From: "Emiliano Mazlen" <emazlen@...>

Date: December 31, 2006 9:03:35 AM EST

To: hanshi-srkusa@..., kyoshibaker@..., Motobu@..., DESHI-SRKUSA@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [USRKUSA - Deshi]  Thought for the Week of January 1, 2007

Onegai-shimasu Hanshi, Kyoshi, Sensei, Sempai and Fellow Deshi,

With the arrival of the New Year, it is common to make resolutions.  We 

should make resolutions/set goals for our karate.  The goal might be being 

ready to test for a new rank, improving our grasp of a kata or implementing 

a correction that we haven’t been able to yet.  These goals help us most as 

extra inspiration to improve and increase our training.  New rank, should 

not be mistaken for an end in itself.  Karate-do (the way of karate) does 

not end with a new rank.  Karate-do has no such end.  It is, in Master 

Nagamine's words, a "life-long marathon."  We can continue on the way of 

karate all our lives, as long as we keep training.  We can use goals to 

inspire us to keep moving forward on that journey.

Happy and healthy 2007 to all.

Domo arigato gozaimasu to all,

Emiliano Mazlen

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