Karate Application

     there are many myths and misconceptions about karate that get circulated about.  People see a karate class in movies, and believe that in karate a student is taught to fight using extremely rigid looking poses that must be used exactly, or else they are inept.  Training a person for hand to hand combat can be a tricky thing.  Teaching a student specific attack can be effective, but it doesn't yield a very versatile fighting method - it would take years to develop any kind of repertoire that would be useful.  In karate, the idea is to teach a student a new way to move his or her body.  Think of the stances and techniques of karate as training tools - they teach a student which muscles to contract, which to relax, and how to align his or her joints.  A karateka learns to glide from stance to stance effortlessly, and align his or her body precisely to transfer force from an impact point to the floor.  Once this muscle control is learned, a person can be physically confident, effective, and practical in any situation - whether self defense, or playing a sport.

     After students gain proficiency in basic technique, they begin to learn to apply it in sparring.  A karateka learns to read an opponent, and control the distance between them.  By controlling the distance, a student learns to fight using good timing, attacking in the open spaces between an opponent's movements, with the ultimate goal of defeating them in a single blow, directed at one of the body's weak spots.  Everyone fights with a natural rhythm, and an experienced karateka will try to learn that rhythm, and exploit it.  If a student can learn to anticipate and read an opponent, he or she can even "counter" attack before the opponent attacks, at the moment that opponent initiates an exchange. 

     While the principles of traditional karate are, for the most part, straightforward and simple, it can take many years to train the body to do them properly.  Learning karate is a constant process of refining one's body motions.  Bad habits must be unlearned, and replaced with more efficient, relaxed motions.  Often, when one bad habit is corrected, another pops up.  There are many subtleties involved in learning good form, and many small muscle groups that can be difficult to control independently.  For training purposes, Shotokan is divided into three areas; Kihon, Kata, and Kumite.

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