"Genuine karate is like hot water; It cools down if you don't continuously keep it over heat."
If you have been practicing karate for any length of time you have undoubtedly heard the 11th of Gichin Funokoshi Sensei’s twenty precepts of karate. “Genuine karate is like hot water; it cools down if you don’t continuously keep it over heat.” It is a precept with an exceptionally profound connotation.