Kyokushin-kan Radio #6 Continuity is the father of success.

This word means that it is important to continue for a long time as it is too famous or a standard. Sosai Oyama encouraged the adage “Three years on the stone“ further, and said, “Ten years on the stone“. In the first place, the name “Kyokushin“ is from the fact that “it is beginner with training 1,000 days, and it is full-fledged professional with training 10,000 days.’’ In short, it takes 30years to become fully qualified. It has been 30 years since I started karate. I feel that I have only now understood the meaning of these words a little. Kancho Royama always said that “training should not be done with impulse of the moment“, but when started karate, it was fun to learn various basic skills, and excited to see strong seniors. When becomes a little stronger, you cannot wait to go to the dojo with feeling glad doing karate. Is this around the light blue belt?　However, it gradually comes to get tired of every time same basic practice, and the kata learned with interest at first becomes boring, too. About kumite, get stricter by the senior, and the face is kicked, the practice which was fun begins to become painful suddenly. This is around the green belt. It reaches a black belt in one more step, I think that it is frustrating at the time that it is not possible to reach the black belt easily. Let us say some people trained hard and got the black belt they were longing for, however there are some people who feel that the training so far has been rewarded here and lose motivation like balloon is singing. They come to the dojo occasionally and they get incredibly muscle pain to do squats and sit-up. As a result, they come to the dojo lesser than before. They were struck by a sense of disappointment: “What have I trained so long?“. “Motivation“ and “trained body“ are like boiling water, and if you stop keeping heat up, it will get cold. Once cooled, it must be heated from the same time until it returns to its original heat. ↓Read More↓