What is 'Judo'?What is the difference between Judo & Karate?
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judo \nA sport and method of physical training similar to wrestling, developed in Japan in the late 19th century and using principles of balance and leverage adapted from jujitsu. \nkarate   A Japanese art of self-defense in which sharp blows and kicks are administered to pressure-sensitive points on the body of an opponen
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Originally, Karate training did not involve any notions of rank. After introduction to Japan, some adopted only 3 obi (belt) colours. White, Brown and Black, with several ranks of each. Here is the original belt system, still used by Shotokan Karate of America\n\nUngraded - white \n8th kyu ~ 4th kyu - white \n3rd kyu ~ 1st kyu - brown \n1st dan and above - black \nAs karate became more widespread, a decision was made by some karate organizations to add more colors and ranks to the system.\n\nOne example is given below, but these vary among organizations.\n\n8th kyu - white - one stripe \n7th kyu - white - two stripes \n6th kyu - white - three stripes \n5th kyu - yellow \n4th kyu - purple \n3th kyu - green \n2rd kyu - blue \n1st kyu - brown \n1st dan ~ 10th dan - black
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Karate is a multi-cultural development, absorbing the contributions of many gifted practitioners over time and crossing many borders. Compiling a reasonably accurate history of Karate is challenging.\n\nThe development of Karate occurred chiefly in Okinawa and China in the 19th century, and Japan in the early 20th century. This was an especially turbulent period in history for that area of the world, including Japan's official annexation of the Okinawan island group in 1874, the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), and the rise of Japanese expansionism (1905-1945). The wars caused disruptions and upheaval, and incentives for concealment. The Karate styles within Japan have fairly clean lineages; but any assessment of how Karate crossed borders in this period is complicated by issues of nationalism, the historic Japanese racism faced by non-Japanese Asians, and the typical resentment of occupied peoples toward a conqueror. Many recognizeable offshoots of Karate, particularly in Korea, deny the name because of nationalistic ideals and the word's association with Japan; likewise, some obvious offshoots of Karate are disowned by Japanese practitioners, perhaps because of a Japanese preoccupation with primacy or purity.\n\n[edit]\nKarate's Origins in Okinawa\nJapan annexed the nominally independent Okinawan island group in 1874 after centuries of strong Japanese influence over the kingdom's affairs. One might suggest that something of "Okinawan" origin (such as Karate) could be equally desribed as being of "Japanese" origin. The relationship between Okinawa and Japan is complicated. For purposes of discussing Karate, it is convenient to speak of Okinawa and Japan as separate entities. The question of whether Karate is Japanese or Okinawan is somewhat akin to asking whether the luau or the hula dance are American traditions or Hawaiian ones. They developed in Hawaii prior to when Hawaii became one of the United States, and so are usually described as Hawaiian, not American. Similarly for Karate, which is of Okinawan origin.\n\n[edit]\nHistory\nKarate is a mixture of indigenous Okinawan fighting arts and empty-handed Chinese fighting arts, the latter having been brought to Okinawa by political envoys, merchants, and sailors to and from Fujian Province. Estimates of the amount of Chinese influence vs. Okinawan influence in modern Karate vary considerably, from 40% Chinese/40% Okinawan/20% other to 80% Chinese/20% Okinawan. Some believe that there is also a Japanese jujutsu influence stemming from the long Japanese presence on Okinawa.\n\nIn 1722, Sakugawa, who had studied pugilism and staff fighting in China, started teaching a fighting art in the city of Shuri that he called "Karate-no-sakugawa." This was the first known recorded reference to the art of Karate (唐手) in a modern form. The word "Kara" (唐) referred to China itself, and "Te" (手) meant hand, in the sense of a style of fighting; so Karate meant "the Chinese techniques" or "Tang Hand".\n\nTo this day Karate still bears a striking resemblance to Fujian martial arts such as Fujian White Crane, Five Ancestors, and Goroquan (Hard Soft Fist, pronounced "Gōjūken" in Japanese). For the most part there were no particular styles of "te", but rather a network of practitioners with their own individual methods and eclectic traditions. Early styles of karate can be generalized as Shuri-te, Naha-te and Tomari-te, named after the three cities in which they emerged. Each city (and the teachers who lived there) had particular kata, techniques, and principles that distinguished its local version of te from the others.\n\nAround the 1820's, Sokon Matsumura taught a synthesis of te (Shuri-te and Tomari-te) and Shaolin (Chinese 少林) styles. It would become the style Shorin-Ryu ("Little Forest"). Matsumura taught his karate to An
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Cool Judo is finally a religion,good to know?\nI sincerely hope you're joking,because if you're not it says horrible things about your intelligence.
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karate and as you become fit judo and/or ju jitsu is just awesome!\nEither of these will teach you to defend yourself immediately.\nkarate in particular emphasizes self discipline.\nTae-Kwon-Do  is the commonist type of karate taught in the US. Kung Fu is also one type of karate.\n\nBruce Lee does karate. Hitting, punching and kicking.\nSo does chuck Norris.\n\nju-jitsu involves using pressure points on your opponents body to control him. You do not have to move much. but it is harder to practice alone so requires more classes.
