Vintage Karate

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I have given some considerable thought, mindless meandering meditative effort, toward the term, "traditional" as it relates to karate and then while out and about and seeing a person's t-shirt it happened, call our karate that may or may not be traditional as, "Vintage Karate!"

Why, people might ask, well; our more traditional thinking of karate denotes karate of "high quality" and it is especially that of the "past and characteristic" of the best period, of time, of a person's work, effort and creativity. 

We of the karate community all look to our karate's historical past to make a connection to our current training and practices. As people who take our genealogies seriously along with our understanding of what we learn from the past often triggers an evolutionary progressive change of today's karate with a mind toward our karate's future this perception of our karate's historical beginnings as Vintage Karate seems appropriate. 

I mean, how many of us look at, "vintage cars; vintage motorcycles; vintage wines and many others" with the intent to address and honor the quality, characteristic and past that is the best of the best of a person(s) work, creation and application?

I like Vintage because it is direct and to the very point we all look to as traditional karate while not being exactly defined as traditional. I like it because there are very little arguments that would dissuade me, at this time anyway, that vintage does not work in this case. I would have no real argument to whether vintage karate were of high quality because to practice it means it is the original of the creator; I would have no real argument that what I honor and try to pass on is from that past; I would have no real argument that this high quality historical karate is of the characteristics of the master who created the style, at least as much as human's can reproduce that and finally; I could have no real argument that vintage karate is characteristic of that person's work, etc.

I also like the feeling that along with vintage cars, vintage motorcycles and now vintage karate the connections and symbolism reach every single style and system that looks to the past connections to learn, train and evolve today's karate into today's soon to be vintage karate. 

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