What is more dangerous kickboxing or boxing?

Answer 1

Either one can be equally as dangerous when applied by an expert. Judo uses the opponent's force to off-balance, and throw to the ground with very devastating impact that could end a fight with one toss. The joint locks of Judo can cause severe injury, and the various choke holds can quickly knock someone unconscious, or even cause death.

In Taekwondo, the focus is on utilizing the laws of motion in nature, and scientific principles of power to strike with the hands, feet, knees, and elbows. Each blow from a Taekwondo expert has the potential to break bones, dislocate joints, cause severe internal damage, result in a knock out, or even cause death. The powerful kicks of Taekwondo are the most destructive weapon of unarmed combat, and can be employed with such speed and accuracy that even an expert opponent would be wise to avoid. Taekwondo also utilizes throws and grappling when necessary, but concentrates on spoiling the opponent's throws, and escaping or releasing from holds while manipulating joints and limbs for pain and injury, and striking at close range.

Each of these two arts are potentially harmful and deadly, and should be respected by both the practitioners, and opponents alike. These skills should never be misused or treated lightly.

Answer 2

The answer is more about the skill of the person than the discipline. Both are striking arts. Both contain hand and foot techniques in their curriculum. Karate focuses more on upper body strikes (punches, knife-hand, ridge-hand, and elbow strikes), and blocking; Taekwondo centers around kicking and footwork. The timing, accuracy, and direction of the strike will determine the lethal effectiveness of a technique and that is a factor of the martial artist rather than the art.

It does not matter if a person drinks poison, is shot through the heart with an arrow, shot in the head with a bullet, blown up by a hand-grenade or land-mine, or disintegrated by a nuclear bomb. Either way, you are just as dead. Both Taekwondo and Karate contain techniques that can kill an attacker, so either one is just as deadly.

Answer 3

As a "sport" these two are very different, and which is "better" is a matter of opinion as to what the spectator likes to watch, or what the player likes about competing. Both are highly effective for self defense, but take different approaches to dealing with an aggressive attacker.

Judo focuses on the standing posture with hands-on grabbing to manipulate your opponent off balance and into a major or minor throw. Then it relies on a brief period of grappling on the ground to maintain control, or achieve a submission. There are no strikes in sport judo, but there are some in judo's self defense curriculum. In judo class, students focus on defense against an attack by flowing with the opponent's aggression, off balancing them, and positioning to execute a throw. The defender, tori ("taker"), takes the attack and the attacker, uke ("receiver") receives the judo throw (and the lesson, so to speak). In practice, uke learns about how to fall properly without getting hurt.

Taekwondo competition is strictly about sparring in a standing posture where punches and kicks are delivered to the opponent's legal targets (usually above the waist, and excluding the spine and back of the head). Some taekwondo tournaments allow punches to the face, while others do not in order to promote the preference for kicking. Some taekwondo tournaments also require no contact, while others allow (or even require) light to heavy contact before the judges will award a point. There is no grappling in sport taekwondo, but there is in taekwondo's self defense curriculum.

In both cases, the sport aspect is very limited as compared to the actual martial art of each judo and taekwondo. In self defense, judo is more defensive in application, striving to work off the opponent's aggression, and commitment to an attack. The attacker is injured mostly by the impact of a fall on a hard surface, or choked to unconsciousness. Taekwondo's self defense can be used defensively, but is more aggressive and destructive in nature by seeking to damage the opponent's bones, muscles, nerve centers and brain functions by striking vital points with enough force to injure, maim, or completely destroy the target.

[note: Please see the discussion page for adding personal experiences and opinions that are unique to individual schools, but not indicative of the entire art.]

Answer 4

Probably Tae Kwan Do for obvious reasons; the legs are the strongest limbs in the body, and many TKD practitioners have gone to prison for misusing that martial art, often convicted of manslaughter. It may sound messed up, but its true; reasonable force laws basically say you can't really do anything meaningful to protect your own life, but that cops can do whatever the hell they want. So, someone comes out with a machete covered in fresh blood from someone they just killed, you hold a black belt in TKD and your feet are lightning fast from having trained in Korea, you pull some fancy TKD stuff, and kick him so hard in the head his neck snaps, bye bye spinal nerve, and he's dead. Guess what? When you say "he was trying to kill me" often the d****bag judge won't buy it, then a sniveling worm of an ashkenazi Jew of a prosecutor will see to it you get 10 to life.

If by "threatening" you mean, which martial art most endangers your freedom in the law books, its easily Tae Kwan Do. As a general rule in the United States, or elsewhere outside of Korea, Tae Kwan Do black belts are either pathetically weak, so weak even someone with no training can beat them up, or, ridiculously deadly. Remember that the legs are the strongest limbs, and most black belts in Korea, or first generation Korean Americans trained by their "fobie" parents, are lightning fast, so fast that likely there isn't a boxer alive who can take them, not even the heavies. If the likes of say, Tyson, charged a TKD guy, one of the good ones, what the TKD guy would likely do is probably take his legs away, and then when that's over, his head, and it would all happen in the space of 1 second. Getting struck in the legs by a competent TKD guy is the same thing as being struck there by a Baseball bat.

