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What is different about sport karate and budo karate?

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Sport karate is geared towards no-contact competition. It's a glorified game of tag for grown ups.

Budō is simply a Japanese word for martial arts, with gendai budō referring to styles that came about after the Meiji restoration - karate, aikido, judo, kendo etc. As such ALL karate is "budo karate".

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