hard and soft?

Question

the 1st place i have ever herd about hard and soft arts is in answers, so what are they? Is a hard art blocks and strating? Is a soft art ducking, dogging, grappling, and using presher points?

many people say that judo is a soft style. Judo is "the gental way".

Tae Kwon Do is a hard style.

Answer 1

Hard style- Describes an art that uses force against force. Using blocks, punches, kicks, etc…
Example:Muay Thai

Soft style- Describes an art that uses aggressor's force and momentum against them.
Example: Aikido

most styles have a mix of the two for example muay thai a person may parry and attack instead of blocking it. this is a type of "soft" technique

judo derives from jujutsu which shares the same root word meaning softness, gentleness, etc..judo uses leverage and momentum to overcome an opponent. judo's throws arent about brute strength but leverage and redirecting the person's momentum and center of gravity, therefore classified as a soft art

http://majorsmartialarts.com/terms.html

Answer 2

Hard and Soft are catergorys people assign to some martial arts. The best way to describ it would be some examples, Muay Thai would go into the hard style because of its training and full contact matches, so would BJJ or Judo,

Tai Chi or Aikido would go into the soft style, Some Kung Fu will also be considered soft by some people, its all a metter of personal opinion, some people may only put Tai Chi in the soft category as it is a internal art

Answer 3

TKD is a hard style in that it is more direct and uses interruption rather than redirection as in Akedo, or Jodo.
In TKD every block is a break or an attempt to disable the arm or leg attacking you.
Boxing is a hard art because it is more direct and linear,as opposed to Wing Chun which is more circular and uses a lot of redirection of the opponents energy.
That is the short answer.

Answer 4

Using hard and soft to describe certain types of martial arts is ignorance that started with the westerners.

I teach Okinawan Goju Ryu, a style that most people say is hard and I can tell you that this is a huge misconception.

Shorin Ryu is another one categorized as "hard". People who use these terms do not have a true understanding of martial arts.

Hung Gar is also misnamed "hard" because it is compared to Tai Chi. The only difference is that one is external and the other internal. And there are also different factors in this argument.

So don't pay any mind to that nonsense. It does not have any bearing on anything.

Answer 5

i very much dislike the terms "soft" and "hard" arts, because no art can be completely described in one word, and also there are soft and hard aspects to every art. even soft arts have strikes, and even hard arts have joint locks.
however, some people feel the need to explain everything and classify everything as well. so yes, that is essentially what they mean when they say that.
why can't they just call the art what it is, instead of classifying it? it doesn't make any sense to me. what's the point of saying something is "soft" or "hard"? it just limits the art, and makes people never try a certain art because they think it will be too much of this or not enough of that.
every art has soft techniques and every art has hard techniques.

Answer 6

Soft arts usually reffers to the internal arts, like Tai Chi or Chi Gung, something with Chi that uses slow, waving movements, like water.
Hard arts are usually like Karate, Kung Fu, Kenpo, anything that focusses a lot on the movements, snapping kicks, striking, and working on the physical movements.
It's the internal arts vs the physical arts.
Soft and hard.

Answer 7

Hard styles are those that stress power and usually favor closed handed punching, striking, and blocking. Japanese and Okinawan styles fall into this category. Soft styles tend to favor speed over power and open handed techniques like an open palm strike and open handed blocking and trapping type techniques. Chinese styles like Kung Fu or Wushu fall into this category and are also your Kung Fu styles are referred to as Internalist which you might also hear from time to time. They tend to favor open handed because they feel that it is faster, allowing the person to attain greater power through the speed with which they can do a technique. Some of their thoughts and approaches to "Chi" as they call it, or internal energy differ from the Japanese/Okinawan approach which they call "Ki".

Answer 8

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