Karate and your designed commitment. The lack of passive movements in karate is the natural, unnatural status of karate. The predisposition of the human body is not to move, it is to conserve energy. Karate is the opposite, it uses your body to activate muscles and move.

The private student from India doesn’t like the West Seattle Karate Academy in the morning, it’s cold. And that is the worst of the complaints. She is willing to get up early, drive to class and get into a cold – by her standards – dojo. Her body would rather not.

She is active and taking strides toward her goal, she is not lazy. Yet as instructors, we see lazy, or conservation all the time. We have all heard the phrases, “Get lower,” and “Bend your knee.” Simple observations of the human body wanting to do as little as possible.

It is our nature to do that to conserve energy and the other side of that slick nickel is we want easy calories. The conserving of energy across the history of human existence is essential to survival. At least the conserving of energy it used to be essential to humans survivng. The use of the sea and the use of the planes of America are similar. One of these arenas is wet the other dry, but the same when it comes to energy.

Karate is expensive in calories and money is a measure of your calories. I am not a historical scholar and I have no way of proving this statement but it aligns with this presentation. Karate was not about complicating self-defense.

Calories Count in Karate

We as humans are trying to conserve our calories. When we do old-style karate it appears to be consistent with the history. Karate was an assembling of a few easily taught moves. We like to call that in today’s world, Least-cost Solution Planning. Least-cost Solution Planning or Planning Methodology is a technique economists are using for making decisions regarding investments in urban infrastructure projects and transportation. A fancy name for conserving resources.

And that is what we are led to believe, karate was not complicated, it was direct and as inexpensive as possible.

The Vikings also have many examples of efficiencies. This is a different culture with no contact coming to similar conclusions. And it is like modern seagoing vessels of today, especially a submarine. Being able to do many things and fulfill many roles is necessary. It lowers the need for personnel and makes for more benefits with less expenditure.

Karate And Your Designed Commitment Are Not Integrated Into The World

The modern world doesn’t need karate. Karate is a small group of self-selected people making their way in life. Further, they self-select even more. The myths, the legends, the religions are not supporters of the martial arts as they may have once been. We have built, and continue to build our world to separate. To separate the ascendant integration of martial arts and our cultural norms. Karate not being a cultural norm and not understood is not supported.

It sounds like karate is expensive. Karate is expensive and we, as practitioners of karate, are willing to pay the price. But we never see it as paying a price. We see it as reaping the benefits. You are getting the benefits of karate and your designed commitment.

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