I can agree with them trying something different but I predict this thing doing worse than the WCL did.
I will agree that their commercial prospects are very much in question. I have no idea how long Karate Combat will last. If the organization is still around in 5 years I'll be surprised, yeah.
the kudo i have seen vs the karate combat i have seen (including aghayev fight) kudo looked alot cleaner to me.
I have always thought a lot of Kudo matches looked pretty sloppy, but with that said, I still like Kudo. Technical refinement is not something that is a must for me. Frankly, I'd rather see Mike Perry knock someone's head into the stands than watch Tarec Saffiedine outpoint someone in a three-round snoozer.
If a fighter can be technical AND entertaining, like Stephen Thompson, then I'm especially down with them. But I'll take a fun brawler over a technical guy with a boring style any day of the week.
That Karate Combat fight may not be the height of refinement, but there were still some good skills on display and I was entertained by it.
The other thing to keep in mind is that this is a new organization and I think most of the fighters are still pretty new to full-contact. So I say let it all develop. Just give it time for everything to come along.
It would be interesting to see a kudo guy fight mma, or a kudo fight with no gear, or even a kudo guy fight under MT rules. All the same attacks are there more or less, but they are done a little differently.
The thing about Kudo is that it's so damn close to MMA that if they took the helmets off and held their competitions in a cage I'm not even sure you could tell the difference.
i can tell your into TMA's which is cool.
I've always been interested in anything involving martial arts, but especially in the last few years I've come back around to being particularly enthusiastic about traditional karate (Shotokan in particular). What I like about Shotokan (or any kind of traditional karate) is that there are so many angles to it, so many different avenues to explore.
I'm 36-years-old and have some injuries that make any kind of serious competition unfeasible, so these days I am just looking for a martial art that I feel like can a) be effective in a self-defense situation, b) offer a sports component that is suitable for me considering the state of my body, and c) is something that I can grow old with and continue to explore on levels that go beyond just the combat effectiveness of the style.
For me, I've found that in Shotokan. Other people's mileage may vary.
Perhaps if I was 20-years-old and had a body that wasn't in need of patching up then I'd instead be training in an MMA gym somewhere.
I dunno if you saw my post about ancient thai warfare, look into it I think you will like it.
I think I missed that one. Can you point me to it?