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Karateka: (kah-rah-teh-ka)

The general term for a student of Karate of any grade.

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 10/11/2006 - 09:08.

Karate is not merely practiced for your own benefit: it can be used to protect one's family or master. It is not intended to be used against a single assailant but instead as a way of avoiding a fight should one be confronted by a villain or ruffian.
The purpose of karate is to make the muscles and bones hard as rock and to use the hands and legs as spears. If children were to begin training in Tang Te ('China Art' or 'China Hand') while in elementary school, then they will be well suited for military service. Remember the words attributed to the Duke of Wellington after he defeated Napoleon: "The Battle of Wateloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."

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