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Sports / Fitness / Recreation / Martial Arts | | Japanese term or phrase: 精神の伴わない空手家は狂人と同じである | | Sorry to make the term so long. This is, again, one of the karate dojo rules that karateka recite before practice. And again, in Japanese it's quite colourful, but I need to tone it down in English. Any good ideas? Sorry to bombard you with so many karate phrases and cheers for your help. |
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| | Practicing karate without proper control creates a loose cannon. | Explanation:
Sorry to change metaphors in midstream, but the Japanese is tough. Alternatively, how about something like "a karateka without mental strength/control is like a tank without a driver."? Runaway train?
Note that I had to suggest "loose cannon" because 狂人 appears on many 放送禁止用語 lists. Note, however, that I'm not necessarily endorsing the 言葉狩り extremes evident on so many of those lists. I have yet to find any explanation of why 床屋 is on the list, for example. |
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 Maynard Hogg
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| Grading comment Thanks everyone for your ideas. I liked the phrases "sound spirit" and "spiritual discipline" as well. Also the kinshi lists were kind of illuminating...thanks for including them. In the end I translated the phrase as "Practice karate with self-control"--and skipped the madman stuff altogether. Oh, and btw, yes this is a real dojo--mine!! Thanks again everyone.
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5 hrs confidence:   | 精神の伴わない空手家は狂人と同じである A karate expert without sound spirit will be the same as a mad man.
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Karate is a martial art and can kill people instantly, like a weapon.
If you do not have a sound spirit and self-control, a Karate expert will be a mad man.
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