What does "traditional to a fault" mean?

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What does "traditional to a fault" mean?

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Yet with karate making its Olympic debut in Tokyo, her sudden elevation in May shook the sport in the land of its birth. Unlike her predecessors, she is young, female and willing to challenge the conventional wisdom of a discipline that is traditional, some would say, to a fault.

What does "traditional to a fault" mean?

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Re: What does "traditional to a fault" mean?

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(Not grammar, but...) = extremely (so)
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