Steve Morris says Karate is useless

No, well, I'm in no position to start arguing with anything he says. I am, after all, a wimp. All I can say is that while I am of course afraid of him, I have found karate to be very useful in certain areas of my life, and some of it has come in handy in fights. It happens more often than most people realise. Then again, I've known a lot of martial artists who talk about winning fights that they would never even have been in had it not been for this attitude of 'I can handle myself', so that's an arguable point. He does come over a bit brusque.
 
No, well, I'm in no position to start arguing with anything he says. I am, after all, a wimp. All I can say is that I have found karate to be very useful in certain areas of my life, and some of it has come in handy in fights. It happens more often than most people realise. Then again, I've known a lot of martial artists who talk about winning fights that they would never even have been in had it not been for this attitude of 'I can handle myself', so that's an arguable point. He does come over a bit brusque. Some people demand respect, others command it I guess.

I'm all about being nice to others. If I want to fight I am happy to do so in competition and I'm happy to fight kickboxing, judo or MMA. I don't do BJJ but I'm open to dipping my toe in BJJ or no gi competitions but I'd be doing so with judo experience, not grading in BJJ
 
I'm all about being nice to others. If I want to fight I am happy to do so in competition and I'm happy to fight kickboxing, judo or MMA. I don't do BJJ but I'm open to dipping my toe in BJJ or no gi competitions but I'd be doing so with judo experience, not grading in BJJ
Cool. There's no point in being able to fight if you go to great lengths to make people find you obnoxious- sooner or later you'll run up against somebody like Steve Morris. But yeah, judo rocks. I didn't do it for very long, but it's great fun and coincidentally one of the martial arts that's taught me most of the stuff I have actually had to depend upon. The problem with punching and kicking people is that it tends to escalate things.
 
Cool. There's no point in being able to fight if you go to great lengths to make people find you obnoxious- sooner or later you'll run up against somebody like Steve Morris. But yeah, judo rocks. I didn't do it for very long, but it's great fun and coincidentally one of the martial arts that's taught me most of the stuff I have actually had to depend upon. The problem with punching and kicking people is that it tends to escalate things.

I'm happy to fight K-1 or above waist kickboxing. MMA is the best as it gives you multiple options in the fight.

I don't understand why my Ju Jitsu club emphasised hip punching and ayumi ashi if it's a budo club. That's why I 'defend' karate but it bewilders me why a Goshin Ju Jitsu club does that type of striking.
 
No AI bot, Steve Morris is a well known martial artist in Britain

No, the ai bot that started the thread.

Nothing else to add ? I don't even do karate but when I did Goshin Ryu Ju Jitsu the striking came from Shotokan as my Sensei was taught by Vernon Bell.

Obviously Muay Thai is better than Shotokan but Kyokushin is just as good as Muay Thai. Oyama-do defeated Team Black Cobra 2-1

I don't do Taekwondo either but ITF / TAGB Taekwondo is better than most forms of Karate.

The ayumi ashi and shobu ippon kumite of karate really does well against grapplers: Lyoto Machida defeated Dan Henderson, Tito Ortiz, Randy Couture, Mark Munoz, Rashad Evans and Chael Sonnen because his footwork was elusive
 
Is Kyokunshinkai even Japanese if Mas Oyama was Korean ? If Steve Morris liked Kyokushin and not the other styles of karate he would say it's because it's a Korean style 🤷‍♂️
 
I watched about half of each of the videos about Morris, but I got tired of the puffery and the boasting about sociopathic behavior. Where does it actually say that he hates karate? I didn't hear that in the sections I listened to. Timestamp?
 
I watched about half of each of the videos about Morris, but I got tired of the puffery and the boasting about sociopathic behavior. Where does it actually say that he hates karate? I didn't hear that in the sections I listened to. Timestamp?
Under the URL that is titled "Pedigree"
 

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