- The "Never Say Die" Spirit as Applied to Age
- Beginning Kata: What is it?
- Kata and the Borg Scale (Rate of Perceived Exertion)
- Exercise program adherence, tenacity, and the never say die spirit.
- The joys of kiba dachi (horse stance)
- Being a "sparring" dojo
- age vs skill
- Counting in Japanese: shi vs yon, shichi vs nana
- See, I told you Kiais did something.
- Kids and Bunkai (Saturday 11/13)
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Beginning Kata: What is it?
Submitted by sensei on Sun, 05/07/2006 - 10:02. teki 1 | teki 2 | teki 3The initial tekis have no real world application. Then why learn them? They are a crystalization of several ingredients which give future katas their flavor. Th flavor is too complex for the beginning student to savor, so they are broken out to be sampled a little bit at a time in an underwhelming format.
