Karate - A Sidekick Jump

Karate and kung fu are not impractical... far from it. In the UFC today Karate is favored over Muay thai for strinking by some fighters and they have had great results. Many People have had to use Kung fu or karate for self deffense or in actual fights and have had great results as well. The "Style" is never the problem. Take Randy "The Natural" Coture for example. Great Wrestling expert and a grappling nightmare Now look at his long time rival Chuck "The IceMan" lidel" A master of Knock out striking. One could argue that Striking is better than grappling by watching this fight. However if you actually think that you are a moron. Everyone is not the same...artist or martial artist..Some are masters of the brush as others excel with clay...to argue that one is better than the other is to argue opinion on no solid facts of right or wrong. I'll even go so far as to say an expert Wushu artist could get decent results in the UFC if he had the determination

It's because karate, kung fu, and other martial arts not seen in UFC and other tournaments simply aren't practical. Those martial arts were developed at a time when the people developing them were isolated. They came up with what they believed to be the most effective way to fight. This was actually true, while the people developing the arts were still isolated from one another. However, as people across the world began to become more globally-aware, martial arts were compared and mixed, and that brings us to today: where the martial arts seen as effective are truly the best in the world. Of course, the ideal martial art varies from person to person, but kung fu is almost always inferior against something used much more often today, like boxing (when comparing two identical people, that is). For the record, I have about ten years' combined experience in Goju Ryu karate, a couple forms of kung fu, and kickboxing. I love them all, but kung fu is definitely the least realistic of the three.

How come you never see anything like this in the UFC tournaments? If Karate, or Kung Fu, or any of the other systems are so great, why are they consistently losers in the UFC? Is it because the real masters aren't competing?

Agree with Eric. Also about karate, shouldn't you be starting with the proper stance, like what your partner's doing?

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