Karate or Practitioner?

[Thai Bri]

Originally posted by Tcell
I notice that a lot of people these days really don't rate Karate.
It may be with good reason.
But to dismiss an art entirely....
I dunno.When people like Gary Spiers,Geoff Thompson,Peter Consterdine,Terry O'neil to name a few all come from a Karate background & all have years of experience working doors in some 'harsh' places.
I think the Karate they learned can't have been that useless.
But then again maybe it's the 'men' & not the art.

BTW - I don't train in Karate.

Cheers Jez.

But all of these have openly stated that they have had to strongly adapt the Karate that they were taught.

[CHOKE UK]

Originally posted by JaredExtreme
Sadly most karate schools in the U.S. are McDojos. This doesn't mean that every single karate practioner sucks, but the ratio of good fighters per school is extremely low compared to other arts such as Muay Thai, BJJ, wrestling and boxing.

I'm sure that there's thousands of karate-ka's in the U.S. that could kick my ass, but I would be willing to wager that I could walk into any given karate school and defeat 70% of the students within.

You underestimate yourself !

People only get good at what they practice.

Karate people generally are not less able because of them selves,
but because of what they "dont practice".

So if you have a full contact match with most of them,
Except the ones who train in that way , you will get the better of them.