22/05/2026
Perseverance in trainning
“The forms naturally take time to memorise. The student initially struggles merely to remember the order of movements, but the body naturally comes to absorb the forms with two or three years of repetitive practice.
Once embodied, the adept is able to complete the four forms correctly without consciously thinking about them even to the extent he can think about his work the following day while performing them. By the time the student reaches this stage, he should be able to avoid and counter-attack unexpected cuts to the head or torso instinctively in the same manner as the forms…
…Learning one new kata after another before one has thoroughly learnt what they have already been taught leaves the student unable to make the techniques their own. When I was studying under Hayashi-sensei, I simply continued to practise what I had learnt by focusing on thoroughly working on what I had been taught until my teacher told me he would teach me the next technique, and never requested he teach me the next technique myself.
It was due to this approach that Hayashi-sensei passed everything transmitted in our tradition to me. I would like not only my own students, but people in general today, to learn the importance of patiently and diligently engaging in one endeavour.”
Source: Risuke Otake, “Strategy and the art of peace”, Tokyo (Japan), Nippon Budokan 2016.
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