Roy Jones "karate" stance

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Originally Posted by wushu

Wtf. You must be drunk as shit. By know means is karate the best martial art. However, A blackbelt will spank a ufc guy any day of the week. I study Wushu and you know what i dont lose fights outside my Wushu training. Dumbass.

WRONG

Your quite the case.

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Originally Posted by Sinew

I think it has more to do if you are a true fighter at heart. You can be a boxer and get taken down . And do just as well on the ground as on your feet.

Learning karate doesnt mean you can fight. But if you can fight, and give your self a structure like karate to give you form than you can be a badass under that discipline.

You can go to the gym and practice boxing tecniques , but that doesnt really make you a good boxer, even if you mastered those tecniques.

Very true

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Originally Posted by Imperial1

Thus birthing what we now call MMA ! Bruce Lee was really ahead of his time ..

Indeed he is. Here's one of the quotes taken from him in one of his interviews(I saw it on Youtube):

"You see actually I do not teach Karate because I don't believe in styles anymore. I mean I do not believe there is such things as like Chinese way of fighting or a Japanese way of fighting or whatever way of fighting. Because unless human beings have 3 arms and 4 legs we will have a different way of fighting, but basically we have only 2 hands and 2 feet so style tends to not only separate man because they have their own doctrines then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change, y'know. But if you don't have style and if you just say, well here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? That way you won't create a style because "style" is a crystallization, yknow. I mean that way its a process of continuing growth."

Its pretty cool, because you can see that Burce was unknowingly talking about MMA. So its pretty enlightening, and shows he was advanced both for his age and his time.

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Originally Posted by bernie4366

pretty fucking stupid, considering Karate doesn't work in real life.

Maybe next you guys could sit around 'analyzing' early UFC tapes.

go get a gun and a mirror so you can shoot yourself