This is one of many wonderful tsuba in a museum in Nagoya we visited on our recent trip to Japan. It’s easy to see the beauty of the gold inlaid figures. But just as amazing is this care and pain staking attention paid to the background. Every mark made by hand and hammer with consistent force, in perfect elliptical concentricity. It is a clear and beautiful demonstration of the mastery of fundamentals.
Our first class in Japan with Sensei was limited to 4th degree black belts and above yet Sensei spent the first of three hours concentrating on fine tuning our ki exercises. That is how important fundamentals are to progress. As “simple” as these movements may seem, even incrementally better building blocks make for exponentially better end products.
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