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aefibird
Black Belt
Joined: 26 Oct 2003
Posts: 4416
Location: UK
Styles: Past and present: 2 styles of Karate, TKD, Aikido, Wing Chun, some Tai Chi
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 Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 7:38 am Post subject: popular karate style? |
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Which do you think is the most popular karate style? By popular, I mean which has the most students? New styles seem to pop up each week, so keeping a track of all the styles can be a bit tricky, but some styles seem to have more practicioners than others.
I know it's difficult to say which is the most practiced style, but if you had to have a rough guess which would you go for?
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Natural
Blue Belt
Joined: 25 Jan 2004
Posts: 287
Location: Purley,Surrey,England
Styles: Renzokenkai-do, Taikyoku-ken
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Shotokan its has too many ceremony and traditions, kenshukai has been voted as the hardest style which you have to be nearly perfect to pass everybelt, it does not have much tradition but in terms of rountine kenshukai have been a top runner, that is improving each time.
No one really knows this club but soon you'll probabely see some in World karate class in about 5-10 years time that will be me, just joking.
Am not really sure which is the best goju ryu is poupoular hmmmm....But shotokan has the must student in term of my knowledege.
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ramymensa
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Joined: 12 Aug 2002
Posts: 1450
Location: New Jersey
Styles: Shotokan
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:34 am Post subject: |
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Most popular. Guess Shotokan and Kyokushinkai.
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ESA-Shotokan
Orange Belt
Joined: 20 Dec 2003
Posts: 201
Location: Bristol, UK
Styles: Shotokan Karate
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:20 am Post subject: Most popular style |
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Yeah, I would defo go by Shotokan. I wonder which is the most popular martial art in the world? Maybe that is also karate.
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Rich_2k3
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Joined: 30 Apr 2003
Posts: 778
Location: United Kingdom, Leicestershire
Styles: Trodai Karate
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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Shotokan is the most popular style of Karate, its a statistic, though I dont understand why, its no better then anyother style (in fact I prefer many others), it just seems to attract so many.
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Rich_2k3
Red Belt
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Posts: 778
Location: United Kingdom, Leicestershire
Styles: Trodai Karate
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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Karate would seem so, but if u think about how many ppl live in china; 1.3 billion, and i'm sure that Kung fu would probably be their most popular MA, it might be that Kung fu is the most popular style. I mean even in the west, JKD and Wing Chun are very popular, so world wide i'd go with Kung fu.
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equaninimus
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Joined: 31 Dec 2003
Posts: 562
Styles: Seibukan, Shotokan, Wado Ryu
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Shotokan, then take-one's-dough. Both had fairly zealous "marketers" in the JKA and the Korean government.
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Shorinryu Sensei
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Joined: 13 Jun 2002
Posts: 2045
Location: Kalispell, Montana
Styles: Shorinryu Matsumura Kenpo (Seito/Orthodox) Karate and Kobudo
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I think if we're talking "karate", then yes, Shotokan is probably the most popular. Unless of course you want to classify TaeKwonDo (all of the various forms of it) as "karate, then I think TKD would win.
If we're talking "martial art, then I'd suspect TaiChi perhaps? |
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kotegashiNeo
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Joined: 23 Dec 2003
Posts: 342
Location: Barrie Ontario Canada
Styles: goju/ Aikido
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Rich2K3 wrote , but if u think about how many ppl live in china; 1.3 billion, and i'm sure that Kung fu would probably be their most popular MA, it might be that Kung fu is the most popular style. I am not sure about this but I don't believe that everyone in china take kung fu just like everyone in India doesn't take kalipreaht. Yeah I think for students it is shotokan but goju has over a half million students and climbing
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Sho-ju
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Location: Canada
Styles: Karate, judo and jujitsu.
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| ramymensa wrote: |
| Most popular. Guess Shotokan and Kyokushinkai. |
I have to agree, shotokan has the greatest amount of students but that means it also has the greatest amount of McDojo's. In Canada and the U. S. American Kenpo has a large following... |
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