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Monthly Message: April 2003
Fellow Karate-ka:
Spring is definitely here. Wake up! Take
time to enjoy what's around you. Take a deep breath (with allergy
medicine) and enjoy new life.
This is a great time to renew your
training spirit. Try practicing outside in the early morning. Try
practicing outside in the evening. You will be surprised at how good
this will make you feel.
The martial arts never end. They form a
circle with no beginning and ending. Just as each of the seasons come
every year your training evolves and comes back to the beginning. Your
basics are always the foundation and the beginning and surprisingly the
end of your training where it all just comes around once again to start
over. Just ask any black belt that you know. They may be learning a new
kata, but they are still standing in line with the rest of you trying to
improve their basics.
Look at differences in the seasons,
special occasions, celebrations, and anything else that is significant
in your life as an opportunity to renew your spirit in your karate
training. You will see how much more excited you will become about your
training if you do this. Keep a very positive attitude and always
approach your training with a beginners mind. This means to walk into
training knowing nothing and you will learn much.
This is the way.
Sensei Dave
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