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Not totally lost! We do actually throws, standing locks and also ground work in our karate school both as drills and as bunkai for some kata.

I don't know much about Muay Thai, I know that kickboxing has a lot of heavy training. It depends mostly from the school I think. Aside from usage of knee and elbows (btw K1 kickboxing rules allow the use of knees, we praciced knee sometimes) there are some differences in techniques ( I know this because I knew a guy who practiced KB with me and had previous MT experience). expecially round kicks. BTW GreyGhost is that you in the picture? If it is so you look terrific!

Hi, I started MA in march last year, I practiced little more the one year kickboxing then (in late April 2004) I switched to Goju ryu Karate (Yellow belt now). Since January I started Yang style Tai chi chuan, ranked 5th chi (6th chi=entry level). I have also one Month experience (Sept. 2003) in JKD/Kali escrima Inosanto method (I liked the system but the school had to close due to lack of students ). My karate school does often exchange seminars with other MAs mostly JJJ, kickboxing etc. No, I don't compete (I'm too old for that... )

Good post SR! I also think that MA do teach good character, but people who does not quit have it already to some degree.

We do some grappling in go ju ryu, for instance in the latest 2 weeks we did a lot of grappling and ground work drills (for a while I thought that maybe my dojo was evolving into a JJJ dojo ). I saw also that some advanced kata bunkai (not yet my level) have grappling.

Okinawan Goju ryu in central Italy here, Yellow belt. Osu!

If you mean (by practical) relatively short time to observe visible improvement in self defence capability, I think that most chinese style are not practical ( an exeption to this may be san da I don't know about wing chun) but in the medium to long term they are efficient, and they are more spectacular to see.

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I'm always training to get rid of that 10+ kg (22+ lb) that separates me from having a good shape. I'm also 43 and started MA when I was 41 (almost 42) although in sparring I'm not an easy win even for people much younger than me and more fit (with the same experience level), I think that moving an heavier body is still a drawback, but unfortunately those 10+ kg are hard to give away.

You can try karate. But don't wait to be fit. You'll become fit by practicing it! Kickboxing it is also a good choice. It is less traditional and less complete but sice you practice less techniques and there are no katas you can learn it faster.

In my school instructor teaches application that become part of the test exam so we give a lot of emphasis to it. Anyhow searching for other applications is a good idea.I will do that myself.

Hi Ted, nice to have someone with your wide experiece.

Hi karate addict, we have some similarity in our curriculum, except that your curriculum is much longer then mine Which style of TCC you study?

The article is a mixture of complete stupidity with little truth inside. The little truth is that probably Cobra-kai (from the movie Karate kid) style dojo really exist; but they are very rare... places where people were abused exist but they are also rare. The rest is completely stupid, I recently sign up my kid to a karate school, he loves it and I'm glad, now me and my son have some passion to share, even if he is in a different style ( It's shotokan) we enjoy training togheter at home. Sparring between female child and male child has nothing wrong, the difference in strenght between a male and a female child is much less that between adults. The person who wrote this article has no knoledge of martial art at all he totally does not know what he's talking about. What is probably wants to do is using very few bad true cases to give martial art a bad reputation. Unfortunately there are people thinking that everithing which is connected to martial values is bad, they want a world (should I say a western wolrd) weak in spirit and mind, and also someting completely utopic (fighting will always exist, in various forms but it always will exist), they say they want peace but the only peace they like is the peace of cemetery.

In the three styles you see in my profile there are quite large differences. Expecially TCC compared to the others firstly because is the only internal style of the three and also because it is a chinese style.Between Karate and Kickboxing there ara more similarities:some kicking techniques are very similar (front kick side kick, hook kick, spinning back kick) and the other sare slightly different (round kicks expecially low) hand techniques of karate are richer than kickboxing (that has no open hand techniques obviously). There are throws in karate while in kickboxing you find only sweeps and they are not practiced so much. The way we fight is globally quite different, point fighting require some speed and finesse while kickboxing require also endurance and power even if you do only light/moderate contact (like I used to do).

The fun of doing it. This is the first thing And also the health benefit, the fitness, the self-defence skill the mental benefits.... but above all there is the fun.

Yes they are reference data and partially also supplemental however it should be supplemental to a training in a class with an instructor.

I think that Women have, on average, more flexibility then us they are less tense and they tend to learn the technique with more patience rather then learn it and use it at full power, as soon as possible like we do. Besides this I've notice a great interest about martial arts in women. In my karate class and also in my TCC class there are more women then men. However in my old Kickboxing class we had more men but still we had some women.

G'day and welcome to KF

G'day mate.

Welcome to KF. I'll take a visit to your site then....

Hi, welcome to KF I think You'll find cross-training with Kickboxing beneficial

Welcome to KF. What karate style are you studing?

Hello and welcome.

Hello and welcome Osu