空手における「受け」「突き」「蹴り」はすべて，最小限の動きで最大限の力を発揮するために考えられている。その極意は，「締め」「呼吸」「重心」である。本来の空手には，派手な動きや華美な技は一切ない。最小限の動きの中で，身体の締めと呼吸と重心を操作し，最大限の力をいかに発揮するかが，空手の目指すところであり，そのための身体を練ることが空手修行の主眼である。
All of techniques for defending, punching, and kicking in karate are formulated into exerting the maximum effects on enemies by the minimum moves.The secrets are "tensioning," "breathing," and "balancing (central axis)." Original karate as budo does not contain any exaggerated performances and florid moves. The aim of arts of karate is to exert the maximum effects by manipulating the tension, breath, and balance of our own body within the limit of minimum moves. Developing our body for this aim is the main purpose of karate discipline.
December 13, 2011
Hiddenness or Opacity of Body formed by Budo
身体が練れているかどうかは，究極的には自分自身にしか分からない。また，実際に技が効いたか効かないかは，究極的には敵にしか分からない。いずれの体感も内面的なものである。もちろん，武道的身体を練り込んだ達人や師範からすれば，その人の身体が練れているかどうか，また，その人の技が効くかどうかは，外から見ても直感的に分かるかもしれない。しかし，基本的に武道的身体の練り具合は，内面的な感覚である。武道の稽古とは，この内面的で私的な感覚を，師から弟子へ，すなわち人から人へ，いかに伝承するかの作業である。外面的な運動方法は観察と模倣により学習は容易だけれども，内面的な練りの感覚は言葉や見た目で伝えることが難しいために会得に時間がかかる。したがって，空手的身体の伝承には，教える側の根気と教わる側の意識が不可欠である。
Ultimately, there is no one but us ourselves that can appreciate whether our own body is polished martial artistically or not. Besides, ultimately, no one but enemies know whether our offense is effective for them or not. Both sense of body are internal. Of course, a master or teacher who has polished his or her martial artistic body might intuitively see from the outside whether a person has polished his or her body or not, and whether his or her offence is effective or not. However, basically, it is only the internal sense that can enable us to know the measure of polishing our own martial artistic body. The practice of budo (martial arts) is work to pass this internal and private sense down from a master to a follower, that is, from a person to a person. Although the external overt moves are easy to learn by observation and imitation, it takes a lot of time to acquire the internal covert senses of body since it is difficult to express by words and gestures. Thus, the masters' patience and the followers' attitude are both indispensable for the transmission of karate-formed body.
Ultimately, there is no one but us ourselves that can appreciate whether our own body is polished martial artistically or not. Besides, ultimately, no one but enemies know whether our offense is effective for them or not. Both sense of body are internal. Of course, a master or teacher who has polished his or her martial artistic body might intuitively see from the outside whether a person has polished his or her body or not, and whether his or her offence is effective or not. However, basically, it is only the internal sense that can enable us to know the measure of polishing our own martial artistic body. The practice of budo (martial arts) is work to pass this internal and private sense down from a master to a follower, that is, from a person to a person. Although the external overt moves are easy to learn by observation and imitation, it takes a lot of time to acquire the internal covert senses of body since it is difficult to express by words and gestures. Thus, the masters' patience and the followers' attitude are both indispensable for the transmission of karate-formed body.
The Minimum Moves and the Maximum Effects
武道は，最小限の動きでもって最大限の力を発揮することを目指している。なぜなら，生死を賭けた戦いの場では，一分の無駄な動きも命取りになるからである。そして武道の修行とは，そのような身体操作ができるようになることをひたすら求めることである。したがって，派手な動きや華美な技というものは，武道的身体とは縁遠い。
The arts of budo are aimed at exerting the maximum effects on enemies by the minimum moves. It is because even a slight but unnecessary move is fatal in the scene of fighting for life or death. Then, the practice of budo is to entirely seek to acquire the skills to manipulate one's own body in such a way. Therefore, exaggerated performances and florid moves are distant from the idea of the martial artistic body.
The arts of budo are aimed at exerting the maximum effects on enemies by the minimum moves. It is because even a slight but unnecessary move is fatal in the scene of fighting for life or death. Then, the practice of budo is to entirely seek to acquire the skills to manipulate one's own body in such a way. Therefore, exaggerated performances and florid moves are distant from the idea of the martial artistic body.
December 01, 2011
The Way to Stand in Budo
武道的な意味で，基本の立ち方は，「自然体」である。糸東流では，「基立ち」と呼ばれている。自然に一歩踏み出した程度の歩幅で半身になって立つ。近代スポーツ空手では，歩幅を広くとって腰を低く落とした前屈立ちで移動稽古をしたり，約束組手稽古をしたりする。特に富名腰義珍先生の松濤館系の空手や全空連系の空手は，大学を中心に本土で普及したせいもあり，体育的な性質が強い。つまり，足腰の鍛錬という点では有意義ではあるが，武道的には，歩幅の広い低い立ち方は居着いてしまうために，極めて不自然である。武道では居着くことをもっとも嫌う。沖縄空手には本来，前屈立ちというものはないとさえも言われている。
In terms of budo, the basic way to stand or the basic stance is "shizen-tai (natural standing)." That is called "moto-dachi" in Shito-ryu. You stand and take an oblique stance, with which you make a step forward naturally. In modern karate sports, players do such activities as moving basic practices or pre-arranged fighting practices with "zenkutsu-dachi," which is one of the way to stand, taking a wide stance and dropping hips. Especially, the schools such as Shotokan-ryu founded by Gichin Funakoshi sensei or Japan Karate Federation (JKF), which have prevailed among universities in the mainland of Japan, have a distinctive nature of physical training. In other words, although it is beneficial as lower body workouts, it is extremely unnatural in terms of budo since the way to stand with a wide stance and hips dropped leads to "itsuki," which means a state in which a person is stuck there, not moving or reacting quickly when his/her enemies attack We budo-ka (martial artists) regard itsuki as the most unfavorable state. As for Okinawan karate, primarily, there is even said not to be zenkutsu-dachi.
In terms of budo, the basic way to stand or the basic stance is "shizen-tai (natural standing)." That is called "moto-dachi" in Shito-ryu. You stand and take an oblique stance, with which you make a step forward naturally. In modern karate sports, players do such activities as moving basic practices or pre-arranged fighting practices with "zenkutsu-dachi," which is one of the way to stand, taking a wide stance and dropping hips. Especially, the schools such as Shotokan-ryu founded by Gichin Funakoshi sensei or Japan Karate Federation (JKF), which have prevailed among universities in the mainland of Japan, have a distinctive nature of physical training. In other words, although it is beneficial as lower body workouts, it is extremely unnatural in terms of budo since the way to stand with a wide stance and hips dropped leads to "itsuki," which means a state in which a person is stuck there, not moving or reacting quickly when his/her enemies attack We budo-ka (martial artists) regard itsuki as the most unfavorable state. As for Okinawan karate, primarily, there is even said not to be zenkutsu-dachi.
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