Lightbringer (11-30-2018)
I love watching martial arts of all varieties but I have come to the conclusion that in a real world sense, particularly where personal self defense is concerned as opposed to competition, the Western Martial arts are certainly superior to the Eastern.
You see that particularly illustrated in MMA. Those who master western boxing and wrestling dominate the sport. Certainly there is a fair amount of Brazilian Ju Jitsu hybrid but still the vast majority of Eastern Martial arts are to flawed and will lose to someone who has mastered western style striking as represented by Boxing and most submission moves are standard western wrestling techniques. I've seen to many Eastern style fighters try to throw kicks and get handed their asses. It works on occasion but most of the time you get caught with an inside defensive move or miss and are placed off balance and get your ass handed to you.
Same with all the Eastern Blade/Sword martial arts. As impressive as they look, they are all based primarily on slashing techniques and are inferior to Western swordplay predicated on stabbing. The best Kendo masters lose two thirds of the time to a Western fencer fencing master armed with a rapier. It boils down that the stabbing philosophy is a more efficient and effective manner of killing than slashing cuts are.
Any thoughts as to why the Western Martial arts are superior to the Eastern?
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Lightbringer (11-30-2018)
Don't be afraid to see what you see
btw, the reason you think western masters dominnate is because the west is populated with western masters.
Don't be afraid to see what you see
Well that's because they beat the Eastern masters ass.
I mean it just takes simple observation. Eastern Martial artist strike can strike hard. Those with the hardest fist/hand strikes are Karate masters but watch them complete against boxers of the same weight classification and the very best Karate masters don't strike nearly as hard as professional boxers. Not even close. As for others like Kung Fu or Taekwondo, they don't even come close. Hell I've seen Korean boxers easily knockout Taekwondo competitors with relative ease.
The Eastern styles look spectacular but the basic striking method of boxing just generates more body mass and momentum into striking power. Karate is the only one I've seen that comes close but that's just it...it comes close...they just don't hit quite as hard. Boxers strike with between 25 to 50% more power than a Karate strike.
Last edited by Mott the Hoople; 11-30-2018 at 12:50 PM.
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Take your MMA guys to the far east and let them compete against actual easters martial artists and see how they fare.
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Lightbringer (11-30-2018)
Here's an example of what I mean. See how wide open the Karate fighters are and how easily the boxers block their strikes and kicks (and how those kicks get them into trouble) and then also notice how the boxers are generating far more power in their strikes.
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5 seconds into this one shows you what I mean about kicking. Again, notice how wide open to being hit the Karate fighter is and how easily the Boxer defends his strikes.
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