I did Karate for 6 years...but i kind of move arround a lot and I tend to travel too, after i moved to Halifax, i kind of stopped...then i never continued again...
But yeah, Karate is for self defence only, we also learned some cool stuff of how to contrencate, avoid fights, etc...😄
It also helped me do better in school...
Lets see..I don't remember what type, but I took some karate as a little kid.. learned how to utilize a sword, bo, and many other things. I achieved brown belt, and was going to take my black belt test but I moved before I could. I've developed a few kata's (Can' remember the spelling >.o) just for fun, but I don't remember those either. 😛