if your karate wasn't efficient, I'd check the teacher, not the style. Likely, you weren't trained right.
I started MA when I was 6. My parents asked me if I wanted to take gymnastics or karate, and I chose karate. I've really only had one bully and after beating him down, I threw his shoes into a kerosene heater. The rest of my time growing up was spent as a bully killer - when my friends got picked on, they told me, and I beat up the bully.
i'm nobody...i'm nobody. i'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo... a boxcar and a jug of wine... but i'm a straight razor if you get to close to me.
-Charles Manson
I will punch, kick, choke, throw or joint manipulate any nationality equally without predjudice.
- Shonie Carter