What we did on Tuesday 28 August 2012
Review of Kata Tenshu, Tenzen and
Channan with corrections and
suggestions for working better renditions.
Sometimes I have to think carefully how to word what I write. The above sentence would seem to be easy enough, yet again I was forced to reflect that my intuitively preferred word "performance" was actually incorrect because we do not perform our kata or our art. Our art is not some demonstrative point scoring pastime that is measurable by appearance alone. Our art is practised for oneself as a functional working tool, not to impress spectators. As soon as the practitioner recognises and understands this the better his or her karate will become.
Sometimes I have to think carefully how to word what I write. The above sentence would seem to be easy enough, yet again I was forced to reflect that my intuitively preferred word "performance" was actually incorrect because we do not perform our kata or our art. Our art is not some demonstrative point scoring pastime that is measurable by appearance alone. Our art is practised for oneself as a functional working tool, not to impress spectators. As soon as the practitioner recognises and understands this the better his or her karate will become.
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