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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Strip mall karate is bull****. It's really just a way for parents to get their kids out of the house so they can have old people sex. I'm willing to bet money that if you get into a fight that all that "training" goes right out the window and you start throwing street punches just like everybody else.
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I know all about the YMCA and strip mall karate. But the head instructor of my dojo has been in karate for 47 years, is in the Global Martial Arts Hall of Fame (alongside Bruce Lee), and was on friendly terms with Shoshin Nagamine (the guy who pioneered Shorin-ryu karate). We're talking contact sparring and workouts that routinely involve 150 sit-ups. It's not the babysitting kind of martial arts. In fact, one of the assistant instructors won a world kickboxing title in 2008.