(March 31, 2014 at 7:10 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote:I should perhaps have said I meant for 'real fights' and not competition fighting. That's what the OP was talking about.Quote:In comparison to Krav Maga, old school martial arts like Karate are almost a joke. I fought a guy once who was supposedly very good at karate, and he tried his moves on me. It was more or less completely ineffective. I'm not going to say I 'won' the fight (nobody ever does, really) but I'm not the one to had to have stitches in the back of my head.
Horses for courses. Karate is essentially a sport, whereas things like KM are designed for pragmatic use. Bit like comparing an off road vehicle with a city car. Both do well in their own area. I wouldn't describe Karate as a joke, its just a different type of system. Depends what you're after.
Likewise MMA. Not really better, just different.
Quote:As for pissed off accountant I simply tell him to calm down and he will sense my domination and shut up.
Wow. And you said that describing techniques has no value. This is self defence gold! You should totally write a book.
If I was to go up against a good Karate fighter with my non-existent karate skills in a karate match with karate rules, I would get my ass kicked, obviously.
But if you watch some MMA you quickly see that using just karate in the cage would end your career before it even started. There is in fact only one world class MMA fighter that I know of who calls himself a karate fighter: Lyoto Machida. But he happens to be very good at BJJ as well.
