年末年始、久し振りに名古屋の自宅に帰り、緑地公園での自主トレをやった。ここ4ヶ月ほど会社の単身赴任寮の狭い室内でしかやっていなかったので、やはり広々としたエリア・屋外で伸び伸びと動くのは気持ちが良い。いつもと同じメニューだったのだが2・3日足腰に筋肉痛が残った。
昔、大学1年の体育の授業で、クジで負けて剣道を選択することとなったときのことを思い出した（当時、折角の大学体育の授業、ゴルフかテニスをやりたかったのだが･･／体育授業の剣道、小手を着けた後の手の匂いが･･）。その授業では2人一組でお互いに打ち合う稽古があり、剣道部の奴に面を叩かれ、脳震盪を起こしかけたのか膝がガクッと落ちかけたことがある。相手の動きに全く対応できなかった。また、師範の先生が相手をして下さり何度か打ち合わせて頂いたときに、先生が竹刀を下げ、頭をすぅっと差し出して来られたことがある。咄嗟に意味が判らず一瞬の間が空いたが、“打ってこい”と言う意図のようだったので打たせて頂いた。咄嗟に動くには／実際に使えるようにしたいと思うなら、常日頃から対人稽古（組手）は必須だろう。
空手は、武術として捉えれば極力無駄に体力を浪費しないように動き、最大限の効果を得られるようにすべきであると思うが、それは組手（対人）で稽古すべきであって、一人でやる空手の型でそれを追求すること／感覚を養うことはいくらやっても難しい（不可能）。
結論として空手の型は、解釈はいろいろ自由に考えれば良いが、それらの解釈を実現できるように柔軟性、筋力、運動神経を養う（体と神経を養う）ことを目的としたものとして、金城裕さんが解説されているように“体育”と考えた方が良さそうに思う。競技化された空手のように不自然に大股を開いて腰を下げるのは変な癖が付くので今でも如何なものかとは思うが、体育と割り切ればそうすべきなのかも知れない･･･。今のところそうする気はないけど。
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At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, I returned to my home in Nagoya for the first time in a long time and did a self-practice at the green park. For the past four months, I have only been training in the small room of the company's single dormitory, so it feels good to move freely in a spacious outdoors. It was the same menu as usual, but my legs and hips remained sore for a few days.
A long time ago, I suddenly remembered when I lost in a lottery and chose kendo in a physical education class in my first year of college (at that time, I wanted to do a college physical education class, golf or tennis ... / Kendo in physical education class, the smell of the hand after wearing a gauntlet ･ ･). In that class, there was a practice in which two people hit each other. And my knees fell down, perhaps because I was hit by a kendo club member and caused a concussion. I couldn't keep up with my opponent's movements. Also, when the teacher of the instructor had a meeting with me several times, the teacher lowered the bamboo sword and put out his head. I couldn't understand the meaning of it, and there was a moment, but he seemed to have the intention of "hit it", so he let me hit it. If you want to be able to move / actually use it, you will need to practice interpersonal training (kumite) on a regular basis.
If you think of karate as a martial art, you should move so as not to waste your physical strength as much as possible and you should get the maximum effect. But it should be practiced with kumite. It is difficult (impossible) to pursue it by one person/ to develop a sense with the karate kata.
In conclusion, I think that the karate kata, it can be interpreted freely, might aims to develop flexibility, muscle strength, and motor nerves (nurture the body and nerves) so that these interpretations can be realized. I think it might be better to think of it as "physical education" as explained by Kinjo Hiroshi. To open your legs unnaturally and to lower your hips like a competitive karate, so I'm still wondering what it's like, maybe should be done if it's divisible by physical education ... . I have no intention of doing so for now as it's a strange habit .
