written by sensei Brian George (3rd Dan)
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ISSUE 8
Newsletter date March 2001
EVERYTHING YOU ENCOUNTER IS AN ASPECT OF KARATE: FIND THE TRUTH THERE.
(Gichin Funakosh)
This can be understood when you understand why we train the way we do. If you take your training serious then you can conduct your daily life with Shotokan or any martial art in mind and run your life to this standard of discipline and have your own coad of honour as in Bushido. It has also been said that, 'karate is the spice of life'.
KARATE IS LIKE BOILING WATER: IF YOU DO NOT KEEP THE FLAME HIGH, IT TURNS TEPID.
(Gichin Funakoshi)
This is one of the sayings of Funakoshi, and he meant that if you do not train every day, that it will equate to, for each day of training missed, the positive effects of the previous three are lost.
YOUR TRAINING IS LIKE FRUIT, IT BLOSSOMS INTO SOMETHING WONDERFUL. BUT IT CAN ALSO ROT IF NOT CARED FOR.
On Saturday 7th April the Sishin-do ryu Karate Ryu are doing another display. This is for a worthwhile cause, a young man from Meadowfield, Connor Rumney has Muscular Dystrophy and he needs a new wheelchair specially adapted for him.
