I guess my point is this: > Naihanchi does not in any shape or form prepare one for any sort of fighting What makes you so sure? I don't think karate is like

I guess my point is this: > Naihanchi does not in any shape or form prepare one for any sort of fighting What makes you so sure? I don't think karate is like the Karate Kid movies, where you spend all morning painting the fence and all afternoon doing some ridiculous-looking kata, and then end up applying those moves exactly in a fight. But I do submit that these kata are designed to teach precisely the kind of movements one would apply in a fight. I have not ever actually been in a streetfight, and I confess my argument smells a little bit like "I've been doing this ten years, I refuse to believe that I've been wasting my time". Still -- are you prepared to argue that kata training definitely does not teach one fighting skills? Seems like that's an extremely difficult point to argue.