It has taken me a long time to realize something has been missing from my katas. It’s not that I haven’t learned the correct moves or that I am doing the moves wrong, instead, I have been doing the movements in the kata without purpose. Does that kata look different? …
This precept, as I see it, could have a few different meanings that apply not only to Karate but to life. When you are learning something new, even if you have experience in something similar, you need to clear your mind or empty your cup in order to put more …
First, let me back up to the beginning of June….. It was a week before my Karate examination for Shodan and I made sure that I did everything I could to take my black belt on the day of my exam. I trained harder than ever before. I did over …