Which one is better? Karate, Taekwondo or KungFu??

Question

It would be interesting if people spare with others from different martial arts discipline....

Answer 1

I don't know Karate, but I know Karaaaaaaaaaaaazy

Answer 2

Any Martial Arts can be good for you. It really depends on the club. You are looking for a club that consent rates on form not just fighting / sparing / kumite. My advise is to go to some on the clubs and have a look. Learning should be fun. If the students are having a good time then this could be a good style to practice in.

To answer your Question - which is better? Unfortunately only you can decide what is better for you. Karate & Kung Fu teaches you a lot about defence. Taekwondo is a lot more attack. In terms of kicks and punches etc., Karate would be about 60 to 70% Punches / Strikes and Taekondo is about 60 / 70% Kicks.

I hope this helps? - Daniel Fenton - Senior Sensei of R-K-K Karate Do (Auckland, New Zealand)

Answer 3

Karate: LOL.
I think it's funny we get these questions. Karate is in fact, one or two styles of Kung Fu from the Fukien Province amalgamated with traditional Okinawan Te (a punching method) and Taekwondo is a specific form of Karate (Shotokan) brought to Korea before WWII by the Japanese Army and amalgamated with a Korean kicking system. So, to say one is better than another is like saying Green is better than Orange, or Red is better than Brown. Each teach a system of fighting. Some more complex, definitely, but complex isn't always better.

Answer 4

I think Karate is more directed toward self-defense. Taekwondo seems to be a lot of high kicks aimed at the head. Try that in a street fight and you're liable to be knocked on your kiester. Kung Fu has all that fluid open hand motion. I saw someone disciplined in Kung Fu in a tournament and when he punched he had to close his hand to make a fist anyway, so why bother with the flowery crap in the first place? To make a long story short, Karate is the most direct way and in my opinion, most effective of the martial arts to defeat an opponent.

Answer 5

i will say kungfu theres none of this aggressive shouting bullshit kiaaa crap plus you evade block and strike simultaneously you use every part of the body to attack and defend with its economic many techniques for different scenarios for example if your in the pub and someone pushes you it might not be a good idea to step into a stance and roundhouse kick that person when you can just do a lovely nice little pressure point strike to the neck and put him on his **** ive done karate for five years and personally i believe kungfu to be far superior in technique and movement etc as for taekwondo i admire their kicks but too me i think longrange kicking is impractical on the street and in a close range situation.

Answer 6

i think this is from bruce lee, sorry i cannot recall the exact;

no matter what style, a punch is still a punch, a kick is still a kick. humans only have 2 hands and 2 legs, the variation are negligible.

in another words the difference lies within the individual and how hard he trains.

those style you had mention belongs to standup and strike, after you have train in standup for few years, try take up some grappling arts as well while using the stand up art you learn as a base art.

Answer 7

Neither is better, both are valuable discplines that have much to offer the students. Both have their own strengths and weaknesses. And each person approaching them will form their own opinion based on their own character, preferences, and abilities.

As far as different disciplines sparring against each other, this does happen even outside the MMA and UFC environment. My associations sparring model is a multi-disciplinary one for all of our games, and there are still open tournaments around that are open to all disciplines.


Ken C
9th Dan HapMoosaKi-Do
8th Dan TaeKwon-Do
7th Dan YongChul-Do

Answer 8

karate is japanese actually okinawan to be exact which is a blend of the native okinawan fighting system with influences from kung fu. there are many types of karate such as kyokushinkai, goju ryu, isshin ryu, shotokan etc...its primarily a striking arts but some place add grappling and joint locks to it. striking is taught pretty evenly: 50%kicks 50%punches.

taekwondo is a korean art its an olympic sport and its teaches mainly strikes....once again some places may teach grappling. the strikes(at least in the olympic sport) arent devided evenly its focuses more on kicks and flashy kicks at that. not sure exactly but in point sparring you get like 1 point for punches 2 for kicks to the head 3 for a jumping kick and 100pts for a chuck norris 1080 death roundhouse tornado kick. needless to say the olympic sport makes people in general frown on tkd, though i think if trained PROPERLY it could be a good art for self defense.

kung fu is a very general term is pretty much means martial arts from china. it covers many types of martial arts, theres performance style with alot of flips and fancy kicks like monkey kung fu, drunken boxing etc...theres soft and more spiritual arts like tai chi, theres sparring arts like sanshou(chinese kickboxing), and self defense oriented arts like wing chun. theres like hundreds of kung fus

pretty much any of these styles COULD be good it depends on the person using it, and how practically they trained

if you were stating if would be interesting to see different styles spar against each other then thats what the 1st few UFC were now people much all people cross train. however if you are looking only into striking arts many different styles clash in

K1
http://www.k-1usa.net/

and Chuck Norris' World Combat League
http://www.worldcombatleague.com/
my 1st thai boxing coach fights for it, and my present day sparring partner has a fight in it on the 19th

Answer 9

IMO, TKD or Karate. I have seen tourneys with all three represented and almost every kung fu practitioner was beat by TKD/Karate. I mean beat - either ko or vastly superior in points. When TKD and Karate met in the ring, it was almost split (if I remember correctly, at one tourney, TKD won one more match but otherwise split). In fact, the last tourney I saw, the only matches kung fu were against kung fu.

There are exceptions to every rule, though, and I understand this concept. Just giving my opinion based on what I have seen.

Answer 10

People do in open tournaments where any style can fight under a set of standardized rules. This is especially true on the NASKA (North American Sport Karate Association) circuit and in national competition there are separate forms divisions at the adult black-belt level but all styles fight under a set of rules in a division based on age and weight.

Answer 11

It relies upon on what you're into and what your desires are. in case you like something that could artwork nicely in a highway combat then i'd discover a solid American karate college heavily based around self-protection. there are a number of grappling type concepts in this way that are available reachable in a highway combat. in case you is finding for velocity and something it incredibly is greater of an artwork then i'd bypass with kungfu. the excellent of each and every of the kungfu types is shaolin Gung Fu. Shaolin Gung Fu is extremely subtle and heavily progressed. i does not bypass kungfu till its shaolin Gung Fu. With Shaolin Gun fu however there's a great religious / non secular area too it and it takes years upon years to grow to be a grasp in the this way. some practioners spend 10 years reading Shaolin Gung Fu and don't even receive the rank of grasp. Plus, many Shaolin Gung Fu Masters are Shaolin priests. Taekwondo is solid for people who're searching for a struggling with artwork that has lots ability and velocity in its punches and kicks. Its been scientifically shown that taekwondo is in the suitable 3 of all martail arts for ability and velocity. a great form of martial arts, like a number of the karate and kickboxing types, are stealing lots of the kicks from taekwondo and are incorporating them into their types. additionally, even however taekwondo isn't the excellent for protecting one's self in a highway combat you are able to definitly use it for that in case you study sufficient of it. you should artwork annoying at acquiring an extremly intense rank, 3 degree blackbelt or bigger, in this in case you desire to apply it for self-protection. undergo in strategies additionally approximately a lot of those arts, you wil would desire to receive a rank of 1st degree blackbelt or bigger in case you desire to open up a studio and prepare. understanding all that its incredibly as much as you which of them martial artwork's type you %.