Why is karate held so high in anime and manga? Surely nips would know better by now

Why is karate held so high in anime and manga? Surely nips would know better by now.

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Depends on the karate, there's a stack of different forms

Karate it's pretty fucking good mate, not the kata faggy ones, im talking about full contact styles made for actual fighting, a Kyokushin fighter couod fuck you up really bad.

Because its common to train in it, just like Kendo.
The civil form is also centered around some kind of dance excercize which means its a pretty good way to stay in shape, retain muscle memory, and train technique.
The brick breaking stuff is impressive to the lay person, and so is what it can do in street brawls.

Its also segregated into the sport, the fighting art, and whatever shares that name. So in name its essentially the same as saying "Kung Fu" which roughly means "Fighting Art".

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If you took two identical dudes and gave one five years of training in karate (kyokushin or shotokan, or god forbid goju ryu) and the other five years of training in muay thai or even boxing, my money's on the second one 8/10 times.

>or even boxing
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Footwork alone won't save you from entry level grappling. And thats the entire reason why Karate is held so high: Its a entry level all arounder that Japs participate in, by the volume.
That said, most of sport martial arts are bullshit. Because you limit movement or options, meaning its no longer free movement to control.

Most forms of sport weapon arts suffer the same issue, even HEMA.

Sometimes it's actually the opposite. You provide things that allow you to do things within that sport that you wouldn't be able to in a life-threatening situation.
Good examples include:
>boxing gloves and hand wraps
Provide abnormal wrist stability and protect your hands from breaking, so you can throw punches with the maximum standing momentum you can produce without fearing destroying your ligaments and bones

>tatami floors
Allow you to throw your opponent and grapple him on the floor without the fear of dying when hitting the floor or shaving of your skin by scratching against concrete/stone/whatever.

sauce?

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I tried looking on yandex but couldn't quite find it

I don’t believe you. I found it in 2 seconds.

God I wish that was me.

Turning your own body into a weapon is cool.

What about Uechi-ryu? I hear that's pretty effective.

because nihon strong!

Well good for you I didn't

I did karate when I was a kid, but probably not for actual fighting. anyway it's cool

The best Karate technique is the one where you shove your balls back into your body to defend against a groin attack.

isn't that sumo?

What's wrong with goju-Ryu? Shits cash

I wonder this too, in Holyland they gave the explanation that the illegal move shit that you'd see outside tournaments do some real fucking damage, but I wonder if that can be said about any discipline.

A lot of Asian martial arts have it as a technique

Depends on the Karate school to be honest.

There are a lot of different Karate schools

Muay thai has become to much of a sport (often the case with karate depending) and effective moves in it generally don't get used as they don't score "points" and even if we take out the sports factor. Muay thai isn't a defensive martial art whereas lots of karate schools have effective and efficient ways of dealing with overly offensive attacks

I like the Chinese version of that where you cut off your balls to defend against that.

That's pretty amazeballs

Truly nothing can compete against 4000+ years and growing Chinese knowledge.

But she lost

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What about judo?

Pretty sure most kyokushin fighters adopt a boxing stance and throw shitloads of low kicks like muay thai fighters, full contact striking styles are very similar to each other

I always thought of karate as teaching a way of life rather than teaching how to beat the shit out of the opponent. Maybe it's because all I know of karate is from tales of mcdojos.

That happens for a lot of full contact sports because of earning points not necessarily the best for fighting

All are shit in comparison to more effective martial arts.

Full contact without head punches. It makes you develop very bad habits. There isn't a karate that is effective aginst all other martial arts.

Karate is not an all rounder, all styles have restrictions. You can' punch to the head in one, you can't grab or throw on another, and you only have semi contact in others. Some styles are guilty of more things.

>lots of karate schools have effective and efficient ways of dealing with overly offensive attacks
No they don't.

A judo practitioner eats a karate practitioner if he can get really close, but the lack of punches and kicks make it ineffective