Karate
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| KARATE | Fighting Style, 6 CP |
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Karate originated on the Okinawa Islands. When Japanese conquerors forbade the natives from carrying weapons, they focused on this style of unarmed combat. Karate incorporated various farming tools that could be discretely carried as weapons, including the staff, nunchaku (threshing flail), kama (sickle), rope or chain, and tonfa (mill-wheel handle). Modern karate tends to focus on unarmed techniques.
It spread widely to the west after American soldiers learned it in Japan after World War II. Karate is a “hard” style focusing on powerful punches and kicks. A karate teacher is called sensei and the practice hall or school is a dojo.
Feats: All-out Attack, Combat Expert (Disarm), Improved Block, Instant Up, Power Attack, Stunning Attack

