I apologize for what I have said earlier that Judo and Karate are kid’s play. I found out that they are actually not. Japanese Karate are as dangerous and deadly as Chinese Kung Fu. The only thing that I should have been more clear and explicit is, I have seen Judo-Karate Black-Belts and so called experts in India and I have not seen anything in them, anything in their eyes or in their movements or in their personality as a Martial-Artist that I can call deadly. They just look like sportsmen, better than a average man on the street when it comes to fighting and except that specific thing they not good fighters at all. From my perspective, they are a disgrace on the art of Karate.
I watched this video on YouTube and I came to know I was wrong. The ability to win or loose a fight does not lie in the style but in the individual. Its the individual who is responsible for his own fate in the combat. This post may look small but this caused a very fundamental change in my approach to Martial-Arts. Rather than blaming a style for losing or winning a fight, a man should look deeper into own soul, into his daily training routine and his practice and his dediation to Martial-Arts. If you loose, you have just shown your own inability to train yourself harder in your style, its not because your opponent was stronger, its because you did not train harder and better. So, from my perspective you are the one who is to blame, not the style. Anyone who thinks a style wins over the other needs to watch this video.
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There is an old saying in Kung Fu:
The style does not make the man, the man makes the style
Comment by Zen — August 27, 2009 @ 10:39 pm