| What do you like about this subject? Karate is not thing apart from one's life, but rather a deep and constant center of one's being. The exterior ability of the hands or feet is only 10% of the teachings. It is what happens inside that is more important. | | What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field? The learning is endless. There is so much more to know what the old masters were trying to teach us. The monks from the various religius groups, Buddhist, Taoist, and Confunsionist, all had different systems. They also had complete systems of herbology and medicine. These systems, the martial and the medical, were all part of one larger system. | | Something interesting about this subject that others may not know: In China each of the major religions had at leat one school of martial arts.
Buddhists had Shao Linn, Confusians and Taoism each had schools too.
The Okinawian people, being seamen, traveled as late as the 1920s to the Southern Shao Linn in Fukien China. Sadly much of the templas were destroyed in 1928. | | Something controversial or provocative about this subject Tournament fighting is a post world war II invention and not part of a traditional school. Many Okinawan Karate Masters had a very critical view of tournaments.
Karate is not an art like boxing or wrestling, but one in which left with no other, an art of destroying our enemy. As such, there is really no place for the slap and tickel tactics of tournament "fighting". |
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(Allen on 08/26/08) | Wonderful to see a traditional Matsumura practicioner.
(Robin Carson on 05/15/08) | Sir,thanks for getting back to me.I was expecting you to say that you did'nt know the kata as it does'nt seem to appear much nowadays outside kyukoshi
(Dave on 02/23/08) | My sincere thanks, I can appreciate the age thing, I'm 55 myself. I like your answer, and will think upon it. I cannot stand and work out, degenerativ
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