United Martial Arts Academy

初心生涯

“Shoshin Shogai” quoted by Master Manzo Iwata, means maintaining the purity of heart throughout life. This also can be expressed as “to learn Karate, first show your mind and heart to be honest and pure, clean and gentle and be courteous all through life while maintaining a passion to continue to learn more and more, since the art of Karate-do is unlimited”. Shoshin Shogai manifests a state of mind one achieves through a constant, evolving spiral of development which is “A beginner’s mind for one’s whole life”. One must maintain the same spirit, enthusiasm and humility that began for the beginner when he/she attended the dojo for the first time, the way of thinking that must be present throughout life.

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Some memorable moments from Australian soil which makes me feel proud to see, to know your talent and inspiration to always keep going.

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“Compared to the kata for sword fighting or jūjutsu, karate kata are longer. They are a sequence of scenes designed like a little drama. A long karate kata can include more than 70 different actions. Sword fighting or jūjutsu kata, however, is only a single attack or defense action. They are not dynamic forms like karate kata but static models. In fact, for the two kata types even different kanji are used. This specific character of karate kata must be well understood. Karate was created and developed in the Tokugawa period and was not protected and promoted by the ruling system like sword fighting. Instead, it was highly suppressed by the officials. The technical and psychological and spiritual knowledge could not be put down in a sophisticated language as it could be done for sword fighting. In order to explain the techniques to the students by using kata, to demonstrate what was to be observed in particular and what was not done correctly, one needed rather long sequences of actions. The old masters could not describe the techniques with written words or pictures and had to express them in the kata. This needed a lot of time, brain, and effort. Furthermore, the kata had to become a means to teach without words not only the technical aspects but also the psychological and spiritual abilities to turn the methods of killing into methods of saving lives.” ― Kenei Mabuni, Empty Hand: The Essence of Budo Karate (On the photo: Kenei Mabuni sensei)

All Japan Karatedo Federation Sh*tokai and the World Sh*toryu Karatedo Fedration Matsuo Sensei has been awarded to 9th Dan of Sh*toryu Karate.

***CONGRATULATIONS*** OMEDETO GOZAIMASU!!!

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