Thanks everyone for your help and an insteresting discussion. I have been training long enough to have some idea what I want and was looking for reflections on Karate styles (something I have no experience with). I also agree with tmd that the sensei is important, but not everything can be judged by him/her. I was desperate to train Aikido while traveling once and trained with somebody I had doubts about. One of his senior students threw me badly and I separated my shoulder-my worst training injury to date. Another sensei who I really liked, and would have loved to train with individually was too permissive with his senior students and created a dojo atmosphere that was unnecessarily rough. The "arthritic changes" in my wrists are my reminder of that lesson.
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