Karate in Reality.

What does Kata Saifa tell you about collecting antibiotics from the source?

What does Kata Seiyunchin tell you about skinning animals or setting up a shelter?

These are not brought up as realistic examples, they are meant to be extreme examples of how Karate does not address everything.

Kids are impressionable and will often accept the answers they are given. Karate Sensei like to come off as all knowing and deserving of respect.

Karate Sensei do not know everything and, in my experience, even fail at the basics, like marriage.

They may have the answers to violence, or maybe not, they may have the answers to success in modern life, or maybe not, but if they claim to have the answers to everything, you need to put on your tin foil cap and listen with skepticism.

One Karate Teacher I knew was a womanizer and alcoholic, he had his leg amputated because he couldn’t get his act together, but his family benefited from his enterprise.

In the end, he lost his life, but his family endured… So one might say he was smart and selfless in that regard.

I see another Karate Organization ripping itself apart while it’s’ founder is alive.

That person named someone else as Chief Instructor, but when his own monetary value was decreased he decided to break away, he forbid anyone in his old Organization to use even his picture and formed a new Organization based in Okinawa, because that is where the money is, and with his name… Despite having cut his own Teacher out of his named Lineage.

Karate has always been a place of questionable character.

Toguchi was an alcoholic chain smoker, Higa was an alcoholic Chain Smoker, money is money and people make it where they see opportunity.

Karate was, once and still is, the study of Police,Thugs, and Gangsters. 

Not the art of character development. That is a marketing ploy of our modern era, based on movies.

Karate is also effective. Based on the fact that GSP, Bad Rutten, Machida, and even Connor McGregor utilizing it to gain fame, money, and titles.

Karate is not what it seems and is certainly not an art meant for children.