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The idea of karate in general, and kata in particular, is to build muscle memory for sequences of actions that would be effective in a fight. Eg. if somebody throws a punch at your face, you can automatically reel off a counterattack sequence: block, elbow-to-ribs, knee-in-stomach, deposit-on-floor. 8^)
This is all very well, but I worry that the next time somebody puts their hands over my eyes to play guess-who, I'm going to react by sweeping my arm around into an elbow-lock and then punching them in the kidneys before I figure out what's happening. This may well be sub-optimal social behaviour.
This is all very well, but I worry that the next time somebody puts their hands over my eyes to play guess-who, I'm going to react by sweeping my arm around into an elbow-lock and then punching them in the kidneys before I figure out what's happening. This may well be sub-optimal social behaviour.
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