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Say someone does soft Okinawan Karate Katas, and then switch to Shotokan for a long time and then does kumite. Will the change in kata mechanics be reflected in how they perform moves in kumite or are these completely separate majesterias?

This was one of the best JKA schools in the country. Still Mcdojo standards... Karate has sold out. But, there was at least one brown belt in there that I could spar with who was a legitimate brown belt.

I just attended a JKA grading and it was just as awful quality control as in my TKD place. Brown belt who couldn't side kick above ankle height (not even mid section), closed hip, wrong foot placement. I can literally pull guys off the street who are better. And he had no balance doing it either.

I'm transitioning from TKD where everybody payed up front and got the new belt automatically by showing up to the grading no matter how poorly they did. It was ITF and a grandmaster instructor. So....no quality control at all in TKD I've heard Karate is a lot tougher, but just how tough? Will I likely fail one of the tests to black belt statistically? This is JKA. Part of the reason I want to do Karate is because I want to earn my belts. Not just get them by default.