RoniSwersky
White Belt
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Here's the thing. I enjoy practicing Katas and their Bunkai, and trying to adapt Kata moves into real life scenarios is really interesting. However, when I look at the way martial artists move when actually fighting as against how they perform the same moves in Kata/Kihon it's totally different. My question is, why do we keep movements and practice them in a way that is not effective in a real fight or even in sport Kumite? If the end purpose is to use Karate for self defense, shouldn't we practice the moves in a more realist way in Katas and Kihon? i.e smaller defensive movements and not taking the opposite arm to the waist when throwing a punch but keeping it at the chin area to protect against counters.
What do you people say?
What do you people say?