is it an ok idea to have a slightly customized karate style?

[prodigy]

is it an ok idea for me to have my own kinda style?

[Maximicus]

Well, You darn well better!!! You REALLY should use the things you know or do best, and avoid (or practise) the things you don't. No one should try to do EXACTLY the same stuff as anyone else!:D

[prodigy]

before i fight i "power up" as i like to call it.

[47Ronin]

Haha, power up? To many cartoons man.

[Maximicus]

Yes me too, I always go super sayan before I save the universe from evil.:D

[47Ronin]

man, I wish I watched dragons balls!!! :D

[kempocos]

trunks you are 14 years old before you get your own style train in a dojo until you are at least 20 the see how you feel.

[Maximicus]

Yes, you should train in an established style until you feel comfortable enough to mess with it. But when you practise a style you automaticaly pick up and discard what you like/dislike/need time with.

[KenpoDavid]

it depends on what you mean. If you have trained and achieved proficiency in a style, and as you do that you slowly learn to adapt and tailor the techniques of that style to your body and mind - then you have your own style and that is the way it should be.

But, if you have watched some people do different styles in moveis and TV shows and copied some of it by playing in your back yard... that's not at all the same thing. As shakespeare might have said "Get thee to a dojo!" You clearly have the drive and interest so go get some training and show the world how hard you can work at improving yourself.

[prodigy]

alright i know. but when the time comes and i am great at karate i can alter it.
what i really meant was that is it an ok idea to fight using karate but a 3rd of the moves and combinations are from MY head and are probably in some other martial art that i don't know about.

[Tosh]

Originally posted by kempocos
trunks you are 14 years old before you get your own style train in a dojo until you are at least 20 the see how you feel.


Brillaint! at least ....20 bet that one makes a few members feel old!

Whadya mean I'm for the knackers yard! I'm so young!!! Noo....:(

[cockney]

As we are all different in our bodies then it is inevitable that we develope our own style, if a student can't perform a technique in a text book manner then that should not exclude them from studying a style, as martial arts were derived from a melting pot of ideas and the best parts taken to suit the founder. This is a true story. I had a guy at my house fitting new wimdows he saw my coolection of karate books and we got talking, turned out he was a high grade in shotokan as well, he bragged a lot which was making me sick but still I listened he had been doing kumite with another black belt who was new to the club during the fight the other guy punched gyaku zuki and over reached to which my guy having avoided the punch grabed his shoulder and pulled him off balence to the floor, he complianed that he had not used a SHOTOKAN technique. For me if it works use it. After all most golfers have different swings but thaey all play golf.

[kempocos]

Originally posted by kempocos
trunks you are 14 years old before you get your own style train in a dojo until you are at least 20 the see how you feel.
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Brillaint! at least ....20 bet that one makes a few members feel old!

Whadya mean I'm for the knackers yard! I'm so young!!! Noo....


Hey I am 43 , my point was after several years of training he will find that learning to apply your art is making your own style from it. A mistake many make is they know the moves, kata yet do not know how to apply it.

They say knowledge is power, NO application of knowledge is power.

[Killerbee]

before i fight i "power up" as i like to call it.

What if I kick you i the nuts while you power up?

[prodigy]

well actually, i was sorta joking, since my name and avatar are from dragon ball z and all. but do you guys think that making blood flow to arms and rest of body before a match is a good idea to get pumped?

[Killerbee]

Yeah, thats what warming up does.

[prodigy]

What I meant was flexing/tensing up the nuscles in a serious manor. like when you flex your bicep to your best to show someone, but almost everywhere.

[47Ronin]

It may look good for play fighting but it wont do crap.

AND to your original query- NO, you can't have a customized "Karate" style unless you study an actual Karate style!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hakko-Ryu]

eh??????? it sounds like you're trying to 'power up' dragon ball style....like what goku does???? if you try really hard maybe your hair will start to turn yellow a little...but wait...that takes 190739017040 level of power to reach super SS! long way to go there trunks...what about just sticking to reality and learning from what your instructors tell you...i'd trust them over a super saiyan any day ;)

[prodigy]

agian with the dragon ball z crap!
dm't!
............AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
just a question, just a coincidence.
.....not that i am a dragon ball z freak, just a coincidence that i know, but goku turns ss at 1,800,000 and trunks at only 1,000,000. not that anyone cares.

[Cain]

is it an ok idea to have a slightly customized karate style?

