Karate is a Hammer

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In essence, like the hammer, karate is a physical tool to break other human beings. A hammer has one purpose, to hit nails with. Add a claw on the other side and the hammer still hits nails but it now has the ability to expand its usefulness to pulling out nails. 

Karate simply hits nails, i.e., we use our bodies to hit, essentially, other human beings with the purpose as yet to be determined. It does this, like the hammer, well; better than any other form or skill of the empty hands in fighting. 

If we look at the essence that underlies karate, its fundamental principles with emphasis on physiokinetic sub-principles, we have a hammer that hits nails. Add in the claw, in this case technique-based preferences to apply principles, we can now pull nails or in one example restrain a human trying to do us damage. 

If we add different embellishments to the hammer we provide unique enhancements that allow us to expand on the function of hitting nails. If the handle is longer and the head heavier we enhance the mass and its physics to generate more power and force to driven nails much like the hip girdle rotation we enhance the speed and energy in the fist of karate striking a specified target on another body. 

If we also add different disciplines to the use of the hammer, be it carpenter or a more atomistic discipline like a cabinet maker then the variations of types of hammers, like karate styles, is a way to enhance the job and its performance in achieving a specific objective like building cabinets about sailing vessels. 

It is still a hammer and it still, in essence, pounds nails but when enhancements and embellishments are added then it performs variations on hitting a nail. Like adding a peen in place of the claw so that the tool now can form metals to shapes useful to us. 

So, regardless of the embellishments and enhancements we humans add to things, the tool that is karate is till fundamentally in essence about using the body to damage others. We add the enhancements and embellishments from a personal perspective so we can enhance our applications of karate to achieve more goals than hitting a nail on the head. 

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