Kicks in Karate

[RJRKihap]

I currently study Korean martial arts. Tae Kwon Do for example, even though traditional, we emphasize kicking over hand techniques at a ratio of nearly 90%. How do kicking techniques figure into Karate? What is the emphasis of kicking to hand techniques?

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Ron

[Pacificshore]

I would say in traditional karate it is more 50/50

[Sasori_Te]

Edited for idiotic content. Edited March 7, 2004 by Sasori_Te

[AndrewGreen]

umm.... do some counting in your kata guys....

 

90 / 10 to hands easy....

[Sasori_Te]

Andrew Green is right. I was speaking mainly of philosophy and not reality. Sorry. As a matter of fact, I'm going to withdraw my first post entirely and write it off to being over tired.

[turonaga]

ours we practice in with the thinking that kicking techniques are there to bridge the gap between our opponent. for us karate is basically hand techniques.

[wado_lee]

i think kicking above tudan is very stupid you are over committed and vulnerable unless its competition but each to there own (or is it that im probly too old now to reach jodan LOL)

[aefibird]

It's probably about 80-85% hand techniques in my shotokan dojo.

[Guest]

95% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

 

Mostly hand techniques here.

[aefibird]

lol, true.

 

That was just a rough guess, statistically speaking of course!