Kickboxing gives u all the benefits of karate and more, apart form white pjs. Kickboxing is about not wasting time on training/practice that is not directly related to actual fighitng. Kickboxing started out as full contact karate and envoled into a ring sport that is focused on fighting.
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For pure self defence. Go krav maga, or find a good reality based self defense (RBSD)school.In sydney, try Flora fighting system, budo jitsu, join a good martial arts forum like Blitzmag.net to ask for something near you.
The thing with RSBD is that they go beyond the phyiscal part of...