Various karate masters have expressed the view over time that, above all, karate is about character building and the cultivation of the mind and that its philosophy is to develop both the mind and...
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"Karate ni sente nashi", one of the 20 precepts of karate written by Gichin Funakoshi, is often translated literally as "there is no first attack in karate" and many people interpret it as a karateka...
Precept 1: Do Not Forget that Karate-do Begins and Ends with Rei
"Do not forget that karate-do begins and ends with rei" (一、空手道は礼に始まり礼に終る事を忘るな Hitotsu, karate-dō wa rei ni hajimari rei ni owaru koto o wasuruna) is the first...
"There is no first strike in karate" (一、空手に先手なし Hitotsu, karate ni sente nashi) is the second of the 20 precepts that Gichin Funakoshi wrote to guide his students in the...
Gichin Funakoshi's third precept "karate stands on the side of justice" (一、空手は義の補け Hitotsu, karate wa, gi no tasuke) naturally follows the second precept "there is no first strike...
"First know yourself, then know others" (一、先づ自己を知れ而して他を知れ Hitotsu, mazu jiko o shire, shikashite ta o shire) is the fourth of the twenty precepts that Gichin Funakoshi...