I understand what you mean about the karate thing. I trained in a style of karate that is an off-shoot of Isshin-Ryu. Our school free-sparred, grappling the whole deal. In formal classes, we sparred at maybe 75%. After formal class there were about six of us that would stay and beat the living mortal hell out of each other, just swinging for the fences. I would come home with my ribs hurting like hell, lips bleeding, hands swollen, and shins/thighs bruised all up. When someone heard the word Karate I could see the only thing going through there mind was Daniel-Son and the Karate kid. I'm sitting there like dude, I'm freakin bleeding for this, not waxing on or waxing off anything(OK, maybe a few times when I was a kid). Its hard to defend the few legitimate schools of karate that are out there, so I can imagine how pissed you would get if your style isn't even associated with karate and you get that crap.
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