“Three in Kata?”

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Fundamentally it deals with encoding movement of purpose in our memory. Our brains learn and remember when a pattern is used coupled with a rhythmic, timed and patterned movement. Movement in a sequenced set of three that coincides with visualization for movement stimulates the mental processes and leads the bodies movement that triggers a brain stimulus that builds and strengthens the brains connections resulting in strong memory or the encoding of things in the deepest recesses of the mind.

Yes, there are many, many other benefits to the three in kata but at its most basic, fundamentally principled based benefit, this is why we do three sequenced methods in karate kata.

It amazes me that hundreds, to possibly thousands, of years ago a culture discovered that using such repetitive patterned movement resulted in a sure-fire methodology to pass down such means of self-protection for self-preservation that it has survived as the best training method all these centuries of human survival.

No matter how one trains and practices, at its very core is movement, a rhythmic, patterned and purposeful movement to train the mind toward movement that creates in the mind the very methodologies necessary for our very survival!

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