None of them are good but jiujitsu is the least useless

>>251945
All self defense is fake, but at least kyokushin and boxing teach you how to get beat up better.

>>251945
>is [x] good for self defense?
The answer always is: Do you spar (with full resistance/without compliance) regularly? If so, then yes. If not, then no.

>>251960
>kyokushin
https://youtube.com/shorts/1WrURW43aRQ?si=a_x0ea8wTOUEQufu

Throws everything he has at the guy, doesn't work at all, then casually almost has his entire future ended until his sensei steps in to save him

>>251977
lmao, fucking idiot throwing rolling thunder against bjj

>>251977
That's sparring, not self defense. How many times is a BJJ purple belt going to mug you?

>>251998
That was a black belt karate expert going whole hog at 100% intensity trying to KO the intermediate bjj player with his most powerful techniques, and didn't manage to land a single clean shot
It was a home field advantage under the karate practitioners own rules and he still couldn't manage to do any damage

Then the bjj practitioner effortlessly put him in a hold that will end the karate practitioners entire career if he chooses to apply it

Lol kyokushin is such garbage because they stand there like retards with their hands down, the only thing you need to do to defeat it is put your arms up in a basic boxing shell and it becomes nothing

>>252001
>black belt karate expert
>expert
Having a black belt in karate doesn't make you an expert. A first dan in karate is achievable in the same amount of time as a bjj purple belt. That karate guy is a nobody.

>>251945
Yes. To what extent depends. What kind of karate, and what kind of scenario? Boxing is good. BJJ is only for 1v1 on mats, judo is better. Honestly Karate/Kickboxing + judo is all you need.
>>251946
Good luck finding a trad JJ school.

>>251977
I'd actually say kyokushin guy is basically dumb more than anything here, he literally gave up standing (where he was dominating) from bad habits trained in. That axe and leg kick looked good but then he decided to suicide on the mat with his last kick.

In general a purple belt in bjj is a black belt to most other arts is usually about 4-6 years of training and most other arts have their first degree of black belt in that time frame. BJJ sandbagging is real. I would like to see clips where the BJJ fighter actually has to accomplish getting the man to the ground because that part is usually the whole fight for them. The dominance once they're down there is pretty boring and taken for granted, but getting them to the mat is always an uncertainty.

>>251945
most people dont know how to fight, so yeah

>>251945
Pretty much any martial art is useful for self defense if you put the work in for it. That said, the BEST is body building, because if you look big and strong then no one will attack you in the first place.

>>252040
Cover and crash is a pretty effective way to get someone down
It doesn't work against other grapplers but against non-grapplers it's the easiest method
Basically an automatic win button

Ever seen "Man of Tai Chi"?

>>252111
Every nerd is a big buff bodybuilder nowadays it means nothing. It's just more embarrassing when Mr 100kg bodybuilder gets destroyed by some 80kg guy

>>251945
Karate is fine, specially kyokushin, boxing is better, bjj is a meme that will get you killed.

>>251945
Bjj is good as complementary to wrestling or judo, otherwise you'll have bad takedowns and zero standup game. Karate is good if they do full contact. Boxing is good.

>>251945
In theory it's great, but it's hard to find a good karate gym depending on where you live.

>>251945
t.black belt in karate, 17 years continuous practice in shorin-ryu shorinkan which is very traditional.
punches and kicks are useful when trained in sparring practice. but I cannot tell you how many useless patterns I know which cannot, in any way, be realistically deployed in a fight. But we train punching wood blocks and that certainly prepares your knuckles for punching. karate as a system is simply not useful for street fighting but a few of the techniques in isolation certainly are. I started karate because I thought it would be helpful in a fight, but by the end of my karate 'career' for want of a better word, I was doing it for other reasons.