Taekwondo Foot
I am thinking of joining karate or taekwondo? What is the difference?
Also, I am not so strong in my Upper Body strenght but my Lower Body strenght is pretty good. I like to use my feet to attack and I know that is what taekwondo focuses on but I also want to know if karate also uses a decent amount of kicking? Anyway, I’m 14 and I weight 155 pounds.
What style of karate? There are numerous style that are broken down into three main catagories:
1) Okinawin- Karate originated in Okinawa, and true Okinawin karate is more then blocking, punching, and kicking. It contains numerous Locks, throws, sweeps, take downs, chokes, and clinch fighting techniques. The stances tend to be more upright, closer to a boxers stance, for mobility. Most styles are a blending of hard and soft techniques, and very few are flashy, and are focused on effective Self Defense motion. Okinawin karate tends to suit smaller people very well, because quite honestly your average okinawin is on the small side.
2) Japanese styles- These on average tend to be more sport oriented, but if taught by a good instructor are more then adiquate for self defense. These styles tend to have lower stances, which are great for power, but they sacrafice some mobility. Most japanes estyles that I know of would fall more into the hard style catagory.
3) American Hybred styles- These are styles that people have made up, and run the gammit from excellent to not worth c***. These are the ones you really want to check out the instructors credentials and who developed the style, and find out how well respected they are in the martial arts community.
Realize that this is just a very broad veiw, and I could go into really greater detail.
TKD is a korean style that does essentially emphisize kick, especially if it is an olympic style school. Traditonal TKD also contains many punching and grappling techniques, unfortunatly schools that teach it are few and far between.
My advice is do some research, and visit all available schools in your area. There are many answers on here about how to find a good school, a good instructor, and what to watch out for, just use the search feature.
Remember more importent then style is the quality of instruction you can find, whether the school trains realisticly with resistance and contact, and what style fits you.
Edit for Desk 3- No disrepect intended at all, but Isshin-Ryu is a combination of hard and soft.
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