karate or kickboxing?

[babysteffee]

Although some people would probably say they were the same...

[kicker]

well i like kickboxing!Its really fun and same with karati but my favourtive one is kickboxing and i am in blue belt!!

[Tobias_Reece]

HI all

 

I chose Karate because I wanted to do something traditional, and not focus on the fighting aspects.

 

When I decide that I want to become a fighter, I'll start doing kickboxing (or even better, Muay Thai).

 

However, I dont wanna be a fighter, so I guess the time may never come.

 

C ya

 

 

[Stelth_13]

Hi everyone! just to indulge my pet peeve, the word "martial" of martial art comes from the word "mars" which is derived from the beleif that mars is the god of war. thus, in the official definition of "Martial art", one can include any kind of fighting... learning large-scale military leadership &strategy is a martial art. Kickboxing is most definitely a martial art, as is ANY fighting style. (if you ask me)

 

[Angus]

Martial = combative.

 

Martial Arts = Combat Arts... It doesn't matter whether u do kata or tan jon breathing or any of that crap. Anything that teaches you to fight is a martial (ths combative) art.

 

Angus

 

 

[Sutton_uk]

Im for kickboxing one reason i choose kickboxing is because karate is quite a strict style but my style of kickboxing is quite adapated as i like having some of my own input to it.

[angiewinter]

Karate and kickboxing are both as equally good as eachother, I tried kickboxing for about 5 months, i got quite stong at kicks and jumping kicks, but you have to be light on your feet, which i was but am not so now!! lol. anyway point: they are both very good ways of, well whatever it is they are good for, they both build strength and stamina.

 

kickboxing is about fighting and karate is, well its everything really. I've stuck with karate for 9 months now, and hope to someday be a blackbelt, but you have to be into the arts to enjoy them.

 

so both are equally good.

 

if anyone can make ANY sense out of what i just wrote please tell me, coz i cant!!!

 

Oh well

 

love Ang

 

 

[babysteffee]

That makes sense Angie...glad you want to stick with karate. I gotta say the idea of karate sounds better than kickboxing, but that's probably just a case of "the grass being greener" because when I did karate I really wanted to do kickboxing and thought that was superior.

 

So, um..everyone's right.

[Sutton_uk]

Kickboxing is the one i do because i like full contact and lots sparring, even though me and my friends spar without saftey equpiment, so i have to cut down on powerful kicks. (or attempt to)

 

My style is a mixture of mainly kickboxing and anything else.

 

 

[ThaiBoxeo]

Back to the orignal subject. Karate is good if you want to practice the more artsy side of it with the kata and keep the traditional side of martial arts without hurting yourself.

 

Kickboxing, I compete in full contact sometimes, kickboxing is if you would like to be a more well rouded fighter but without some of the tradtional aspects of the martial arts