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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2013 22:21:24 GMT -5
Whats the more traditional and practical from these Karate styles?
Goju-ryu?
Shotokan?
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KyKarateka
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Post by KyKarateka on Jul 20, 2013 23:32:41 GMT -5
Well if by traditional you mean older then I believe Goju Ryu is older. But in my opinion Shotokan has been passed on through generations more thoroughly than Goju-Ryu has from what I've seen.
Practical depends on your terms. If you're looking for full contact sparring I haven't seen too many schools of either that have it. I've seen a Shotokan dojo that does full contact spar but those are quite rare. There aren't any Goju Ryu dojos in my area but from what I hear it's largely sport orientated in most places.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2013 0:05:34 GMT -5
I thought the JKA changed Shotokan a lot? Removed grappling and made it more like kickboxing....Am I wrong?
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Post by KyKarateka on Jul 22, 2013 20:22:35 GMT -5
For as long as I've known JKA has been largely sport orientated. I'm not sure when they did grappling but there isn't much at all today. At this point most isn't even kickboxing, it's land one strike reset type of thing.
The school I live near I don't think is under JKA if they are they seem to be quite a bit different from the rest of the JKA dojos. Their sparring looks more like Kyokushin sparring but with gloves. It's different in a way that I can't really describe, more clean I could say?
Kyokushin fighters usually bash each other to the ground, the way this school does it is more technical employing more blocks and parries than full out bashing each other to death.
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Post by odee on Jul 23, 2013 4:51:53 GMT -5
Good schools, bad schools. Honestly, both Shotokan and Goju Ryu can claim some wonderful schools, I think Shotokan becomes practical faster though, it might just be my Kyokushin training talking but I believe the reason Oyama put students through Shotokan style training first is a sound one. A fighter must learn to brawl before they can learn to control.
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