How long do you do Karate for?

[bushido_man96]

Great posts. I can't add much to them. As far as "learning more advanced stuff" goes...it really has more to do with fine tuning the basics, which ends up being the advanced stuff. The advanced guys make the basics look easy, becauase that's what they do all the time.

[ShotokanMaster]

I will do karate until i cant do it anymore hehehhee if i get to the age of 100 AND I STILL CAN DO IT ILL DO IT

[inventor]

Why study more than one style?

The style doesn't make the man; the man makes the style.

[shanny_kimura]

Why study more than one style?

The style doesn't make the man; the man makes the style.

I agree but if you love MA and want to learn as much arts as you can that isn't bad, what interested me most is I wanted to learn where each and every art I train in came from. Who started it, where did it come from, why was it started etc. I train in 10 diff arts but I'm a Gracie Jiu-Jitsu guy. No disrespect to all the other arts but that's what I blended in the most effectively and faster. I still train Kyokushin, & Shotokan, Judo and all the other arts that been in my life and basically saved my life. But knowing more knowledge doesn't hurt.

[sensei8]

Why study more than one style?

The style doesn't make the man; the man makes the style.

True. However, the more one is equipped, the better...imho.

[ps1]

Welcome to the forums!

There is a complete difference in training Karate v Muay Thai. Muay Thai is, like boxing, a sport. That's all it ever was. So training it for a short time is acceptable, like most sports. If you research Muay Thai you'll see that most of the people that train and fight regularly, especially in Thailand, are very young (under 25 yrs old) and have very short careers. The highest goal of most MT practitioners is to gain enough notoriety and wins that people want to train with him when he retires.

Karate Do is not meant to be trained that way. Certainly it can be trained this way, but this is not it's purpose. Therefore "doing karate" to supplement your Muay Thai is kind of a waste of time. If you take it up under that sort of premise, you're unlikely to glean anything useful from it. Karate is meant to be a way of life. So how long do you do it? How long do you breathe?

[bushido_man96]

Why study more than one style?

The style doesn't make the man; the man makes the style.

Because it would be FUN!

[sensei8]

Why study more than one style?

The style doesn't make the man; the man makes the style.

Because it would be FUN!

And FUN is GOOD!!

[cheesefrysamurai]

Why study more than one style?

The style doesn't make the man; the man makes the style.

Because it would be FUN!

And FUN is GOOD!!

An artist paints more than one picture.

More tools in the tool box.

[barrypardue]

You never stop learning, but you might have an edge on a newbie if you have previous martial arts experience in another style.