Who is the best kungfu fighter in the world?

Answer 1

Lyoto Machida is the best Karate expert, holding UFC light heavyweight belt and undefeated.

In Hirokazu Kanazawa's opinion, one of the few 10th dans in Karate left assuming he's still alive as he's really old now, and the Japan Karate Federation, that man is Mikio Yahara. Yahara was the pride and joy of the JKA, and the most controversial Karateka the organization produced. He was infamous for severely injuring his opponents in tournaments, and because of his reputation, in recent years he has hired himself out as a bodyguard, I think Yahara runs a Karate dojo with a special emphasis on bodyguard work, and all told he is EXTREMELY tough. Even as an "old man" now, I think approaching or in his 60's, few Karateka anywhere in Japan or the world want to fight him.

True enough Yahara is not currently the world champion, those days were way back in the 1980's, but given the nature of the martial art, he is likely more dangerous now than ever. Since I am assuming you practice Karate, then you probably know that Karate is all about throwing your entire body weight in whatever it is you do, be it defensive or offensive technique. Karate's main weakness is that if the practitioner is unfocused, and does not know how to aim, its pretty useless because the martial art is almost completely reliant on Kime. Its an effective "perfect punch," but you only get one chance, hence the need for makiwara board drilling according to just about any instructor who bothered to write a book on the subject. Without makiwara board drills, Karate training just isn't complete, as it trains the eyes to focus on a single spot, not unlike the focus mitts in boxing really. See, what is different about a makiwara, is that it combines the resistance of a punching bag, but the small size of a focus mitt. A Karateka will get more out of their training from pounding away at a makiwara for hours, than they will from a sparring session. The reason Okinawan traditionalists are averse to sparring, is precisely because of the injuries inflicted by Yahara.

Yahara was among the last generation of Karateka trained in the traditional manner by the JKA; that is, focusing on basic drills first, hundreds upon hundreds a day, followed by doing Kata 100 times each ever day for a month befor emoving on to the next one, and after that, makiwara board work in addition to pre-arranged sparring. When he earned his black belt, Yahara obsessively spent time behind a makiwara, reportedly doing it so much, he fractured his knuckles. When the time came to actually fight, he became infamous for not only ending fights with a single blow, but for often breaking his opponent's ribs, sometimes even their arms as they attempted to block the oncomming strike. You asked, best Karate fighter, someone who participated in tourneys, that man would be Yahara, however as to the best Karateka period, its probably some obscure Okinawan master; well known, public persona Karate 7th through 10th dans have said, that the best martial artists aren't always famous you know. Before he died, Hidetaka Nishiyama, at least from what I read in an interview, admitted that from among his class, that is the people who trained under Funakoshi, he wasn't the best. Certainly he won the all Japan Karate championship but Nishiyama did say in interviews he was not the best. The dude who was the best died a long time ago I think, and he never participated in tournaments.

If I had to name someone based on the opinion of an actual expert, far as Karate FIGHTER, not Karateka period, it would probably be Mikio Yahara. In terms of skill in many ways he's a second Oyama, a Karateka so skilled, I don't think even MMA fighters could beat him. Consider the accurate punching of boxers and Muay Thai fighters have from practicing with focus mitts; the main reason Muay Thai boxers, and even MMA fighters will often times outslug Karateka, is because the training just isn't complete. What good does solid hand eye coordination and focus do, when you can't aim worth a damn? See that is where the Makiwara comes in; its a sort of "focus mitt" on steroids. A fully trained, old school Karateka, has laser beam accuracy, such tremendous accuracy and power, from constantly pounding away on a makiwara board, that any skills other pugilists or grapplers may have ultimately become a moot point see, that is why I don't like that martial art. At its heart Karate is not a sport dude, it is exceedingly ruthless and extremely cold blooded in its approach to self defense.

Ignorant Americans, among other westerners often say "its all the same thing." They look at a Shaolin form, and then they look at Karate's Gankaku Kata and think "ah, its all the same crap; punching and kicking!" Not so; different forms are meant to emphasize different things. Some forms are to develop power, other forms are to develop speed, while others, are to develop mobility and agility. Karate's forms emphasize three things; focus, power, and speed, and it blends those three elements, so that they are ultimately combined into a single blow. The only way to acquire that kind of focus though, is by repeatedly hitting a target, that target in question being a Makiwara. Hey, when you think about it, a fist, a bullet, and an arrow, have something in common; they have to be well aimed for them to hit their target. American Karateka, or Karateka who practice as if though the martial art was a sport, and don't use traditional training methods WILL get eaten alive because they are not practicing in accordance to the way the martial art was designed for example, boxing focus mitts work well for boxers, or Muay Thai fighters because the strikes are similar, but they won't work for a Karateka because the whole "body weight into the blow" thing requires a target of greater resistance, namely, a makiwara. What I'm trying to say is that the forms were simply not designed for boxing training methods, that is like using Navy SEAL training, training a bunch of Navy SEALS and then telling them "okay, I need you to perform open heart surgery now." Yeah the SEALS are well trained but, open heart surgery is not what they were trained for is it? The same problem exists, when you use focus mitts in Karate; when you do the Karate katas, you are training, in fact, to hit a single target with everything you've got, you are not training to throw combos like in boxing or muay thai. A boxer or muay thai fighter, the two most commonly chosen striking arts in MMA, specifically trains to throw combiantions so focus mitts work well for that purpose. A Karateka though, trains to throw a single, powerful blow, so, focus mitts won't work.

