Karate or Muay Thai?

[manuu]

nigga monom.

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Very true. Why is this in olympic sports forum? This isn't regarding the olympics

because its a general sport discussion. This forum serves best for General Sports discussions .... (and btw Karate is for the first time as of 2011 or 2010 an Olympic discipline, a chance for Iran to rock )

[Bluez]

nigga monom.

ey bowmay..!

[Bluez]

because its a general sport discussion. This forum serves best for General Sports discussions .... (and btw Karate is for the first time as of 2011 or 2010 an Olympic discipline, a chance for Iran to rock )

ey val, nice, hopefully we do well.

I found a muay thai school around 20 minutes away and will start soon I think. Kyokushin is great, very tough and good conditioning, but the no punching to the head thing bothers me. I want to try muay thai for 6 months and see how it differs from karate.

[manuu]

ey bowmay..!

hahaha

[ShahHouman]

I do muay thai every wednesday and I love it! For street fighting, I'd go for Krav Maga (I'm still a student of that as well and I'm loving that) but a happy medium between martial arts and street fighting in my opinion is muay thai. It's obviously a great workout but also, the strikes are so vicious and no BS.

[Shamim]

Brazilian Jiu jitsu anyone????

[Bluez]

I do muay thai every wednesday and I love it! For street fighting, I'd go for Krav Maga (I'm still a student of that as well and I'm loving that) but a happy medium between martial arts and street fighting in my opinion is muay thai. It's obviously a great workout but also, the strikes are so vicious and no BS.

I can't wait to start. Very excited about it.

[Shogun_Rua]

Muay Thai for sure, it is much more practical and effective. It has a wider range of strikes, punches, kicks, knees, elbows etc... Also in Muay Thai there is no belt ranking, so you will have to compete to get a feel of how good you really are and in general Muay Thai will make you more conditioned and tougher then Karate will.

It will also skip alot of the useless BS that you will have to go through in Karate aswell.

Brazilian Jiu jitsu anyone????

Yep the best ground art for sure, the good thing about BJJ is that you can spar at 100% every class without a high risk of getting seriously injured but it takes a while to get good at. This is one of the martial arts where belts actually mean something and you don't get them as a gift. Also another good thing about BJJ is that most people have no idea what they are doing on the ground, where as most people know how to throw a punch and will have atleast a small chance in a stand up fight, it's almost guaranteed that if a BJJ person takes down an opponent who doesn't know what they are doing that the fight is pretty much over .

If you wanted to learn 2 martial arts, I would go with Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or Boxing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu but I would definitely pick Muay Thai over Karate.

[Shogun_Rua]

I swear if i was on Muay Thai or anything i would visit Kamal Shalorus his courses in America once a year, he takes 80 $ or so and you have PRO MMA training his camps are always 1-2 weeks that would be the greatest thing for someone who trains already.

If there was anything I would try to pick up from Kamal Shalorus, it would be wrestling. He is a great wrestler but he sucks in the stand up, all he has is power in his hands and a granite chin. So I don't think I would visit him for Muay Thai but I would visit him to learn how to wrestle for sure.

[manuu]

Thats the old Kamal you will see the new one.

[Shogun_Rua]

Well his last fight was 9 months ago, so he must of been training and improving during that time but I don't think we will see any major improvements, hopefully I'm wrong.

[Shamim]

Brazilian Jiu jitsu is becomming more popular than traditionnal Jiu Jitsu, it shows how BJJ is a good martial art.

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Brazilian Jiu jitsu is becomming more popular than traditionnal Jiu Jitsu, it shows how BJJ is a good martial art.

tsss.... its nothing versus Adesorian Jiu Jitsu, AJJ rules man.

[Bluez]

One thing I know is that if you put a MT fighter against a kyo fighter, with kyo rules, the MT fighter will lose 9/10.
Same applies to kyo fighter fighting in a ring where punches and elbows to the head are ok, 9/10 I think the MT guy will win.

So it really comes down to who can apply their style more effectively in general, on the streets, against other styles. Basically not restricting oneself to just their own style and limitations.