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Old 04-12-2008, 09:31 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I've trained in an Okinawan style of karate for 7 years now and since I reached the higher ranks my Sensei has said that Japanese karate is meant to be pretty while Okinawan karate is meant to destroy things. It's not meant to be pretty, it's meant to be functional. Our particular style, Shorin Ryu Shorinkan, has some pretty nasty techniques of the ones that I've seen, and experienced. It is relatively unchanged from when it was established.
But, some of the Okinawan stuff is not as it was. There is a lot of commercialism.
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That post before mine, was that for post counting? How about the one after?

Hey, my post count has the same palaverment tone as anyone elses'
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