I understand your point of view. In the dojo which i was trained at we also had to learn the true name of the moves and also background information on the ogigin of karate. So we were also studying the art aswell as learning it.
I myself started off doing shotokan karate, learning kata's but then moved into the freestyle fighting area in which i enjoyed more. One thing i never did quiet understand is how can the sport be semi-contact ? i have seen and suffered many injuries from hard hits and combo's
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