Insights
Natural Selection
Part of Karate has always been the necessity of ‘overcoming obstacles’. How can we possibly, in modern karate, ever expect to overcome obstacles if these obstacles
are continually being compromised by modern thinking of the ‘no losers, no winners’
mindsets that are forced upon us in this diabolically tedious ‘politically correct’
world?
The process of ‘natural selection’ has always been a principle of Karate life.
Challenges too hard? Then leave! Failed gradings? Take them again
until you pass! Can’t do it? Try until you do!
With all this in mind I
very much doubt if the ‘Budo’ elements in our karate will ever survive
the future. How many clubs in the country still actively promote
Makiwara and Tameshiwari in their Dojo? Very few, I would imagine.
Remember, all Budo Karate evolves from fundamental training principles
of conditioning and training. If we are
not ready to take on challenges then we
ourselves, our society, even our way of life
will be removed and extinct from the process
of ‘natural selection’.
Gary E Swift Kyoshi.