“A thousand days of training to develop, ten thousand days of training to polish.”
- Miyamoto Musashi
I love this quote. As one of the greatest swordsmen, undefeated in his lifetime, we can put some trust in Musashi’s words.
Think about those numbers. If you were to train every day for almost three years, you would reach 1000 days. If you train just one day per week at class (that’s only 40 classes per year) it will take 25 years to reach 1000 days of training!
How about 10 000 days to polish your skills?… Training every day, this will take 27 years! At this point someone will be highly skilled.
Training one day per week at class…. 250 years! Hmmm…
Now, I’m not saying everyone should train to be the greatest of all time (I know that’s not everyone’s goal) but if you want to even just be quite good at Karate, ponder this message.
If you want to be great at anything, art, music, sport, anything…. frequent, high effort training is essential.
It’s also perfectly ok to just enjoy something and do it for fun with no particular goal, but try to know why you are doing something.
Enso Karate 