The Canadian Isshinryu Way Everything Karate & Kobudo Volume 8, Issue 4 October 2012
Isshinryu Canada The Canadian Isshinryu Way Everything Karate & Kobudo Volume 8, Issue 4 October 2012 Get Excited Inside this Issue: Karate can and should be exciting. It has all the components to get your Keep training and working to improve, heart racing, the danger of people trying everyone has things they can improve to hit you, the mental challenge of per- upon and those that aren’t willing to fecting technique and the pure exhaus- accept what they don’t know will rise Generation 2 tion you get a from a good workout. above the rest. Changes All too often, it is easy to become com- Get excited by what you don’t know, Okinawan 4 placent, once you’ve been training for a the less you know, the more potential Kobudo and Is- year, five years, twenty five years or to improve. shinryu fifty, repetition becomes a common oc- currence, you can’t always be doing Ask questions of yourself and find the By Rod Berek something new. answers. Zen and Martial 6 Arts Part 1— As an instructor, I regularly lament that Humilty there isn’t enough time to have my stu- Essential Isshinryu has been dents or myself do everything enough, Released! by Matt Morin no matter how dedicated you are, there For more information on the first is some aspect of your training that gets Canadian Isshinryu book, visit Pieces of Our 7 less than your full attention. www.essentialisshinryu.com! Past By Richard Ruberto Recognizing those shortcomings is a trait of a great martial artist, being Promotions in 8 aware of your limitations, and never ATTENTION NEEDED! Thunder Bay accepting them means what will excite you most is fixing your short comings.
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