Training Process

Practice should take place as follows:

• Explain what karate is about; 
• Explain the training attitude; 
• Learn each and every posture as well as how to advance, retreat, and pivot; 
• Practice how to strike with the fist and elbow;
• How to kick with the foot along with how to release [a grab]; 
• Next teach kata;
• After becoming familiar with kata, he can move on to matches.

--- Chotoku Kyan