Inside 90 days August the 28th

Dear friends,
Today ends with the second part of my summer training in view of the European Masters Games karate. The Grado International Meeting is in fact, ended.
One of the things I found most difficult, apart from the simple fact of continuing to move forward with the training despite the great physical effort, was the mental change. Personally I have always dealt with the training of kata and kumite. When I was young it was common to do both specialties of training and it was just normal to enroll in both specialties in case of competition. The mode of execution was not very different. Today, however, as it should, the two specialties are very advanced, so that is the mindset that the physical are very different, at least in my opinion. The kata has become much more explosive and reactive, but also more framed and perfected in every thousandth part of the body, without admitting the slightest smear of movement. Literally you have to go from one technique to another, from one location to another with the same immediacy of a snapshot. Not for nothing that the best athletes in the world, the Italian national team, are now so big and powerful.
While the kumite, for its part, has developed a fluency and dynamism that make the winner athlete virtually impregnable. The role assumed by the legs then, given the rapid and high kicks and absolute mobility on the competition, was once unthinkable. In both specialties the muscles of the body move fast but with an almost entirely different mode. The step then the lesson of kata, characterized by speed, power and perfect composure, ("quadrature" I call it) to kumite class, in the first minutes, it was what my brain was more difficult to accept and deal with. Felt completely different even the same impulses that from the brain, I had to send to the various muscle groups.
Tomorrow, Monday 29, begins the third part.
I spoke at length with various world champions participants of the session, comparing present and past and I have received valuable suggestions on the latest devices to be made, according to the most recent and current methods they tried, to my kata and my kumite.
I take this home to thank them for their friendly and open collaboration, it remains clear that the responsibility for everything I will do, and especially of what I will not be able to do, will always be mine alone.
Regards, Christian Gonzales