Whats better? karate. kung fu.?

Question

Whats better? karate. kung fu.?

Answer 1

In my opinion karate. But it depends what your looking to learn. Karate is basic and kung fu is a little more conplex and is a softer martial arts.

Answer 2

So much ignorance on here it is laughable. The fact is karate and kung fu can both be excellent Martial Arts, provided you have a good instructor and are tarined correctly.

ksnake10- i have always thought from your previous answers, and now with this one you remove all doubt, that you really know nothing about true karate or Kung Fu. Go play with your UFC action figures. They are generally not similiar in the least.

Babyrock- Chi or Ki is very important in traditional karate.

Trying to compare Kung Fu to Karate is like trying to compare Ford's and Chevy's. There are numerous style of Kung Fu, just as there are types of karate.

Example- Karate can be broken down into three major branches. The original Okinawin styles, the Japanese styles that derived from it, and the hybred style's, most of which were made in the United states. There are many branches of each of these. Some styles are more hard, some more soft. Most Okinawin styles are a blending of hard and soft.

In the end a style cannot fight for you, period. A style is a tool, how it is used and how well it works depends on the person weilding it.

Answer 3

kungfu. just about anything americanized is c**p.

Answer 4

Both are pretty awesome -- although Kung-Fu seems a little easier on the joints

Answer 5

To the guy above who said kung fu is softer thats wrong.

Answer 6

karate because it deals with eveeryday life situations

u wouldnt do a spinning jump to kick someones as$ would u?

Answer 7

Completely different History and Origin.

There are different types, classes and family of Kung Fu.

One of which is from the same family as Karate.

The traditional..un-westernised Karate has the forbidden moves that are so powerful, it will make the opponents heart stop.

And there is a class of Kung Fu that masters in acupressure points of the human body. Which a single strike at the right point may harm your opponent permanently. (Old Karate from Okaido also studies Acupressure)

Kung Fu practices CHI where as Karate doesn't see CHI as important.

I like Kung Fu better for the history, mind, dicipline, training..etc.

Answer 8

The two styles are so similar it's hard to say definitively which is better.