senseiblackbelt
Green Belt
why can't we just all just pratcise the same types of martial arts instead of having a gazillion different types?
why are there so many different style of karate?
- Thread starter senseiblackbelt
- Start date
Kickboxer101
Master Black Belt
- Joined
- Mar 30, 2016
- Messages
- 1,189
- Reaction score
- 312
Because that would be very limiting as some styles aren't for everyone. Why should everyone practice the same style
In simplest form (this doesn't actually represent all the different branches, but it's a good conceptual answer), people experience their training differently, find different things in it, want to emphasize different things, and end up teaching it differently. If those differences are significant enough, either that teacher or other people eventually start referring to that different stuff by a name, and a style is born.
JR 137
Grandmaster
Ask a Kyokushin student why he doesn't switch to Shotokan. Ask a Uechi Ryu student why he doesn't switch to Wado Ryu.
Those styles are all quite different from one another. There may be some crossover, but there's fundamental differences in what's being emphasized.
I study Seido Juku, where our founder (Tadashi Nakamura) was a prominent Kyokushin fighter/teacher. He left Kyokushin for several reasons, and has changed his emphasis in what he's teaching. I used to study a Kyokushin offshoot in my 20s. Currently being 40, I don't recover from bare knuckle kumite and that type of conditioning day in and day out like I used to. We still spar pretty hard, but we wear protective gear; the emphasis is less on being able to take a punch and more on being technical. Among other things. Some will agree with Nakamura's current stance, others won't. Others don't agree with his nor Kyokushin's ideology.
There's something out there for everyone - from the people who think the only way to be effective is to be able to take a beating and keep on going to the people who don't want any contact at all, and everything in between.
There's a local karate dojo that does nothing but point fighting and kata for tournament/aesthetic purposes. If a rule came out that all karate had to follow that curriculum/style, I'd be at the local judo club immediately. There's also a local karate school who pretty much spends half the class punching and kicking each other like punching bags and the other half fighting bare knuckle. If that was the only choice, I'd be at said judo club.
Thankfully there's many karate schools in between those two where I found an optimal balance for me.
Those styles are all quite different from one another. There may be some crossover, but there's fundamental differences in what's being emphasized.
I study Seido Juku, where our founder (Tadashi Nakamura) was a prominent Kyokushin fighter/teacher. He left Kyokushin for several reasons, and has changed his emphasis in what he's teaching. I used to study a Kyokushin offshoot in my 20s. Currently being 40, I don't recover from bare knuckle kumite and that type of conditioning day in and day out like I used to. We still spar pretty hard, but we wear protective gear; the emphasis is less on being able to take a punch and more on being technical. Among other things. Some will agree with Nakamura's current stance, others won't. Others don't agree with his nor Kyokushin's ideology.
There's something out there for everyone - from the people who think the only way to be effective is to be able to take a beating and keep on going to the people who don't want any contact at all, and everything in between.
There's a local karate dojo that does nothing but point fighting and kata for tournament/aesthetic purposes. If a rule came out that all karate had to follow that curriculum/style, I'd be at the local judo club immediately. There's also a local karate school who pretty much spends half the class punching and kicking each other like punching bags and the other half fighting bare knuckle. If that was the only choice, I'd be at said judo club.
Thankfully there's many karate schools in between those two where I found an optimal balance for me.
Everyone should convert to Isshin Ryu. Problem solved.
hoshin1600
Senior Master
- Joined
- May 16, 2014
- Messages
- 3,220
- Reaction score
- 1,747
Didn't we have this conversation before?
Define a type...
Because everybody is different. You could say there is a style of martial arts for every martial artist.
Why so many different kinds of bicycles? You'd think one style would be enough.
Headhunter
Senior Master
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2016
- Messages
- 4,765
- Reaction score
- 1,599
Why do you want us to? You do what you do who cares if everyone else trains in something different. This board would be very boring if we did
Steve
Mostly Harmless
Some of Its about marketing and making a living. Some is about origin of the styles. Some is about purpose and intent. Some is philosophical.
Kind of a silly question. It is kind of like wondering why there are different breeds of dog. Why doesn't everyone just get a schnauzer?
Kind of a silly question. It is kind of like wondering why there are different breeds of dog. Why doesn't everyone just get a schnauzer?
People don't all get schnauzers because it's too hard of a word to spell.
All bicycles are the same- the seats were designed to make you feel like you're getting attacked in prison.
All Karate is the same, (we just use different words, think of them like regional accents) - each school is the best school, the founder was the coolest guy, we belt test this way because, bow to each other, whack that m'fer up side of the head and do it without getting hit, go wash your gi.
All bicycles are the same- the seats were designed to make you feel like you're getting attacked in prison.
All Karate is the same, (we just use different words, think of them like regional accents) - each school is the best school, the founder was the coolest guy, we belt test this way because, bow to each other, whack that m'fer up side of the head and do it without getting hit, go wash your gi.
But never wash your obi. That's where the magick lives.
MI_martialist
Brown Belt
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2016
- Messages
- 401
- Reaction score
- 44
Style = preferences.
hoshin1600
Senior Master
- Joined
- May 16, 2014
- Messages
- 3,220
- Reaction score
- 1,747
The word is homogeneous. There was a guy once that thought all people should be the same. Blond hair blue eyes......seems it didn't turn out so well for him. Homogeneous comformity is never a good thing.
drop bear
Sr. Grandmaster
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2014
- Messages
- 23,943
- Reaction score
- 8,690
Wait he became president didn't he?
D
Deleted member 34973
Guest
Individual interpretations
Nobody Important
2nd Black Belt
- Joined
- May 25, 2016
- Messages
- 893
- Reaction score
- 474
Good post!
Certainly not a president of the USA.
Similar threads
- Tony Starks
- Karate
