.|||Depends what you are looking for:
If you are mainly focusing on fitness: Then any class is as good, kick boxing or a competition based Taekwondo or Karate.
If you are mainly focusing on self defense then you need to go to a NON-competition based school. Go to a traditional martial arts school. You will get proper self defense technique there.
If you are looking to foster discipline, motivation and respect in your daughter, then definately a traditional school with a good instructor. Speak to the instructor and ask him/her what they value in life. Don%26#039;t go to a place where there are thug-looking people. And find a place where there is a strict code of conduct, like bowing to the instructor and other forms of basic etiquette. You might think that etiquette is silly in this modern age but if a kid can%26#039;t follow etiquette for its own sake then a kid wont be disciplined in future.
So the best all round martial arts school for self defense, fitness, discipline and good social environment is a traditional respectable school. Don%26#039;t be afraid to shop around.|||first off find out how many black belts the school gives out, because if it is a high number then stay away, that school is a mcdojo.
find out how long the sensei has been teaching and how long he has been a black belt, the longer the better usually.
also asking around at different schools would be helpful|||Put him in Judo.|||Lot of kick and flips
What is the best age to start karate?
I have a 4 year old son and woul dlike him to learn karate. What is the best age to start having him taking classes?|||I have seen some children that age take to it like a duck to water but that is usually because of the influence of an older sibling or parent taking it. Occasionally a child will also just be attracted to it at that age but that is unique. If they have not expressed an interest in doing this then I would hold off until they get into school. Then there attention span will be a little longer and better, they are more likely to get more out of it as well as you for your money and time, and energy in taking them to class, and they will be better able to understand how this may benefit them. Even at that age they sometimes try it and decide they don%26#039;t like it and that they would rather be outside playing with their friends in the neighborhood or doing some of the team sports that their friends do than at the karate studio. |||At our school, Lone Star Black Belt Academy in Watauga TX, we have what is called Lil%26#039; Dragons. They can start at about 3 to 4 yrs old. It usually depends on their focus. The class is only 30min long. That is because that is about as long as their attention span can last during a class. They learn the VERY basics of karate and still can earn regular Tae Kwon Do belts. They just test at their own pace and must show mastery of all techniques for their level. You%26#039;d be surprised...they do SO well!|||As soon as the dude can walk.
The younger you are the easier it is to learn.
You want it to feel natural for him so he can become a ninja when hes older.
Whatever you do dont let him quit if he complains,
My parents kept me in a club when I didnt want to go and its been the best thing ever for me|||The earlier you get him learning the better i think. As they get the techniques into there head earlier.|||The earlier the better.|||yeah 4or 5 would be great.|||I would say between 4 %26amp; 5
The younger you are the easier it is to learn.
You want it to feel natural for him so he can become a ninja when hes older.
Whatever you do dont let him quit if he complains,
My parents kept me in a club when I didnt want to go and its been the best thing ever for me|||The earlier you get him learning the better i think. As they get the techniques into there head earlier.|||The earlier the better.|||yeah 4or 5 would be great.|||I would say between 4 %26amp; 5
What exercises should you do on your days that you don't have karate?
I only have karate on monday, wednesday, and saturday, so what should i do on the days i dont have it? I feel out of shape already, and its only friday!|||katas ,basics, and the same you do in class. also try runing, weights,ect|||Yoga!? - okay so I am a qualified Yoga teacher, and I have a rowing machine in the garage, running is cheap and easy, what about doing your katas? If you know them well enough why not learn the next one for your grading before you at taught it in class? Utube get the instruction for free - and yes I know nothing beats real live instruction, hoep that helps, asked the same kind question once myself|||You should do calisthenics like push ups, sit ups, and calf rises on the bottom step on a staircase. If you can do some chin ups somewhere. Leave atleast one day for rest even two at first while you just starting to get into shape so your body has some time to repair your muscles.|||1. basics, they are your foundation. and the most important part in the beginning
2. kata, your kata contains all the techniques you need.
if you only have time for one then kata. |||Kata...Kata...Kata and guess what...more KATA
Maybe stances and kihon waza drills but mostly Kata.|||kata|||street fightin|||PUNCH BULLS BETWEEN THE EYES|||Stretches, to help for next class!!
2. kata, your kata contains all the techniques you need.
if you only have time for one then kata. |||Kata...Kata...Kata and guess what...more KATA
Maybe stances and kihon waza drills but mostly Kata.|||kata|||street fightin|||PUNCH BULLS BETWEEN THE EYES|||Stretches, to help for next class!!
Is it possible to keep my grade when switching from Ed Parker's Karate Kempo to Kajukembo and viceversa?
I mean studying Karate Kempo for a few years, attaining 4潞 kyu, then going into Kajukembo and not having to start from the beginning again, but being recognized the rank.|||No in general when you change to a new system you empty your cup and start over as a white belt or even NO belt at all until given a white belt.
I had a Nidan at the time in parker Kenpo when I joined Shotokan and I started off as a No belt, we wore a rope! after three months we got our white belts. Yes my kenpo training helped but it also hindered me too in ways it did not others.
As my teacher put it to me, take a piece of clay untouched and not molded and then try to shape it into something. It is much easier to shape something when it is not already formed. So if you take too much of your kenpo with you then you will have conflicts in learning their style properly. You have to empty your cup, your mind of your Kenpo knowledge for now and do it the way they show you. Just make sure it is a reputable school of course.
NOW if you were just a GUEST at the school then they would recognize your rank. A Guest is far different than a new student. OR if you were to go to a different Kenpo school they most likely would accept your rank after a test.
I hope that makes sense.|||No it isn%26#039;t possible.
Even within the same style of martial art, if it isn%26#039;t the same association or organization, the rank is usually not officially recognized.
A teacher might, and let me stress %26quot;might%26quot;, let you wear your belt but it isn%26#039;t the best way to do it. Especially as just a 4th kyu. I am sorry. You have probably worked very hard for that but it is a minor rank that is quickly regained. If you have any talent that applies to the new art you will rise quickly in that school%26#039;s ranks.
Even as a 4dan, if I went to another school, I would toss on a white belt. The ability would speak for itself. I would be able to do some things and yet new stuff would be new to me, just like the other beginners.
Spend your time focusing on the skills, not the silly thing aroudn your waist.|||Not likely.
The belts are not interchangeable on any system.
Your instructor could test you, and grade you based on that, which could start you higher.
good luck!|||The training is what is important not the belt. your belt will not keep you safe. I%26#039;d suggest that you forget about what belt you are wearing and continue to learn and perfect good self-defense.
If you are having a problem with not being tested for rank. then your mind is not on what is important.
If you just must get rank promotions there are plenty of McDojos out there that will gladly take your money and make sure that you get promoted.
Honestly your training attitue and skills are the only thing important here.|||Every time you learn a new system you need to start at some lower level. That doesn%26#039;t mean you need to start at ground zero. A good school will allow you to test at some level and maybe advance a bit faster at first. This is if the arts are similar. If the arts are not similar like Akido vs Tae Kwan Do than you need to start at the beginning you will miss to much otherwise. You may be a good fighter. that is not necessarily the point. the point is to unlock the system.
I had a Nidan at the time in parker Kenpo when I joined Shotokan and I started off as a No belt, we wore a rope! after three months we got our white belts. Yes my kenpo training helped but it also hindered me too in ways it did not others.
As my teacher put it to me, take a piece of clay untouched and not molded and then try to shape it into something. It is much easier to shape something when it is not already formed. So if you take too much of your kenpo with you then you will have conflicts in learning their style properly. You have to empty your cup, your mind of your Kenpo knowledge for now and do it the way they show you. Just make sure it is a reputable school of course.
NOW if you were just a GUEST at the school then they would recognize your rank. A Guest is far different than a new student. OR if you were to go to a different Kenpo school they most likely would accept your rank after a test.
I hope that makes sense.|||No it isn%26#039;t possible.
Even within the same style of martial art, if it isn%26#039;t the same association or organization, the rank is usually not officially recognized.
A teacher might, and let me stress %26quot;might%26quot;, let you wear your belt but it isn%26#039;t the best way to do it. Especially as just a 4th kyu. I am sorry. You have probably worked very hard for that but it is a minor rank that is quickly regained. If you have any talent that applies to the new art you will rise quickly in that school%26#039;s ranks.
Even as a 4dan, if I went to another school, I would toss on a white belt. The ability would speak for itself. I would be able to do some things and yet new stuff would be new to me, just like the other beginners.
Spend your time focusing on the skills, not the silly thing aroudn your waist.|||Not likely.
The belts are not interchangeable on any system.
