
Matsumora’s Grasp
Posted by Jeffrey M. Brooks on November 5, 2018 in Martial Arts Stories, Martial Arts Training, Okinawa |No Comments
空手に先手なし ‘There is no first attack in karate’ means that we respond when the cause is just and the need is present. People think that Gichin Funakoshi used the “no first attack” idea to communicate to non-Okinawans that his karate was a cultivated art, for cultivated people. The presumption was that karate and other arts […]