It’s time to admit that the karate you are learning (teaching) is FAKE, and it doesn’t actually teach you how to fight.
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Practicing karate at certain schools does NOT prepare you for an actual fight!
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The real problem is that regular people are being peddled traditional karate snake oil, by fake teachers who have only been practicing for a few years, and because they know how to talk, or should I say shout, students are getting hurt or injured when they find themselves in a real fight.
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You have been horribly lied to. By the time you realize you are in a fight, it is already half over and you’ve taken three or four solid shots to the face, and your tee-shirt has been pulled over your head, rendering you blind.
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The experience is jarring: unfiltered chaos, blurred vision in one eye from an errant thumb poke, a ringing eardrum from getting punched in the side of the head, the taste of your own blood and swallowing a tooth. It is disorganized, violent, confusion, and your heart rate is skyrocketing with buckets of adrenaline running through your body.
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You hold your breath as your body goes into shock and when it’s over, you throw up from exhaustion. The whole thing lasted less than 45 seconds. You’re battered, bruised, or worse.
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An actual fight is about survival. Fights do not happen in safe, closed environments. Any time that you have to think, is about the same amount of time it will take for your attacker to break your nose, or worse.
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The martial arts you practice in your school are in a vacuum, and then there is being in a fight. These are two very different things. You don’t know how ill-equipped you actually are against an attacker that really wants to do you harm, until you are brutally exposed in an embarrassingly, possibly life threatening, fashion.
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A fight is a visceral, primal experience and when you are fighting for your life, you can get seriously hurt, if you mess around even for a split second.
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The karate fakery needs to stop. I don’t care about the fraudsters out there peddling themselves as invincible masters of the strongest karate (you know who you are) – watching them get exposed, and they will be, makes me very happy….. No; I worry about the kids, and even adults being taught bogus self-defense lessons by these self proclaimed “teachers”.
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Students are being deceived, on so many levels. Not only is this very sad, but it is extremely dangerous, because unfortunately, the snake oil salesmen and everywhere.
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Beware the slippery ones. 

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