Karate revisited

[Thai Bri]

Sparring is worse. You are learning at the wrong distance for a real fight and, to make matters worse, by pulling your blows you also get the balance and timing wrong.

Great training that, spoiling your balance, distance and timing.

Durrrrrrrrr........

[wardancer]

Originally Posted by Thai Bri

Sparring is worse. You are learning at the wrong distance for a real fight and, to make matters worse, by pulling your blows you also get the balance and timing wrong.

Great training that, spoiling your balance, distance and timing.

Durrrrrrrrr........

Hum, you got me all confused!
You do not spar?
Waht happen to the soccer ball theory?

[wardancer]

Originally Posted by Thai Bri

That is 100% NOT true. Any semi able bodied human can fight. Fighting arts are about increasing the effectiveness of the moves the body performs.

Teaching a kid that static robotic nonsense will send his fighting potential spiralling backwards. Like in the (in my view) classic "Self Defence" by Sydney Hoare: "if you end up fighting a trained Karate or Kung Fu man, lots of their punches are trained against thin air. Just wade in hard and fast, you may well find them to be Paper Tigers".

Karate is full of compliance and robotic crap. Real fights aren't.

Your only argument is based that karate is only punching the air and katas.
It is not true.
It is like saying shadow boxing is Thai Box!
Pretty silly?