In many ways, TKD is a ridiculously cold blooded martial art, and sadly its the most popular in the world. Still though, the kicks are "beautiful," that is why its so popular.

You want to fight JUST like Bruce Lee does in his movies? Learn Wing Chung Kung Fu, after that, Tae Kwan Do, and after that, Beijing opera. If you learn those three things you'll be EXACTLY like Bruce Lee. Albeit, somewhat less clean of form, less polished but, those are the three things to learn if you want to be like Bruce Lee. Most of what Lee used in his movies, was a flowered-by-Beijing-opera version of Wing Chung Kung Fu, mixed in with Tae Kwan Do. Ocassionally he also used boxing, and in game of death he showed off grappling skill towards the end. Oh yeah I almost forgot; Enter the Dragon opened with him applying an arm bar on Samo Hung.

Karate is not AS threatening, obviously because a fist can never strike as hard as a leg, assuming its people of the same size, build, height (yes height) and weight. Why does height make a difference? Simple; the greater the arch, the greater the power. Virtually all kicks in Martial Arts travel in an arch, and tall men and women, have the longest arches, meaning their kicks can generate unreal power. The biggest challenge for a tall person, is learning how to move well; the main disadvantage of being all in a fight, is keeping one's balance. Just watch K-1; a lot of the heavy weight big dudes trip and fall A LOT, the lower you descend in the weight brackets, by the time you get to the little guys there are almost no falls.

Kung Fu, is the least threatening of all because all Kung Fu styles incorporate something called "chin na." Chin Na involves the application of painful joint locks, using your opponent's momentum, to help set up the lock. Its really difficult to explain; say someone throws a punch. You catch it, and then you move your arm in a circle, a very specific, and precise circle that is. Because the circle will be done really fast, it will take some time for the guy throwing the punch to realize, his arm has been caught, and because he is still moving forward, that momentum in fact sees to it, that it helps YOU, lock his arm into place.

As you can imagine, it is ridiculously difficult to do, especially in the "real world" against someone who does not want you to do that however, if you are a martial arts expert who has really learned how to read opponents, 9 times out of 10, a given opponent will be distracted, unfocused, and they will not be able to escape the often painful locks Chin Na has. Because at its worst Chin Na will break all bones, tear all muscles and joints, and render an arm useless, but not kill an assailant, it is an aspect of Kung Fu that is the least likely to land you in legal trouble. It gets even better; Kung Fu has by far the most extensive evasive game of all martial arts. All styles deal with evasion, no exception, because there is a universal rule among all styles, both in the Shaolin arts and its various external style derivatives, and in the internal Wudang arts, that if attacked you have to keep the "spirit of compassion." Shaolin Kung Fu has an evasive game, Wing Chung, Hung Gar, Shuia Jiao, Tai Chi Chuan, name it, and odds are it has some dodging game of some sort.

China has been civilized for a very long time, meaning that martial artists 500 years ago, could get in trouble with the legal authorities of China back then, just as martial artists all over the world can get into trouble now. Because the authorities were a consideration, the Shaolin temple developed an evasive game so that, if confronted by the old Chinese equivalent of a cop, the police man would see a placid and calm Shaolin monk, and standing beside him, a rough looking thug type huffing and puffing. If it was a crooked cop type he'd say "you attacked that man!" The Shaolin monk would reply "what are you saying officer? He was trying to stab me but, all I did was get out of the way.........." You are not going to successfully stab, or hit, a Shaolin monk, so forget it, if you were thinking it. All he'll do, is deftly avoid all your attempts and make you look stupid. Because a crooked cop would have no evidence that a man was badly beaten, that business over and done with, the Shaolin monk would simply just leave and go where he was going.

See Karate and TKD, both those martial arts were developed in a time of oppression.

Karate, began as a defensive, bodyguard's martial art, however when the Japanese took over Okinawa, it largely discarded the more compassionate alternatives it used to have, in favor of the more cold blooded aspects its known for today. Remember that Okinawans were up against Samurai armed with the incredibly sharp, incredibly deadly Katana; Karate is as ruthlessly cold blooded as it is, because when the man trying to kill you has a sword that has been proven can slice through bullets, you can't mess around. In Korea, the martial art known as Taekyon, was developed solely for warfare, it did not have Buddhism's tenets of compassion involved, nor was it influenced by Daoist philosophy calling for pacifism either, all the progenitor martial art of Tae Kwan Do existed for, was war. If it shares similarities with Karate, that has nothing to do with the Japanese occupation, more the fact that both Karate and TKD descend from the Shaolin temple. The Koreans learned what they wanted to learn from Shaolin, and they got rid of all the compassionate stuff. Where the northern style of Shaolin Kung Fu has all the kicks, actually it has more, found in TKD's arsenal, and it also has Chin Na, all TKD has, is various hand strikes and kicks.