Your instructor could test you, and grade you based on that, which could start you higher.
good luck!|||The training is what is important not the belt. your belt will not keep you safe. I%26#039;d suggest that you forget about what belt you are wearing and continue to learn and perfect good self-defense.
If you are having a problem with not being tested for rank. then your mind is not on what is important.
If you just must get rank promotions there are plenty of McDojos out there that will gladly take your money and make sure that you get promoted.
Honestly your training attitue and skills are the only thing important here.|||Every time you learn a new system you need to start at some lower level. That doesn%26#039;t mean you need to start at ground zero. A good school will allow you to test at some level and maybe advance a bit faster at first. This is if the arts are similar. If the arts are not similar like Akido vs Tae Kwan Do than you need to start at the beginning you will miss to much otherwise. You may be a good fighter. that is not necessarily the point. the point is to unlock the system.
Can karate change the size of your feet?
I am an adult and started practicing karate about 10 months ago. I started with a 1.5h session once a week and have slowly moved up to 3 times a week (thursday, friday and saturday)
In recent months I find that my feet hurt everyday, especilally in the morning when I wake up. This happens everyday, not just the days after my karate training.
The karate I practice is non-contact.I am not kicking boards or bricks.
I also noticed that shoes that fitted me perfectly for months now feel too small.
Has anyone experienced something similar?|||My hunch is that your feet are swollen and a little beat up from training. When I started, I had messed up toes, and I couldn%26#039;t wear sneakers without pain. I basically gave myself corns on the tips of my toes (they look like hard blisters). My feet didn%26#039;t actually grow, they swelled. I figured out that it was a combo or kicking improperly and athlete%26#039;s foot. I recommend buying espom salt (comes in a package, put it in water to soak feet) and a good pair of sandals (to change into immediately after practice). Once you get over the %26quot;hump%26quot;, your feet will be fine. You may want roomier shoes on days your feet really hurt. P.S. If the pain doesn%26#039;t go away after doing these things, go see a podiatrist. You may have internal foot problems.|||hmm well maybe. i think any physical activity where you spend more time on your feet can change the size of them. and also be aware of something else- even as we are adults, as we get older, our feet keep on growing ever so slightly. my mother used to be size 8 when she was 20, now shes size 9.|||yeah it can change the size of your feet or maybe they are swollen a little bit.|||ummm i dont think so. maybe your feet are just sore. if your not kiking boards and you only go 3 times a week, dont you think they should not be hurting. i go 5 times a week. plus i jog and practice evry day. and i never had that problem
PS. your feet will grow for the rest of your life. men in particular tend to have sudden growth spurts in their feet|||if you%26#039;ve never done a lot of things barefoot, then yes. it can. It%26#039;s jsut that your feet never really went through trauma lke you will experience in most martial arts.|||no|||Hi
Yes, the very fact of practice any sport on bare foot causes it to expand and get bigger, so welcome to the %26quot;big foot%26quot; martial arts world.
Good Luck
In recent months I find that my feet hurt everyday, especilally in the morning when I wake up. This happens everyday, not just the days after my karate training.
The karate I practice is non-contact.I am not kicking boards or bricks.
I also noticed that shoes that fitted me perfectly for months now feel too small.
Has anyone experienced something similar?|||My hunch is that your feet are swollen and a little beat up from training. When I started, I had messed up toes, and I couldn%26#039;t wear sneakers without pain. I basically gave myself corns on the tips of my toes (they look like hard blisters). My feet didn%26#039;t actually grow, they swelled. I figured out that it was a combo or kicking improperly and athlete%26#039;s foot. I recommend buying espom salt (comes in a package, put it in water to soak feet) and a good pair of sandals (to change into immediately after practice). Once you get over the %26quot;hump%26quot;, your feet will be fine. You may want roomier shoes on days your feet really hurt. P.S. If the pain doesn%26#039;t go away after doing these things, go see a podiatrist. You may have internal foot problems.|||hmm well maybe. i think any physical activity where you spend more time on your feet can change the size of them. and also be aware of something else- even as we are adults, as we get older, our feet keep on growing ever so slightly. my mother used to be size 8 when she was 20, now shes size 9.|||yeah it can change the size of your feet or maybe they are swollen a little bit.|||ummm i dont think so. maybe your feet are just sore. if your not kiking boards and you only go 3 times a week, dont you think they should not be hurting. i go 5 times a week. plus i jog and practice evry day. and i never had that problem
PS. your feet will grow for the rest of your life. men in particular tend to have sudden growth spurts in their feet|||if you%26#039;ve never done a lot of things barefoot, then yes. it can. It%26#039;s jsut that your feet never really went through trauma lke you will experience in most martial arts.|||no|||Hi
Yes, the very fact of practice any sport on bare foot causes it to expand and get bigger, so welcome to the %26quot;big foot%26quot; martial arts world.
Good Luck
How to block a Chop or a chopping strike in KARATE ?
I learn karate from videos and books. And lately ive been practicing and Im becomming very good at blocking but I cant seem to block the sharp chopping motion blocks of karate. they are very painful even when blocking. How to attempt this ?|||Don%26#039;t block it, redirect the force, connect forearms with your opponent and force it away instead of taking the blow on your arm.... Karate is quite common, I think it would do some good to go to a class.... if you can find one and time to go.|||I really hate to tell you this but you are not learning karate. You are copying the moves, but you are no learning it. To do that you need at last two things.
1) A good instructor who can point out aallthe little mistakes that you make.
2) Other trained people to practice with who can resist your technique.
Yes hard blocking can be very painful, that is why in Okinawan karate there is a major emphasis on conditioning your blocking surfaces.
I realize that you will not listen to my advice to seek a good instructor, and are under the illusion that you are learning karate, however a video cannot correct little mistakes that make a huge difference. It also cannot prepare you for the harsh reality of real self defense, where your attacker doesn%26#039;t care whether you get hurt or not.
Quite honestly do they train soldiers off of video? Police officers? Fireman? The fact is you are learning to imitate movements, but if all you use is video tape%26#039;s, you will never learn it, and when you really need it, it wont work. That is my warning to you, make of it what you will.
|||there are many ways of chopping, leaving many ways of defending,
if its coming from over head and downwards, you can do something like side step inwards to the person on an angle and deflect the chop with your forearm and punch them in the face with your other hand at the same time.
or if they chop more strait at you, try intercepting their chop with your own chop by attacking their center line
many things you can do, try learning from a real teacher though, and use the vids and books as a reference to what they tell you. other wise you are only creating bad habits for yourself that you will one day realize and then be force to either suck or break your bad habits. learn things correctly the first time i say.|||Keep your guard up at all times. Side-step to the opposite direction of where the chop is going. Chops aren%26#039;t even used much in martial arts anyways. If you have to block, you can either stop the attack before it%26#039;s halfway thrown, or you can keep a tight guard and let the attack come to you so you can parry it.|||Find a good school should be your number one priority.
More to your question, never meet force to force. Try to deflect rather than stop a blow. You should also consider interrupting the strike before the attacker can get up to full speed on the strike. |||I believe the proper term is knife hand strike, not chop. They%26#039;re not hard to block. Just do the appropriate inside, outside, low, or high block.|||Do an outward block..
If you don%26#039;t know how it looks go to Google Images and type in Karate Outward Block. The last picture on Row 2 has the image.|||You want to block a block ? Weird.. but here you go....
Use an outer block . Contact with the forearm not with the hand that is performing the knife hand block.
1) A good instructor who can point out aallthe little mistakes that you make.
2) Other trained people to practice with who can resist your technique.
Yes hard blocking can be very painful, that is why in Okinawan karate there is a major emphasis on conditioning your blocking surfaces.
I realize that you will not listen to my advice to seek a good instructor, and are under the illusion that you are learning karate, however a video cannot correct little mistakes that make a huge difference. It also cannot prepare you for the harsh reality of real self defense, where your attacker doesn%26#039;t care whether you get hurt or not.
Quite honestly do they train soldiers off of video? Police officers? Fireman? The fact is you are learning to imitate movements, but if all you use is video tape%26#039;s, you will never learn it, and when you really need it, it wont work. That is my warning to you, make of it what you will.
|||there are many ways of chopping, leaving many ways of defending,
if its coming from over head and downwards, you can do something like side step inwards to the person on an angle and deflect the chop with your forearm and punch them in the face with your other hand at the same time.
or if they chop more strait at you, try intercepting their chop with your own chop by attacking their center line
many things you can do, try learning from a real teacher though, and use the vids and books as a reference to what they tell you. other wise you are only creating bad habits for yourself that you will one day realize and then be force to either suck or break your bad habits. learn things correctly the first time i say.|||Keep your guard up at all times. Side-step to the opposite direction of where the chop is going. Chops aren%26#039;t even used much in martial arts anyways. If you have to block, you can either stop the attack before it%26#039;s halfway thrown, or you can keep a tight guard and let the attack come to you so you can parry it.|||Find a good school should be your number one priority.