How can I put this another way? So you spent a year doing basics, Kata, and pre-arranged drills, training to throw a single, powerful blow. You start training in focus mitts, guess what? You don't have the combination training background of a boxer. Whereas a boxer has had a whole year to prepare for focus mitt work, if that is the training approach, or at least a whole month, a Karateka has not had any training at all because again, that is not what the forms are for. You do not train with a revolver, if the weapon you will use in a war is an M-16. You do not train with an M-16 if you are a federal agent who will use a semi automatic pistol. True enough tere are similarities but the way you aim and handle those things is totally different. Its the same with karate, and use of focus mitts; its better to stick with tradition because in adding to the training you are in fact not only not completing your training, you are ensuring that it won't work. I don't care if you have sparred countless times, if you do Kyokshin; if you sparr without ever doing makiwara work, what ends up happening is that you spar with crappy aim throughout your Karate career. The reason I do not consider myself a trained Karateka, nor would I have considered myself one even if I had earned my so called black belt here in the U.S., is because without makiwara target practice training just isn't complete. Think of the makiwara as Karate's equivalent of a shooting range; the more you do it, the better your aim gets. A Karateka with extremely good aim, this aim combined with the coordination and power the forms bring, and combined with meditation, is more than a match for any grappler or MMA fighter that is why I rank Karate as number 4 on my list of top 10 martial arts.

Shaolin Kung Fu beats Karate, because they train in both aim, as well as high speed; the reason you do not want to pick a fight with a shaolin monk, or threaten his life (or her if its a nun), is because if you do, you will be victim to, literally, a storm of fists. From your perspective, it will seem as if it is raining fists, when you fight a shaolin monk, that is how fast they are. Ultimately though, I over answered; unless you're a sick sociopath who likes to hurt people, abandon Karate. Karate is a martial art you only want to practice if you are the member of a minority whose life is constantly threatened, or, if you are Jewish. Anywhere there are Muslim communities, Jew's lives are in danger, regardless of shade. That is why the divisive, arrogant racism of the ashkenazi needs to stop, why they need to be stopped; they continue mistreating the rest of us, and soon we will outnumber them, they will only make things worse for us in the long run.

Karate is an exceedingly cold blooded martial art that you only use when your life is threatened, the life of someone else, or, in Sokkon Matsumura's case, defending the honor of a woman. In many cultures, virginity is still highly valued, and believe it or not, the law says its okay to kill a potential rapist, in the name of protecting a woman's virginity. Sokkon Matsumura witnessed a Samurai attempting to rape an okinawan girl; he used his Karate against him, and he so crippled him he could never wield a sword again but he did not kill him. The reason Matsumura could do that, is because he had practiced for so many years, spent so much time pounding away on a makiwara, that he acquired laser precise aim. Again, traditionally trained Okinawan Karateka have the accuracy of a laser beam, because whereas a boxer hits two focus mitts, a Karateka hits only one target, over, and over, and over, in time, aiming, choosing a target, becomes second nature. The Shaolin are even deadlier when it comes to accurate punching, because they take the whole makiwara board drill to a different level; instead of one board, they have an exercise where they surround themselves with targets, and they hit each of them hundreds of times. Again, fundamentally, punching and shooting share the same principle, the principle of a projectile flying towards a target. When a punch is thrown, it is in fact the fist all by itself flying towards a target; once the muscles "snap" to throw a punch, their role is over, the fist is in fact flying on its own. Because of this, you have to learn to aim dude. You don't have to hit a makiwara; find a small hoop, something roughly twice the diameter of your fist for starters, then something just barely larger, hang it somewhere and punch through it over and over. If you want to get fancy, throw a couple of punches, the idea being, learn how to aim dude.

In fact I've been thinking about doing that myself.....

later

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I guess these dudes never heard of... Chuck Norris!

Without writing all that info, that's not needed, I would predict Bruce Lee as the best ever over all in Martial Arts itself, with no doubt!

Answer 2

in China, different kungfu has different points, like shaolin, taichi, are both good

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Answer 3

Actually "Kung Fu" is a group name for a lot of different styles of fighting, such as Wing Chun, Nan Chuan and a lot more. So every of these styles had their own fighters and teachers. And it would be complicated (or impossible) to find a true criteria for determining which style or master was better than the other ones. There were quite a lot of great masters as is Yip Man, William Cheung Bruce lee and many others.

Answer 4

In the world of Chinese martial arts, crossing the threshold of "Master" generally means skill only goes so far. Even then there are low level masters, mid level, and when you go beyond the master level you get the title of "tiger" or "dragon." Now, a TRUE master of Kung Fu is a martial arts savant, whose savant level skills are ACQUIRED through hard work they are not born with them. In other words, its not whether a person is good, or really strong, but how soon they get there, which determines "who was the best" in the world of Chinese martial arts.

With that explanation out of the way the answer would have to be Hung Hei Kung, a tea merchant who mastered Shaolin Kung Fu in only 3 years, and with 10 years of training, even defeated Wudang masters. In the world of Kung Fu, Wudang masters are believed to be nearly undefeatable, because of their chi, and how they know how to use it for fighting. If "the best" had to be named it would be Hung Hei Kung, the founder of the Hung Gar Chuan style.

Answer 5

Brandon Takemoto

The best kung fu artist or (gung fu) is Bruce lee and Brandon Takemoto

I would say that ip man is the best martial artist in the world. along with bruce lee.

Answer 6

Bruce Lee is the best kung fu fighter in the world.

Answer 7

Bruce Lee, of course!

Answer 8

whu win ga

Answer 9

It seems to be Jackie Chan