Gichin Funakoshi Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front punch and a reverse punch are all essentially the same. Looking over thirty-odd kata, he should be able to see that they are essentially variations on just a handful.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Variation, Levels, Able

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.44, Kodansha International

• Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Children, Book

• Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Mind, Body

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