"Since Karate is ever-advancing it is no longer
possible to speak of the Karate to day and the Karate of a decade ago in the same breath...Karate in Tokyo today is almost
completely different in form from what was earlier practiced in Okinawa...
Precisely because it has its own life, do is subject to the inevitable cycle of
growth and decline. It is ever-changing, but only in its outer form. The basic
nature of do remains immutable."
Gichin Funakosfi from Karate-do Nyumon (1st published 1925)
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