Martial arts poll

singloud

Found the following poll on a website as to the most practical martial art for self defence.

any truth in the rankings?


http://martialarts.about.com/gi/pages/poll.htm?linkback=http://martialarts.about.com&poll_id=7323632408&poll=2&submit1=Submit%20Vote

Nothingcompares

no.

cowzerp

Terrible, thats way off the mark-makes ya laugh though!!

RedRaven

Very funny indeed.

singloud

Anyone able to tell me why it's so bad?
Not being sarcastic;
I have next to no experience in martial arts and I'd be interested as to why the poll is amusing.

cowzerp

singloud wrote: »

Anyone able to tell me why it's so bad?
Not being sarcastic;
I have next to no experience in martial arts and I'd be interested as to why the poll is amusing.

30% of the poll is that karate is the best! most people know an average boxer or bjj player would whop a top karateka!

tkd came 2nd and most tkd lads will tell you its no great for self defense!

2 out of 100 think boxing is the best, this is ridiculus, Boxing is the most obvious thing to use in street fight and if you end up on the deck grappling type arts such as judo and bjj are great-the poll is just ridiculus!!

muay thai should also be high up on the list too.

TKD SC

singloud wrote: »

Anyone able to tell me why it's so bad?
Not being sarcastic;
I have next to no experience in martial arts and I'd be interested as to why the poll is amusing.

Cos things like boxing, bjj, judo and muay thai are way down.
I'd say the poll more reflects what MA everyone does on that forum as opposed to much else...

Nice to see tkd no.2 though! Ha ha!

The best self-defence is GettingOutOfTheWay-do.

Charlie3dan

Any poll of this type is not just way off but completely meaningless, regardless of the outcome.

buck65

Man I even do TKD and know if in bother (from personal experience) first things that go up are the fists. Thankfully in ITF TKD we learn to box too. Kind of crazy havin karate and japanese jiu jitsu in the same category too.

Magic Eight Ball

buck65 wrote: »

Thankfully in ITF TKD we learn to box too.

Really? When I did ITF TKD we were not allowed to Hook or Uppercut in sparring as it was ‘to dangerous’.

dlofnep

The poll appears to be a complete polar opposite to the truth.

Depending on the karate style, it may or may not be practical. For example, Kyokushin Karate would be very practical for self defense.

I still would pick boxing, muay thai, bjj or judo over karate.

Baggio...

Weird! - just shows you what complete misconceptions people have re. the Martial Arts.

dudara

Motto of this story: Don't trust polls on the internet

Judomad

Deleted User wrote: »

The best self-defence is GettingOutOfTheWay-do.

definitely agree, if ya get out of the way u wont get hit...
simple as that.

phoenix-MT

lol oh dear, not being disrespectful to any martial arts, no matter what you do at least your making an effort and doing something, but seriously? lol i think we probably have all experienced at some time in our life what really works................prob falls into the other catagory lol