Which martial art is most useful
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 12:53 am
Ahh this old argument will often spark a lot of debate. For most martial artists, their martial art of choice is like their religion and damn you if you take a shit on it. Over the years I have taken a lot of martial arts and sparred/fought with people who did the most mundane like karate, to the more esoteric capoeira. This next post is my opinion from over 17 years of martial arts.
1. Karate
Karate is hit or miss around the world. The closer it gets to home (Okinawa) the better it tends to be. When karate became popular in the 60s and 70s, it hit Hollywood hard and I personally think that's where it started to go down hill. Gimmicky shit like board and brick breaking would wow the normies into coming into their dojos for training. Most of it is crap belt factories and kata (forms) that fall apart under the least bit of pressure. If a dojo promises you a black belt in x amount of time, walk out the door. Also if they don't spar, then it's not worth even listening to their sales pitch.
2. Kung fu
There are as many forms of kung fu as there are animals to name them after. Kung fu is largely a joke in modern day martial arts. It's dance like structure has tons of weak points and they almost never use their martial art in sparing with an unwilling partner. Most times kung fu practitioners will drone on about how their art is too dangerous to use on people and how their Dim Mak could strike you dead yadayada. This is all horse shit. Want to see kung fu masters in a match for real, go on youtube and look for a guy named xu xiaodong. He's made a name for himself by challenging so called masters to fights.
3. Brazilian Jujitsu
One of my personal favorites to be honest. Not to be confused with a more kata based Japanese jujitsu, BJJ was made popular by the Gracie family in the beginning days of the UFC. It pretty much dominated for quite a few years until people realized that taking a striker off his feet is like taking a fish out of water. BJJ relies on twists, chokes, joint locks, and some throws. Want to get down and sweaty with another guy? BJJ is the martial art for you. You can choke the life out of a rapist when he goes down to unzip his pants if you slap on a triangle choke. It's one major downside is you generally have to go to the ground to do it and that leaves you open to getting stomped out by other people or rolled around in whatever debris is on the ground.
1. Karate
Karate is hit or miss around the world. The closer it gets to home (Okinawa) the better it tends to be. When karate became popular in the 60s and 70s, it hit Hollywood hard and I personally think that's where it started to go down hill. Gimmicky shit like board and brick breaking would wow the normies into coming into their dojos for training. Most of it is crap belt factories and kata (forms) that fall apart under the least bit of pressure. If a dojo promises you a black belt in x amount of time, walk out the door. Also if they don't spar, then it's not worth even listening to their sales pitch.
2. Kung fu
There are as many forms of kung fu as there are animals to name them after. Kung fu is largely a joke in modern day martial arts. It's dance like structure has tons of weak points and they almost never use their martial art in sparing with an unwilling partner. Most times kung fu practitioners will drone on about how their art is too dangerous to use on people and how their Dim Mak could strike you dead yadayada. This is all horse shit. Want to see kung fu masters in a match for real, go on youtube and look for a guy named xu xiaodong. He's made a name for himself by challenging so called masters to fights.
3. Brazilian Jujitsu
One of my personal favorites to be honest. Not to be confused with a more kata based Japanese jujitsu, BJJ was made popular by the Gracie family in the beginning days of the UFC. It pretty much dominated for quite a few years until people realized that taking a striker off his feet is like taking a fish out of water. BJJ relies on twists, chokes, joint locks, and some throws. Want to get down and sweaty with another guy? BJJ is the martial art for you. You can choke the life out of a rapist when he goes down to unzip his pants if you slap on a triangle choke. It's one major downside is you generally have to go to the ground to do it and that leaves you open to getting stomped out by other people or rolled around in whatever debris is on the ground.