Migod... people have spent hours' worth of posting time explaining to you that kata training contains techniques to be used `full speed'; that you train the content of the kata, not the performance of the kata, that a kata is a compilation of three to five separate defensive scenarios, any one of which can be brutally effective if executed with efficiency and dispatch, and that other sports do PLENTY of what, in the karate-based arts, are called kata... and give you references to a huge literature on the combat application of kata... and you then post something like this suggesting that none of it, not one little bit, has sunk in. I'm staggered. Not one little bit of all the detailed responses to the series of misunderstandings I've cited above has registered...
Doesn't it begin to seem strange to you, still_learning, that every time you post things like the sequence of sentence fragments in the above post, you get a whole barrage of responses from people in the arts pointing out to you in detail where you're mistaken in your view of kata? Are you hoping that if you repeat these claims and statements long enough, sheer repetition will convince us of their truth? If so, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. All you are succeeding in doing is advertising the fact that either you do not read the detailed replies you get, or you do not assimilate the information those replies contain. The impression that gets communicated is that it's a waste of time responding to you—just as it's a waste of time responding to a tape-player repeating on a loop the message that the earth is flat, because in neither case can any kind of response make a difference.
