shinning out bone chips, you can drop by a refuge where the island's most esteemed masters and their students come for what's recognized internationally as a cure for all martial-arts related ailments. alcohol. >> would you like a drink? >> i think i would like a beer and maybe a shot of something. >> i do have a little shot of something. >> the sake is like the spirit of okinawa. >> is this sake or whiskey? >> this is sake. like mainland japanese sake but then they distill it like whiskey. it becomes stronger and now it's aged. it's been in here with the snake maybe three years. the essence of the snake has gone into the alcohol. ♪ >> there seems to be a conflict of interest here. you train karate very seriously. >> yeah.