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Originally Posted by 47MartialMan  Strange, many martial art related words/terms, stem from China and/or Sanskrit | The words, as you've pointed out yourself on many occasions betrays little in the way of meaning - "a rose by any other name..."?
Hence, the root for the word Kata says more about language than the actual practice.
It's like saying "Fighting" comes from Old-English/Anglo-Saxon "Foehtan" which comes from the root-word German "Fechtens" and hence all English fighting is actually German...(?)
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Last edited by Magister; 04-17-2008 at 05:51 AM.
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