You can become competent in boxing in six months or less, if you train hard. (You won%26#039;t win a Golden Gloves competition or anything, but you will know how to punch well, move around, and throw combinations.)
I have been told that you can become competent in muai thai in less than a year if you train hard. I think most decent striking arts require a year or less of solid training before you start becoming really competent.
After a solid year in judo, you will be learning basic body positioning and throws. I think you need at least a year of solid judo before you start becoming competent, maybe more like two years. I understand that BJJ requires about a year before people start getting a feel for it.
In general, it seems to take most people at least twice as long to become competent in grappling as it does to become competent in striking. This is why the military focuses on boxing and striking for hand-to-hand combat rather than judo or wrestling.
But wrestling is funner. :)|||i would say around 3 years.. before the movements become more of an instinct, than athought out plan.... a thought out plan gets you hurt in a %26quot;live%26quot; situation... that is from my experience... different people will learn slower or faster, but think of it as learning a new language.... after a short time you may be able to speak a sentace... a little longer you may be able to understand some else speak... but to communicate in that language takes a lot of study....probably a bad analogy, but you get the picture|||Karate usually 3 to 5 years depending on which style and school. Tae Kwon Do 2 1/2 to 4 years.
and Judo about 3 to 4.
P.S. this isn%26#039;t true for all schools as some often times create their own colored belts or skip a ranks allowing you to get your black belt in as little as 6 months.|||I guess you need to define %26quot;fairly competent%26quot;
Also we%26#039;d have to know how much aptitude for your art you have.
I was fairly competent in karate after a year. I knew the basics and could do some of the advanced stuff.|||Probably Judo would be in around a year you could throw people that aren%26#039;t experienced due to Judo%26#039;s competitive nature. Taekwondo or Karate I would think would take 2-4 years depending on how you define competence!
But the other answers are correct, too. I would think 5-10 years and you would be competent enough to teach others.|||Regardless of the art and depending on what your take on %26quot;Fair Competency%26quot; in the martial arts , It varies in every sense.
There are some who learns really fast and absorbs knowledges like a sponges and there are those who struggles in a slow progressions. Both can achieved certain levels of competency. In term of time-wise, there may be a small gap between the two.
For those who learns fast, it may range perhaps between 2-3 years while groups that are slow learner runs somewhere between 3-4. Again it depends on the individual ability to theory, methods and executions of the martial arts.
Since martial arts mastery does not take place within weeks, months or even years. Its hard to define the time length. I have yet to Masters of Karate-Do say that they have mastered their beloved art.
There%26#039;s a story I heard a while back about a master who was long time practitioner of karate. As he lay on his deathbed, he was making some movement with arms as if he was trying to punch some invisible being. His student was wondering what the master was trying to do. Before taking his last breath, this master turns to his student and said %26quot; You know, I think I finally understand the essence and meaning of this technique%26quot;|||After a year of intense training you%26#039;ve taken the first step, but it takes at least 5 years to become competent in a martial art. Then again, some people have great reflexes and athletic ability and can be great fighters without necessarily being competent in a martial-art per-se, and some people can study martial arts for years but lack certain intrinsic physical ability that prevents them from being effective fighters.|||for chinese martial art, 5 years
For bjj,boxing,or judo i%26#039;d say 2 years|||Look at how long it takes to get to the %26quot;Black Belt%26quot; level in each art. Then again, it would be more fair to say look at how long it takes to get to a %26quot;Master%26quot; level. Black Belts should be competent, but that doesn%26#039;t hold true to a lot of schools that hand out belts. Usually, if someone has the drive to make it to Master, though, they are not training at a McDojo, so they should be even more competent.|||It all depends on the person and what style you train in and if you go to a Mcdojo or not too.
I wont go into the McDojo thing as that is a answer to another question. But on the person it is all about want and skill, if you have the desire and to a lesser degree the skill then I would say 5,6 months and upwards, But I bet there are cases in which a person would be able to defend him/herself well with in 4 months.
As for Style well there are styles that have steeper learning curve then others such as Tai Chi and some Kung Fu styles for example. While others might be easier to pick up like Tae Kwon Do and Karate for style I can%26#039;t say because I have not trained in all of them but I would guess close to a year in the style which ever one it is and you would be fairly competent in it.
Like I said there is no hard and fast time in which you be come competent or not it all depends on the person and the learning curve of the style.|||1 day to a lifetime. So many ideas of what is competent. Some that means to fight, some to know forms for health. To varied and open ended of a question to be accurate.|||It depends where you are at before you start.
Anyone can join a martial art...but not anyone can really adequately defend themselves.
So part of it is getting you up to that level.
I%26#039;d say 5 years give or take.|||you%26#039;ll get better in 9 months|||Any grappling style takes more time to master then a striking art, and that is a fact.|||It depends on how athletic you are and how much you work out. One-hour classes once or twice a week--2-3 years. Two-hour classes 3x a week, about a year.|||I did Karate for two years, boxing for a year and kickboxing for two years and I would have to say that at the 6 month point you have a decent knowledge but to be considered good or even just okay I think you need a year under your belt for sure.
by the way, judo is hard - I tried it.|||Most of these arts do not really open up till you reach a black belt level. That on average takes about three years. The individual skill level will vary considerably. I haven%26#039;t seen any one become really good in less than 3 years of training hard.
Once you reach a black belt level you are now in a position to really get competent. It is kind of like a high school diploma and than moving on to freshman at college.
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