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Quotes from the Master |
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The following quotes are from Kanazawa-sensei and his senior instructors at the Honbu-dojo in Tokyo.
“Never be afraid of failure of you try your best.”
“One pure mind is better than one hundred techniques.”
“A good technique is beautiful but a beautiful technique is not always good.”
“When doing martial arts and sport you should think about three things in particular - 1. To make the impossible possible. 2. To make good friends and create better human relationships. 3. To encourage the ‘spirit of challenge’”
“Basics may be the least interesting part of the lesson but they are the most important and must be practiced diligently. Don’t neglect them.”
“In Karate if you do 10 techniques, 100 techniques or even 1000 techniques you must concentrate and perform each technique to the best of your ability otherwise it has no meaning. This is the way of Karate.”
“In the language of Zen ‘Ikkohanko’ means even if there is nobody there to watch you there is always somebody watching. Therefore you must be totally serious in your training and keep searching in your soul for the real you through your Karate training.”
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A technique from the kata Nijuhachiho demonstrated by Master Kanazawa. |
