The True Kata Applications...Part 1
Mon 05:32 PST. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
From conspiracy theorists to profiteers to well intentioned, committed students, all karate-ka (it seems) have a take on the mystery of kata application and relevance. Ideas like: “Only a few select people are still alive who know the REAL bunkai for these kata”, “It is the OLD way of training and Karate has outgrown it”, and “It’s the best/worst training for a real fight”. If any of these things were true, common sense would say that whoever was touting / teaching them would be the only instructor left. Everyone would be running to him because the word would be out that he had the “real thing”. So, to reverse that logic, because that has not happened, it is safe to assume there could be a little truth AND (most likely) a lot of exaggeration in most of the theories out there today.
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