Can Karate be effective?

[Ascended]

karate can easliy be effcetive. I have been training in shorin-ryu karate for about 3 years and have had to use it in a street fight before and it was highly effective.

Exactly what are you referring to when you say 'street fight', because Karate isn't exactly the best art to use in an alley with three potentially armed assailants around you.

And by the way, the guys you fought... knew nothing. However, I'm assuming you took on a single aggressor. If, by chance, he attacked you with a knife, or any other weapon, chances are, he did not know how to use it.

[Ascended]

Which style are you referring to? If I'm not mistaken, there are hundreds. My instructor holds rank in at least fifteen.

In any case, every art is effective - depending on who your opponent(s) is/are, what art they study, and the length and quality of their instruction and training. Every style has something to offer - some more than others.

In my experience, Karate is a poor art to fight with against Aikido, and most are poor to fight with against JKD.

[Tom Yum]

Blitz i have fought with mai thai kickboxing people before and have won easily. and have only taking two or three leg kicks.

How strong were their mai tais?

I'm just teasing, man.

[missionaryman12]

Like i said before, ANY martial art can be effective if you train in the right way, and you work hard enough. Haven't you heard of Mas Oyama? If you have, I think he has done enough damage using Karate, that shows that Karate can be effective. However, as you said you used it in a street fight, martial arts also gives you confidence which plays a key role in fights. Maybe if you fought a guy from a different martial arts like boxing/thai whatever, you would get beaten up badly, remember on the street you are most probably facing an inexperienced fighter so you have the advantage no matter what you take.

Blitz i have fought with mai thai kickboxing people before and have won easily. and have only taking two or three leg kicks.

[blitz]

Like i said before, ANY martial art can be effective if you train in the right way, and you work hard enough. Haven't you heard of Mas Oyama? If you have, I think he has done enough damage using Karate, that shows that Karate can be effective. However, as you said you used it in a street fight, martial arts also gives you confidence which plays a key role in fights. Maybe if you fought a guy from a different martial arts like boxing/thai whatever, you would get beaten up badly, remember on the street you are most probably facing an inexperienced fighter so you have the advantage no matter what you take.

[missionaryman12]

karate can easliy be effcetive. I have been training in shorin-ryu karate for about 3 years and have had to use it in a street fight before and it was highly effective.

[jubaji]

Hey jubaji, it's been a while

................................................
Hey!

[KotoRyu]

Help yourself, shitbag.

Hey jubaji, it's been a while

[LoneHusky]

Two words Danny Bonaduce

[Uke]

I think that the biggest prank okinawans ever played on america is our versions of karate. it all became about money, and has become watered down. Most of you who post on this site, including myself, would probably not be able to handle old fashioned karate training. Karate was invented to defend ones self and family, so yes karate itself can be very effective. As for watered down American versions of the art, no they can't.

So, do Okinawans still train in the non-pranked version of karate? If so, that becomes a very interesting point because Americans defeat Okinawans and Japanese regularly. Is it that our(Americans) "pranked" version of karate evolved to a form capable of defeating the "authentic" style? Or could it just simply be that the majority of americans are not fanatical about their training the way that much of the Okinawan/Japanese culture is about theirs, but the exceptions in America reach that upper level as well and win?

[jubaji]

wow...that was so clever. please sir, can i have more of your infinite wisdom?

Help yourself, shitbag.

[matsushorinryu]

Speak for yourself, bitch.

wow...that was so clever. please sir, can i have more of your infinite wisdom?

[shaolin-warrior]

The system
was brought back to the United States following the
Korean War by a man named Ray Flowers.It incorporates techniques from a wide variety of martial arts
including aikido, judo, hapkido, kobudo, kyushojutsu,
tuitejutsu,jeet kune do, win chun, and of course all styles
of karate and jujutsy. In short, if a technique is effective it
is worth learning, regardless of its origins. pretty progressive in thought....where do i sign up?

[Tai Chi Fighter]

Eugueu Ryu

Has anyone ever heard of the Eugue Ryu style of Karate. If so tell me what you think.

[Uke]

The fact that there even has to be a conversation about karate being effective would make the old okinawan masters roll over in their graves. If you want the truth, probably 95% of "martial arts" taught in america are useless on the street no matter what the style or how much "sparring" you do. We have sold out masters like Fusei Kise to thank for the commercialization of the art. I think that the biggest prank okinawans ever played on america is our versions of karate. it all became about money, and has become watered down. Most of you who post on this site, including myself, would probably not be able to handle old fashioned karate training. Karate was invented to defend ones self and family, so yes karate itself can be very effective. As for watered down American versions of the art, no they can't. Most american schools that teach the absolute traditional way don't have many students if any, and end up praticing in basements, not big fancy dojos because americans are lazy. we want to see results fast...we don't want to work for what we get, hence the implementation of a colored belt system as opposed to just white and black.

Peter Urban learned all of his arts in Japan and Okinawa. He was a very learned, intelligent man who dedicated his life to martial arts. Some of my brothers in Goju are fantastic fighters, and have beaten many of the Okinawan fighters. In NY Goju is alive and well.

But I do agree with you about the McDojos though.