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As someone who has been taking karate five days a week for almost six years, I cannot stress enough how impossible it is to learn any level of martial arts from a book.
I browse YouTube a lot looking at training videos, and here's my go-to video that demonstrates someone who is attempting to learn karate through a DVD series:
Nothing about this is good at all. All of these video courses are basically stealing money from people.
Even training with an instructor doesn't guarantee results. We get transfer students from other dojos in the area who don't even come close to meeting the standards for the rank they are wearing and require a lot of catching up.
Having a good instructor is an absolute requirement to have any chance of becoming a martial artist. And a book is not a good instructor.
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