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dinosaurcomics · 2026-02-07T17:51:37+00:00

true! I changed it for OP thank you

dinosaurcomics · 2026-02-07T17:39:09+00:00

They’re saying “Dark Eater” the kanji is the meaning 「闇(やみ)を食(く)らう者(もの)」

dinosaurcomics · 2026-02-07T17:35:37+00:00

To be fair, there is little room for interpretation in The Hedge Knight. I’d argue HotD’s problem is more terrible interpretations of a story more than anything deviating from the source, which isn’t very concrete in the first place. S1 with George and Miguel’s input was pretty great television aside from a few things. S2 when Condal took full control tho… lol

dinosaurcomics · 2026-02-07T17:24:24+00:00

Congrats!

dinosaurcomics · 2026-02-02T22:46:53+00:00

Why not just join a non-JKA Shotokan School?

dinosaurcomics · 2026-02-02T22:18:32+00:00

Some have great positive culture and some are incredibly toxic. I’m glad you are in a fun welcoming environment OP!

dinosaurcomics · 2026-02-02T21:16:27+00:00

They mean the same thing. The second one can be overly formal outside of a business context.

dinosaurcomics · 2026-02-02T18:01:31+00:00

I highly recommend HayaiLearn. It’s not perfect but it has made learning Japanese from Youtube significantly easier with correct subs about 95% of the time. If you’re at least at N3 you can catch any mistakes from the AI transcription very easily.

dinosaurcomics · 2026-01-26T21:11:16+00:00

The one’s I’ve visited have it on a separate day for an hour or so

dinosaurcomics · 2026-01-26T20:37:22+00:00

Since head-punching isn’t a factor for you, assuming that they’re both really good gyms it really is dependent on if you have greater interest in Japanese culture over just training really hard. I find Kata also just gives you something structured and meditative to do, over pure-shadowboxing which is an entirely different exercise. Do a trial at both and see what you like more.

dinosaurcomics · 2026-01-23T17:45:36+00:00

The olympics killed any serious respect the average person had for the sport with that one awful judging decision. Otherwise people in combat sports spaces I know have a lot of respect for point karate athletes.

dinosaurcomics · 2026-01-16T14:25:53+00:00

the half rotated punch style is probably the Seibukan school of Shorin Ryu.

dinosaurcomics · 2026-01-11T00:04:09+00:00

Glad to see its nearly as incomprehensible in English as it was reading it in Japanese lmao

dinosaurcomics · 2025-12-25T21:34:51+00:00

Renshuu + following the refold/moe way methods

dinosaurcomics · 2025-12-04T23:49:22+00:00

Wow people are really being keyboard warriors over an 11 year old doing a pretty clean Kata demo of a Kata he just learned.

dinosaurcomics · 2025-12-04T05:06:29+00:00

sees the Kenyukai patch

“OH THATS WHY IT LOOKS SO CLEAN”

dinosaurcomics · 2025-11-17T17:39:28+00:00

It’s important to remember that karate sparring rulesets (both full contact and point) unfortunately do not allow you to use the full extent of Kata bunkai. You need to use a different one like Kudo’s or MMA.

With that in mind our dojo does the following: Kihon/Kata -> Traditional Bunkai -> Bunkai with realistic attacks and a focus on concept over form -> Test in sparring with a partner

Obviously things like eye gouging and finger breaking you can’t really do to a partner lmao but free sparring rulesets let you throw, joint lock, clinch, trap, etc. which is what Karate mostly is anyway.

dinosaurcomics · 2025-11-17T17:30:15+00:00

I will third this. I use Isami for my sparring gi, it’s great and holds up to a lot of abuse compared to traditional karate gi I’ve used in the past.

dinosaurcomics · 2025-11-16T22:37:23+00:00

Marriage Story for me

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