04/04/2022
Today I completed the 100 Kata challenge (for those who don’t know, a kata is a set sequence of karate techniques and the challenge is to perform a kata 100 times).
As you tick off each performance you realise how far away 100 is. My kata was Ji’in which meant I had to do 700 Kiba Dachi stances so my legs got painful way earlier than my lungs. I must recommend that you don’t do this challenge alone.
I had originally decided to do this annual challenge because it celebrated karate day, I’d done it before and I wanted to test myself to see if I’d finally recovered from my prolonged bout of COVID.
But that was the key word ‘recovered’ and I started to think about all the karateka who didn’t recover and so I completed the challenge, on my own, as a small token of remembrance to and respect for all the karateka who were lost as a result of the pandemic.
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