Hands down, to answer your question its easily TKD. However because the legs are involved, more than any other martial art you have to train FANATICALLY hard. You can train in a shortened version of Shaolin Kung Fu for 3 hours a day and get away with it, by "get away with it" I mean, you'll be able to defend yourself. You only need two hours of training 5 to 6 days a week in boxing and kickboxing, and with Karate, its pretty much the same thing. Because you are using your hands, which comes naturally to you, 2 hours is all you need for most martial arts, Shaolin Kung Fu demands 3, because of the Chin Na training which is exceedingly difficult. However where the legs are involved, where you are using weapons you are not accustomed to using, and in addition, to have one leg out there you are in fact compromising your balance, Tae Kwan Do has a three fold obstacle course;

1) You have to learn to use naturally, that which you are not accustomed to using in certain ways.

2) You have to learn to stand on one leg, either leg, as naturally as you stand on both of them.

3) You have to train the large, well muscled and bulky legs, to move almost as fast as boxing's "jab" punch.

In other words, first you need to learn the balance necessary for a lot of those kicks, next you need to learn to use those kicks like you would use your hands, and finally, you have to learn how to do it all with SPEED. If the majority of martial arts demand a minimum of 10 repetitions per technique a day, Tae Kwan Do demands 100, just for a degree of competence. It will eat your time, like no other martial art will, and in many ways its actually very impractical time wise. Its deadly as hell if you master it, but how much it demands of your time, is something you will never get back. Additionally, use it reflexively in an "accident," and its the slammer.

Learn Kung Fu; it is the only martial art that covers all options. Let me paint a picture for you. There is a psychopath on the lose and he wants to rape your girl after he slits your throat, but before he rapes her he wants to cut her first, in fact he's telling you that. You are black, the judge is a racist white, and all the jurors are members of the KKK. No way your luck is that bad right? Wrong; for many black dudes it is. Oh by the way, the psychopath is a U.S. senator's son. Sorry, I like to go over the top to make my points clear. This is basically set up so that if you do ANYTHING to touch him, you're going away for life.

You only have one option; give your car keys and cell to your girl, and tell her to get the hell outta there while standing between her, and the psycho senator's son. You won't be able to talk him down, or defuse the situation. See, if all you know is Karate or TKD, he ends up badly maimed, and you end up with life in prison with no possibility of parole. If you know Kung Fu, however, you can avoid and evade, long enough for the authorities to get there, and what the cops will see, is a rabid psychopath trying to stab and claw at you, and because their cop cam will be on, they won't be able to acuse you of any wrong doing. And that, is the gift of Kung Fu; is that it gives you the option not to hurt anyone.

However lets make things a little more interesting. The cops say to the senator's son "don't worry, we'll help you get that @#$%@#$%" what do you do now? Now you have to fight. Once again though; Karate or TKD, THEY, end up badly maimed, and its your word against theirs. However if you know Kung Fu, and all you do is dodge a lot and use Chin Na to throw people, your girl calls some more authorties, and good cops get there, dirty cops and the psycho get arrested and you walk away scot free.

the point I am trying to make here is that the world is full of despicable cowards, if they can't hurt you physically, they'll do it legally, and if they can't do it legally, they'll do it illegally, there is really no end to how low they will sink, just to see someone suffer for no reason, other than their sick, twisted amusement. Oftentimes minorities are the target because all white people know, they have no real power. Even our president will likely get vetoed a lot by congress, or, have his vetoes overriden, I totally forgot how that works. Why Kung Fu? Because the old masters "have been there;" China has never been a stranger to such despicable corruption, and old Kung Fu instructors were well aware, many crooks and scumbags were well connected. The masters have been there, so they thought of everything.

Learn Kung Fu; if learned really well its the only martial art that won't land you in legal trouble. Before you learn it though, master the horse stance; train yourself to hold it for at least 2 hours a day every day. Four hours if you feel like giving your life to martial arts.

Answer 5

It entirely depends on the skill of the practitioner. If two equally matched practitioners were paired against each other, it is likely that one would win sometimes, and the other would win other times. The primary difference between judo and taekwondo is that taekwondo utilizes kicks as a primary weapon, with hand strikes, throws, and grappling being secondary. Judo uses some strikes, but focuses mainly on the throws, and grappling techniques. It is conceivable that a taekwondo practitioner could seriously injure a judo practitioner with any number of strikes before the judo practitioner got close enough to throw him. On the other hand, once the judo practitioner got in close, the taekwondo practitioner would have to be skilled at avoiding a throw, and how to prevent or escape from holds. Rather than comparing arts, realize that the loser of a fight between experts is most likely going to be the first one to make a serious mistake, and that can happen to either fighter.

Answer 6

Injuries happen just like they happen in every sport. Judo does not have that many injuries though. You will have more injuries if you have back problems or hip problems though. Always cut your nails though because I have had my nailed ripped off many times on my opponents gi.

Answer 7

The greatest danger from practicing taekwondo is the danger of concussion from a kick to the head. For this reason, the youngest and least experienced players are not permitted to kick to the head, and the use of excessive force to the head is penalized. Having the wind knocked out of you might also be dangerous depending on your personal level of health. Other injuries include bruising and scratches, mostly from breaking boards.

Answer 8

Kick boxing due to the fact that it is boxing with kicking added, so it is everything boxing is with added features.

Answer 9

It depends upon the fighter.