I am wondering what the main differences between these branches of martial arts are. I dont have very much experience with Japanese arts, and only a little with Chinese, and I recognize there are vast differences within Chinese martial arts itself.
But for those of you who have trained in both, what are the differences (main ones?) is it a matter of footwork or power generation? are there internal components to the Japanese arts like their Chinese counterparts?
I am curious because their is a Ninpo school close to where I work and I am thinking about dropping by and checking it out, it offers ninpo and jujutsu.
I realize this is kind of a broad question, but I am interested in peoples opinions and experiences
Originally posted by Vash
[B]One group is from China.
One group is from Japan. [/B]
Yeah, but the first group greatly influenced the second group (infact WAS the second group, but just transplanted, with some bits missing).
The second group then went on to become Sholin Do…which is kind of…sort of…well, almost chinese.
The main differances between the chinese and jap arts would have to be the mind set of the japenes. Its hard to describe so I will not even try, but I will say that it tends to be totaly messed up here in the west and is just an excuse for shouting at students and inflicting meaningless pain on your juniors.
i think jap martial arts is generally a harder style because i cant really think of any internal styles but chinese martial arts is very diverse but im not sure if theres an internal martial art for jap if there is can some one let me know thanks..
I also think that jap martial art is very rigid and hard just take karate for instant all the blocks are hard and punchs and stuff , i think that karate is too hard any way just tryin to add sum info lol prove me wrong if you disagree with any thing .
The Japanese have Aikido, Shintaido, and some systems of Jujutsu that are very “internal” in nature.
Wikid009, what style of Karate have you trained in? To generalize all Karate as “rigid” or as “hard” shows that you don’t really know anything about Karate.
I guess not … oh yeah i also forgot about aikido oops ah well my post was a waste of time … and ive never trained in karate its just what i generally thought of it are there any internal or softer styles of karate ?
These days it’s difficult to label a style of Karate as just one thing or another. Many people think of Shotokan as the “Hardest” style of Karate, but I’ve seen teachers who constantly emphasized relaxation & full body coordination as the correct way to develop power. There are just too many branches of too many styles to make sweeping comments about any art .
Imagine someone asking “What is Kung Fu like?” What… internal or external systems? Northern or Southern systems? Which branch of which system? There are over 1000 different systems of Kung Fu with some as different from each other as night and day.
Originally posted by wikid009 i think jap martial arts is generally a harder style because i cant really think of any internal styles
“Internal styles” simply refers to a sub-culture of traditional chinese martial arts which began in 1894 (see here). They are, by definition, a subset of chinese martial culture, so it’s really meaningless to observe that there’s no internal styles in japanese martial culture.
There are, of course, Japanese (and Indonesian, and European, etc.) martial arts which teach relaxation, skillfull body movement, and so on.
plus aikido.. no comments
