[constitutiongirl]

After practicing a particular kata for several weeks, I can successfully complete it without thinking about what I'm doing at all. If you ever attend competitions, you can tell which people are concentrating on their katas and which people are 'going with the flow'. Those that concentrate too hard have 'jerky' movements while the others are smooth and almost tranquil looking.

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

The standard saying among my friends is "once you have practiced a kata 1,000 times, you can effectively begin to incorporate it into a fight"