Superstition_And_Ritual_In_The_Martial_Arts

Superstition And Ritual In The Martial Arts Dorian Antes smokes a pack of filtered Camel cigarettes a day. He always manages to wear at least one article of black clothing and is an avid fan of european death metal. He sports a mohawk though he prefers not to put it up with Knox gelatin and has a pair of black flames tattoed on the sides where the hair should be, among other tribal tattoes that sprawl over his body. This person has also spent ten years of his life earning a first degree blackbelt in Kojasho, a style of martial arts that combines Chinese kung fu and Japanese karate. He has participated in countless tournaments during his study of Kojasho and has won several first place trophies. I thought that a person with his unique personality and outlook on life combined with a relatively dangerous and physical sport would have a diverse and interesting set of ritual and superstitions. The martial arts is a sport of the individual. Although it's students congregate and are taught in the dojo, to succeed in karate requires an individual effort. No one is going to make a person practice the extra hours away from the classroom superstition, ritual, dorian, person, because, right, order, himself, always, tournament, opponent, karate, black, very, students, since, one, never, martial, line, way, student, sport, sense, said, over, out, mindset, match, make, kojasho, individual, first, beileved, arts