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Do You Think the Kata Informs the Combat Element of Martial Arts?
The traditional view per se is that the kata or the pattern can influence the combat element of a sport. And I think it's important to when you do view martial arts in there, in the setting that I've separated those from my perspective, I don't see them as the same sport at all. Combat and the kata for me don't necessarily live together at all. They could live in two semi detached types of side by side, but there's a there's a very firm separation.