Okay, some people are funny.
And some have been there, and done that.
And some are smart.
Rob Redmond is one of the above.
I don’t always agree with him, although I absolutely, positively subscribe to his belief that the karate kata are databases of self-defense techniques, and in that I am also in agreement with Iain Abernethy.
But I just looked at a blog entry about karate practice entitled “Your Karate Practice is Not Noble”.
I agree with him.
I would have violently disagreed thirty or forty years ago, but I may be smarter now. Maybe just lower testosterone levels. But now I agree.
Now, Gichen Funakoshi would have disagreed. He actually, factually, did believe that the practice of karate would improve your character, and Sensei Kano believed the same thing about the practice of judo.
But the practitioners of boxing have since the Victorian Era and before taken the position that boxing would improve character.
And that, I think, is probably not the case, either.
