Is Karate any good?

I train in Karate, and I've recently started to train in Judo as well. After training today, I asked the instructor at Judo what he thought of Karate. He answered that he trained in it until he got hi black belt and it's "<language!>". He went on to say that boxing is superior to Karate. What do you guys think?


Watch the language please mate. MAP has a family-friendly policy and swearing, even asterisked, is not allowed - CF.

 

Opinion doesn't make it fact. If you like it, stick with it.

 

In some ways he's right and in others not.

 

Two Words to answer.

Enoida Kanazawa.

The Judo instructor is disrespecting another Japanese Art..Says it all to me':bang:

 

Agreed. Disrespecting another art is usually a sign of ignorance. Karate saved my butt thirty years ago, and I didn't know a fraction of what I know today. Also, black belt's just the beginning, so I'd have to say he gave up on it before really knowing it.

 

its disrespect.

that and well i find the 'my ma is the best yours is garbage' type things kind of childish.

Which is why i avoid these kinds of things like plague

 

Depends how it's taught and how you apply it, but I dare say that's the same in judo.

Gary

 

you should have punched your judo instructor in the face

 

Judo tends to have an inbuilt BS filter though doesn't it?
i.e. You grab each other and attempt to throw each other on the floor.
Lots of Karate clases don't have that kind basic performance gauge.

 

"Is karate any good?"

That depends on what you want from karate, how you train, and who/where you train.

 

teruo hayashi too.

sandan in judo, left it behind the very instant he witnessed karate

funny, apparently it didn't work very well this time around

 

My Sandan would resent that remark.

He also holds a 1st degree BB in judo. and he showed me some judo moves. its not as simple as 'just grab each other and attempt to throw each other on the floor'

 

That can also operate as a "fat filter" - it doesn't matter how precise or technical your training, until you reach a pretty high standard the fatter guy always wins.

When I tried out judo, the class was evenly split between the very good and the very fat.

I like karate. Other people's mileage may vary.

 

Karate is good.

Specific karate schools are sometimes good, sometimes not.

Martial arts instructors who go around bashing all other martial arts are rarely good.

 

Agreed.

I study Judo and Karate together, with more influence on the karate side. For every session of judo, I'll have two session of karate. I think they compliment each other perfectly. As a rule of thumb, you want to stay away from instructors who bad mouth other styles and discourage cross training altogether.

On a side, how can you even compare the two? They have such different dynamics to them. That's like saying I tried apples once and found the I liked oranges better, so apples are bad and everyone who eats apples are bad.

 

Every art has good and bad practitioners, depends on the guy/girl doing the art.....

 

Agreed.

Also how you train is just as important.

 

Which is why I included it.

 

Sorry about that. I was glancing at the post while at the office, I must have missed that part.