Alexwado-ryu

I just read something at https://www.street-self-defense.com/ ... do you think anything what they say is (partial) true ? I mean I won't ever believe that I can teach myself effective defence through watching videos but I mean the first part ... that "traditional styles" are not effective .... there's also a quote form a student ("Having trained over 20 years in Uechi Ryu karate before coming to Mr. Pace, I had an extensive background in self defense. I've learned more about street fighting tactics in the last two years than in my 20 years of prior training." ). If this statement is real then he must have definitely done somthing wrong, hasn't he?

Well, first off thank you all for your answers, I'll ask my sensei about this block used in neihanchi. I've asked this question because some of my friends who have been studying Wing Chung for about only a half year, seem to be a lot more advanced, although I started karate at the same time (e.g. they would be abled to block low kicks, hooks and punches but I have always the impression that I could only block karate techniques but not such ordinary attacks which you encounter in most cases on the street ... hope this will change soon).

Does anyone who has experience with wado-karate know how we block (extrem) low kicks ? I'm a yellow-belt and think I'd be abled to block a maegeri (dunno how this' spelled ) but who on the street uses karate-kicks like maegeri? I know that in wing chung they have some sort of blocking counter kicks (which I find to be very effective) but in Wado I only saw blocks (e.g uchi-hara-uke) which use hands, not feet. Is there something similar in wado-karate ? My second question would be how to block a "boxing punch" which comes from the center of the opponent and aims at your head. I think uchi-uke or jodan-uke would be too slow to block such a strike and even if it was executed fast would it work ? Is there maybe another block for such an attack ? Thank you for your answer

Hi, I'm doing Karate (WadoRyu) for about a year and have reached the 2nd Kyu (I know this is not much). But I'm getting more and more the impression, that Karate is a good "sport" but is not really effective in a fight against people who not actually use Karate. I mean that in a fight against another Karateka I would certainly be abled to block most of the "ordinary" techniques such as zucki, but what if someone does something unexpected like attacking with feet and arms at the same time. Another point is the distance to the opponent, in Karate there'S always a distance about one meter, but what if your opponent comes so close to you, that you can't really use techniques or block his attacks because Karate koncentrates more on fighting distant. So my question is, if Karate is as effective in self-defence as other arts (like Win-Tsun e.g) or if it is just a sport which techniques you can only use against other Karateka.