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"One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Males #Young #May

"There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they arrogate to themselves the right to be called founders of "schools". Indeed, I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the Shoto-kan school, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all these "schools" should be amalgamated into one so that Karate-do may pursue and orderly and useful progress into man's future."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Karate #Knows #Should

"Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Everyday #Art #Martial Arts

"Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state"

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Water #States #Return

"Karate is like boiling water, if you do not heat it constantly, it will cool."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Ifs #Water #Heat

"The correct understanding of Karate and its proper use is Karate-do. One who truly trains in this do [way] and actually understands Karate-do is never easily drawn into a fight."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Way #Use #Fighting

"Karate-do begins with courtesy and ends with rei."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Ends #Courtesy #Karate

"Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Has Beens #Useless #Sequence

"In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know three, or at most five, kata."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Knows #Expected #Years

"When you are learning a new technique, practice it wholeheartedly until you truly understand it."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Practice #Technique #Wholeheartedly

"You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Ifs #Hands #May

"In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Thinking #Loses #Winning

"A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front punch and a reverse punch are all essentially the same. Looking over thirty-odd kata, he should be able to see that they are essentially variations on just a handful."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Should #Wells #Able

"Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Public School #Changing The World #Karate

"You must ignore the bad and adopt the good."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

"The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Lying #Character #Defeat

"The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become an object of an attack is an indication that there was an opening in one's guard, and the important thing is to be on guard at all times."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Important #Secret #Objects

"In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included … all these techniques should be studied referring to basic kata"

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Should #Method #Technique

"There is no first strike in Karate."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Firsts #Strikes #Martial Arts

"Only through training will a person learn his own weaknesses... He who is aware of his weaknesses will remain master of himself in any situation."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Masters #Persons #Situation

"Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Humans #Men #May

"It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike. That is, since there is no need for a special training place, equipment, or an opponent, a flexibility in training is provided such that the physically and spiritually weak individual can develop his body and mind so gradually and naturally that he himself may not even realize his own great progress."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Young And Old #Important #Young

"Apply the way of karate to all things. Therein lies its beauty."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Way #Lying #All Things

"The spirit of karate practice and the elements of training are applicable to each and every aspect of our daily lives."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Thinking #Everyday #Everyday Life

"Spirit first, technique second."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Firsts #Spirit #Technique

"Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Remember #Regard #Respectful

"Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Important #Technique

"Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Hands #Weapons #Technique

"In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Millions #Graves #Faces

"Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling."

--- Gichin Funakoshi

#Trying #Taught #Complaining

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