My Interpretations of Watashi no Karatejutsu Motobu Choki (1870 – 1944) Karatejutsu has a primary function of self defence to incapacitate an attacker with one action (strike, blow, grab or kick).
If Kata was to be understood correctly, each section of technique would need to be decisive in order to truly represent the maxim of one blow (action) one kill (disable, maim, kill). The form, the sequence, the embellished breath & movements would all become superfluous to an action of effort if an effect of disable, maim, kill was the intention.
The plethora of postures we see in Kata are no more that transitional snapshots, isolated in the mind as significant to a pose or static intersection where flow has been lost by the practitioner.
A dynamic “Hachimonji Datchi” giving equilibrium to balance or stability with mobility in a moving stillness, is probably the ideal for manoeuvrability. To practice being static or be motionless is to be dead or very close to death.
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