Is karate any good, or is BJJ or boxing better?
None of them are good but jiujitsu is the least useless
>>251945All self defense is fake, but at least kyokushin and boxing teach you how to get beat up better.
>>251945>is [x] good for self defense?The answer always is: Do you spar (with full resistance/without compliance) regularly? If so, then yes. If not, then no.
>>251960>kyokushinhttps://youtube.com/shorts/1WrURW43aRQ?si=a_x0ea8wTOUEQufuThrows everything he has at the guy, doesn't work at all, then casually almost has his entire future ended until his sensei steps in to save him
>>251977lmao, fucking idiot throwing rolling thunder against bjj
>>251977That's sparring, not self defense. How many times is a BJJ purple belt going to mug you?
>>251998That was a black belt karate expert going whole hog at 100% intensity trying to KO the intermediate bjj player with his most powerful techniques, and didn't manage to land a single clean shotIt was a home field advantage under the karate practitioners own rules and he still couldn't manage to do any damageThen the bjj practitioner effortlessly put him in a hold that will end the karate practitioners entire career if he chooses to apply itLol kyokushin is such garbage because they stand there like retards with their hands down, the only thing you need to do to defeat it is put your arms up in a basic boxing shell and it becomes nothing
>>252001>black belt karate expert>expertHaving a black belt in karate doesn't make you an expert. A first dan in karate is achievable in the same amount of time as a bjj purple belt. That karate guy is a nobody.
>>251945Yes. To what extent depends. What kind of karate, and what kind of scenario? Boxing is good. BJJ is only for 1v1 on mats, judo is better. Honestly Karate/Kickboxing + judo is all you need.>>251946Good luck finding a trad JJ school.
>>251977I'd actually say kyokushin guy is basically dumb more than anything here, he literally gave up standing (where he was dominating) from bad habits trained in. That axe and leg kick looked good but then he decided to suicide on the mat with his last kick. In general a purple belt in bjj is a black belt to most other arts is usually about 4-6 years of training and most other arts have their first degree of black belt in that time frame. BJJ sandbagging is real. I would like to see clips where the BJJ fighter actually has to accomplish getting the man to the ground because that part is usually the whole fight for them. The dominance once they're down there is pretty boring and taken for granted, but getting them to the mat is always an uncertainty.
>>251945most people dont know how to fight, so yeah
>>251945Pretty much any martial art is useful for self defense if you put the work in for it. That said, the BEST is body building, because if you look big and strong then no one will attack you in the first place.
>>252040Cover and crash is a pretty effective way to get someone downIt doesn't work against other grapplers but against non-grapplers it's the easiest methodBasically an automatic win button
Ever seen "Man of Tai Chi"?
>>252111Every nerd is a big buff bodybuilder nowadays it means nothing. It's just more embarrassing when Mr 100kg bodybuilder gets destroyed by some 80kg guy
>>251945Karate is fine, specially kyokushin, boxing is better, bjj is a meme that will get you killed.
>>251945Bjj is good as complementary to wrestling or judo, otherwise you'll have bad takedowns and zero standup game. Karate is good if they do full contact. Boxing is good.
