Karate Sensei Quotes

A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten

The essence of warrior traits are demonstrated by : integrity with self, and honesty with others

Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good

. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual

. . . most martial artists want to know how A technique is done, A seasoned Sensei will demonstrate why

Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .

Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance

Karate training will make you strong and confident, but restraint will make you respected

Karate is five percent sweat; the rest is all commitment

. . and so it is that A Sensei may impart his knowledge of the martial Way and nurture your fighting abilities, but you must learn the wisdom of finding other ways than martial skills to solve your problems

. . in Old Karate, you learned you Art through pain. You learned quickly that your techniques had to be fast or powerful or both. If you did not embrace pain and it's lessons adequately, you simply did not survive

Karate is many things, but mainly it's about synergy, ebb and flow, trial and error, action and reaction, rhythm of life, progress . . .

True Martial Arts is universal, simple and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.

An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in most animal predators.

I do karate because it makes the rest of life easy. That is to say, karate training, if done properly, is tough: it’s hard work, with little reward because your sensei never compliments you.

On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue

. . as A martial arts teacher, we should never forget the first time we stepped onto the Dojo ground, remembering this, we will be better equipped to teach the next generation of Karate practitioners

I highly recommend re-reading good personal development books. Rarely can we read a book once and internalize all of the value from that book. Achieving mastery in any area requires repetition—being exposed to certain ideas, strategies, or techniques over and over again, until they become engrained in your subconscious mind. For example, if you wanted to master karate, you wouldn’t learn the techniques once and then think, “I got this.” No, you’d learn the techniques, practice them, then go back to your sensei and learn them again, and repeat the process hundreds of times in order to master a single technique. Mastering techniques to improve your life works the same way. There is more value in re-reading a book you already know has strategies that can improve your life than there is in reading a new book before you’ve mastered the strategies in the first.

Growing up, I was taught by my karate sensei never to start a fight unless I was prepared to be the only one standing at the end. That’s how I approached debates at work and with friends: I thought the key to victory was to go into battle armed with airtight logic and rigorous data. The harder I attacked, though, the harder my opponents fought back. I was laser-focused on convincing them to accept my views and rethink theirs, but I was coming across like a preacher and a prosecutor.

enseña en las unidades de fuerzas especiales.(6) Personalmente me siento afortunado el haber tenido siempre instructores que podríamos definir lo mejor de lo mejor en el mundo. En Guatemala por ya casi 25 años he entrenado Karate Goju-Ryu y Kobudo, artes marciales del clásico karate originario de Okinawa con el que yo considero el mejor maestro en todo el planeta, Sensei Víctor Rodolfo Martinez Ferman, guatemalteco de origen judío, emigró a los Estados Unidos donde se convirtió en discípulo de Toshio Tamano, heredero de la escuela de Sensei Miyagi, y del fundador de la escuela Shorei-Kan, Seikichi Toguchi. Sensei Martinez con una mezcla de fuerza, carácter férreo, una gran cortesía y una manera de enseñar que pocos maestros logran tener en su vida, es definitivamente el representante y heredero del espíritu Bushido de los antiguos samurai. El Goju-Ryu fue declarado como el segundo arte marcial más efectivo y letal en todo el mundo y que mejor que haberlo aprendido de un Maestro-Discípulo

Personalmente me siento afortunado el haber tenido siempre instructores que podríamos defnir lo mejor de lo mejor en el mundo. En Guatemala por ya casi 25 años he entrenado Karate Goju-Ryu y Kobudo, artes marciales del clásico karate originario de Okinawa con el que yo considero el mejor maestro en todo el planeta, Sensei Víctor Rodolfo Martinez Ferman, guatemalteco de origen judío, emigró a los Estados Unidos donde se convirtió en discípulo de Toshio Tamano, heredero de la escuela de Sensei Miyagi, y del fundador de la escuela Shorei-Kan, Seikichi Toguchi. Sensei Martinez con una mezcla de fuerza, carácter férreo, una gran cortesía y una manera de enseñar que pocos maestros logran tener en su vida, es defnitivamente el representante y heredero del espíritu Bushido de los antiguos samurai. El Goju-Ryu fue declarado como el segundo arte marcial más efectivo y letal en todo el mundo y que mejor que haberlo aprendido de un Maestro-Discípulo

Shisei kai kan is an oddball form of karate Sensei likes to call “reach out and break someone.

Remember, following the way of integrity is a complex skill that puts us in flow. And skills like that require a lot of practice. My karate sensei used to make his students perform every new move very slowly a thousand times. Then we’d speed up the action while maintaining perfect form—a thousand times. Then we’d add power to the move, increasing the intensity gradually, another thousand times. “Practice doesn’t necessarily make perfect,” he’d say. “Practice makes permanent.” When we start living in complete integrity, practice makes permanent, physical changes in our brains. Neurologists tell us that the more times we repeat any action, the more we wire it into our neural circuits. To change a familiar behavior pattern (like anything we’ve been socialized to do), we must deliberately choose new actions, then repeat them until old brain circuits fade and new ones form. It’s like do-it-yourself brain surgery. By repeatedly choosing the way of integrity, we unwire ourselves for cultural compliance and rewire ourselves for honesty and happiness.