- Joined
- Mar 26, 2009
- Messages
- 19,030
- Reaction score
- 5,379
Well, it has "evolved" from Karate so there's that connection - but of course I see your point. I'm still counting it as Karate for my list tho.Wouldn't describe Kudo as a karate style in all honesty - has none of the kata, ido geiko, stances/uke etc that you would expect to find in a karate style.
Even the kihon is very different - basically kickboxing.
Only thing it shares with Karate is commonality with budo roots but even Judo has this to some extent (not unique to karate).
Otherwise I agree.
But let me ask a few questions just to pick your brain:
- is Karate still Karate if we don't practice kata?
- was it Karate *before* kata were invented?
- since kata were a means of transmission when books weren't feasible - do they still make sense to practice now that we have all kinds of media to accurately describe techniques and application?
- what's more important - the practice of entire kata or the practice of bunkai drills?