did<\/em> do: he took karate to the public. So we have been building a permanent “demo team” and look for other opportunities to show off our moves.<\/p>\nDeveloping and practicing for the demonstration has been enjoyable. It brings a new awareness to your training when you have to think about the best way to express it to a crowd of strangers, most of whom, you can assume, know very little about Shotokan or karate in general. And you have to exhibit the value of what you do in a visually exciting way.<\/p>\n
What we plan to show is the discipline, order, precision, and power of our line drills; the athletic skill and martial spirit of our kata performances, and the practical use of our techniques in self-protection scenarios.<\/p>\n
With a dash of humor thrown in. There’s such a thing as taking yourselves too<\/em> seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We will give our first demonstration as a club on Sunday, September 16 between 2 and 3 PM. We were invited to do so as part of the 50th Annual Pennridge Gallery of the Arts, an art exhibition and crafts festival held on Main Street in Sellersville. Our demo will take place in the Key Bank parking lot across Main…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,108,115,116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}