Becareful with karate, you have faggot karate and brutal karate... And karate isn't supposed to be a sport btw. And ultimately it's all about the practitioner, just because you do mma or muay thai or whatever doesn't mean shit
Francisco filho was from karate for instance https://youtu.be/O8ZxkBJAZmQ?t=77 while he wasn't the best fighter of all times, you don't want to take a fransisco filho in the face or elsewhere
I mean, he fought against ernesto hoost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTwdoAO7k0Q that's something already
And personally I don't need to take a gary o'neil in the face to understand that a karateka is potentially dangerous https://youtu.be/exYXeMkpoCM?t=84
This very much sums up almost all martial arts.
Taekwondo in America gets a bad rap because of the pathetic Americanization of it. Legitimate Korean taekwondo is meant to end fights immediately, with your opponent likely requiring serious medical intervention.
The first technique I learned was: front kick to the groin, side kick to the pelvis, front kick to the groin. Now do it faster and faster, and throw the kicks harder and harder.
MMA should rather be called MCS, as in mixed combat sports, for the reason you mentioned, in "martial arts" there's martial, as in war. Most martial arts these days have become sports. Krav maga isn't intended to be a sport for instance, and most krav techniques can't be used in MMA for obvious reasons, kind of like karate there's a whole set of techniques you just can't use because it's designed to main, cripple and kill, it's for war
That's funny. My taekwondo instructor said he doesn't like it being called mixed martial arts.
"Ultimate fighting, that's a good name for it."
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