That's the problem to me. Peoples idea of what individual fighting systems are is based on the sport versions of them. But sport martial art is not Historical martial art. If you have a sport then you have rules to govern it...the RULES BECOME THE SPORT. Therefore the rules "become" the martial art. Karate along with very many others gets a real bad rap based on all this...the idea that it's not a complete fighting system. Well of course it's not based on the way it's practiced in large part today. But it's ridiculous to thing that people would have devised a weaponless street fighting system to defend themselve agaisn't ARMED ASSAILANTS without it being a complete fighting sytem. I.E. completely based on long distance striking. Of course not!
Even all the "historical" stuff they showed was based around the long distance striking part of it for the most part. Oh, well, lol, I don't like to complain I just had this naive vision that they were going to go to some Okinawan vision and find some people preserving the original more complete practices.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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