Not sure whether this thread is a joke, if not: Do you want to learn it mainly for physical and mental fitness or for self-defense? As someone who took it for over a decade, I'd not recommend Karate for self-defense, as most of the moves aren't practical and the majority of schools don't do a lot of full contact sparring and real world applications. Kyokushin Karate is more focused on contact and sparring, so it'd be a good preparation for self-defense scenarios. Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, JKD, MMA and boxing would be in general more effective than Karate imo, if you don't care about the traditional aspects/style of Karate and other martial arts.
I try not to think about it too much and when someone’s trying to throw, pin, choke or break your arm you don’t really think about such things
Is this a trap for me? Whatever, you’re never too old. Go for it. Who’s the chick in your avatar? Lastly, @jacoby I love you. You keep doing you, boo.
Do it. Are you sure you want to do specifically karate? There are tons of martial arts out there. Not that I have anything against karate or distrust your choice. So, yeah, I say absolutely do it, and for a very specific reason. You'll appreciate it way more at your age. I have a black belt in tae kwon do. I started when I was 8, and got my black belt when I was 11. Or maybe it was 7-10. It's been 26 years. Anyway, it makes for a cool story, but I didn't learn much from it, because I was just too young to appreciate the subtlety of what was going on. I wish I'd take it in my 20s when I could actually make sense of when to block and when to kick and how to perform all the techniques properly. Just applying an adult brain to it would've made a huge difference. And yeah, it would be great exercise as well, but I think it's likely to exercise your brain as much as anything. Give it a shot.
I’ve always been interested in aikido because it is so flowing and effortless. These days the brutal efficiency of Krav Maga seems more appropriate. @rocketsjudoka thoughts?
A friend of mine took Krav for years and thought she could kill anyone that attacked her -- one late night of partying I was laughing at her skills and she challenged me to try. I charged her made a little juke and grabbed her in a bear hug from behind lifted her up and tickled/goosed her on the side. We laughed and laughed -- she was a good sport, but still didn't understand Krav is a scam she just thought she sucked. If you take a martial arts class and there is no sparring it's a scam.
Had a friend take some self defense classes and thought she was a badass- she just learned how to flip somebody in self defense, so I challenged her(mainly wanted to touch the boobies). So she let me grab her from behind as she would demonstrate how to flip me, I bet her drinks at the bar that she couldnt. I outweigh her about 30 lbs. She couldnt as much as she tried, so I just put my weight down on her and just laid on her for a good 3 mins and just laughed. We then got drunk on her tab and had teh seks. Thank you self defense classes for over-inflating ones ego/capability. Im not saying taking classes in any form is useless, it shows a person the technique but 80% of people cant and wont execute it.
He drove by a karate school and saw some MILFs picking their kids up. Suddenly this trainwreck of an idea popped in his head......
If you really want to learn about fighting pick a parking lot and name a time. I will kick your a$$ 3 times a week and it will only cost you the money in your wallet. Probably cheaper than karate and eventually you will figure it out.
