“Our focus is self-defense first.
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As me and my brother are involved in MMA you learn a lot with those techniques. But when you do a little research, we found these techniques are already in karate.
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Modern karate does not focus too much on self-defense, so they are losing the main technique of this purpose, because they focus too much on the tournament.
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Karate was born as a self-defense martial art. So we went back to the roots, did the research, and we brought this back for our karate system.” ??
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Chinzo Machida – Machida karate
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“Do nothing that is of no use”~ Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
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? by Machida karate