“ ‘Ishiki’ (意識) is very important. ‘Awareness – Take more attention and focus’. Without ‘Ishiki’: you wouldn’t realize what is happening here and there. By doing it you see and realize things happening. During everyday training with more attention and focus you will see and realize how your stance, form and technique are. Do not ignore your mistakes. Take more attention and look at yourself. Then fix your mistakes and improve. Otherwise nothing will change and you won’t get better. Not by somebody else telling you but by finding out yourself. You will improve if you do your best. Always do your best.” ??
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Shinji Akita 6th dan Shotokan
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“Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next…your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it will not be good.” – The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
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Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
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