i think what he said is both true and false as the way most karate is train is aload of rubbish as most instructors dont fully understand the art.read a book by Iain Abernethy and Gavin Mulholland and you will understand the art alot better for instance the kata's are solo drills like shadow boxing but designed to teach you a specific way of fighting and if you use a little reason you will see theres all sorts of grappling techniques ect including guard passes locks strangles ect the board breaking is designed to help you deal with adrenaline as you shouldnt be allowed to practice breaking boards until your grading and the grading should be done infront of family and your mates. karate has all the techniques from boxing in it most of the muay thai techniques all the basic judo throws and a good amount of ground fighting along with all the kill/dirty stuff from krav maga its just the focus for most karate instructions is either comps or thay dont know or focus on the real stuff.
alot of the modern rbsp stuff have a root in karate aswell
Quoted for truth!
Always it comes down to learning how to read the kata. What CB is correctly calling 'reason' is just the basic idea that there was a rationale to the combination of movements in kata, and that that combination had nothing to do with aesthetics, or conditioning or some weird idea that the katas were enactments of religio/philosophical ideas. They were there because they represented effective tactical responses based on the strategic premises of Okinawan karate. All that other stuff came in when people basically lost the instruction manual, the
kaisai no genri, for reading the kata. And that's something that started a long time ago.
People like IA, Mulholland, Burgar, Rick Clark and many others show just how much there is in the kata. But they'd also be the first to tell you (Abernethy
does tell you, over and over and over) that once you've seen how the techs fit together, how a striking hand becomes a gripping hand to set up the next strike, and a gripping hand becomes the next striking hand—then you have to train it, pressure test it with someone who's less and less cooperative. And that's the hard part. Legally, it can be very dicey for an instructor to promote that sort of thing. And realistically, very few people
want their karate training to be that street-realistic—that
violent.
This violent, for example.... courtesy of our achives.
