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I'm really glad to see you pick up on this at the orange belt level, it really a very mature realization that karate will not turn you into great fighter. You'll do OK. I would like to ask though , isn't orange belt about the time that shotkan students begin to spar ? and if this mature attitude is in the face of impending rubber coated doom.Then I still say you'll do OK. any of us that tell you they don't have any fear are morons.its a scary thing and it gets scarier the farther you advance in rank .Getting used to that fear , is the thing and that does require some contact. Hope it goes well

It was a good article and I have also heard both stories. The first is, I think from Nakayama as he tried to find some da vinci code in shoto's poetry. The second , Hoan Kosugi and the tora no maki is fact , though, traded for the kata Kushanku I think. Funakoshi later taught Kanku-sho and dai. " The half Moon ' Is the symbol of the JKA , who ever designed the patch wanted to give a shout out most likely. Hope some of this helped and really liked your article