What does your belt mean?
I don’t wear rank stripes on my black belt. Not because they’re wrong—some systems use them effectively—but because I’ve never believed rank should need advertising. […]
I don’t wear rank stripes on my black belt. Not because they’re wrong—some systems use them effectively—but because I’ve never believed rank should need advertising. […]
“Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life,” Miyagi says in another scene. And for practitioners like Ben Sparks, Darren Gilbert and Paul Love, this belief holds firm through decades of experience, teaching, and personal transformation.
The Okinawan term “Chinquchi” deals with the concept of proper body management. In the world of karate, that means coordinating the use of the body’s various muscle groups through the proper order and timing of muscle contraction and relaxation (dynamic tension) during the execution of any given technique.
Sorry, folks! I have to apolgize. This may be a bit late getting posted, but life has been crazy the last few months with recovering […]