More to your question, never meet force to force. Try to deflect rather than stop a blow. You should also consider interrupting the strike before the attacker can get up to full speed on the strike. |||I believe the proper term is knife hand strike, not chop. They%26#039;re not hard to block. Just do the appropriate inside, outside, low, or high block.|||Do an outward block..
If you don%26#039;t know how it looks go to Google Images and type in Karate Outward Block. The last picture on Row 2 has the image.|||You want to block a block ? Weird.. but here you go....
Use an outer block . Contact with the forearm not with the hand that is performing the knife hand block.
When is it considered appropriate to go karate on someone?
Can you only karate chop someone who attacks you first? What if you think they are going to attack you and so you just attack them first. |||Don%26#039;t listen to these pacifists. They all have no experience when it comes to fighting for real. So this is the deal.
If they come within an arms distance, they are a treat. Neutralize it.|||The only time any martial arts should be used is for the defense of self or others. By this, I imply not the defense of having agitated someone on the street until they want to beat you up, but rather, for a situation where you have no other options but to resort to violence. Some such examples would include preventing a rape, stopping a mugger who you think might kill you, protecting someone else from being beaten up.
The whole point is to not fight, and if there is an alternative, it should be used. As for those who would welcome violence, it is because they have not truly experienced it themselves. The pacifistic attitude is one developed through experience, meditation, and philosophical study.
We must train to defend ourselves and our loved ones for situations that are unavoidable, but must never seek this violence ourselves. For this reason, Martial Arts should never be taught to street thugs, and other violent persons. To do so is dangerous and destructive to society.
If someone has attacked you, you must defend yourself, and use the force you deem necessary. If possible, restrain them, if necessary hurt them, if you cannot do either of these, and the person poses a danger to yourself or others, then use all resources available to you to stop others from being hurt. If you think they are going to attack you, then leave, or call the authorities. Don%26#039;t be too proud to walk away.
For those who seek violence, they have much to learn. Evil begets evil, Action causes reaction. He who lives by the sword, dies by it. There are countless phrases to emphasize what is nature%26#039;s laws, not mine. If you seek violence, you will suffer violence. If you seek peace, you will find harmony. Through giving and compassion, you will find happiness.|||I would think one should never Karate Chop anyone, period. Unless you%26#039;re doing a breaking demo or starring in a movie, the only time I can think of where one would actually find a practical use for a Karate chop on anyone is when the other guy is already stunned long enough for you to try chopping him behind the neck or in the throat without worrying about missing the target and that%26#039;s a dangerous thing to do and can land you in jail even if he started it. Why don%26#039;t you just try slapping him instead, much safer for both you and the other guy and less likely to miss : P|||If the guy is really being a jerk towards you, and if you think you are capable of beating his a$s then you should. Some so called trained-guys think they can just walk over anyone but once they try to prove themselves they get mauled by this totally unskilled person. So make sure you have the tools for handling these kinds of thugs.|||there is no such thing as a karate chop.
it is called a knife hand strike.
if you took martial arts you would know the answer to your question.
martial arts is suppose to be use to defend yourself. and not for petty arguments or if some one insults you,|||What if you%26#039;re crazy? You can%26#039;t attack somebody because you%26#039;re delusional.
Get help.
Do you even train Karate?|||NEVER! Stop training if that is your goal. And while you are at it, you should go seek help with all your thoughts of persecution.|||Whenever they over step the boundary|||wen u acktually n33d 2 :)
If they come within an arms distance, they are a treat. Neutralize it.|||The only time any martial arts should be used is for the defense of self or others. By this, I imply not the defense of having agitated someone on the street until they want to beat you up, but rather, for a situation where you have no other options but to resort to violence. Some such examples would include preventing a rape, stopping a mugger who you think might kill you, protecting someone else from being beaten up.
The whole point is to not fight, and if there is an alternative, it should be used. As for those who would welcome violence, it is because they have not truly experienced it themselves. The pacifistic attitude is one developed through experience, meditation, and philosophical study.
We must train to defend ourselves and our loved ones for situations that are unavoidable, but must never seek this violence ourselves. For this reason, Martial Arts should never be taught to street thugs, and other violent persons. To do so is dangerous and destructive to society.
If someone has attacked you, you must defend yourself, and use the force you deem necessary. If possible, restrain them, if necessary hurt them, if you cannot do either of these, and the person poses a danger to yourself or others, then use all resources available to you to stop others from being hurt. If you think they are going to attack you, then leave, or call the authorities. Don%26#039;t be too proud to walk away.
For those who seek violence, they have much to learn. Evil begets evil, Action causes reaction. He who lives by the sword, dies by it. There are countless phrases to emphasize what is nature%26#039;s laws, not mine. If you seek violence, you will suffer violence. If you seek peace, you will find harmony. Through giving and compassion, you will find happiness.|||I would think one should never Karate Chop anyone, period. Unless you%26#039;re doing a breaking demo or starring in a movie, the only time I can think of where one would actually find a practical use for a Karate chop on anyone is when the other guy is already stunned long enough for you to try chopping him behind the neck or in the throat without worrying about missing the target and that%26#039;s a dangerous thing to do and can land you in jail even if he started it. Why don%26#039;t you just try slapping him instead, much safer for both you and the other guy and less likely to miss : P|||If the guy is really being a jerk towards you, and if you think you are capable of beating his a$s then you should. Some so called trained-guys think they can just walk over anyone but once they try to prove themselves they get mauled by this totally unskilled person. So make sure you have the tools for handling these kinds of thugs.|||there is no such thing as a karate chop.
it is called a knife hand strike.
if you took martial arts you would know the answer to your question.
martial arts is suppose to be use to defend yourself. and not for petty arguments or if some one insults you,|||What if you%26#039;re crazy? You can%26#039;t attack somebody because you%26#039;re delusional.
Get help.
Do you even train Karate?|||NEVER! Stop training if that is your goal. And while you are at it, you should go seek help with all your thoughts of persecution.|||Whenever they over step the boundary|||wen u acktually n33d 2 :)
Where can i find out about karate tournaments taking place in UK?
Ive been learning shotokan karate for about 2 years now. I would like to enter a tournament. Can anybody tell me where i can find out where these tournements take place in uk.
Maybe someone knows of a website where they are listed thanks.|||Buy a copy of %26#039;Martial Arts Illustrated%26#039; or %26#039;Combat%26#039; magazine at your local WH Smith shop. You could also get a subscription for the %26#039;Traditional karate%26#039; magazine (look it up on the internet.)There are full details inside and in the classified sections.
There are also loads of web-sites in the mags that you can follow up. Also, why don%26#039;t you ask your Sensei about competing?
Good luck!|||umm why dont you just ask your instructor about tournaments. he/she should know
Maybe someone knows of a website where they are listed thanks.|||Buy a copy of %26#039;Martial Arts Illustrated%26#039; or %26#039;Combat%26#039; magazine at your local WH Smith shop. You could also get a subscription for the %26#039;Traditional karate%26#039; magazine (look it up on the internet.)There are full details inside and in the classified sections.
There are also loads of web-sites in the mags that you can follow up. Also, why don%26#039;t you ask your Sensei about competing?
Good luck!|||umm why dont you just ask your instructor about tournaments. he/she should know
Is karate a good activity to take up? What can you tell me about it?
I%26#039;m 17 and I%26#039;m thinking about taking up karate.
Is it good exercise?
Do you break bones and bleed a lot?
Do you get hurt a lot, in general?
When you%26#039;re a beginner, are you in a class of 6 year olds?
How long does it take to become a black belt?
What else can you tell me about it?
Thanks!|||im 17 too.i do Hishou Ka.Its a mixture of kickboxing and jujitsu.Its brilliant exercise,It tones up the body.U can get hurt but its in a controlled environment so your always in control and can stop when u want.I satarted in Jan and i was with all the seniors which is better the kids.It can talk from 5 to 10 years for a black belt.Gradings are every 6 months with most clubs.If u pass u get a belt and aim for the next.Im a yellow aiming for my orange in November.
Hope this helps u decide.|||learn kungfu it includes karate judo kickboxing and all the martial arts in it
Is it good exercise?
Do you break bones and bleed a lot?
Do you get hurt a lot, in general?
