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Isn't Karate for fighting?

Shotokai Karate-do, CHILE Isn't Karate-do a fighting art? Sadly this is the image mass media together with unscrupulous “masters” have given Karate-do around th

Continuous Publication Since Sept 15, 1995 Reference: fighting

Shotokai Karate-do, CHILE

Isn’t Karate-do a fighting art?

Sadly this is the image mass media together with unscrupulous “masters” have given Karate-do around the world. Since it’s origin Karate-do has always been an art for personal development and secondarily as a self-defence method. O-sensei (the creator of Karate-do) said and insisted “There doesn’t exist an offensive attitude in Karate” or “there is no first attack in Karate-do”, this does not require further explanation.

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