During training when you are lucky enough to have the help of a training partner to assist you with practising bunkai, it is very important not to take advantage of them.
Many times during application training, our training partner will be placed into a position where they will be unable to effectively to defend themselves from your strike due to their limbs being trapped or them being forced into an inferior position. At such times it is of vital importance that we display courtesy toward the other person and have control over our technique so as to not inflict any unnecessary injury. Taking advantage of such situations to get a sneaky hit on your partner is inexcusable and has no place in the dojo. Neither is a lack of control on your part an acceptable excuse for hurting the person trying to help you learn.
We all have families to go home to, and a job to attend the following day. It is unacceptable for a fellow practitioner to potentially lose their source of income due to your lack of control.
Of course there will be occasions where accidents might happen, but we should do our best to avoid such instances. On such occasions it is important to apologise to your training partner, make sure they are not injured, and then carry on training, putting the moment in the past.
Training should have realism, this is very important, and when training our strikes it is important to aim to hit the other person. The circumstances I am referring to are those times where your partner is unable to defend your attack due to the position you have placed them in.
Show a little courtesy and humility. This is practising karatedo.
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