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In kickboxing(well at least thai) you kick with your shin and the power comes more from the torque(pivoting on foot twisting hip, and swinging of arms) while taekwondo is more kicking with the foot and get its power from the snapping motion of the leg.\n\ntaekwondo sparring is focus more on point scoring while kickboxing is more knockout\n\nkickboxing is practically boxing but you can use kicks, elbows, and knees too; taekwondo at least to me focus more on kicks than punches.\n\nkickboxing the techniques are less fancy and easier to learn, while taekwondo is a lil more flashy and harder to learn and tend to require great flexibity\n\nthe fighting stance and and blocking is pretty different. kickboxing resembles more western boxing with its blocks and stance; while taekwondo remsembles the more traditional eastern arts\n\nby the way i dont necessarily think one is better than the other i personally enjoy kickboxing more; however any art can be very effective
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ninjitsu is about intelligent fightin (one ninja can even make a troop of 500 fighters fail.) ninjitsu is not like other martial arts. true ninjas r very powerful ppl.
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I trained in Judo for 12 years from age 4 - 16. I then wrestled through highschool and found that my Judo did make it alot easier to learn the techniques of wrestling. However it can be dificult not to want to use Judo techniques in wrestling some of which are ilegal. \nAs for going from wrestling to Judo. Well I recently got back into Judo after a few years away and find that although the wrestling kept up the grappling it is not close enough to Judo techniques so I ended up making a few mistakes in the first few nights back. Wrestling actually comes in when countering throws because then you can do takedowns/throws similar to wrestling suplexes. \nAlso Judo competitions are similar to wrestling in that they are full contact. Both have a point system but in Judo you can win with one throw (Ipon) if it is perfect or 2 (Wazari) if they a nearly perfect. Plus you can submit your opponant with chokes or armlocks. Wrestling is basically first to 10 points or a pin. \n\nCheck out the links below for Judo Clubs in your area.
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Wushu, also known as modern wushu or contemporary wushu, is both an exhibition and a full-contact sport based on a reinterpretations of traditional Chinese martial arts. Wushu is composed of two disciplines: forms and sparring.
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Gracie Jiu-Jitsu / Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is an highly effective self-Defense system, it is designed to allow a smaller, weaker person defend his or her self in a real world situation. It teaches standing self defense against punching, kicking and various weapons as well as grappling and ground fighting.\n\nJeet Kune Do/Personal Defensive Systems . JKD/PDS takes the best the martial art world has to offer in the area of self-defense and combines it all into one simple and easy-to-learn system. Every range of self defense is covered - Kicking, striking, trapping, Joint locks, grappling, Blunt and edged weapons, and much more. This system is designed to teach you to defend yourself.\n\ngood luck with it...
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Trust me, you have not "out grown" anything. It is not possible to be such an expert you can no longer continue to progress and learn. If you don't hold at least a 6th degree and have been studying Kung Fu for a few decades you can not really claim to be an expert.\n\nAs to learning Judo, I encourage everyone to get experience outside their normal style. I can't reccommend one form over another, they're all great, and I think Judo would complement Kung Fu well. However, you may wish to consider Aikido instead, or in addition to, Judo, asyou may find it easier to adapt to the movements.
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Why, another grapple fighting sport my dear sir. Look into judo for one, i know my cousin dropped out of judo because they had a change in sensei and whatnot, got into wrestling, she now does quite well, but i can't remember if she got a gold in provincials or nationals last year, well definetly provincials, i'd have to ask about nationals. And vice versa, i compete against a guy, he's been in judo a third of the time i have, and i consider him almost my competitive equal, his judo techniques in a lot of areas can be very low, but he carries very well with practical and tournament techniques necessary for kicking the shit out of people. Judo is good because it has your take downs, pins, submissions, whatever you want to look at. You can also look at jujitsu, but there is a lot of striking unecessary to wrestling, so maybe brazillian jujitsu. If you want sports to aid in strength training and conditioning, try boxing, rock climbing, kick boxing, rugby, maybe football. cycling is a good leg workout, but doesn't do much for your technique. i would stay away from form martial arts such as karate, kung fu, and tae kwon do (god it hurts to put kung fu next to those other discraces, i can't stand what north american culture has done to them.) But yes, judo and jujitsu are definetly worth a shot.
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It is a style of karate that focuses more on sparring techniques from my experiences. Good fun thou
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Karate is chinese, Tae Kwon Do is Korean. I know cuz my brother did Karate and I did Tae Kwon Do. The form and the histories are different for both as well. Also, the order of the belt colors vary.
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I'm assuming you mean which martial art hurts your opponent more. This is an odd way of looking at these 2 disciplines because both can be very effective without hurting your opponent.\n\nSince a large part of ninjitsu is stealth and assasination by any means necessary, I'm not sure how much it hurts. \n\nJu-jitsu on the other hand includes a variety of joint breaking techiniques and leg locks which can be excrutiating. To give you a strict answer, I would say that Ju-jitsu can hurt more because you'd still be alive to feel the pain. At the hands of a ninja, one would hopefully suffer little and simply be dead.\n\nIt should be noted that the 2 are not mutually exclusive. The techniques of Ju-jitsu are going to be practiced by anyone studying Nin-jitsu as Ju-jitsu is the foundation for open handed grappling and throwing techniques.
