THEORY; THEORY; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Efficiency

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It concerns how we conceive of and practice karate and/or martial arts, including its curriculum, its pedagogical method, its approach to self-defense, etc. 

It is the effort that allows us the ability to validate principles properly applied with emphasis on those multiple methodologies to ensure that we are actually applying principled multiple methodologies so we may correct the principles to make the methodologies work. In this way we fulfill the pure objective.

It is about karate and/or martial arts being a struggle against conflict and violence often applied by an aggressor/attacker who has a goal of grave bodily harm or even death. It is not play, sport or an exercise program, it is an aggressive physical discipline meant for civil self-defense. It is not about techniques but how principles support applied methodologies as they apply to that pure objective. 

We cannot waste time training on a technique based model, that would require memorization of many, many techniques that will not end the fight. We have to focus on optimizing those principles and methods that will combine toward ending a threat. It once again is optimizing expressions of the pure objective.

Focus on weeding out mistakes that make the principles lose their effectiveness thus making the methodologies inefficient and ineffective. To practice such ineffective and inefficient efforts may allow us to perceive progress but the applicability as principled applied methodologies would not meet that pure objective. 

It must be remembered and a focus of training, practice and understanding that any methodology that does not achieve your self-defense goals allows an attacker/adversary/predator more time to act against us. 

By removing technique based teachings to the limited principles and methodologies should hold the potential to achieve self-defense goals thus ending the conflict and violence rapidly and effortlessly. This must be considered critically serious in training, practice and application. 

Examine each principle and method of principle driven methodologies. Even a methods not necessarily effective enough to stop the violence may, when combined with other methodologies still meets the pure objective (The ratio is important here). 

In the end, we cannot see an argument for devoting time, habituation, and even our safety to a training and practice model that ultimately cannot achieve what the final analysis requires.  

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