When you%26#039;re a beginner, are you in a class of 6 year olds?
How long does it take to become a black belt?
What else can you tell me about it?
Thanks!|||im 17 too.i do Hishou Ka.Its a mixture of kickboxing and jujitsu.Its brilliant exercise,It tones up the body.U can get hurt but its in a controlled environment so your always in control and can stop when u want.I satarted in Jan and i was with all the seniors which is better the kids.It can talk from 5 to 10 years for a black belt.Gradings are every 6 months with most clubs.If u pass u get a belt and aim for the next.Im a yellow aiming for my orange in November.
Hope this helps u decide.|||learn kungfu it includes karate judo kickboxing and all the martial arts in it
I am looking for guides on arm conditioning drills for Uechi-Ryu Karate or any others?
I currently am taking Uechi-Ryu Karate Do but only once a week. I workout and practice my forms 3 days a week. I am trying to find video or even books about arm and/or leg conditioning to help with my training.
It is also known as arm pounding.|||What you refer to is called Kotekitae, and is heavily emphisized in all styles of Okinawin karate. The secret is to start slow and build gradually so you do not hurt yourself. here are some links o get you started, but the best thing would be to ask your instructor for some Kotekitae excersises and drills you can do on your own at home. these links are just some I found doing a wuick search, but they should get you started.
http://veritas.swiftsite.com/one.html#Ko...
http://isshindo.blogspot.com/2006/10/bod...
http://karatejutsu.blogspot.com/2006/06/...
http://isshindo.blogspot.com/2006/08/kot...|||I know Kyokushinkai has some very good conditionning drills.
Try looking for the following ebook:
Essential_Karate_-_Mas_Oyama
Good luck
It is also known as arm pounding.|||What you refer to is called Kotekitae, and is heavily emphisized in all styles of Okinawin karate. The secret is to start slow and build gradually so you do not hurt yourself. here are some links o get you started, but the best thing would be to ask your instructor for some Kotekitae excersises and drills you can do on your own at home. these links are just some I found doing a wuick search, but they should get you started.
http://veritas.swiftsite.com/one.html#Ko...
http://isshindo.blogspot.com/2006/10/bod...
http://karatejutsu.blogspot.com/2006/06/...
http://isshindo.blogspot.com/2006/08/kot...|||I know Kyokushinkai has some very good conditionning drills.
Try looking for the following ebook:
Essential_Karate_-_Mas_Oyama
Good luck
What is the best workout for karate?
I%26#039;m thinking about starting karate soon and I just want to know what the best starting workout would be for someone who doesn%26#039;t usually workout.|||HONESTLY, if you have not trained or worked out in a long time take your time getting back into it and do not over due yourself.
stretch alot and do a pace you can do and slowly increase that pace each workout or every other workout if you can, then eventually you will gain stronger lungs and better flexibility and stamina,
Having someone to help you stretch your legs is helpful.
Any work out that will get you into shape is good of any sort so long as you like it and enjoy it.
try differant karate schools, even kung fu or other Martial arts styles. They are ALL good, is best to find whom is the best teacher and has the most to offer you as a student and choose a teacher based on your needs.|||you could take a capoeira class once a week and then escalate to 2, after a ferw months.
Capoeira really improved my stamina real fast, and my jumps and kicks. It%26#039;s really fun, so you woin%26#039;t realize you%26#039;re working out until the next day.
yoga can also help for beginners. So does startin a good carido workout (hence the capoeira )|||running, to build your cardio and legs muscles, crunches to build your core muscles, and push-ups to start building some upper body strength as well as pull ups to do the same. anything else, i%26#039;m sure your instructor will eventually let you know. oh and DON%26#039;T FORGET TO STRETCH!!
stretch alot and do a pace you can do and slowly increase that pace each workout or every other workout if you can, then eventually you will gain stronger lungs and better flexibility and stamina,
Having someone to help you stretch your legs is helpful.
Any work out that will get you into shape is good of any sort so long as you like it and enjoy it.
try differant karate schools, even kung fu or other Martial arts styles. They are ALL good, is best to find whom is the best teacher and has the most to offer you as a student and choose a teacher based on your needs.|||you could take a capoeira class once a week and then escalate to 2, after a ferw months.
Capoeira really improved my stamina real fast, and my jumps and kicks. It%26#039;s really fun, so you woin%26#039;t realize you%26#039;re working out until the next day.
yoga can also help for beginners. So does startin a good carido workout (hence the capoeira )|||running, to build your cardio and legs muscles, crunches to build your core muscles, and push-ups to start building some upper body strength as well as pull ups to do the same. anything else, i%26#039;m sure your instructor will eventually let you know. oh and DON%26#039;T FORGET TO STRETCH!!
Lifting weights is lifting weights for karate good or bad?
Speed and power is good in karate. You also need a balance. It also depends on which style. So is lifting weights good or bad? I want to build some muscle but don%26#039;t want to get too bulky.|||I would think building too much muscle would be bad. The bigger the muscle, the slower you would move. Toning your body, in my opinion, won%26#039;t do any harm.|||Good as long as you can still move your arms, do weight exercises that work your whole body like deadlifts, bench press, chin ups or lat pull downs, stay away from isolation exercises and get some kettlebells, isolation exercises are for bodybuilders only!|||Lifting weights worked for Bruce Lee.|||good.
If you lift correctly it can increase your response time.
It is the rare person that has so much muscle that it slows them down.
Martial arts are great but being in shape is a must.
If you are doing just martial arts and no additional exercise then you are selling yourself short. Someone with less martial art experience but is in better shape will be able to defeat you.|||Lots of reps with low weights would build lean muscle as well as help with your cardio. Sounds good to me! Just keep yourself limber. Obviously stretch before you work out, but also afterwards.|||I answered this question somewhat in another post, so I%26#039;ll repost it here....
by Scott B Member since:
January 08, 2008
Yes. If you love them both. Most people are saying that you are going to get in-flexible and slow. Which is not true. With bigger muscles you actually have the capabilities of having faster, more explosive, and harder strikes. It difference is the way you are training.
There are 3 types of strength: absolute (your max lifting power), explosive (how fast you can generate it), and static power (the kind of power you use when you weight lift for body building, slow and controlled).
The problem arises when you only do your body building workout. You must add plyometrics to your workout to change your absolute strength into explosive. You must teach your muscle fibers to generate speed with power. In this way you actually can be faster and stronger using body building techniques, as long as you train smart.
As far as the inflexibility. The truth is that body building will make you inflexible... If you are not stretching! Tom Platz used to be able to do full squats, and John Parrillo (a body building guru) actually recommends it because there is some research that says it helps muscle growth.
end of answer:
So going on that topic. It depends on how many reps you are doing and when you are reaching failure. If you reach failure in the 6 to 8 range, then you will look like a body builder in two years. This trains the muscle fiber that likes to grow.
If you keep your workouts to the 15-20 range, you are training the endurance fiber which does grow, but not as big. You will be able to last longer and be stronger if you train in this range.
So the answer is keep your workouts in the 15-20 range and you%26#039;ll be fine, and you should be lifting.|||The truth is, it is very hard to bulk up to the point that flexibility is lost due to muscle. You must train rigorously and eat quite a lot. My advice is lift weights which are heavy, but balance it out with karate training and cardio and stretching. Along with a good diet, you shall be a warrior in no time!!
http://markschat.blogspot.com Fighting and training Methods for Unarmed Martial Artists.|||it is good as long as you are not bulky
If you lift correctly it can increase your response time.
It is the rare person that has so much muscle that it slows them down.
Martial arts are great but being in shape is a must.
If you are doing just martial arts and no additional exercise then you are selling yourself short. Someone with less martial art experience but is in better shape will be able to defeat you.|||Lots of reps with low weights would build lean muscle as well as help with your cardio. Sounds good to me! Just keep yourself limber. Obviously stretch before you work out, but also afterwards.|||I answered this question somewhat in another post, so I%26#039;ll repost it here....
by Scott B Member since:
January 08, 2008
Yes. If you love them both. Most people are saying that you are going to get in-flexible and slow. Which is not true. With bigger muscles you actually have the capabilities of having faster, more explosive, and harder strikes. It difference is the way you are training.
There are 3 types of strength: absolute (your max lifting power), explosive (how fast you can generate it), and static power (the kind of power you use when you weight lift for body building, slow and controlled).
The problem arises when you only do your body building workout. You must add plyometrics to your workout to change your absolute strength into explosive. You must teach your muscle fibers to generate speed with power. In this way you actually can be faster and stronger using body building techniques, as long as you train smart.
