Is Karates Mushin-No-Mind the Secret to Keeping Calm in a Street Attack?
Karate’s Mushin, No Mind, the ability to keep calm during an attack has been called Karate beyond technique. But how important is keeping a calm mind in a street fight? Let me ask you a question: As a martial artist have you ever raised a hand in anger? If you are like most martial artists the answer is probably no. If you have never thought about the question before then maybe it’s time you did. The most important lesson I ever learned in those rough and tumble early days of karate was that fancy kicks and moves being taught in the dojo just didn’t work in reality. But hang on a minute I hear you say. Today people don’t want to learn all that fancy stuff such as Kata, how to keep a calm mind, meditation and so on. They say I just want to learn practical self-defence and how to fight. That may be true of most students but by no means all. If you are one of the above? What you should know is this, being trained to move quickly, body evasion, keeping a calm mind, meditation and visualisa
