Kyokushin is a very powerful style. It gives you VERY strong kicks, powerful body punches and proper conditioning (hands, feet and torso), but it has weak points. No punches to the head, bad footwork in most of the cases. You need boxing for that. I would also learn some muay-thai (elbows, knees, clinches etc.). I personally also add head butts from Lethwei, because they are REALLY effective.
@@sethplate7176when you practise a striking art you should suplement its weak spots with other striking arts indeed but way better to practise a grappling art like judo, wrestling instead. Sanda is likely the most complete striking art followed by muay thai. Doing sanda and bjj or a grappling art would be pretty well rounded
Interesting, as Masutatsu Oyama was born Choi Young-Eui, in what is now North Korea before the Great War split the two nations. He was notably close to Choi Hong Hi, who at one point attempted to convince him to merge his school into TaeKwan-do.
Hold a stick horizontally with both hands and jump forwards and backwards over it only works with the right proportions. A good examiner and trainer should know this!
Pushing weights in a gym might not make you stronger at karate, but it will damn sure make you stronger when you have to pick up heavy shit in your daily life. I know this first hand.
The question is: how often do you lift heavy shit in your daily life? unless you are a construction worker or something similar, you won't need to train pushing weights. And even then, you don't need to train with very heavy weights. I only do calisthenics, and it's more than enough for daily stuff. The worst I had to lift was a cement bag of 50kg. No problem whatsoever.
@dantankunfiveancestorsfist savate > Tai boxing , Catch wrestling superior to Judo , boxing superior to Karate . Chine arts are in Another level of course specially Tai Chi . So, not much would be desired from Japanese arts .
well for example we can talk about a legend of MMA George St Pierre if you want but before that I suggest you to go take a look about the martial art he use and how strong Is he @@MegaHitman666
@@rh142000I know alot of people who are big from lifting weights but they aren't very strong. It is true, lifting weights doesn't make you strong. Calisthenics is better than lifting weights for strength training
To discuss this or that karate is better or worse or this or that martial art is better or worse is very naive. Ultimately, it doesn't matter. People make it!
It does matter. There are martial arts that better prepare people for serious situations than others. Karaté is indeed very well rounded: it has punches, kicks, throws and joint locking. Judo for example only does throws; BJJ only does ground fighting (which is basically useless on the street); Western boxing only prepares for punches in a sports context (gloves give you bad habits); etc
Mas Oyama was incredibly strong in his youth. I think he's saying ONLY going to the gym won't make you strong at least for martial arts. There was this massive 260 pounds of pure muscle body builder who called out this famous mixed martial artist named Nick Diaz. Nick laughed at his face.