I really want to know what the real difference between these 2 and which is the best one to learn?|||Let%26#039;s start with the most obvious difference: karate is Japanese, and kung fu (gong fu, or actually, wu shu) is Chinese.
Kung fu is an older martial art, and focuses on balance and harmony, the yin and yang forces. It isn%26#039;t just %26quot;circular,%26quot; but focuses on moving the body and using your opponents force against them, like tai chi in a way.
Karate is more, well, linear. It has direct moves that come together in %26quot;kata%26quot;s and can be executed.
I personally favor kung fu, because of the many different styles, and the different weapons and techniques. I find Karate to be slightly limiting, as I have taken karate before during a required course for school, but I find it not in any way as free as kung fu.
Kung fu is more %26quot;real%26quot; partially because it doesn%26#039;t have the whole %26quot;belt%26quot; system, and whatnot. It is a measure of your own skill and perseverance, and you don%26#039;t get rewards, nore should you necessarily need to. Karate gives you belts as status markers, but I personally prefer being able to gauge my own status by my own and my master%26#039;s standards.
Hope this helps! :)|||Wow, this is a very complex question.
You should first think about origin. Kung Fu is chinese and Karate is Japanese.
Kung Fu is actually a name that is given to anything that is done with extreme care and dedication. The word has has got stuck to kung fu because of the necessity of training hard to learn it. There are many different styles of Kung Fu, each one (in general) based in the name of an animal. Kung fu uses many movements that require the fighter to go very low on his feet, bowing his head sometimes or bending his body. Kung fu explores circular and soft movements, trying to immitate the animals that have inspired them.
As for karate, there are also many schools, but the differences are not so big as they are in Kung fu. karate tries to save movements avoiding bending to low. Instead, movements are done as easy as possible in order to allow quick and effective attacks and counter attacks.
Karate also has circular movements, but uses many direct strikes and effective block techniques. Finally, karate is more concerned with effectiveness than with beauty.
Renato F.
3 Dan Karate Goju Ryu |||the answer is simple, one is from Okinawa the other is from china.
Karate is from Okinawa, a combination of many different arts with okinawan wrestling called Te (where te of kara-te comes from). karate has many different influences which include arts from India, china, siam as well as others. if you look at any two different families of Karate you can see some similarities. the primary principle of karate is that there is no first attack, that means that karate is a defensive art.
Kung fu is a variety of chinese martial arts which someone in these arts can tell you more about.|||When the Satsuma samurai invaded the Ryryukyu archapelago in 1600 establishing martial law a group of Okinawans eventually made their way to China to study kung fu.
Bringing back their lessons to Okinawa and practicing in the strictest of secrecy, the Okinawans modified the techniques of kung fu and developed %26#039;Okinawa Te%26#039; (Okinawa Hand).
They had to defeat the highly armed and proficient samurai in life %26amp; death fights bare handed or empty handed, and usually without a second chance. So the first strike had to be fatal to the samurai.
The Okinawans adopted a linear method and powerful method of delivering punches, strikes, kicks, and blocks to defeat the armed samurai. Kung fu tends to be a %26#039;soft%26#039; style of striking defense which the Okinawans found unsuitable.
Eventually Okinawan Te was renamed by the Japanese as %26#039;Kara-Te%26#039; (empty hand).
Karate emphasizes straight or linear punches, open hand chops (shuto), powerful kicks, powerful punches, and lots of hand %26amp; foot conditioning to be able to defeat the enemy with a single blow.
By comparison, the Okinawans and Japanese felt that Kung Fu was too dramatic and showy with a lot of unnecessary techniques and excessive blocks and strikes.|||Most of the posters are right and frankly I don%26#039;t know what punk is giving them thumbs down; at the most basic level, Kung Fu uses circular motions, where Karate uses linear %26quot;broken%26quot; rhythm instead of flowing. The purpose of broken rhythm in Karate is to generate power with the weight of the whole entire body, blocking or attacking. The purpose of circular motion in Kung Fu is to generate power through momentum.
Of the two, Kung Fu is superior; if effectiveness is measured in energy efficiency assuming a well focused mind and impecably trained and conditioned body, two equally fit, equally sized, equally intelligent oponents, one uses Karate, the other Kung Fu, the Kung Fu fighter wins because he doesn%26#039;t sweat as much see, his moves won%26#039;t leave him huffing and puffing. You see a Kung Fu match, and they can be scary affairs, fast and furios much more intense than anything in the movies. You see Karate, and someone throws a punch, maybe once every 5 minutes, Karate in many ways is a stiff defensive competition much like bare knuckle boxing used to be. At least the more traditional styles; Kyokshin is not quite that way because its basically brawling but with a gi on.
Of those two go for Kung Fu; in terms of energy efficiency, movement efficiency, and power of movement, Kung Fu is far superior. The only way a Karateka stands a chance against a Kung Fu expert, is if the Karateka in question is a Karate master whose ability to focus is perfect, and when they aim, they NEVER miss. Karate can only defeat Kung Fu if the Karateka has become a master, and can spot openings in the heat of a fight like nothing.
Advanced martial artists often have ultra intense concentration; they won%26#039;t leave areas of their body open. Don%26#039;t be fooled by the way they stand; when two advanced Karateka fight, if they just stand around seemingly doing nothing, what it is in fact is an intense battle of concentration, each fighter looking for lapses in focus in the other, that window of opportunity to strike. See with Kung Fu, while mistakes in fighting are not encouraged, because the circular movements allow for rapid fire barrages, whereas Karate does not, you don%26#039;t need to have a %26quot;transcendent mind%26quot; to be able to defend yourself with it.
