Hi all. I thought this might be a bit of fun. I've been doing karate for many years and we always say our dojo kun at the end. It's always been a bunch of words that even many Japanese people don't understand properly, since it uses old Japanese words/kanji. There are 7 oaths which I've asked my sensei to explain it to me, and tried my own translation/ interpretation based on what he has explained. Rather than post the whole thing here, I thought it might be fun to go through each one as separate posts and get others interpretation of the text. I'm curious if you think my interpretation makes sense.
So here we go. Number 1
一、吾々(われわれ)は、心身(しんしん)を錬磨(れんま)し、確固不抜(かっこふばつ)の心技(しんぎ)を極(きわ)めること。
1, we are (吾々), training (錬磨) our mind and body (心身), to perfect / master (極) an unwavering(確固不抜)technique(心技)
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