Has karate lost somthing?

[Hohan-1]

Most modern Budo never had much to offer in the first place. How you gonna make up for lack of efficacy in technique? Add the mumbo jumbo of religion and claim that it will make you a better karate-ka. Ridiculous...

 

Kirves is on point. You can tell he is a real karate-ka. I knew that real kyokushinkai was the best Japanese karate.

[Kirves]

Here's a good article about what the training was like when the people from the west were only beginning to learn karate on Okinawa, i.e. when the training was still done the way it always was: http://www.joelewiskarate.com/joe-lewis/article5.asp

 

Here is another interesting article on how training was done in mainland Japan some time ago:

 

http://www.hpo.net/users/atansley/training.html