Question by Just Me.: Is Karate a good martial art to train for to win fights in real life?
Is it good againts non experianced fighters on the streets? Theres all these people saying learn Karate to win fights on the streets, I know the competetitions and belts are a bit hickaldy pickaldy, but when it comes to the streets, is it good to know some Karate?
Best answer:
Answer by Tony Lam
It does help, Karate is extremely popular, i mean if it didn’t help then why do people do it? There are lot’s of other ones too.
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I beg to disagree with the first 2 posters.
1) Karate is taken by someone not because of effectiveness on the street or it is popular. The reason could be way beyond that, i.e. self discipline, personal achievement, etc…
2) Buy a gun? If you shot someone, probability of that person ending up dead is high, you go to jail or pay the medical bill for life of that person who got in a comma. If you use your Karate skills and you’re skilled and THINKING, you only end up beating the guy with bruises, not dead. Statistically speaking, the odds are low that you kill a person with a single punch, unless you have the intent, or you are the reincarnation of Mas Oyama.
To the asker, if you have the dedication and time, take karate. It’s not something you learn just to use for street fighting. If that is your main purpose, take MMA instead, or boxing/kick boxing.
Yes. If you dedicate yourself to the Art then yes it will help. However, I am going to tell you from personal experience that any man can be beaten by any other man under the right conditions. No one is invincible.
Some karateka can be good at competition fighting as well as street fighting, but very few. After a few years of training, the sensi should ask his pupil which he wants to be and subsequent training will be adjusted accordingly. Forget about learning “some karate”. It is a long-term discipline, not a magic formula. One needs to develop what is often called a “karate body”.
yes it’s good to know. Karate offers great answers for self defense situations. It’s also good for competition for example look at Lyoto Machida in the UFC, he’s applied his Karate training very well when it comes to his stand up fighting. It must have been working because he was undefeated for a pretty long time. So overall Karate is great for both self defense and sport.
There are different types of karate. Those for fighting and those for self improvement. Jutsu vs. Do. It also depends on the instructor’s focus. You can’t teach children debilitating techniques and some people are not that interested in actual fighting. All martial arts are beneficial but there needs to be a focus. The focus defines the teaching of the style. Not all karate is good for fighting because some don’t focus on it. Self defense is just political correctness since you are either in a fight or you are not. Still not easy to define what I mean but most karate schools just teach techniques with out fully addressing what may actually happening. Even so karate is good exercise and can definitely be used to fight effectively but does the teacher’s imparting of the style give you what you want? If you want to fight traditional karate-do most likely won’t be for you no matter what people say. Karate jutsu is more geared for fighting. I have seen great karate fighters and I have also seen practitioners who do karate and were in great shape but don’t fight. All things take time and effort. To know just some karate won’t help you because just what is some karate? Find the focus and then put in the time and effort.
Being proficient in any martial art will put you ahead of the majority of inexperienced people who think they can fight because they watch it on tv.
Karate in itself is a great art. But whether your (or anybody else’s) karate skills can be used “on the street” is not a given. It depends a lot on the quality and focus of instruction you receive, the mindset you train with, and basically how hard you train. Put simply: yes, training in karate could give you an advantage. But how big of an advantage – and whether you can apply it at all – in a real-life confrontation depends entirely on yourself.
if you want to defend yourself for real, assume that a technique must work against a boxer, a thai boxer, or a cage fighter. Karate can get you there, but it takes way too long. Go in for krav maga, jeet kune do, muay thai, escrima, or BJJ
It can if you can tell the difference between a good fighter and a good martial artist. They are not necessarily the same thing.
It has served me well the few times I have had to use it. There are many styles of karate, but as long as it is taught in a traditional manor and in a realistic way, yes they are all good for self defense. Awareness and avoidance are the best options, after that your mouth and legs are the next best choices, as in talk your way out of it or RUN. Actual physical violence should always be your last resort.
