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A concert pianist still practices scales.

Chuck Norris is a movie star more than he is a student of karate.

I disagree. I don't think you could make this statement even generally speaking. You need spirit and perserverance, not a high pain threshold to suceed in kyokushin, or really in anything. Kyokushin kata/patterns are much more fluid (IMO) than shotokan kata and as someone said before our movements are more circular.

I assume you mean informally inside the dojo and not in competitions. I started doing light sparring almost right away once I started kyokushin.

I disagree. He never seemed a petty man and doing something like that would be an atypical act for someone acting and living in the Japanese culture. He would have been hiding a side of himself from a lot of people to leave the world in the hopes of destroying something he worked on his entire life to build. I also think that there are more than two solutions to any problem.