As far as the inflexibility. The truth is that body building will make you inflexible... If you are not stretching! Tom Platz used to be able to do full squats, and John Parrillo (a body building guru) actually recommends it because there is some research that says it helps muscle growth.
end of answer:
So going on that topic. It depends on how many reps you are doing and when you are reaching failure. If you reach failure in the 6 to 8 range, then you will look like a body builder in two years. This trains the muscle fiber that likes to grow.
If you keep your workouts to the 15-20 range, you are training the endurance fiber which does grow, but not as big. You will be able to last longer and be stronger if you train in this range.
So the answer is keep your workouts in the 15-20 range and you%26#039;ll be fine, and you should be lifting.|||The truth is, it is very hard to bulk up to the point that flexibility is lost due to muscle. You must train rigorously and eat quite a lot. My advice is lift weights which are heavy, but balance it out with karate training and cardio and stretching. Along with a good diet, you shall be a warrior in no time!!
http://markschat.blogspot.com Fighting and training Methods for Unarmed Martial Artists.|||it is good as long as you are not bulky
What is best to take to lose more weiht kick boxing or karate?
I want to lose alot of weight in 2 months and i heard that either kick boxing or karate will be a good way to do it. I just dont know which one is better.|||I%26#039;ve done both......well actually all three. I%26#039;ve studied Karate, I%26#039;ve kickboxed and I%26#039;ve lost weight.
My personal experience: It doesn%26#039;t matter which one you choose. If you train in either one you will lose weight. Choose the one that appeals to you.|||The school that has the better,(Harder), work out
Check out the schools in your area.Look for students in a
heavy sweat after class.
Work outs in schools vary from %26quot;very hard%26quot; to %26quot;medium/light%26quot;|||Well, if I had to pick between the two...KBoxing....you will burn more calories, and probably get the chance to spar more often (real application). Plus you don%26#039;t have to do any gay worthless crap like katas, breaking boards and meditation. Good luck.|||I would take up karate because it helps with discipline and respect, as well as helping out in getting in shape and losing weight.|||Probably kick boxing.
I believe there is more calorie burning involved then traditional karate.|||my answer is karate is best for lossing weight cause i were in karate class, i am yellow belt. I lost my weight lit bit then i work out as much as tue and thur both week, it just i lost lot weight|||i think both have their benefits with regard to losing weight. in kickboxing the activity is nonstop and the intensity is amped up, so most definitely you%26#039;re gonna sweat a lot. plus, it also helps develop your stamina so that you can go longer as your body gets used to the strain. in karate, it%26#039;s more of a body balance thing in the sense that all the katas %26amp; stuff work every part of your body, albeit in a non-frantic way.|||kick boxing is definetly better!! You are moving non-stop for 45 min. so if your not afraid to sweat like a pig be my guest and try it. trust me!!|||Most likely Kickboxing. Why?
Because Kickboxers generally train to compete or with people who compete and their workouts are better tailored for athletes, rather than weekend warriors. That means you%26#039;ll most likely be sparring, training full power with pads, being pushed harder etc as opposed to kicking and punching air. I think that the self defense applications of kickboxing are better than most karate as well, and personally I find the kickboxing classes alot more fun than karate (more fun means more motivation to keep it up, and the more you do it the more weight to lose). I also find that when I spar in kickboxing I push myself alot harder than I normally would because I%26#039;m not concentrating on how tired I am, but what the other person is doing.
Of course this is a generalization since all classes are different and you haven%26#039;t said which karate you would consider doing (Kyokushin is full contact, and the training is harder than your average Shotokan). In then end though, I guess it%26#039;s the one you%26#039;ll enjoy more that will motivate you and make you lose weight over the long term. But I%26#039;d choose kickboxing in a heart beat.
My personal experience: It doesn%26#039;t matter which one you choose. If you train in either one you will lose weight. Choose the one that appeals to you.|||The school that has the better,(Harder), work out
Check out the schools in your area.Look for students in a
heavy sweat after class.
Work outs in schools vary from %26quot;very hard%26quot; to %26quot;medium/light%26quot;|||Well, if I had to pick between the two...KBoxing....you will burn more calories, and probably get the chance to spar more often (real application). Plus you don%26#039;t have to do any gay worthless crap like katas, breaking boards and meditation. Good luck.|||I would take up karate because it helps with discipline and respect, as well as helping out in getting in shape and losing weight.|||Probably kick boxing.
I believe there is more calorie burning involved then traditional karate.|||my answer is karate is best for lossing weight cause i were in karate class, i am yellow belt. I lost my weight lit bit then i work out as much as tue and thur both week, it just i lost lot weight|||i think both have their benefits with regard to losing weight. in kickboxing the activity is nonstop and the intensity is amped up, so most definitely you%26#039;re gonna sweat a lot. plus, it also helps develop your stamina so that you can go longer as your body gets used to the strain. in karate, it%26#039;s more of a body balance thing in the sense that all the katas %26amp; stuff work every part of your body, albeit in a non-frantic way.|||kick boxing is definetly better!! You are moving non-stop for 45 min. so if your not afraid to sweat like a pig be my guest and try it. trust me!!|||Most likely Kickboxing. Why?
Because Kickboxers generally train to compete or with people who compete and their workouts are better tailored for athletes, rather than weekend warriors. That means you%26#039;ll most likely be sparring, training full power with pads, being pushed harder etc as opposed to kicking and punching air. I think that the self defense applications of kickboxing are better than most karate as well, and personally I find the kickboxing classes alot more fun than karate (more fun means more motivation to keep it up, and the more you do it the more weight to lose). I also find that when I spar in kickboxing I push myself alot harder than I normally would because I%26#039;m not concentrating on how tired I am, but what the other person is doing.
Of course this is a generalization since all classes are different and you haven%26#039;t said which karate you would consider doing (Kyokushin is full contact, and the training is harder than your average Shotokan). In then end though, I guess it%26#039;s the one you%26#039;ll enjoy more that will motivate you and make you lose weight over the long term. But I%26#039;d choose kickboxing in a heart beat.
How much does it cost to attend Stephen Oliver's Mile High Karate in Denver Colorado?
I have been researching different Martial Arts programs for my daughter (7) to attend. She is slightly overweight and has a low self esteem. I%26#039;ve been told by many that a good program can really help her out a lot. I can%26#039;t get an answer from anyone on how much it costs to attend Mile High Karate. They seem to have the most comprehensive program around us.|||Why don%26#039;t you call them up and see. That%26#039;s the easiest way.
PLCG~|||OK. I have asked several times. We have been to 2 interviews now. PLEASE, if someone knows the answer, just tell. After all of this, HOW MUCH DOES IT COST??????????????? Report Abuse
PLCG~|||OK. I have asked several times. We have been to 2 interviews now. PLEASE, if someone knows the answer, just tell. After all of this, HOW MUCH DOES IT COST??????????????? Report Abuse
How do I teach my bunny karate?
I feel that my baby bunny would have more confidence if she knew karate. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
HI-YA!|||Show him Karate Kid, repeatedly. It worked for my hamsters!|||Have your bunny train with kung-fu panda|||first off you should call it splinter... then you should dip it in green mutanageinic ooze... then take it to china. thats how you teach a bunny %26quot;kung foo.%26quot;|||i cracked up!
i cant imagine my little bunny boo doing karate!
i think chuck norris would teach him!|||Bruce. Lee. All day movie marathons.|||Great idea! I think Miss Piggy is teaching a class this summer.|||Check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9OXATfF...|||omg i am laughing so hard right now
i just looked over ay my bunny and cracked up|||What????!!!!! Bunnies don%26#039;t do karate|||THATS JUST WEIRD I DON%26#039;T THINK THAT BUNNYS KBOW HOW 2 DO KARATE.............................|||i don%26#039;t think that is possible, but maybe a training book can help you|||is that legal haha jk i would get one of those pros with bunnies buut i highly doubt u can HI-YA!|||chuck norris|||you serious?!|||lol..that would be cute!!
HI-YA!|||Show him Karate Kid, repeatedly. It worked for my hamsters!|||Have your bunny train with kung-fu panda|||first off you should call it splinter... then you should dip it in green mutanageinic ooze... then take it to china. thats how you teach a bunny %26quot;kung foo.%26quot;|||i cracked up!
i cant imagine my little bunny boo doing karate!
i think chuck norris would teach him!|||Bruce. Lee. All day movie marathons.|||Great idea! I think Miss Piggy is teaching a class this summer.|||Check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9OXATfF...|||omg i am laughing so hard right now
i just looked over ay my bunny and cracked up|||What????!!!!! Bunnies don%26#039;t do karate|||THATS JUST WEIRD I DON%26#039;T THINK THAT BUNNYS KBOW HOW 2 DO KARATE.............................|||i don%26#039;t think that is possible, but maybe a training book can help you|||is that legal haha jk i would get one of those pros with bunnies buut i highly doubt u can HI-YA!|||chuck norris|||you serious?!|||lol..that would be cute!!
