3/14/2023 0 Comments Karate moves![]() Apparently these swims would be many miles and take most of a day. This was a moment when her training and her own determination would solely determine her fate. She needed to find her way to shore herself. When the proper distance from shore was reached the girl would strip down and jump into the cold water. On shore would be her family and friends singing songs meant to guide her home. When the young girl had come of age she would be taken by her father or male clan leader out in a canoe far from shore. The young girls who were destined to become warriors would be taught to preform many difficult tasks including, long distance open ocean swimming, running, fighting skills, survival knowledge and much more. This group of people had a very important place in their culture for female warriors. One of my favorite stories on this theme comes from an inspiring book called “Daughters Of Copper Women” by Anne Cameron, which tells the legends and history of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation living on Vancouver Island (near Nootka Sound). These rites and ceremonies usually have the theme of demonstrating to the youth that their childhood dependency on others is over and they they need to recreate themselves as responsible individual members of their society. ![]() ![]() Many great teachers and researchers have discovered that almost every other culture has a set of intense and often somewhat dangerous rituals for allowing the youth to know they are now an adult. We live at a time when many of the aspects of maturation necessary for the development of a complete individual are not well cultivated. These terms in a basic sense simply refer to rank or level of attainment in training, but they also carry the meaning the maturation process one goes through after many years of training. One was the colored belts from white to brown (called Kyu Belt ranks) and the other was the various levels of black belts (called Dan ranks). When the modern belt system was introduced to Martial Arts in the early 20th century two belt categories were developed. ![]()
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