Just because you haven’t trained it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

A throw doesn’t become a Judo throw simply because someone recognizes it from Judo.

Across different cultures, people have developed similar ways of controlling, unbalancing, and throwing another person. They didn’t necessarily have to learn those methods from one another.

Perhaps, before deciding that something needs to be brought into karate, we should take a closer look at what we’re already practicing.

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