There are no 'original' kata...not now anyway! |
Why do folk today want to keep looking backwards anyway...is that all you've got, things that other people did years ago? Where is your sense of life, where is your sense of obligation to keep your art alive and healthy, why do you look to the past all the time to justify what you're doing right now? Funakoshi sensei's famous quote about looking to the past to know the future, is no excuse to stifle personal growth.
Kumite training....and not a point in sight |
There is a well established disconnect within the modern interpretations of Okinawa's fighting arts, a level of dysfunction that has caused a great deal of confusion between 'credibility' and 'celebrity', the first almost always in short supply when the second is present. And yet...there are so many who pay little attention to the acquisition of skill in their desire to gain notoriety. This is not new of course, it is merely one of those things that looking to the past all the time has yet to erase from karate's future.
I wonder who's fault that would be..?