Why are people saying that karate sucks and is a wussy style?
Hello, I%26#039;ve been doing karate of several years and enjoy it very much. But recently, I%26#039;ve read a lot of comments by various MMA fighters and other fighters claiming karate as a %26quot;useless style%26quot; or %26quot;wussy style%26quot;. I really don%26#039;t understand... Some of the comments claim that Karate%26#039;s rule of no head contact is stupid and is a %26quot;wussy rule%26quot;. Many believe that only martial arts that have knockouts will %26quot;work%26quot; and are far superior. Do people really think that martial %26quot;arts%26quot; is really about kicking each other%26#039;s ***? Or is it showing respect with each other without knocking teeth out?|||Because they know nothing of the art and its both passion and beauty. it has just as much to offer as any other art form does.
Karate is a wonderful art. After all isnt ALL Martial Arts without weapons the %26quot;Way of the EMPTY HAND%26quot;?|||This is where the closed minded people start to think their art is THE ONE. They have tunnel vision and don%26#039;t care to look at the other arts. Every martial art has something to offer and you won%26#039;t find many other people willing or maybe able to keep an open mind.
I%26#039;ve been in TKD for around 12 years. I%26#039;ve had people say that it doesn%26#039;t work or it%26#039;s useless in a street fight or no one in the UFC uses it.
All I can say is that they are all wrong. The UFC uses it and quite effectively. Just because many of the kicks are fancy and spin, doesn%26#039;t mean that all of the kicks are. TKD is known for having powerful kicks. A leg or a knee kick would stop many attackers.
My best advice to you is to ignore them. Think of them as grapplers. Grapplers think they are the best. I still think that JJ is one of the worst arts to know when it comes to street defense. I definitely wouldn%26#039;t want to go to the ground being attacked. That concrete looks hard. But, no matter what you say their blinders are on. Ears are closed. Their minds are like steel traps. Nothing gets in,nothing gets out.|||Karate rules and they know it!|||Some combination of ignorance %26amp; prejudice. Ignore them.|||MMA brought in a totally new mentality to the world of martial arts. Now, people who have never entered a school before are commenting on styles, apparently believing that the ultimate goal of all arts is to measure against other arts for the amusement of the public. Perhaps they would care to explain why some people still practice traditional zen archery. Most zen archers don%26#039;t carry their bow around to use in case of a street fight. (The sane ones don%26#039;t, anyway).
Also, they apparently don%26#039;t know the difference between a bar brawl, which you get into by choice, and a criminal assault, where your prime purpose should be survival if you have any brains.
MMA critics also ignore the reality of MMA as a sport. This means, first of all, that the athletes are professional and that they can dedicate their time to learning skills and develop conditioning full-time. Not so for your average martial artist who has an actual job and/or school, perhaps a family and other obligations. What makes sense for a full-time athlete does not necessarily make sense for your average practitoner. Furthermore, of course MMA is a sport, with rules. And of course these rules influence what works and what doesn%26#039;t.
Also, as an athletic pursuit, MMA favours the young. Some arts weren%26#039;t meant to be learned in two/three years. Most internal arts require at leat 10 years of commitment. This is not realistic for an athlete to train in, because he needs his skills to be fully functionnal while he/she is young and at peak condition. Just because those arts aren%26#039;t adapted to the reality of MMA, doesn%26#039;t make them useless.
But what bothers me the most about MMA is the way they market it. They are doing a big disservice to the martial arts and encouraging very bad attitudes about what it%26#039;s all about. Most of the fans are too youg and naive to realize this is all economics: They are selling an image that the fans buy into. But the attitude they%26#039;re putting forward is exactly the kind of attitude that attracts the wrong people to martial arts. Thankfull, these are precisely the people who can usually not stick it out because of their character (or lack thereof), but it%26#039;s the kind of publicity the arts don%26#039;t need.
So don%26#039;t worry about what they have to say. If you enjoy what you%26#039;re doing, keep enjoying it. If you don%26#039;t go looking for trouble, chances are it won%26#039;t go looking for you. And if you%26#039;re ever assaulted, that training will come in handy. I doubt your average mugger is that obsessed with developping his ground game.
That%26#039;s all I had to say about the traditional martial arts/MMA issue and I%26#039;m going to keep quiet about it in the future.
Cheers.|||Full contact karae (even if you cant hit to the head) is very tough and i doubt any of the people who talk bad of it have ever been in a full contact tournament. If you want to compete in mauy thai or kickboxing or MMA and you have done a full contact style you dont have far to go, however...
Non contact, and point sparing karae does not prepare you for fights, you have to learn how to take a punch as well as give one out and most karate styles do not prepare you for it but if they ever did a style like kyokushin they will change their mind, yeah you cant punch to the head but you are no wearing gloves either, in my opinion its just as tough only its a different style unique to karate
+ there is also a much deeper side to karate, although sometimes schools sway TOO much to the deeper side, soemtimes spending all class learning history and stuff, I think thats wussy, i mean karate was created to fight not to stand around the whole class doing practicaly nothing|||First of all your talking about competition. All competitions have rules, some more, some less. MMA competitions tend to be more full contact, with ground fighting. Most karate tournaments are point sparring. As far as that goes, point sparring is a game of tag, it%26#039;s not very realistic.
There is nothing wrong with karate as a martial art, when you start point sparring though, you make karate look like a game for children.|||As a former practicioner of Okinawa-te and Shotokan, a current MMA fighter and Muay Thai trained fighter, allow me to say: Karate is not a wussy style. It%26#039;s not my particular choice, though. I gave up on the Okinawan Karate styles I trained in younger years because Muay Thai is more efficient and does not load me down with kata or spinning, flying toekicks. What was said above about not all techniques are this way, you%26#039;re correct. Not all of them are. And I applaud traditional arts that delineate from forms and self-defense.
What I will not tolerate, on the other hand, are artists who cannot make that distinction and actually believe a spinning axe kick will a) land on it%26#039;s target, b) be useful in self-defense situation, and c) won%26#039;t get you into a world of hurt against an opponent. That is my main sticking point against any style, when they do not properly prepare students for switching between %26quot;forms%26quot; techniques (the acrobatic, flying, spinning, twisting, 360/720 XMA show maneuvers), and the self-defense, down-and-dirty, deadly techniques which will save your life.
MMA events, the very sports that Mixed Martial Artists fight in, were meant to show what techniques from what arts were the most efficient and effective. Yes, there are rules, but there are rules in class, rules in sparring, rules in the dojo, dojang, kwoon, ryu, gym, etc., and there are rules everywhere. No art can truly replicate a deadly, self defense encounter, but MMA (specifically Vale Tudo and UFC) were as close to a one-on-one street fight as you%26#039;d get at the time.
As apalling as the statement %26quot;karate is a wussy style%26quot; is, I find %26quot;MMA trained fighters are martial sportists, not true martial artists%26quot; just as apalling. Both sides of this arguement spew filth at one another and neither is getting anywhere. Frankly, I%26#039;m tired of having to defend myself as a martial artist. While I don%26#039;t train a %26quot;traditional%26quot; Japanese or Chinese artform, I am now and will always be a martial artist. I train Muay Thai and no-gi Grappling. Last time I checked, regardless of what event I fight in, Muay Thai is a martial art. Muay Chaiya, Muay Tha Sao, and Muay Thai are three Thai artforms, with Chaiya and Tha Sao being the last vestiges of Muay Boran, the collection of artforms that current Muay Thai are based on.
Like all other traditional artforms, I have learned discipline, history, culture, and have even learned about Buddhism as it applies to Thai culture and Muay Thai. I practice Ram Muay, which are like the kata that any Japanese art practices. I give honor in the ring with Wai Kru, bowing to those assembled, the four corners, and my instructor. I am a very calm person, I do not start fights, but I do know how to end them. I am like any other martial artist, except, I train in more than one art and I fight in MMA events.
Yes, UFC, PRIDE, any MMA event is a sport. But so are full-contact karate events. So are Tae Kwon Do events. Any form of competition is a sport, but the people who fight in them are artists. That%26#039;s why it pains me so much to hear the elitist view that anyone entering competitions, specifically MMA competitions, is a %26quot;martial sportist%26quot;. That is rubbish, an elitist epithet like %26quot;poor white trash%26quot;, or %26quot;trailer trash%26quot;. It is discriminatory, and I won%26#039;t put up with it.
