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The karate that is regarded as a sport has age limitations whereas the karate that is regarded as a martial art requires no retirement. You must be able to train yourself even when you are old, if you are to master the karate of martial arts. Whether you are studying sai or karate, the core of the training should be practicing kata. The older you grow, the more skilled you should be, and the simpler it should be for you to distinguish yourself. You should be able to enjoy the training in forms of sai or karate until the very end of your life. In addition to the healthy body we can develop through physical activity of sai or karate training, we can become one with the atoms of the universe, the core of everything, and by doing that, we try to merge ourselves with the universe, resulting in mental as well as physical well-being.

No matter how much nutrition human beings get from food, unless they move their bodies to absorb the essence, they will never be healthy in the truest sense of the word. In other words, people could very well be healthy without enough food by assimilating essence. All creatures, including human beings, came from this essence, so all creatures are actually harmonized in nature.