Quotes by Gichin Funakoshi

Gichin Funakoshi

A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front punch and a reverse punch are all essentially the same. Looking over thirty-odd kata, he should be able to see that they are essentially variations on just a handful.

Able

Levels

Variation

Always be ready to release your mind.

Mind

Ready

Release

Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed.

May

Men

Practice

Apply the way of karate to all things. Therein lies its beauty.

Karate

Lying

Way

Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced.

Beginners

Body

Natural

Don’t pretend to be a great master and don’t try to show off your strength.

Masters

Shows

Trying

First know yourself, then know others.

Firsts

Know Yourself

Knows

Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa.

Art

Book

Children

In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.

Battle

Thinking

Winning

In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included … all these techniques should be studied referring to basic kata

Hitting

Kicking

Technique

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Book

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Children

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Courtesy

Emergencies

Ends

Everyday

Faces

Faithful

Female

Fighting

Firsts

Fists

Graves

Hands

Happiness

Heart

Heat

Hitting

Home

Humanity

Humility

Important

Justice

Karate

Kicking

Know Yourself

Knows

Leadership

Levels

Listening To Others

Looks

Lying

Males

Martial Arts

Masters

May

Mean

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Mind

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Quotes by Gichin Funakoshi

Gichin Funakoshi

Always be ready to release your mind.

Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed.

Apply the way of karate to all things. Therein lies its beauty.

Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced.

Don’t pretend to be a great master and don’t try to show off your strength.

First know yourself, then know others.

In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.

In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included … all these techniques should be studied referring to basic kata

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