Uh. No.
Why would I even ask the question?
Well, because a lot of other folks have said it, and published it.
I have to respond initially that any reports of the death of karate have been greatly exaggerated.
Now, is karate today exactly the same as karate in Okinawa two hundred years ago?
Probably not, exactly. Except some places.
But living things grow and change.
In Okinawa, teaching karate was done in secret, and typically in very, very small classes. Of one student, for instance.
But in order to teach karate to large numbers of people who had never seen it before, new strategies were in order.
Remember, neither Sensei Funakoshi nor Sensei Nakayama had the internet as a tool.
So the strategy of sending real, live instructors to many countries to teach large classes was about the only game in town.
And it worked beyond the wildest imagining of anyone in Okinawa two hundred years ago.
Was the entire body of knowledge transmitted to the entire world?
I doubt it; but that process continues today.
