TonyU

Karate to survive in the U.S. in the 21^st Century.

I decided to write this after considerable thought about Karate, it’s transmission, and survivability in U.S. This is more prevalent now with the advent of MMA and people’s perception of “real world scenarios” or “street self defense.” I could argue that most people have these perceptions wrong, but unfortunately that isn’t going to help get students in the door or help spread the art of karate.
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Once upon a time, many, many, many moons ago I came into this earth at a time when karate was at it's infancy in the U.S.
Vietnam hasn't peaked yet, although it was getting there. Vietnam vetarans found themselves stationed in Okinawa, Japan, Korea and other exotic lands where they learned some of the indigenous Martial Arts. They in turn returned the U.S., brought their new found skills and started propagating their knowledge.
Slowly Martial Arts became mainstream and cinema started ...

I was never into blogs nor posting my thoughts and musings in such a format. Something about my inner thoughts being publicly displayed just didn't seem right to me. I also didn't have much interests in reading others as well. It wasn't that I didn't care what others had to say it's that I still have difficulty reading, for long periods of time, things on a computer. It's not comfortable for me. When I get reports sent to me via email I still print it out to read it.
Anyway, what does this ...