I respect anyone willing to devote a portion of their life to a legitimate artform of any kind, from the fine arts to the martial arts and beyond.|||its like that with any art|||Karate is awesome. But I am going to be taking Tae Kwon do.
I believe that both are awesome.|||Yeah, wherever you read those comments, just stop reading it. People will talk a lot of crap for no reason.
I started Karate when i was 3. It%26#039;s saved my butt a couple times. Just because there%26#039;s no head contact in practice, doesn%26#039;t mean that you can%26#039;t kick their head in a real fight.
Just don%26#039;t listen to them. If you really enjoy it, stick with it. Personally, if i were you i would also find some BJJ instruction. Then you would be good on the ground, too.
But to each his own.
Martial Atrs is to teach you a way of life, anyway. Not just how to kick other peoples as%$%26#039;s.
You sound like you have the right attitude. Stick with it.
Star 2.|||Well, as you said, the people who are trashing Karate are the MMA and ultimate fighting people. As you know, Karate, aside from being a lifestyle and not just a fighting style, is very structured. There are Katas and techniques that are called for in many situations. If one knows Karate, one knows the Katas and the techniques, and their counters. It is a disciplined style, which can be it%26#039;s downfall in the eyes or the MMA types. When one fights MMA, one can draw on many different reactions to specific techniques and, when there are many different possibilities, counters are harder to throw. I prefer K-1 fighting to any of the others. Some MMA, %26quot;ultimate fighting and PRIDE fighting, are all out brawls. I prefer technique and finesse. Take Sanshou and the like. Unfortunately, fighters like Cung Le are going into MMA fighting, which, in my opinion, caters to the lowest common denominator.|||I totally agree!! I love karate and hate it that people call it gay and a sissy style. You%26#039;re completely right. It started out as an ART. It wasn%26#039;t about kicking **** and it still isn%26#039;t. Have a star.
x...Kootonii.|||i used to do a traditional style of karate and the reason i stopped had nothing to do with the sparring its cause i thought most of the blocks where not effective and because the foot work seemd poor compared to other things i dont think karate is %26quot;wussy%26quot; i could never get the hang of it personally i train in boxing now and freestyle karate (based on boxing, muay thai etc)|||well, in my martial arts, only in black belt sparring can we make contact to the face. junior belts can hit to the side of the head %26amp; the top of the head, but not the face.
oh yeah, i practice a korean style, tang soo do.|||Lots of MMA fighters say that kind of stuff because they have an emotional stigma on anything they do. If they liked finger painting (I bet some do) they would get on your case for using a brush, saying %26quot;You can%26#039;t get it exactly like you want it with a brush!%26quot;. It%26#039;s mostly pride in what they do and ego. But not all MMA fighters are so bad. I%26#039;m trying to be one for Pete%26#039;s sake!
Don%26#039;t think there is actually fact behind what they say. Just roll it off your shoulder, don%26#039;t take it to heart. As a BB in WTF TKD, i get a lot of crap from nobodies who think they know something cause they say a few fights on YouTube or because they%26#039;ve been doing there martial arts for some time.
The fact is every martial arts is effective if trained to the right person. If Steve Eurkel was a BB in BJJ, Maui tai, karate, TKD and Ninjitsu, I%26#039;m pretty sure I could still take him. unless he really really wanted to win. What I%26#039;m trying to say is.....
I%26#039;M CALLING YOU OUT EURKEL! It%26#039;s time!!!!!!!
You get my point. hopefully.|||people feel that karate has not earned its merits, i personally love the sport aspect of karate but i do enjoy full contact as well so i can see both sides. respect is not taught through a martial art, it is taught through society. I believe their is a certain insecurity in all martial artist, otherwise why would we want to be able to kill someone. i love beating the crap out of people and i also love moderated contact. to say one is better than the other is ignorant. Karate= control and speed MMA= power|||Everyone has put good answers. That%26#039;s all I can say. :p|||The Bruce Lee quote some karates are good but most sucks thats not his quote lol but this is....
%26quot;A man train in Wrestling and Boxing for 1 year could beat a man train in Karate for 12 years%26quot;--Bruce Lee|||Keep in mind that Karate is not defined by it%26#039;s tournaments. The tournaments and it%26#039;s rules have only developed over the past few decades. Even when Chuk Norris did it, there was contact... it was much closer to what MMA is than what some of the tournaments I%26#039;ve recently seen have been. I am a traditional karate practitioner, and I don%26#039;t particularly like the tournament format. I enjoy watching MMA, but am smart enough to understand that even this isn%26#039;t 100% realistic. I don%26#039;t think I%26#039;d want to watch realistic fights as entertainment. As a fan of MMA, I am so because of the entertainment value. But, I train in Karate for mind, body and spirit. (3 conflicts)|||because their gay and just tryin to look tought?
Karate is a wonderful art. After all isnt ALL Martial Arts without weapons the %26quot;Way of the EMPTY HAND%26quot;?|||This is where the closed minded people start to think their art is THE ONE. They have tunnel vision and don%26#039;t care to look at the other arts. Every martial art has something to offer and you won%26#039;t find many other people willing or maybe able to keep an open mind.
I%26#039;ve been in TKD for around 12 years. I%26#039;ve had people say that it doesn%26#039;t work or it%26#039;s useless in a street fight or no one in the UFC uses it.
All I can say is that they are all wrong. The UFC uses it and quite effectively. Just because many of the kicks are fancy and spin, doesn%26#039;t mean that all of the kicks are. TKD is known for having powerful kicks. A leg or a knee kick would stop many attackers.
My best advice to you is to ignore them. Think of them as grapplers. Grapplers think they are the best. I still think that JJ is one of the worst arts to know when it comes to street defense. I definitely wouldn%26#039;t want to go to the ground being attacked. That concrete looks hard. But, no matter what you say their blinders are on. Ears are closed. Their minds are like steel traps. Nothing gets in,nothing gets out.|||Karate rules and they know it!|||Some combination of ignorance %26amp; prejudice. Ignore them.|||MMA brought in a totally new mentality to the world of martial arts. Now, people who have never entered a school before are commenting on styles, apparently believing that the ultimate goal of all arts is to measure against other arts for the amusement of the public. Perhaps they would care to explain why some people still practice traditional zen archery. Most zen archers don%26#039;t carry their bow around to use in case of a street fight. (The sane ones don%26#039;t, anyway).
Also, they apparently don%26#039;t know the difference between a bar brawl, which you get into by choice, and a criminal assault, where your prime purpose should be survival if you have any brains.
MMA critics also ignore the reality of MMA as a sport. This means, first of all, that the athletes are professional and that they can dedicate their time to learning skills and develop conditioning full-time. Not so for your average martial artist who has an actual job and/or school, perhaps a family and other obligations. What makes sense for a full-time athlete does not necessarily make sense for your average practitoner. Furthermore, of course MMA is a sport, with rules. And of course these rules influence what works and what doesn%26#039;t.
Also, as an athletic pursuit, MMA favours the young. Some arts weren%26#039;t meant to be learned in two/three years. Most internal arts require at leat 10 years of commitment. This is not realistic for an athlete to train in, because he needs his skills to be fully functionnal while he/she is young and at peak condition. Just because those arts aren%26#039;t adapted to the reality of MMA, doesn%26#039;t make them useless.
But what bothers me the most about MMA is the way they market it. They are doing a big disservice to the martial arts and encouraging very bad attitudes about what it%26#039;s all about. Most of the fans are too youg and naive to realize this is all economics: They are selling an image that the fans buy into. But the attitude they%26#039;re putting forward is exactly the kind of attitude that attracts the wrong people to martial arts. Thankfull, these are precisely the people who can usually not stick it out because of their character (or lack thereof), but it%26#039;s the kind of publicity the arts don%26#039;t need.
So don%26#039;t worry about what they have to say. If you enjoy what you%26#039;re doing, keep enjoying it. If you don%26#039;t go looking for trouble, chances are it won%26#039;t go looking for you. And if you%26#039;re ever assaulted, that training will come in handy. I doubt your average mugger is that obsessed with developping his ground game.
That%26#039;s all I had to say about the traditional martial arts/MMA issue and I%26#039;m going to keep quiet about it in the future.
Cheers.|||Full contact karae (even if you cant hit to the head) is very tough and i doubt any of the people who talk bad of it have ever been in a full contact tournament. If you want to compete in mauy thai or kickboxing or MMA and you have done a full contact style you dont have far to go, however...
