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Show Is Iterate Answer For The Ladies? Is karate the answer for those who secretly desire to astound a bully or mugger, with a stroke or chop, and lay him low? A socialogist who spent two years taking karate courses, a small, petite blond who is only five-four, says it's not what it's cracked up to be. Also, she says, most of the men studying it are not small, but about average size. After twice-weekly, 90-minute 90-minute sessions for two years, designed to teach Dr. Linda Fritschner how to block, kick and punch, she says the trouble trou-ble with the theory is that street fighters don't kick and punch where karate pupils are taught to counter the blows. SHE CALLS karate, in fact, a "poor mechanism for self defense." Maybe the old hard right to the jaw, American style, is preferable. |