Karate was actually listed as the second most effective MA in real-life situations after judo
1) is it good against non-experienced fighters?
any martial art is good against non-experienced fighters brother
buuutt with Karate, you can choose one of these options:
a) crush their windpipe
b) break their arm
c) kick their legs out from underneath then
d) NUT SHOT!!!
well the choices are endless
b) is karate good for the streets?
NO
im sorry but no
if you were to be in a street fight, your opponent would be FURIOUS at you and charging.
you can land an effective hit but the adrenaline in their body may prevent them from feeling it.
then they might take you down as you can see in many street fight videos.
THEREFORE: i think you should learn MMA
WHY?: because that is what the U.S. Marines learn and i think the american government already thought out the most effective street fight already no?
hope this helped and if i made an error then please understand
Yes karate is a good martial to train for self defense.
It is good against inexperienced fighters as well as experienced fighters.
How ell it works depends on a variety of factors.
You need a good instructor to teach you
You need to have the ability to be taught or be a willing student desiring to learn
You have to have the ability to apply what you have been taught
I’ve seen some that have begun learning martial arts think they are great, but when under pressure they forgot everything they were taught and just fought uncontrolled.
i have also seen some with as little as 3 months training under pressure rely on their limited martial arts skills to end the threat quickly with a spinning hook kick or a reverse punch.
My son when he was only 7 ended a threat with just a strong chest block that hurt the attackers arm that was trying to hit my son. The kid jumped out from behind a door to attack my son. This kid had been trying to fight my son for weeks but my son refused to fight him. He didn’t want to get into trouble. He knew I had taught him to walk away. But when this kid surprised him he hurt the kid.
Another time with my son some kid was bothering him. My son would fight again not wanted to get suspended or in trouble at home. This kid tried to hit him. That angered my by. He grabbed the guy as he tried to punch and slammed against the fence and pinned him there. He was about to hurt the kid but he thought about how he would get in trouble and walked away. The kid still wanted to fight, He started some more trouble in the class. The teacher wasn’t paying any attention even though the other students told her that this kid was trying to fight my son. My son couldn’t take it anymore. He threw the kid onto the desk and went to work on him until they pulled him off. This teacher almost lost her job because of this. We learned that when the children told her that this boy was trying to fight my son she said just let them fight. It wasn’t until later that she realized it was my son that she started to try to break it up. She knew that he was training in martial arts. She was also training in martial arts (tkd). She and my son had done a demonstration together for the school. He broke some boards and had to throw me after I tried to punch him. I was well over 200 pounds at the time.
I can tell you of many other accounts that I personally experience or that some of my students experienced. I’ve taken knives, chairs, etc. I’ve had female teenagers attacked by adult men some with multiple attacker and my teenagers left those guys laying. Some of the guys ended up in the hospital and later jail. I had one student that had only taken one class at the time. A guy about 4 or 5 years older tried to touch her inappropriately. She asked him to stop twice. The 3rd time he tried she used just one of the techniques that I had just taught her that week. She dropped hi like a bad habit. Once he recovered he went and told his parents that she had kicked him. But he didn’t tell the whole story. Once the story came out he got in more trouble. He has never bothered her again. Her mother is one of my co-workers. That was her 1st and only fight. That was about 4 years ago.
Most people will not have the experience to defend themselves like her after one class. She was an exception to the rule. I had told her mother after that class that she was going to be very good. She has a fighters spirit and that she was very teachable. I was surprised to see her in my class.I had no idea that they were coming or that she was interested in martial arts.
Every fight is risky. Being trained in karate or any other martial arts will give you a better chance of survival. Any trained fighter has a better chance of surviving. There is a big difference in winning a trophy or winning in the cage versus what happens on the streets, bars, and schoolyards. In the streets your life could depend on your ability to know how to survive. In the ring or on the mat you fight under rules. When it is over you shake hands and hopefully learn something from it.
dude, karate is bullshit. out of nearly every kata you learn, 9 times outta 10 you wont even use 95% of the kata you’ve learned. So wats the point? i suggest go for self defence kinda stuff like kung fu (i.e. wing chun) or muay thai. These styles are far realistic than these karata shit.
no