{"id":2166,"date":"2014-02-15T17:12:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T22:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:16:04","slug":"why-we-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/why-we-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Often we forget why we practice so much.&nbsp; When that happens we become complacent and that is when bad things happen.&nbsp; To often we think we can put off our training until tomorrow.&nbsp; We practice today so we are prepared today, not tomorrow when it might be to late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am reminded of this truth today as I anticipate surgery I will have this coming week.&nbsp; I have been complacent lately mostly because of my injury; but that is no excuse.&nbsp; We live in an increasingly dangerous world, tomorrow is not the time to prepare.&nbsp; This graphic reminded me of that.&nbsp; Even though I may be limited in my physical training over the next few weeks, I can continue to train and will strive to do so&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sweat_or_bleed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sweat_or_bleed-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"sweat_or_bleed\" class=\"wp-image-2167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sweat_or_bleed-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sweat_or_bleed-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sweat_or_bleed.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often we forget why we practice so much.&nbsp; When that happens we become complacent and that is when bad things happen.&nbsp; To often we think we can put off our training until tomorrow.&nbsp; We practice today so we are prepared today, not tomorrow when it might be to late. I am reminded of this truth<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/why-we-practice\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,61,23,16],"tags":[144,22,172,14],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-zen-thing","category-karate","category-state-of-mind","category-training-notes","tag-motivation","tag-perspective","tag-state-of-mind","tag-training"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}