When a person reaches an absolute point of focus where no distraction can set in, concentration remains unperturbed and relaxation is constant even if accosted by several assailants, what martial art they practice becomes a moot point. From a purely technical/physics point of view, yes, some styles are better than others, some styles are more effective than others.
Example; you waste less strength doing a Judo sacrifice throw, than you do from executing a double leg takedown. Provided you time the technique right, the sacrifice throw is superior to the double leg takedown, assuming both parties are wearing a gi. Since you are asking because you appear to have a choice, go for Kung Fu, although, make sure they were trained in some large Chinese or Taiwanese organization or something; it is a sad thing but, you know how in Kung Fu movies the hero looks for a school, but in his quest he constantly runs into frauds, charlatans, abusive people, etc, etc, etc?
The sad thing is, that aspect of Kung Fu movies is actually correct; a prospective student may spend years searching for the %26quot;right teacher.%26quot; Good Kung Fu schools were hard to find in China, and only the efforts of the PRC government has organized the various styles. Left to their own devices, Chinese martial arts as Bruce Lee described them would still be a classical mess, a chaotic quagmire of various syntheses of several styles from experts exchanging techniques.
You have a dude who studies Baijiquan, encounter a Tai Chi Chuan expert, Tai Chi expert wins, so, the Baijiquan guy incorporates some Tai Chi into his Baiji forms. Next he encounters a Bagua Zhang expert, and so he incorporates some of those techniques. Because throughout history Chinese Kung Fu experts have traded techniques as if though they were baseball cards, the world of Chinese martial arts, like Bruce Lee famously said, became a chaotic, messy quagmire, a %26quot;classical mess.%26quot;
It is a bit ironic, that even though originally the communists in China wanted to away with Kung Fu, although not the nicest people, the PRC government is possibly Kung Fu%26#039;s best friend.|||In brief, %26quot;karate%26quot; is the hand-to-hand, unarmed fighting method that originated on the island of Okinawa, and spread to mainland Japan.
%26quot;Kung Fu%26quot; is a generic term used for Chinese martial arts. Other terms, like %26quot;Chuan Fa%26quot; or %26quot;Wu Shu%26quot;, may be more appropriate. The expression %26quot;Kung Fu%26quot; literally translates as %26quot;work time%26quot;. It means any skill that you have to work at to get good at. Leonardo Da Vinci%26#039;s kung fu was painting, Henry Kissinger%26#039;s kung fu was diplomacy, etc.
I%26#039;ve tried a few different systems of each. There%26#039;s no right answer for which one is the %26quot;best one to learn%26quot;. Whatever you like doing, is the one you should stick with. I prefer the %26quot;flavor%26quot; of karate, but have learned some useful stuff from traditional Chinese martial arts, as well. See what%26#039;s in your area, try a few classes, and pick the one you enjoy the most.|||I can%26#039;t believe the level of misinformation here in this forum.
The sad part of this already sad phenomena is that most of the wrong answers are chosen as %26quot;best answer%26quot;. Those that are answered by kids who have no real foundation in martial arts - no consistent, extensive training - are usually chosen.
Sometimes I wonder if Y! Answers is more damaging to the martial arts than beneficial.
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Tae Kwon Do Addict - YOU ARE THE PRIME EXAMPLE OF MY COMMENT!!!
Kung Fu - is a CHINESE term, not a Japanese term, which means, if your teacher taught you everything you know, NEITHER OF YOU KNOW SH!T!!!|||Kung Fu for one is from Japan, unlike Tae Kwon do which originated in Korea. Kung Fu like other japanese martial arts is very fluid. The movements are fluid and circular, But not like in movies. People don%26#039;t jump ten feet in the air in real Kung fu so don%26#039;t let that mislead you. Also there seems to be a more spiritual side to Kung fu. Not like a religion you have to follow, but like Traditions and things. But all martial arts have Traditions tied into them.
Tae kwon do on the other hand, is from Korea as I mentioned earlier. The techniqes are a bit more rigid but have some flow to them. There are a signifigant ammount of air techniqes involved. Tae kwon do teaches many things including the five tennents: self control, persevernce, integrity, courtesy, and idomitable spirit. There is a wide expanse of moves, from you head to your heel. you can use almost anything.
As for which is better to train in. I would say tae kwon do becaue it%26#039;s like killing two birds wiht one stone. I do tae kwon do, and it%26#039;s made me stronger spiritually and of course physicly. It teaches you many life lessons that I can%26#039;t even begin to explain the impotance of. Also I would say that it is more usefull on a steet situation, meaning if you get attacked it may work better. Because of the style of kung fu, with it%26#039;s set ups being a dead giveaway of the move your about to throw, it is hard to defeat an opponet.
if you are looking for a martial arts to train your mind and body tae kwon do is for you. or if you are looking for a way to defend yourself. Tae kwon do also seems to have a wider range ad variety as well. tae kwon do is famous for competition (sparring...etc.), board breaking, and just the love of the classes it self
But kung fu is great if you want to use flexibility and long movements to the stengths. It all comes down to what exactly your looking to do|||One is not better than the other.... %26quot;Karate%26quot; systems tend to be more hard and linear in motion.... %26quot;Kung Fu%26quot; systems tend to be more fluid in motion, with deeper stances and more elaborate forms....
Both focus on striking and offer little grappling knowledge.... Every Martial Art has its benefits....you just have to find what is right for you and your training goals.... |||About like different between Tea and Coffee . Both you may drink , both people like , some people like tea , some coffee . Some people enjoy tea some coffee . Is very hard answer your question . I hope you do not looking for shallow answer like Kung Fu is from China a Karate from Japan . Hard to answer . |||Kung Fu uses more circular movements, as to where Karate is more linier in its movements.
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