Why was Karate so popular in the 80s and 90s, but not today?

Why was Karate so popular in the 80s and 90s, but not today?

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hum, MMA fags?

>80's
Golden age of Japanese economics and soft power. A shitton of jap animation was becoming viral across the world, so was their culture.
Ninjas, Samurais, Karate etc and etc.

Now, Anime is basically about "muh hecking coom". In those times, it was prettu much around fighting

Because Japan had a wildly-booming economy and everyone thought they were cool. It's the same reason why all cyberpunk settings seem to have Japan as a superpower, they were written at a time when Japan was ascendant.

Once Japan's economy died and everyone started staying inside all day, karate wasn't in as much demand.

Holywood propaganda.
Karate kid sucked anyway.

Karate style? Kyokushin best

it's not that effective in real life, that's why mma took its place

It was a fad. Finns really are autistic retards aren't they.

S.o.y. and vidya

This and it was considered a good fighting system until mma was introduced

I'm pretty sure Kyokushin is still going strong. At least the dodjo in my city has more or less the same amount of students. But it never had such a large boom as other styles because it always was fucking hard. Most people never even get to the advanced group or try it out and decide that it's not for them.

But also Karate and Tae Kwon Do were introduced to America by soldiers stationed in Japan and Korea

UFC proved that it's worthless LARPing
Only boxing and wrestling matter

My kids do karate. Smallest is 5 and that little fuck can legitimately win a fight against me. Feels bad

>only boxing and wrestling matter
You must have a weak ground game and some softass shins.

Literally the movie karate kid.

Lyoto Machida begs to differ. Just go watch a few of his fights, a karate master fighting at the highest level

>used to do kyokushin
>family moved to a different town
>only dojo there is shotokan
>do shotokan for years
>go to European championship
>Shoto and kyo are rolled together
>all my mates are shitting their pants "oh no we have to fight the kyokushin fags, they are super tough"
>already know all of their tricks
>silver medal
Sticking to one style is a mistake.

Ok. Why hasn't he won any MMA style fights?

Good times really.

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Because it’s a useless martial art

Based.
I trained in shotokan and did a bit of aikido cross training (also one krav maga class which was literally identical to application shotokan just with a ton of Affliction dudebros). We had a guy with a goju-ryu background, a guy crosstraining in Muay Thai, and an ex UK squad member in I want to say Wado Ryu.
We were a tiny club but tended to clean up on tournaments. Not trained for years after two leg injuries in quick succession kept me out for two years then I moved. I've tried other clubs but none are as good. One had some taekwondo fighters as there were no taekwondo clubs in the area and they were laughably bad, it took effort to avoid injuring them. Then there's the usual "get a belt for attending" hack shit.

tl;dr- karate is still the chad martial art but your karate is strongest if you add other styles.

Combat and martial arts work largely better when your opponent has no idea what the fuck you are doing.
This is why Bruce Lee dominated in his time. This is why the Gracie's had their time in the sun (it's gone now). The next big art or set of tricks hasn't really been done well enough to reinvent the wheel over beyond wrestling itself coming back and making jits artists lose now that the novelty has worn off and the tricks they want to do are more common knowledge.
There were solid reasons the Chinese didn't want us learning their martial arts in the first place. It gave them an edge.

UFC is the biggest larp of all, you’re retarded if you can’t see that. BTW: traditional martial artists ALWAYS dominate MMA and UFC. You are just obsessed with Tapout culture like a muttfaggot retard bitch nigger lover.

No it didn't Kobra Kai was based.