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martial arts is the study and application of combat.  there is a distinct difference between martial ARTS and martial WAYS.  martial ways refer to combat systems with practical applications studied in a non-dogmatic, direct transmission type of system where a teacher takes on a few students and passes on the knowledge and experience of both his own study and the study of his teachers.  martial ARTS refers to the use of combat and combat systems in either a demonstrative/non-application mode (think wu shu or, in one sense, pro wrestling) or in an attempt to achieve meditative awareness (all the combat systems that use "Do" in their names).\n\nthis distinction is important in the asian arts primarily because the distinction was codified after WWII.  the US occupation forbid the japanese from anything with military value.  to prevent the loss of centuries of tradition and history, the japanese reclassified their martial systems into religious/spiritual modes, which were allowed under the occupation.  korean arts followed this tradition (most especially with tae kwon do, which was basically created not as a martial art per se but as a way to teach moral values to the population).  the chinese are probably the least affected by this because so much of chinese martial arts is limited to very small groups.  wu shu is a series of standardized martial movements that have been synthesized from many different combat systems.  arts such as shaolin and tai chi have hundreds of variations based on the particular learnings of the teacher.  the most difficult part of chinese martial arts is tracing lineage holders properly.  since many chinese masters were illiterate and poor, research into their history is difficult at best.  it also holds all manner of traps for the student because any chinese "master" can claim to be the lineage holder of some obscure chinese art with no way to have their claim substantiated or repudiated.\n\n(as for the pro wrestling comment, I'm not denigrating those guys at all.  they may not be fighters in the classic sense of wrestlers but they are still highly capable athletes and most of them probably could kick ass in combat situations.)
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The two most common martial arts practiced in North America are karate and tae kwon do. Many wonder what the difference between these two martial arts is. This is especially the case for those who are just starting to look around for a martial arts studio. After all, most practitioners in both karate and tae kwon do seem to wear the same type of white gi uniforms with various colored belts.\n\nModern traditional karate was developed in the islands of Okinawa in Japan after some influences from Chinese martial arts. There are actually different styles of karate but they are all commonly considered as Japanese martial arts today. The colored belt system was developed to show the various ranks of karate practitioners with white depicting novices and black belts (with various degrees) representing instructor levels and higher. There is a whole range of other different colors in between. Modern tae kwon do was developed in Korea after much influence from Japanese karate during the occupation by Japan. Indeed, tae kwon do is sometimes referred to as Korean karate. The Koreans adopted similar white uniforms along with a colored belt ranking system for tae kwon do. Today, there are two main styles of tae kwon do, one under the International Tae Kwon Do Federation and the other under the World Tae Kwon Do Federation. Many tae kwon do schools have added a black lining to their white uniforms for black belt levels. A V-neck top is often seen in schools affiliated with the World Tae Kwon Do Federation. There are also older Korean styles including tang soo do and moo duk kwan. Some of the more Americanized karate and tae kwon do schools also use uniforms with other colors such as red, black and blue in addition to the traditional white.\n\nIt can be generalized that in karate, one would use their arms or hands for 60% of the time for strikes or blocks while the use of legs for kicking will be about 40%. This breakdown is seen in the many forms or katas of karate which are set routines which simulate fighting against imaginary opponents using martial arts techniques. The forms from tae kwon do would have the opposite percentage breakdown with 40% hands and 60% legs. In tae kwon do, there is also more emphasis on higher kicks to the head level than in karate. Tae kwon do practitioners also utilize more jumping or flying kicks where one is airborne while executing kicking techniques. The tae kwon do forms or patterns are generally a bit shorter and less complex than the karate forms. Some tae kwon do schools have been known to use the odd karate form in its curriculum as well.\n\nIn North America as well as other parts of the world, there are separate traditional competitions for karate and tae kwon do. However, the open martial arts tournaments in North America often have competitors from both karate and tae kwon do competing together. Some of the larger open martial arts competition events will have separate forms divisions for Japanese karate and Korean tae kwon do competitors but the fighting or sparring divisions will usually be combined. Many black belts in tae kwon do end up studying karate as well and the opposite has been true too. Tae kwon do has received more publicity in recent years since its introduction as an Olympic sport. The style and rules used for the Olympic version of tae kwon do fighting comes from the World Tae Kwon Do Federation (WTF). Both karate and tae kwon do are considered as hard style martial arts in North America today (as opposed to soft styles such as the many versions of Chinese kung fu).\n\nClint Leung is a lifelong martial artist with over 32 years of training experience in kung fu, tae kwon do, karate, kickboxing and martial arts weaponry. He has won Canadian and world championship titles (NASKA, NBL and WSKF). He is also owner of Free Spirit Activewear (http://www.FreeSpiritActivewear.com) , an online retailer and designer of premium martial arts activewear. Free Spirit Activewear has martial arts info