Meguro,
Don't worry about "single me out" , I'm aware that maybe my impressions of kata came from the fact that I'm not very experienced in kyokushin yet....despite the fact that I fight for more than 15 years now......in kyokushin i'm stil a blue belt. Maybe (probaly) you and the others that believe in katas are right and we can get something from kata for fighting. Anyway, I really like katas, and that is one of the reasosns i joined kyokushin.
And I would like to repeat, that crac that we see in ESPN in kickboxing katas competitions, or mac dojos katas....with tons of kicks, people smiling...or showing of useless moves with unreal weapons.....that kind of stuff gives martial arts a bad repuutation. On the oposite we have, traditional kung fu stiles (some of then..not all)...goku ryu, ueshi ryu, kyokushin and othe karate stiles, with solid and traditional katas that I love.
OSS!!!
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