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Is Karate being a good self defence a myth ?

I am looking for a good self defence for my children but i notice that those hard men in Ultimate Fighting do not use any Karate .

Thumbs up for David N, Kajukenbo, Bushido, Rob B, and Zenlife. As for the majority of the other answers all I can say is if you have never trained it, don’t knock it. I lose IQ points from reading answers such as yours.

I feel qualified to talk about karate after having trained it for almost 19 years.

Fact 1- There are people who’s base style is in karate in the UFC. Chuck Liddel- Kenpo, GSP- Kyokoshin. However there are a variety of reasons why it is not more reperesented:

1) Many who take karate have no interest in competing. Ever think of that?

2) Most Americans now days have an “I want it now” attitude, and don’t want to train karate because it does take a long time to get past the basics.

3) The goal of someone training for the UFC is to get them up to speed as fast as possible, and by it’s very nature and the way it is taught, karate is not going to do that.

4) The UFC is a sport that is played under a certian ruleset. You cannot judge what works and doesn’t on the street by it alone. How many times are you going to be attacked by a man wearing shorts, no shirt, a mouthpeice, and gloves? How many UFC fighters would hurt themselves becasue they don’t know what contact is like wothout their wrists taped and their gloves on.

5) How many UFC fighters would know what to do if they were attacked by somebody with a knife? Most tarditional Okinawin schools train regurly for weapons defense.(Knife, bat, etc.)

Fact 2- There are many variations of karate. Yes some are trained more as sports, but most of these are the Japanese styles and many are hybred styles that were put together to make money by people who barely knew the basics. Okinawin karate has never been about anything but self defense. Here is an example of some Okinawin karate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WzS_lyHrA0

This one shows that despite what gdrolfe thinks, karate is not simple whatsoever. It starts out with sound basic motion, but as you get more experienced, the movments get faster, stronger, and more in depth. i know gentlemen that have studied karate for over 30 years that are still learning new variations and better ways to do things from the simplist motions. Make sure you watch this one all the way through.

Karate is designed to be learned in stages, with many of the more advanced motions being with held for a couple of reasons:

1) It gives the Senei a chance to gauge your charicter, and figure out if you are going to use it for the wrong reasons, before you are shown anything of real consiquence. How many MMA and Mauy Thai schools can say that?

2) Karate is designed to give you self defense, but it also meant to improve every facet of your life, through the hard training and discipline. No shortcuts in karate.

3) By moving slowly and building a good foundation, anything you do after that will be grounded in good basics.

The main goal of karate, strange as it sounds is not to fight. Part of the self defense aspect is building the confidence in yourself so that you do not have to protect your ego by street fighting. The main focus of what we train is not to “win” a fight, it is to defend ourselves if we are attacked, and do what is necessary to get out of the situation, and survive. Street fighting is not self defense.

I am not slamming Muay Thai, BJJ, Judo, MMA, or any other styles. I ahve a lot of respect for anyone that truly trains the martial arts, because to be good at any of them takes hard work, discipline, and dedication. I can garuntee you though that many who answered this question have never trained a day in tehir life, except to pop the top on another cold one and sit in their recliner watching the UFC.

I myself like watching the UFC, but I understand that it is a sport conducted under set rules and conditions, and in real self defense, those will not be there.

I also feel that depending on their ages, the best starting point for your children is probably Judo or Japanese Ju Jitsu. This will let them get up to speed on their self defense quicker, and also provide them with a way to subdue another of their age without too much damage. Karate does contain locks, chokes and throws, but it generally takes far longer to get to these in karate then it does in Judo or Ju Jitsu.

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