What are the characteristics of Karate versus Taekwondo, Shotokan, and Muay Thai? What are the differences in the rules?

I. Karate is a traditional Japanese fighting art combined with the Ryukyu martial art Tang hand and the formation of the origin of Japanese Budo and Ryukyu Tang hand. Tang hand is the Chinese martial arts into the Ryukyus, combined with the local martial arts Ryukyu hand development, and the Japanese natives will be Kyushu, Honshu wrestling, throwing and other fighting techniques combined with the Tang hand, and ultimately the formation of karate. After World War II, it was widely spread throughout the world through propaganda by the U.S. military. Karate consists of a variety of techniques, including kicking, punching, wrestling, holding, throwing, locking, strangling, reversing techniques, and pointing, and some schools also practice weaponry.

Second, Taekwondo

1, the leg method is the main, fist and feet: due to the needs of the competition, the rules on the limitations and Taekwondo in the attack method of the characteristics of Taekwondo, so that Taekwondo techniques are mainly leg attack, fist attack as a supplement. According to statistics, the leg technique accounts for about 70% of the total technique system in Taekwondo. Therefore, leg attacks are far more powerful than boxing attacks in terms of attack range and attack power, while boxing moves are generally in favor of defense and blocking.

2, emphasize breathing, sound and power: in the practice of taekwondo requires a sense of majesty in the aura, the practitioner is often a loud and intimidating voice to show their power. According to the Japanese research data proved that ten percent of the muscles will increase their contraction speed by nine percent due to the sound when working without load, and it can increase by fourteen percent when working with load. This is the reason why athletes make loud yelling noises during competitions. Stopping breathing while vocalizing reduces the resistance within the body; it increases the speed of the movement and focuses the energy to make the movement more powerful.

3, the pursuit of speed, power and effect of action to break the means of testing power: Taekwondo does not pay attention to the show, all the action to the core of the fight; the requirements of fast speed, power, hitting the effect is good, in the detection of power to break the means of testing. That is, respectively, with fists and feet to break wooden boards, etc., to break the thickness to determine the power.

4, just to just, method of concise: by the spirit of Taekwondo, athletes in the game is mostly straight hit straight; contact defense, dodging technology used less, the attack are used in a straight line of continuous attack, in order to coherent and rapid combination of footwork to hit the opponent. The defense mostly uses blocking techniques or adopts the technique of attacking against attacking and attacking instead of defending.

5, the beginning and end of the ritual, internal and external cultivation: in any occasion, Taekwondo practitioners always treat each other with courtesy. Practice activities should all begin and end with a gift, in order to develop a modest, friendly and forbearing style, and to improve oneself constantly in terms of moral cultivation.

Three, Sanda is two people in accordance with certain rules, and the use of martial arts in the kicking, hitting, wrestling and other offensive and defensive techniques to subdue each other, unarmed confrontation of martial arts programs, it is an important part of the Chinese martial arts. It is divided into Ancient Sanshou (strong lethality) and Modern Sanshou (more restrictive). Ancient loose hand as the earliest development of Sanda to be able to fight against a single person and weapons or multi-person fighting, with the head, fingers, palms, fists, elbows, shoulders, knees, legs, hips, arms and other parts of the attack, the main techniques for the fight, kicking, taking, dropping, falling, wrestling, etc. There are also elbows and knees and other techniques, pay attention to the surprise in the fight, do not pay attention to the method of flowers only pay attention to the fight to win the practical. Modern Sanshou is common to straight punch, swinging fist, copying fist, whip fist, whip leg, stirrup leg, kick leg, wrestling and other techniques composed of kicking, hitting, wrestling combination of attack and defense techniques. Sanshou does not have a routine, only single moves and combinations, see the moves.

Four, Muay Thai is Thai boxing, killing power. Muay Thai is a legendary fighting skills, is a sport known for its strength and agility. The main use of the human fist, legs, knees, elbows, limbs and eight bodies as eight weapons for the attack, the fist leg, make the knee elbow force smooth and smooth, the power to show extremely abundant, fierce attack. It is known as the strongest fighting technique. Now people say Muay Thai generally refers to the modern Muay Thai, and does not refer to the ancient Muay Thai.