Report a comment Thank you for taking the time to report the following comment to the administrator of this site. Please complete this short form and click the submit button to process your report. Name   E-mail   Reason for reporting comment       Comment in question By: Dan Cassidy (Registered IP 87.232.1.91) on 02-03-2008 12:41 I've recently re-read Ralph's excellent book and then his interview with Lesley and wondered is it because Ralph (sadly) no longer practises karate that he can pass comment without any discernable bias. There's a passage in his book Memoirs of a Karate Fighter in which he laments the political back-biting within Wado Ryu at the time and reflects how he thought that karate was supposed to build character. I think in this interview it shows karate succeeded as Ralph Robb imparts his sober and mature views about the art he once practised so well. I also agree with his comment that with the rise in popularity of MMA contests, that karate-ka must start to reappraise where our art is heading and start to ask ourselves how much of our hours of training is effective karate is and how much is self-delusion.   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... »  Go back to the article