Which is better for me to learn and why? - Judo or Karate.

It depends on you that what you have to learn because both Judo and karate are usefull for you when you are in trouble.

 

despite of the most of fights finish on ground regulary if you know how to use your body when you are stand you can win without a hit.

I suggest you judo.

 

for me, if i can i would rather go to the two, judo and karate...
as what saying says, you cannot serve to masters at the same time....

it doest matter f u like judo or u like karate, it matters on how u managed yourself. the important thing of that two martial arts is the discipline, every participant of that martial arts should have what we called discipline, even you are so good in judo and karate but without discipline in your self, you are like a thrash.

good luck guyz,,,,

but learning that two is cool

 

Go for karate, I think its really cool

Also sufficient for self defense

 

I think its Karate...... Because Judo needs more flexibitlty than Karrate,,,

 

Most of these posts are so uninformed, whereas some have some useful information in them.

'Go for Karate because Judo requires more flexibility than karate...'
Yeah because you dont need to be flexible to do a backwards roundhouse at all do you? -_-
How about an axe kick? flexibility is needed there too.
To be honest most of these people dont seem to know what they are talking about.

YES Judo has become more mainstream nowadays as a sport that is true, but it used to be used by samurai in the feudal ages along with Jujitsu and Aikido on the battlefield. Karate is just as sport as Judo, thats a fact.

There are two types of Martial Artists, Sports and survival.
In a sports match if you lose you just go away and think about it, train harder and hope you come away better off next time, a TRUE martial artist woun't get that chance if you lose you die. That is how you should see martial arts. if you take it up as only a sport you'll have that kind of influence when you need to use it in real life. if you see it as a way of protecting yourself fully then you'll have more influence and direction in a real life situation.

The MOST IMPORTANT thing is how you gather yourself when your training, even if judo is more efficient than Karate or vice verca IF you give it 100% it wont matter, because you'll learn and come away from the experience stronger because of it.

You will gain flexibility with training, dont take it as a one off thing, you improve with training, it'd be like saying 'Right Ive just decided to start jogging in the mornings, I know I'll enter the olympics, should be easy enough.'

Keep at it and you'll improve.

For a good combination between Defence and offence try Jujitsu, not Brazillian Jujitsu because thats 70%+ grappling and the punches and kicks are mainly for distraction, try ordinary jujitsu as a good mixture between Karate and Judo.
Aikido is good also, it used to be a secret form of Jujitsu that was taught to the main heads of the important families in Japan at the time.

I'm studdying ninjutsu and it's the best martial art I've come across so far technically and in pheory, it has a mixture of all martial arts I've trained in.

I'm a 1st dan Black Belt in Jujitsu, I've also trained in White Crane Style Kung-Fu, Old Yang Form Tai Chi Chuan, Tae Kwon Do, Kick Boxing, Choi Karate and Judo.

If you have any questions or doubts about what styles/ forms of martial arts you think you should train in then you can just pm me and I'll see if I can help.

- Piro

 

Man... he's 26, not 50!

 

I teach martial arts.

Karate isn't very practical in real fighting. Judo should work decent, Jujitsu even better, Kung fu and Muay Thai is best for stand up fighting, Jujitsu for ground.

These are just generalities. It's all subjective, depending on your teacher, your effort, etc. more than style.

 

I'd love to get into Muay Thai, perhaps next year I will.

 

And what is it exactly that you teach? and you said jujitsu twice lol.

 

tiger kai kung fu, hybrid of iron tiger claw, muay thai, jeet kune do

 

Ehhhh karate and judo suck .... taekwondo owns

 

Cool, how long have you been doing the martial arts and how long have you been teaching?

What grade are you?

If you say so...

 

I chose Karate, cuz Judoers is offen fat

 

I had learned karate and that is when I was around 12 or something.

But may be you can consult the judo and karate teacher as they will be the best people to suggest you.

 

Since 11 yrs old, so 19 yrs. I've been teaching for 3 years, taught Kung fu as a college course, at an MMA studio, and privately.

 

Oh cool, I started training when I was 6 and that was 14 years ago.

I'd love to open my own dojo when I'm proficient enough

 

The MMA studio was a good atmosphere to work in where the teachers respected one another. In the past, the big thing was this style vs. style mindset where other martial artists and instructors claimed their style was unbeatable and challenged one another. Even my Sifu had this problem and challenged the local Karate instructor to a death match. Karate, Taekwondo, and Bando fighters came to our school to spar and things got really out of control. (broken noses, ribs, ppl kicked through the wall, pictures knocked off walls, etc.)

It's not a good example of discipline, etc. but the reason these things happen with style vs style is because fighters prop their teacher and their style up above all others, you get prideful and defensive, every critical comment becomes a full out attack on the tradition/foundation of your experience, training, and teacher. You can see all the flaming going on at the Martial Arts Planet forums.

Then, with the college classes,guys obsessed with MMA/UFC tend to measure themselves against you while you're trying to teach and want to hold sparring for an hour after classes. I never lost a match against a student but being put in that situation becomes stressful when you're trying to teach other students.

 

I can imagine it's hell.

Well luckily for my Sensei we all respect him and just want to go their to learn, if someones going to surpase their teacher their teacher will know and will tell them imo.

Last Friday my sensei trained for the weekend with Hatsumi Masaaki's Translator, the guys been training with the Soke (Ninja Grandmaster) for decades, he lives in Japan with him, trains with him 4-5 times a week and is one of his most respected teachers/pupils. He came over to the UK to teach for the weekend, which is rare, people always go over to Japan to learn and train but people Never come over to the UK to teach, it's like the 1st time in 12 years or something.

 

I don't know because I never learn it before