Margie informs me I’ve already used this metaphor, but I’ll use it again: karate is a lot like golf. Every simple-looking move involves a dozen different nuances of stance, posture, feet alignment, balance, body position. speed, timing, etc. Just when you think you have one down, another problem pops up like in a Whack-a-Mole game.<\/p>\n
Unlike golf, though, in karate you don’t have the immediate feedback of the ball flying off in some untoward direction. That’s a mixed blessing (or mixed curse), as what you have instead is either your own awareness of what you’ve done wrong, the gentle suggestions of higher-level belts to help teach you, the not-quite-as-gentle-but-more-informative observations of sensei <\/em>as to what you need to do differently, or, on occasion, multiple of the above, (Eventually, in competition, you get another few sorts of feedback, some of them potentially painful).<\/p>\n The up side is that everyone, even the black belts, get coaching and have room for improvement. Everybody’s imperfect — just some of us are more imperfect than others. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n And, that said, Katherine did her test this evening for her white\/yellow belt. 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