my friend does mma and boxing, and i was thinking about doing karate and kung fu, but i was also thinking about cross training boxing with karate. which is a good idea?|||Not to take away from some of the answers listed above...but training in Karate or Kung Fu and doing Boxing or MMA are not the same as if doing Kung Fu and Karate. The cross-training in the former lies in utilizing different skill-sets and different mentalities whereas the later requires simply knowing stylistic differences in technique with little to no variation in long-term outcome*.
*Though studying, for example, Uechi Ryu Karate and Shito Ryu, one emphasizes different aspects in their training Hojo Undo and body fortification vs. Kate/Bunkai.
Depending on what kind of Karate school, you may be practicing sport Karate or traditional (sport/health/culture/self-defense) Karate. Kung Fu carries with it many of the same principles of how many instructors operate and what their focus is on.
If you train in a traditionally taught art, there is nothing wrong with training in a sport art, simply for the added workout and the ability to spice things up and keep things interesting. Also, the sport aspect adds to your understanding of sparring (thus helping you out in that aspect). The problem comes when you eventually try to make the training aspects of Karate (Kata and Bunkai) fit with the sport training. Karate's training methodology is the way it is for a reason (longevity), attempting to reconcile it and promote it among your MMA and boxing peers (or expecting their acceptance of it) just won't happen. Chinese internal arts will not be understood nor appreciated by an MMA guy who simply views pounding you in the head the best way of taking down an opponent.
Now, I've personally cross-trained in many traditional martial arts, from Jujutsu, Karate, Kobudo, Iaido since my inception of martial arts training. I even did a stint practicing Taijiquan and other Chinese martial arts. As such, it's taken me longer to advance in some instances and to understand things in others, whereas once I did understand some concepts, I was then able to apply them better than many whom only focused on one art. But I also developed some bad habits.
I.e. Karate and Jujutsu (Japanese); these arts seem to be polar opposites, until you understand that both incorporate much of the other. The problem is that one requires you to be relaxed while the other requires you to hit hard. When you understand how to hit hard while being relaxed, you then understand how both arts are applied in unison in order to hit hard while being soft and supple to feel an opponent's internal movements (i.e. tension and relaxation).
Studying Iaido and Jujutsu, on the other hand, carry many synergies in understanding the anatomical circular movements associated with distance and joint-locking.
Now, if you study sport karate and mma or boxing, you'll find many differences which can't simply be reconciled because they are too different. Sport karate teaches fighting against Karate/TKD whereas MMA is all-inclusive of many styles which Sport Karate isn't meant to account for. At the end of the day, you'd probably say, "Why am I doing [this type of] Karate if MMA is more effective?"
But, as stated, cross-training is a difficult endeavor if you don't completely understand your first art to begin with.
Ultimately, do what you enjoy and can afford to do.|||Please do not listen to these people, listen to me. If you want to learn how to FIGHT, you know, actually how to fight, then join a MMA gym that has solid pro fighters and qualified instructors. That way you will learn BJJ, aspects of boxing and aspects of Muay Thai. These guys know what they are doing. Forget Kung fu and Karate man, they will just create bad habits and give you lots of useless forms. Join a good MMA gym! This is what you need.|||Kokoro is right. If you have a good karate instructor, you don't need the Chinese martial art. If you have a good teacher of a Chinese martial art, you don't need karate. Karate and kung-fu are both complete systems, if you are taught the whole art, by good teacher(s) you will be a complete martial artist. People try to "cross train" all the time, and only confuse themselves. find one good art that suits you, and take the time and effort to get good at that.|||If you can get a good school that teaches real karate or real chinese martial arts I would not even consider cross training. Let me tell you something MMA and boxing produce more consistent people because karate and kung fu has more Mcdojos. If you don't know is a mcdojo then come look here. http://mcdojo-faq.tripod.com/
What's wrong with you kids cross training in every single art possible. Find a good instructor and stick with it.
Fun Fact: Didn't you know all professional MMA fighters do kung fu. Kung fu literally means hard work or skill in a certain area.|||it is better to focus on one style for a while to get down the basics then cross train at least 7 to 8 years. it takes decades to understand one style and life time to master it
both karate and kung fu cover stand up and ground, striking and grappling
if you train right you only need one style|||One is an art, the other is just fighting. make a choice of what you want. MMA schools are much faster way of learning and way easier to find a good school. Karate or kung fu is very hard to find a good school.
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