Art Quote by Kenwa Mabuni

Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement.

— Shoshin Nagamine

Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the…

— Gichin Funakoshi

The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and…

— Shigeru Egami

In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included … all these techniques should…

— Gichin Funakoshi

It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired.

— Gogen Yamaguchi

For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science.…

— Kano Jigoro

Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.

— Maisie Williams

To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them…

— Gichin Funakoshi

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a…

— Tom Hardy

What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a…

— Ben Aaronovitch

When you're doing something like wrestling - wrestling is one of the toughest and hardest martial arts to learn - but it's still a…

— Kamaru Usman

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau