Karate Forms, The Truth Of What They Mean

The old school of teaching martial arts is by teaching Karate forms

. This applies to Karate, Kung Fu, Taekwondo, Kenpo, and arts of that nature. Even if you're not in a kata oriented discipline, however, there is an adherence to the study of form.

The unfortunate fact is that most people don't know why they are studying in this manner. They don't see the connection between repetition of dance-like moves and real combat. The moves often even seem removed from any real function.

The first thing to understand is that the body is a form, and the dance is a form. Thus, when you move one, you move the other. The point here is that you are learning what you live in.

Most people think they actually are a body, but the cold, hard fact is...they ain't. But they won't realize that unless they take control of that flesh vehicle and start to move it. The best way to move that body is by doing kung fu kata.

The second thing one should know is that forms are actually advanced movements. Advanced movements require either massive amounts of time invested, or they require a total understanding of the basics. It is on this matter of perfecting basics that most people have failed on.

The third thing to realize is that you are stumbling through a murky realm, defining something that seems to have no shape. You continue studying these karate kata or taekwondo forms, and one day they will make total sense. This comes not because you have understood the dance-like steps, but because you have looked at your own body long enough to understand what it really is.

It is awareness that you are growing through this martial farce, the body and the mind are purely secondary. Awareness through the body, and into the world. If you really want to understand what the martial arts are, what those kata things are, then you need ask yourself only one question: where does awareness come from.

The above all said, even after awareness is defined, one needs to discipline oneself to do the forms sufficient times to plumb the depths of oneself. You do the forms, day after day, year after year, and one day you will wake to a new reality: a new you. Do Karate forms enough, and one day you won't be doing the forms, you will be doing the art: you will be doing you.

by: Al Case

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