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Tsutomu Ohshima

Tsutomu Ohshima (大島劼, Ōshima Tsutomu, born August 6, 1930)[a] is a prominent Japanese master of Shotokan karate who founded the Shotokan Karate of America (SKA) organization. He is the Shihan (Chief Instructor) of the SKA, and to this day holds the rank of 5th dan in karate, which was awarded to him by Gichin Funakoshi. In 1957, he established the Caltech Karate Club—the first university karate club in the United States of America.

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Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has to be strong against bad people. But we must also be able to know and understand the feelings, moods and mentalities of good and bad individuals before we can comprehend when to be strong and when to be gentle.

Artist, Martial, Strong, Think, Thinking

Eliminating one weakness is better than adding one strength.

Adding, Eliminating, Strength, Weakness

In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent's skin. If you don't understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself, you will win fifty percent of the time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time.

Achieve, Order, Percent, Skin, Victory, Winning

Each one of us starts Karate with some particular reason: to be a good fighter, to keep in good shape, to protect oneself. I wanted to become very strong myself when I first began. But Karate training soon teaches that real strength is facing oneself strictly, with severe eyes. This is the first condition of martial arts training. Therefore, all karateka must be strong inwardly, but quite gentle to others. As we train together, each contributing to a good atmosphere, let's try to bring out that serious strong mentality from deep inside.

Art, Contributing, Karate, Real, Serious, Strong

We must look at ourselves with the strictest eyes.

Eye, Eyes, Look, Looks, Strictest

Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being. Strong doesn't mean big arms. It means who can be a more strict human being with himself. That is the ideal of martial arts.

Art, Become, Human, Mean, Strong

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