Non contact, and point sparing karae does not prepare you for fights, you have to learn how to take a punch as well as give one out and most karate styles do not prepare you for it but if they ever did a style like kyokushin they will change their mind, yeah you cant punch to the head but you are no wearing gloves either, in my opinion its just as tough only its a different style unique to karate
+ there is also a much deeper side to karate, although sometimes schools sway TOO much to the deeper side, soemtimes spending all class learning history and stuff, I think thats wussy, i mean karate was created to fight not to stand around the whole class doing practicaly nothing|||First of all your talking about competition. All competitions have rules, some more, some less. MMA competitions tend to be more full contact, with ground fighting. Most karate tournaments are point sparring. As far as that goes, point sparring is a game of tag, it%26#039;s not very realistic.
There is nothing wrong with karate as a martial art, when you start point sparring though, you make karate look like a game for children.|||As a former practicioner of Okinawa-te and Shotokan, a current MMA fighter and Muay Thai trained fighter, allow me to say: Karate is not a wussy style. It%26#039;s not my particular choice, though. I gave up on the Okinawan Karate styles I trained in younger years because Muay Thai is more efficient and does not load me down with kata or spinning, flying toekicks. What was said above about not all techniques are this way, you%26#039;re correct. Not all of them are. And I applaud traditional arts that delineate from forms and self-defense.
What I will not tolerate, on the other hand, are artists who cannot make that distinction and actually believe a spinning axe kick will a) land on it%26#039;s target, b) be useful in self-defense situation, and c) won%26#039;t get you into a world of hurt against an opponent. That is my main sticking point against any style, when they do not properly prepare students for switching between %26quot;forms%26quot; techniques (the acrobatic, flying, spinning, twisting, 360/720 XMA show maneuvers), and the self-defense, down-and-dirty, deadly techniques which will save your life.
MMA events, the very sports that Mixed Martial Artists fight in, were meant to show what techniques from what arts were the most efficient and effective. Yes, there are rules, but there are rules in class, rules in sparring, rules in the dojo, dojang, kwoon, ryu, gym, etc., and there are rules everywhere. No art can truly replicate a deadly, self defense encounter, but MMA (specifically Vale Tudo and UFC) were as close to a one-on-one street fight as you%26#039;d get at the time.
As apalling as the statement %26quot;karate is a wussy style%26quot; is, I find %26quot;MMA trained fighters are martial sportists, not true martial artists%26quot; just as apalling. Both sides of this arguement spew filth at one another and neither is getting anywhere. Frankly, I%26#039;m tired of having to defend myself as a martial artist. While I don%26#039;t train a %26quot;traditional%26quot; Japanese or Chinese artform, I am now and will always be a martial artist. I train Muay Thai and no-gi Grappling. Last time I checked, regardless of what event I fight in, Muay Thai is a martial art. Muay Chaiya, Muay Tha Sao, and Muay Thai are three Thai artforms, with Chaiya and Tha Sao being the last vestiges of Muay Boran, the collection of artforms that current Muay Thai are based on.
Like all other traditional artforms, I have learned discipline, history, culture, and have even learned about Buddhism as it applies to Thai culture and Muay Thai. I practice Ram Muay, which are like the kata that any Japanese art practices. I give honor in the ring with Wai Kru, bowing to those assembled, the four corners, and my instructor. I am a very calm person, I do not start fights, but I do know how to end them. I am like any other martial artist, except, I train in more than one art and I fight in MMA events.
Yes, UFC, PRIDE, any MMA event is a sport. But so are full-contact karate events. So are Tae Kwon Do events. Any form of competition is a sport, but the people who fight in them are artists. That%26#039;s why it pains me so much to hear the elitist view that anyone entering competitions, specifically MMA competitions, is a %26quot;martial sportist%26quot;. That is rubbish, an elitist epithet like %26quot;poor white trash%26quot;, or %26quot;trailer trash%26quot;. It is discriminatory, and I won%26#039;t put up with it.
I respect anyone willing to devote a portion of their life to a legitimate artform of any kind, from the fine arts to the martial arts and beyond.|||its like that with any art|||Karate is awesome. But I am going to be taking Tae Kwon do.
I believe that both are awesome.|||Yeah, wherever you read those comments, just stop reading it. People will talk a lot of crap for no reason.
I started Karate when i was 3. It%26#039;s saved my butt a couple times. Just because there%26#039;s no head contact in practice, doesn%26#039;t mean that you can%26#039;t kick their head in a real fight.
Just don%26#039;t listen to them. If you really enjoy it, stick with it. Personally, if i were you i would also find some BJJ instruction. Then you would be good on the ground, too.
But to each his own.
Martial Atrs is to teach you a way of life, anyway. Not just how to kick other peoples as%$%26#039;s.
You sound like you have the right attitude. Stick with it.
Star 2.|||Well, as you said, the people who are trashing Karate are the MMA and ultimate fighting people. As you know, Karate, aside from being a lifestyle and not just a fighting style, is very structured. There are Katas and techniques that are called for in many situations. If one knows Karate, one knows the Katas and the techniques, and their counters. It is a disciplined style, which can be it%26#039;s downfall in the eyes or the MMA types. When one fights MMA, one can draw on many different reactions to specific techniques and, when there are many different possibilities, counters are harder to throw. I prefer K-1 fighting to any of the others. Some MMA, %26quot;ultimate fighting and PRIDE fighting, are all out brawls. I prefer technique and finesse. Take Sanshou and the like. Unfortunately, fighters like Cung Le are going into MMA fighting, which, in my opinion, caters to the lowest common denominator.|||I totally agree!! I love karate and hate it that people call it gay and a sissy style. You%26#039;re completely right. It started out as an ART. It wasn%26#039;t about kicking **** and it still isn%26#039;t. Have a star.
x...Kootonii.|||i used to do a traditional style of karate and the reason i stopped had nothing to do with the sparring its cause i thought most of the blocks where not effective and because the foot work seemd poor compared to other things i dont think karate is %26quot;wussy%26quot; i could never get the hang of it personally i train in boxing now and freestyle karate (based on boxing, muay thai etc)|||well, in my martial arts, only in black belt sparring can we make contact to the face. junior belts can hit to the side of the head %26amp; the top of the head, but not the face.
oh yeah, i practice a korean style, tang soo do.|||Lots of MMA fighters say that kind of stuff because they have an emotional stigma on anything they do. If they liked finger painting (I bet some do) they would get on your case for using a brush, saying %26quot;You can%26#039;t get it exactly like you want it with a brush!%26quot;. It%26#039;s mostly pride in what they do and ego. But not all MMA fighters are so bad. I%26#039;m trying to be one for Pete%26#039;s sake!
Don%26#039;t think there is actually fact behind what they say. Just roll it off your shoulder, don%26#039;t take it to heart. As a BB in WTF TKD, i get a lot of crap from nobodies who think they know something cause they say a few fights on YouTube or because they%26#039;ve been doing there martial arts for some time.
The fact is every martial arts is effective if trained to the right person. If Steve Eurkel was a BB in BJJ, Maui tai, karate, TKD and Ninjitsu, I%26#039;m pretty sure I could still take him. unless he really really wanted to win. What I%26#039;m trying to say is.....
I%26#039;M CALLING YOU OUT EURKEL! It%26#039;s time!!!!!!!
You get my point. hopefully.|||people feel that karate has not earned its merits, i personally love the sport aspect of karate but i do enjoy full contact as well so i can see both sides. respect is not taught through a martial art, it is taught through society. I believe their is a certain insecurity in all martial artist, otherwise why would we want to be able to kill someone. i love beating the crap out of people and i also love moderated contact. to say one is better than the other is ignorant. Karate= control and speed MMA= power|||Everyone has put good answers. That%26#039;s all I can say. :p|||The Bruce Lee quote some karates are good but most sucks thats not his quote lol but this is....
%26quot;A man train in Wrestling and Boxing for 1 year could beat a man train in Karate for 12 years%26quot;--Bruce Lee|||Keep in mind that Karate is not defined by it%26#039;s tournaments. The tournaments and it%26#039;s rules have only developed over the past few decades. Even when Chuk Norris did it, there was contact... it was much closer to what MMA is than what some of the tournaments I%26#039;ve recently seen have been. I am a traditional karate practitioner, and I don%26#039;t particularly like the tournament format. I enjoy watching MMA, but am smart enough to understand that even this isn%26#039;t 100% realistic. I don%26#039;t think I%26#039;d want to watch realistic fights as entertainment. As a fan of MMA, I am so because of the entertainment value. But, I train in Karate for mind, body and spirit. (3 conflicts)|||because their gay and just tryin to look tought?
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