How can you have a *slightly customised* karate style without first knowing what a karate style is like? ;)

|Cain|

[prodigy]

who says i don't?

[Cain]

I assume you are thinking of creating your own style.

Ok for starters, you say you know a karate style which is'nt mentioned in your profile, plus you are 14 to which I would suggest waiting for a few years and become proficient in whatever style you are currently studying [hopefully from an instructor ;)]

Also why create your own style unless it's for profit purposes? ;)

However ....

what i really meant was that is it an ok idea to fight using karate but a 3rd of the moves and combinations are from MY head

First learn the combinations you are already being taught, get a feel of how they are and then you could probably swap a thing or two in sparring or shadowboxing.

Mind you though I am assuming you are already practising in a dojo, if not well.....get yourself to one ;)

|Cain|

[Maximicus]

Trunks, I'm really not trying to be an a-hole and rag on you, I'm not. You just need to learn alot from a dojo before you can do any martial art the RIGHT way. It's probbably posible to learn a style from books/internet/videos alone, but EXTREMELY difficult as they can only show a 2d picture of 3d motion, and can't poitn out what YOU need to work on or answer questions.

and to go with the topic: learn something, make it suit YOU. At first you bust bend yourself to the "KARATE" of your choice, THEN you can bend the "Karate" to however you prefer. Before you can create a style you must be proficient in an already proven style. Long ago, people didn't need to train in a style before making there own since they would fight for there lives all the time. That way whoever is alive automaticaly has a "working" style. One of the hardest things to take in in MA is that the "pretty" stuff usually doesn't work ant the downright butt-ugly stuff does.

[sasori_te]

Hi , this is my first post here but I thought I might ad my 2 cents.

These other guys are right. You can have your own ideas and technique variations after you learn and perfect some techniques to have variations of.

One of my instructors once told me that you can be a master in 5 minutes or 50 years. It depends on how long it takes you to understand your art and more importantly yourself and your own limitations. Give yourself some time and training and you can answer your own question.

[danceofdeath]

Hi , this is my first post here but I thought I might ad my 2 cents.

These other guys are right. You can have your own ideas and technique variations after you learn and perfect some techniques to have variations of.

One of my instructors once told me that you can be a master in 5 minutes or 50 years. It depends on how long it takes you to understand your art and more importantly yourself and your own limitations. Give yourself some time and training and you can answer your own question.

the best post that ive read so far. hehe. more power dude. =P

[danceofdeath]

here's my two cents. no, you cant have a slightly customized karate style and call it karate. you dont even have your black belt dude. but YOU CAN have your OWN brand of martial arts. karate is karate dude, it was founded years before you were born. it was molded to perfection by people whos greater than son gokou. lol. and dude, your only 14, what do you know? i mean, have you ever beaten a martial arts master before? are you really sure that your own martial arts can effectively take an opponent down? well as my instrucor says "learn first. then lead"

pls dont be offended or something. its just that i find you pretty cocky and i just fear that you might get yourself killed or something. lol. again, lay off the DBZ. you cant power-up or charge then use kamehame-ha in real life. lol. more power to you. lol

[Alex_JHH]

I tend to try to calm myself, more by breathing than turning my hair yellow though.

[Radok]

Hi , this is my first post here but I thought I might ad my 2 cents.

These other guys are right. You can have your own ideas and technique variations after you learn and perfect some techniques to have variations of.

One of my instructors once told me that you can be a master in 5 minutes or 50 years. It depends on how long it takes you to understand your art and more importantly yourself and your own limitations. Give yourself some time and training and you can answer your own question.

Dude, how is this you're first post? I thought you had been here a long time, or was that Karateforums?

[Nrv4evr]

most people fight with customized styles anyway, because there's no way, come hell or high water, that ur blocks are going to be used the way u practice. besides, if you are taking karate for the purpose of self-defense, and considering your "in your face attitude", (no offense meant, just an observation) ,than you should probably add some other MA's into your fighting style.

[spacepimp]

Everyone creates there own variation of their karate style. If you watch different schools you will see it. One school does blocks a little different then another school, the end result is the same but there is a little variation all the way around. My instructor has fun trying to figure out which instructor trained a student based upon how they block, punch, kick, etc...

[prodigy]

ive been a student in karate for a while now and im different and more used to forums. why couldn't u let this thread die!
mods......mods.....
i think some of the older posts show that this thread was abused and murdered a long time ago....

[acarpe]

haha oh dear...
leave this 14 year old alone

[danceofdeath]

ehehe