Is boxing a better form of combat than karate?
I did full contact karate at a fairly advanced level I am a 2nd dan kyu kushin kai black belt holder. I’ve fought other martial artists including muay thai fighters who are probably the best strickers after boxers, tai kwando honestly is the lamest art invented and just a big show, there isnt a single tkd middle weight fighter i cant take on. I now do boxing though the only downside to boxing are the bloody blows to the head a practioner takes but it only takes one good punch to drop the toughest opponent. A good example is Chuck Lidell, he enters the ring and wastes no time with the fancy kicks,he goes straight for the head with them punches and boy do they drop. Boxing and grappling arts I think are more effective than karate what do you think?
IMO Boxing and TKD are sport fighting styles and have far too many rules that apply to them. In all these UFC and other tournaments, many techniques that would be used by a MA wether a striker or grappler are not allowed in these even brutal full contact matches for they are lethal and deadly or cause permanent injury. Example, its a very short distance to throw a side kick or front kick at anothers knee (against it, not with it) ankle, or punches to the throat and neck or armpits. Some things just are not allowed so on the street it is much differant than even in the UFC style matches.
YOu KNOW in a match, your opponent has no weapons and their is a referee to stop the match in case of injury or submission. On the street you do not have the option to submit usually until they are done beating you and usually most have some form of weapon. SO over all in real life I still would prefer Martial Arts over strictly boxing. I do think it is good to learn boxing as Bruce Lee did and implement its form within MA, any good MA will adapt any good things from another fighting style be it a sport or not.
To me todays martial artists are mainly mixed MA and already have basic boxing and grappling added to their styles. Only real traditional styles never focus on leaving their boxes to learn what else is out there, not to say you cannot be traditional and modern at the same time, but many cannot make the transition well.
KIcks take more energy and usualy longer to throw than a punch. Watch Bruce Lee fight he uses alot of Jabs like a boxer and side kicks to the knee and shins like a jab as well. So it is better to use short quick kicks than large powerful kicks or fancy ones like TKD.
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