Shotokan_Fighter

what the hell ppl all of you are smashing karate saying karate cant hold its own in a fight that is all bs id gladly fight a person who wants to fight me that thinks he can kick a karate ka ass the way i train at my dojo i am ready for a street fight and im confident that i will win the fight i may not but why would they make any MA or an7y style of karate if they would all get there ass whooped by a street fighter tell me that??

andrew you said taht basicly a reverse punch is useless in a street fight. if it is so usless than why does karate teach it and a street fighter isnt going to expect a kick or a reverse punch if you do a kickink punching combo a street fighter is not going to expect that beacuse they usually hit then backaway hit again or just go all out and just swing and hope to hit. a highly trained karate fighter will beable to beat a street fighter beacuse a karate fighter knows how to fight when and where to hit ect.

what i gotta say about this topic is BS!!!!!! kata is not a waste of time period kata does teach you breathing balance gives you a basic on a fighting situation if you think they are a waste of time then you havnt ever done a kata anyways cause i just learned tekki shodan last night and i already know all the moves to them and now all i gotta do is fine point the kata

i just got my 2nd purple belt on sunday april 27. now i cant wait to get my brown belt

what id say is id go up to him and say so you think you can kick my @$$ huh well why dont we spar and find out (see if he will do full contact) and see what he says about that and if he trys to get out of it say i knew you just talk sh*t and cant back it up.

if this is ypur first class ever of MA dont expect to know how to tie your belt right away i didnt it just comes with time

i think (and so does my dojo) that fighting a street fighter is going to be alot easyer than fighting someone who knows karate. My point on that is when you spar against a person that know karate, the person is going to be alot harder to get a reverse punch in or a front snap kick ect. than a street fighter would be. would you guys agree on that?

they loose their balance no matter what you do if u duck yeah they will loose their balance but even if you block it they will. i know that beacuse i got in a fight and im in shotokan and he tryed the haymaker punch and i blocked it. (steped back while blocking) and reverse punched him right in his rib cage he went down right away. and i left the area. so i say blocking it is fine as long as you know what our doing

have aby of you guys ever trained in water?? i have i go down to the lake by my house in a old gi and belt and train in water about shoulder high. I like it beacuse of the natural resistance it is hard but very effective, you really learn balance, punches are harder and faster and same for you kicks also

how do you guy or what do you guys do when someone does a haymaker punch the street fighter punch beacuse in a real fight no one is going to do a step through punch (karate punch) so in our dojo we pratice with both types of punching

shotokan karate i love it man

id have to say its is true on what you are talking about but i am a dedicated student and im not afraid to fight and in our dojo we do full contact sometimes and others we dont beacuse we do want to keep our club alive and not beat them out

shotokan all the way

i was wondering what all of you though of being stong like being muscular and strong my club talked about it last class and he said it does but ut doesnt beacuse in karate you can be small and be strong and powerfull i say it helps alot if a small person fought a muscular big peson more than likley the stronger will win

2nd purple belt shotokan karate

i like shotokan well only beacuse that is the only style i have ever done so i have to say i like it the best lol why beacuse i like the katas and its a great style to learn how to fight my instructor thinks of this more for fighting not kata so we do more fighting stuff then basics and kata but we always do our basics

i was just wondering if anybody is a marine or gonna goto the marine corp i am gonna goto the marines i have wanted to for 5 yeahrs and lost 64lbs becuse of it

nice champ

very good point on the air dont hit back i like that and it makes sense

youv done shotokan for 5 yrs and only at blue or did u mean black

by the way kickchick just beacuse i like shotokan karate dosent mean i hate all the other styles and thanks for all the replys

im in shotokan karate and im just wondering how standing in a crane stance can really work or bouncing around like a monkey or being like a snake ect hows that stuff really work??

my club says not to wash our belts they say it washes the spirit out of the belt

in shotokan im not for sure on all schools but mine we dont EVER wash our belts we say it washes the spirtit out of them?? what is your guys thoughts

my school goes like this (shotokan) white orange blue green purple purple brown brown brown 10 blacks