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Originally Posted by Tim Chan
you realize that shotokan and kyokushin use almost the exact same kata, and practice stances???
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I do. Virtually all of the traditional/semi-traditional Karate schools, as well as the Tae Kwon Do and other Korean TMA schools and some of the Chinese Kung Fu schools use many of the same Kata. The Heian/Pinan Kata go back to the Chinese Chiang Nan/Channan Kata that came from China, etc.
My point was that *if* for some odd reason, you wanted to go the TMA route to learn fighting skills, you are likely to do less Kata and more likely to do increased practical sparring and drilling at a Kyokushin dojo than a traditional Shotokan dojo. That is my experience.