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Art Quotes by Gichin Funakoshi
- No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your…
- Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.
- 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…
- Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning.
- Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.
- Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty.
- Spirit first, technique second.
- To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for…
- 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…
- 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…
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