shotokanwarrior

I was wondering if anyone trains on makawari?

OK I will agree that once you are in an arm bar it is to late.

so you are saying that if someone pinches your groin you will not feel it? I do not think you are going to pull off an arm bar if u are drunk.

Yea a lot of things have to go wrong to be put in an arm bar on the street and a pich is effective I have felt it myself.

Just think as you are applying an armbar the guy pinches the inside of your thigh close to your groin. ouch it happened to me and the response was to let go real quick. The guy who did it was 4th dan shotokan.He does not want to learn bjj but loves to figure out ways of getting out of the positions and does a good job.

as he pulls back for the punch duck strike the groin. If u have room move back let him off balance and take the angle to his side.

Has anyone been in a real fight or self defense situation ( not sparring) and what happened?

I find it quite easy to strike someone in the groin here is an example. My sensi when stationed in new mexico spilled a drink on a cowboy in a bar. He said he was sorry and left the bar, well the cowboy followed him and ran up behind him and sensi turned around and struck the dudes groin with an upward knife hand strike. when the cowboy bent down he was then elbowed in the back of the neck. He went to the hospital. Did I mention this was no accendent he knew the man would follow because he was the sob who had rapped one of his students. I dont know what martial arts teach other people but it is easy to hurt someone and in self defence its easy to hit targets. If you ask the man to step out side that is no longer self defense but it is fighting and when both people are ready it is a little harder to hit targets.

There are a lot of boxers that break there hands on the street, why in the world would you want to punch when there are so many targets to hit with other strikes, eyes,knees,adams apple,side of neck and groin, after these targets then you can use your karate

I do not really have a club, I pay $15 a month the the park district for classes twice a week, but I do also work with my instructor at our real jobs and we do martial arts at work. I also feel lucky because since we are friends he lets me train with the all black belt class.

Karate for selfdefense is great. Karate for fighting depends on the individuals abiltiies. there is a differance between them, fighting is when both people are ready, self defense is when one person is the aggresser and is not ready for the groin smash.

I do not know to many kata yet but I am learning heian yodan and so far it is the one I like best.

Hello everyone I am a new member. I have wasted my time on other forums where people are so closed minded that they bash other styles and put down kata. I like this forum because of all the karate people here. In the dojo my sensi welcomes all people from other styles to come in and work out and we as students show respect to them. I see a lot of bjj and jkd people putting down karate just for the fact that they do not know what they are talking about.

I am at orange belt level and halfway to green.