What Is Your Intent?

Every action has a reaction...what is your intent in your actions found in kata?

Mindless movement is meaningless, at least when it come to kata. Instead understand that each movement, each action, has a purpose - often hidden in plain sight! Think through each technique while moving slowly and with increasing focus to complete tension for each movement: feel the elbow snap, the jaw break, the knee buckle.  You must envision your intent in such a way that it is real to you.

This is not easy though.

There are many distractions - face it life is distracting!

Focusing the mind is paramount to learning the true meaning(s) of kata. Physics is displayed in artfully brutal ways: there will be damage done by the time a kata is completed.  That damage all depends on the intent of each technique.  Did your 180 degree pivot into a downward strike represent attacking an opponent who is attacking from the rear, or did it represent grabbing the person you just struck with ferocity, and throwing them hard on their head to incapacitate them.

See what I mean?

That's all for now...