Is judo effective in a street fight?

Which do you think is more effective in a street fight - Karate or judo?|||Karate is far better for a street fight.





You can fight multiple opponents. You can run away if needed. Judo typically brings you to the ground 鈥?a bad place for a street fight. And most importantly you can keep you adversary from getting a hold of you. They may be stronger or more skilled, but the only way to test this exposes you to great harm if you are out classed.





That said, Judo still has many, many redeeming values beyond practicality in a street fight.|||judo can be effective in a self defence situation but karate is better in my opinion because it is more well rounded.for anyone to effectively defend themselves they need to crosstrain in stand up and ground/grappling.|||For a well trained athlete, Judo might be superior because the rules of the competition require competing to the end instead of restarting after every point. This is a little closer to real life.





For an office jockey, Karate might be superior because a guy who can do 500 pushups, 500 situps, and run 10 miles probably doesn%26#039;t have any harder knuckles, knees, elbows, or shins than the guy who hasn%26#039;t worked out in a year.





In both sports though, most dojos teach self defense in addition to the sport - so someone trained in either style would probably be very able at defending themselves.|||call 911 you sound like a Puss.|||Once you get inside, Judo is very effective, you just have to be able to close in and get a grip.





Karate is better at a distance, and if you take Kenpo, that will help you even more, as some classes teach some basic grappling as well.





Combining the two styles would be best, Karate or another striking art from the distance, and Judo up close.|||neither, I would give an edge to Judo since most fights go to the ground at some point though.|||Yes, it%26#039;s effective as you learn effective takedowns, and ground grappling rivaling to jiu-jitsu (and one point in time, judo and jiu-jitsu were interchangeable words).





As far as being more effective than karate, that%26#039;s debatable, it would depend on the style of karate.





Against a kyokushin karateka it%26#039;d be tough, against a shidokan karateka I wouldn%26#039;t bet on it.|||Yes.





Almost every time I walk through Boston Common I use JUDO to defend myself against some crack head.|||Judo, but you must close the gap with a few strikes, once in the clinch a judo fighter with equal experience to the Karate fighter will dominate.