Bruce Lee Quotes

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless-like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."

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Fighting Kata

Tonight Sensei Bennati talked about Fighting Kata at the end of class. This was a new concept to me.

Normally I do what he terms Practice Kata, slow deliberate with attention to stance and details. But Fighting Kata is the other extreme; fast powerful as though you are in combat.

The mind must be in the moment, every strike, every kick, every step has purpose and is capable of ending the fight. One must not dwell on the moves already executed or think about what is coming up in the Kata. One must remain present without lingering mind.

Test for Yonkyu

Master Dave Joslin tested me on Naihanchi Kata tonight, for my purple belt. I am now a Yonkyu. Next step is Sankyu/brown.

As I learn finer and finer points about Isshinryu Karate they get applied back to the katas learned earlier and become new again.

1. Move foot
2. Catch
3. Step / set frame
   
4. Attack
5. Remain in Karate (zanshin)