On the contrary - I do. Just in the same way someone like yourself who took something and then dropped out.
In other words, you have no right or reason to say what you have here about what I posted, considering you're in the same boat as I am. Attempting to invalidate my post is simply invalidating your own criticism.
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Karate isn't a fullproof method for anything, but it helps one defend themselves during a throwdown.
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It really doesn't. Karate in the traditional sense - I'm not talking about places that teach you throws from other art forms, I'm talking about if you get into a bout at a tournament - is simply a sport. It has very little function and every other martial art I've seen and have tried overwhelms it very easily. Upper and lower blocks, front kicks, punches, backfists, ankle sweeps, forward throws - its the most rudimentary material possible. They don't teach you to use your elbows, forehead, knees (except for blocking) or how to twist-lock people's wrists. Theres no submission moves, theres no arm locks, theres no gouging. Someone in a real fight would last all of five seconds longer than the average joe because Karate is based on sport rules. You can't make contact with certain body parts, you can't make contact with the face.
Krav Maga, on the other hand, they teach you how to break someone's arm in two moves. Kali teaches you armed and unarmed combat at the same time (all the moves are related). They teach you how to disarm or how to take on several opponents at once.
The difference between the two is gigantic.
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Thats not what I meant. I didn't say you should've punched Amara.
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What you intended to say and what you wrote are obviously not the same - since people other than myself got that impression. Way to stick your foot in your mouth.
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Again, Karate is far from worthless and I've taken about 10 years of various martial arts (Shotokan, Ken-Jut-su and Jeet-kun-do) which all utilize various aspects of Karate largely
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All the forms you mentioned have things in common with Karate - namely that they're all open-handed. However, thats as far as they go - much in the same way how the sport of boxing is different from someone who has gotten in a street fight. (I haven't, thank god - but the difference is obvious)
That is to say - one thing in common does not make them similar, anymore than someone with a broadsword must know how to use a katana.
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Lehah has a tendency to blow smoke out of his ass to try to make himself look better.
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I don't have to blow smoke out my ass. I do look this good.
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I don't believe it is cool to punch someone in the face without proper reason.
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But you called me out that I should have hit Amara. For someone who supposedly took several forms of martial arts for a decade, you know absolutely nothing about the restraint they teach you about it. Not to mention, most people who take up any style of self-defense never mention it; boasting about such things will only get your ass-kicked by someone bigger and faster than you - or someone with a gun, bottle, etc.
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To understand what I said, you also have to understand a previous conflict that Lehah and I had where he tried to intimidate someone on the internet...but this isn't really worthwhile to continue with this sideline discussion.
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Then why did you just bring it up? Oh, wait, you have a history of trolling. Thats right.
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Sometimes it is best to diffuse a dangerous situation by incapacitating the trajectory of energy before it becomes dangerous.
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Oh god. Did you get that from the Manga Canon thread in the Sewers? Thats some ace funny bullshit there.
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I agree both that Karate is more of a sport than a martial art though and that Karate doesn't offer a great deal as a standalone martial art.
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You've made contradiction into an art form much like how Andy Warhol made a soup can into art.
There's nowhere I can't reach.
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