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Hello and welcome to the forum. Learning Karate, or any martial art takes time. Reading up does help, but can be confusing to a beginner - training and practice, these are far more important. All the best in your training.

Plus, strong grip equals strong hands for striking.

Hello and welcome to the forum. We can get vigorous in our debates, but not excessively so. and where does being rude get you ? Anyway , enjoy.

Welcome to the forum, hope it's helpful to you.

I use it as part of my personal training.

Well done to all concerned.

Hello and welcome to the forum.

Congratulations.

Hello and welcome to the forum.

The style is the starting point. The frame work to build your personal ability, firstly onto. Then out ward, finding and filling your personal gaps.

JusticeZro, there are two forms, winter and summer types.

I'm sure you can get plain tee-shirt type tops in modern breathable fabrics. Expensive, maybe by comparison, but a good alternative if available.

Well done that man !

So, Karate shortens life span. Better 70 active years than an extra 10 of infirmity and illness ! That if it is true, still not seen any of the research, the book isn't available here in GB.

I like !!

All the best this weekend Wastelander.

Hello frafra85 and welcome to the forum.

Sorry I'm a bit late to this one, so I might be repeating what others have said. But, at a simple level, is it the art that evolves or the martial artist ? I think the martial artist evolves as part of a natural process and thus the art evolves. This is not the same as a deliberately thought-out, I will do, this needs changing, that needs adding, process.

Fumio Demura's Genbukai had been pioneers in this area. Hold and promoting this type of competition.

I do too an extent. I travel over to Leeds (in GB) every month to study Matayoshi Kobudo. My sensei has given me a good grounding in the basics of Kobudo, but I decided I wanted to study a system.

Well done Chuck, can't beat that. Good find.

Brilliant ! My admiration and congratulations to this wonderful lady.

Well done bassaiguy.

I always say Jigoro Kano (founder of Judo). His developments and influence are perhaps more profound than even Bruce Lee's .

I'm in Wigan, just down the East Lancs.