Tai Chi vs Krav Maga

[abe_tz]

Who would win in a sparring fight...a master of Tai Chi or a very skilled Krav Maga practitioner?

 

[clfsean]

Chuck Norris

 

[Tez3]

Who cares.

 

[Dirty Dog]

The sniper on the roof behind them.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Godzilla.... but only IF Chuck Norris was not there

 

[Dirty Dog]

Depends on which one is the Good Guy, as defined by the author of the screenplay, and which scene is being filmed. It's possible for the Good Guy to lose, if the scene takes place early in the movie. By the end, it's virtually guaranteed that the Good Guy will win. Especially if the Good Guy spends most of the interval between fight scenes gathering wisdom from a frail elderly man who speaks only in aphorisms and metaphors.

 

[mograph]

Godzilla.... but only IF Chuck Norris was not there

GOJIRA!

 

[mograph]

... gathering wisdom from a frail elderly man who speaks only in aphorisms and metaphors.

... or, if the elderly man were the Sphinx in Mystery Men, he'd be employing Antimetabole, a type of Chiasmus.

(Yeah, I had to look it up.)

 

[JowGaWolf]

By the responses that were given, I assume this type of question is common lol.

 

[Tez3]

Style versus style threads never end well so best not to encourage arguments in the first place. X v Y is a very negative way of looking at martial arts.

 

[jks9199]

The questions pop up not infrequently.

Really, there's no way to answer it. Every style has strengths and weaknesses, pros and cons. Things they do well, things they don't. They reflect the beliefs and values and strategies and tactics of the people and places where they were developed. For example, I'm familiar with a style of stick fighting that values life highly -- so they avoid strikes to the body, especially the most vulnerable places, and to the groin, where life is created. Krav Maga was developed consciously and intentionally as a style to be learned quickly, and to be brutally effective, drawing on Imi Lichtenfield's personal training background and experiences fighting in the days leading up to WWII. Tai Chi has a very different origin...

So... rather than ask "who would win..." -- you might ask "what could a fight between a Tai Chi master and a Krav Maga master look like?" How would their tactics and strategies work together?

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

I know what will happen when Taiji vs.Taiji. A is waiting for B to make the 1st move. B is also waiting for A to make the 1st move. They both end up with starving to death.

 

[23rdwave]

I know what will happen when Taiji vs.Taiji. A is waiting for B to make the 1st move. B is also waiting for A to make the 1st move. They both end up with starving to death.

You are thinking of chess.

 

[mograph]

I know what will happen when Taiji vs.Taiji. A is waiting for B to make the 1st move. B is also waiting for A to make the 1st move. They both end up with starving to death.

... or saying, "screw it, let's go for a beer."

 

[Xue Sheng]

... or, if the elderly man were the Sphinx in Mystery Men, he'd be employing Antimetabole, a type of Chiasmus.

(Yeah, I had to look it up.)

Or Joel Grey in makeup (Chiun)

 

[clfsean]

Or Joel Grey in makeup (Chiun)

True story. Chuin for the win.