{"id":3233,"date":"2018-11-18T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2018-12-30T12:37:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T17:37:54","slug":"top-10-reasons-for-attending-class-faithfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/2018\/11\/18\/top-10-reasons-for-attending-class-faithfully\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 reasons for attending karate class faithfully"},"content":{"rendered":"
We currently have 3 class days per week. One of my goals is to increase that to 4 during 2019. We’re not quite at the point where that would be justified, but we will get there.<\/p>\n
Here is my “Top 10” list for regular karate class attendance, somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Not in any particular order.<\/p>\n
\u201cLoyalty: to be faithful is a strong samurai tradition and an extension of the Confucius influence on the family and martial arts. The faith to be shown is in your sensei and dojo. The student must always be faithful to his sensei and follow in much the same way as a medieval samurai was bound to follow his feudal lord to the death without hesitation. While this may seem unusual in the present day, it is unreasonable to expect a sensei to teach all he knows to a student who is likely to leave for the slightest reason. The student must prove his loyalty over the years. The faith and loyalty extended to the sensei will be rewarded, in that a greater amount of knowledge and wisdom will be passed on to the student.\u201d and this bond between sensei and student is extremely valuable and is the basis of the learning relationship.<\/em>”<\/p>\n As for this last one, we obviously aren’t a society based on the Confucian ethic or Japanese bushido<\/em> tradition — and I don’t plan to ask my students to follow me to the death any time in the near future. However, in our study of Japanese karate, we find that learning about and taking on some of those characteristics helps us with our training. I hope to write about this aspect in the future. An excellent book for learning about the Japanese samurai<\/em> ethic, rare because it was written in English by a Japanese (who also happened to be a Quaker<\/a>) is Inazo Nitobe’s 1900 classic Bushido: The Soul of Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Catch you on the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We currently have 3 class days per week. One of my goals is to increase that to 4 during 2019. We’re not quite at the point where that would be justified, but we will get there. Here is my “Top 10” list for regular karate class attendance, somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Not in any particular order. You will progress more quickly. When…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,88,1],"tags":[108,112,103,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233"}],"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=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}