Karate Kumite and Clint Eastwood, I never thought those two things would come together in a sentence. In the old flick 'The Outlaw Josie Wales,' Mr. Eastwood lectures some soft pioneers about how to get mad dog mean when you're in a fight to the death. There is truth in his lecture, but there is, especially if you are training in classical martial arts training, a falsehood.
The truth is that you have to raise up your desire to survive. You have to be willing to do more than you have ever done before. You have to be willing to fight harder and never give up.
The lie is that emotion increases your desire to win. To understand this, and other things concerning emotion and the martial arts, we have to define what, exactly, emotion is. The odd thing is that if you look in a dictionary you will not find a good definition.
Emotion is not 'mood,' or an 'instinctive state of mind,' and that sort of definition tells us nothing. So consider this definition: when somebody is unable to accept reality he/she creates a mental turmoil that is emotion. That's a good one, and I know because I made it up, but we have to look deeper if we are really going to understand emotion, it's value, and how to handle it.
The Neutronic definition for emotion is: 'Motion inside the head.' You get angry, and in your head you want to create motion (of some sort) towards somebody (hitting them in the head with a hammer). But it is all in your head, and, though that can be tapped into and used, it is also a little less than real.
So, think about this: when you punch somebody, would you put energy into your knee? Sort of a waste of energy, eh? What you want to do, as a martial artist, is put energy into and only into the fist.
When you direct energy into body parts other than the one(s) being used you are not being efficient in your motions. This same idea holds true in the subject of emotion. Energy put into emotion is not energy put into the desire to win; to win it is best if we get mad dog cool and determined, not extra angry.
Emotion is not to be discouraged, for emotion is a handle by which we can read others, release our own feelings, experience love, and that sort of thing. However, emotion in a fight can inhibit a person's will to fight. When it comes to Karate Kumite you must increase your desire to win without falling into emotion, or trying to use emotion in any way.
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