Whats better for street fights karate or tae kwon doe?

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Whats better for street fights karate or tae kwon doe?
Style doesnt matter as long as your are steady.





If you look at the best fighters in the world, they always practice %26amp; have practiced 2 or more styles.





As a matter of fact, no one can strengthen the face area (chin,jaws, nose) of the body. You can have a big body but still a small strike at your nose can break it.





Thing is you should be able to go on even though your are badly hit. So it depends on both strength %26amp; status of mind.





So anything you think that would involve both these aspects is ok.
Reply:on concrete it would probably be best to kickbox.
Reply:Of the two, I think Tae Kwon Do is better fitted because it heavily emphasizes kicks, especially to cover longer distances with a lot of power. It would be useful in street fights to cover distance quickly and end a fight quickly without exposing the torso or head. Although, Brazilian Jujitsu it the most well rounded of the martial arts while the Israeli Police training is best suited because they teach you eye gouging, sensitive area targeting and things for street fighting where there are no set rules.
Reply:Any martial art can give you an edge in real-world fights, but that is not what they are all about. They are about discipline, fitness, and self-knowledge.


BTW, Tae kwon do is a style of karate popular in Korea. Okinawa developed four major schools of karate. Bruce Lee developed Jeet kung do, which is also a form of karate.


Personally, I think (for street fighting) I'll stick with my 9mm PPK, for which I have a concealed carry permit ... easy and inexpensive and far more effective.
Reply:I hope you're just asking, dont take that question to a sifu though they'll usually let you know they won't teach you for that purpose that you'd want to just fight someone.


If you have tough skin, a crappling art like brazilian jiu jitsu would be great in a street fight. Pass/Catch, hold, takedown, pull it (whatever limb youre holding) till it breaks.


Don't ever forget that you're in a street fight and it is not sanctioned, which means no holds barred, anything goes. Hopefully whoever the other guy is, he's just a brawler and won't know the first thing about actually fighting.
Reply:Between the two? Karate, especially Kyokushin or another of the aggressive styles that doesn't muddle your training with soft sparring.





Tae Kwan Do is a sport, not a strict fighting style--it's really hard to find instruction in the Korean fighting art, Taekkyon. "Karate" can mean any number of unarmed fighting styles derived from the techniques the Okinawans used to resist samurai occupation. Some variants are still combat-oriented, many are more sport-oriented. How well-prepared you are for a street fight depends less on what style you learn and more on the environment in which you learn it. A bad instructor will prepare you to get your face rearranged no matter what style you take.





That said, you should see whether anybody in your area is teaching Krav Maga. This is the unarmed fighting style that the Israeli Defense Forces train in, and it's absolutely modern and brutal.
Reply:See my answer to your previous question. It applies here as well.
Reply:i'd hate to burst peoples bubble but neither are very good for streets fights especially if the fight ends up on the ground, street fights are not about style, streets fight are about getting the fight done and over with so you can get the hell out of danger as fast as possible, if you have a mixed style of fighting that is able to defend you self in every manner then you should be fine haveing one style is not going to cut it anymore.
Reply:I like tae kwon do better than karate for anything.
Reply:Of the two? Karate (specifically Full Contact) is more aggresive than Tae Kwon Doe





TKD teaches discipline and proper kicking form....





Neither are good for a street fight. If you were to study a martial art best suiited for street fighting i recommend muay thai kick boxing, judo, %26amp; jujitsu. MMA style fighting is best but i mean in a street fight anything goes. just make sure your the first one to strike other wise you might find yourself on the floor lol
Reply:there al good for street fight but deppens what belt your in tae kwon-do like black belt but i think tae kwon-do
Reply:I should say go with tae kwon do.
Reply:Either one can help, provided you do realistic sparring.





Most Tae Kwon do training is focused on a point-based style, or olimpic style, this is not realistic and would NOT help you during a streetfight. If you find a good school that corrects this, then you can rely on it.





The same thing applies to karate, although is usually more aggressive, but finding a good school is essential. There are styles like kyokushin that's very aggressive, and it's practitioners are very tough. Another style such as Shidokan will make you not only as effective standing, but also grappling as it includes muay thai and judo/jiu-jitsu techniques.





I hope this information helps





good luck!
Reply:Though I practise tkd, sanshou and other chinese martial art, I would not say both are useful or useless. It solely depend on how you train and your opponent. Belt doesn't really matters in street fight. You think he will bow to you just because you're a black belt so you can kick him in the face while he's bowing? Joking...





I would recommend cross training in many other forms of MA, especially MMA, bjj or sanshou. Cross training with many MA expose you to more possibilities of attack. This way you'll learn to counter or prevent many other attacks other then the ones taught in your style. MMA, bjj and sanshou are rather competitive today, creating rather high standards and intensity in training and competitions. If you're competing in your style at high standards tournaments, chances are you're better then the average Joe.





But everything depends greatly on how hard you train and how much effort you put in. It does not solely depend on styles. While training in tkd, i had ppl from other martial art challenging me... I have taken down guys from bjj, karate, judo, san da, wingchun, kickbox, boxing, jkd and wushu(Sorry, i'm showing off...kidding) shows that the extra little efforts that i've put in has given me results.





Hopes this helps. Train hard.
Reply:find something better than those two
Reply:truthfully a good brick works wonders, and a good deterrent would be S%26amp;W in .45
Reply:well for those of us who dont have the luxury of carrying a 9mm to EVERY place we go, i choose karate, its actually street defence orientated whereas TKD is all sport orientated
Reply:depends how hard they train alot of schools dont use the heavy bag which is a shame because that thing makes you a hard hitter/kicker/elbower...hell any striker





but yeah it about how hard they train if it was the average crappy student or karate or tae kwan do i would say tae kwan do because there is more fitness work in class but if it was someone who knew what they where doing it could be either of the 2
Reply:generally karate is a more well rounded style and is more suitable for real self defence situations but that also depends on the instructor and the student.
Reply:Tae kwon do... only if you can combine it with other methods. Preferably these. Arnis, which is where you use a melee weapon, Kick-boxing, pretty similar to tae kwon do and great to support taekwon do in street fights, and hand self defense to be able to blok and put down the opposition.





Tae kwon do alone is still good. Its just more of a controlled and formal simillarity to kickboxing...