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Shisha-kumi-te [死者組み手] The characters/ideograms mean, “Dead paired karate kata; dead paired drills.” The first two characters/ideograms mean, “Death; dead; casualty; deceased.” The third, fourth and fifth characters/ideograms mean, “Paired karate kata.” The first character means, “Death; die,” the second character means, “someone; person,” the third character means, “association; construct; assemble; unite; cooperate; grapple,” and the fifth character means, “hand.”
Apparently, the inappropriate training utilizing the kumite system, means that its practice is dead, shisha-kumi-te. The real issue is how would anyone, sensei or practitioner, actually know if what they train and practice is either useful or inappropriate especially for civil self-defense.
Iki-kumi-te [生き組み手] The characters/ideographs mean, “Live Kumite.” The first character means, “Life; genuine; birth,” the third character means, “construct; assemble; unite; cooperate; grapple,” the fifth character means, “hand.”
To live, to live the kata in karate and to apply the kata in ways that relate and connect with life itself. In the karate dojo this means to learn, train, practice and create a reality based adrenal stress-conditioned bunkai of kata for self-defense. Its about breathing applicable life into your kata practice toward the distinctive goals you have set upon entering the dojo. This may vary according to those life distinctions of applicability and that is important as well.
Thinking of the duality expressed in the study of the ken-po goku-i, the yin-yang or in-yo (jp) are about finding the complementary opposites of any discipline and in kata that is between the presentation and the underlying meaning given toward reality of life and in some cases self-defense of life.
To practice kata any other way is shisha-kumite, dead kata - meaningless except as a performance.
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