Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike.

What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.

Karate-do begins with courtesy and ends with rei.

One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female.

Karate begins and ends with courtesy.

Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty.