The Meaning of OSU
The Japanese word "OSU" is synonymous with perseverance and devotion, remains the foundation of Kyokushinkai. So Osu, means "hold up under pressure," involves the willpower to resist to the limit, it's like inside a call to everyone to stand, fight and thus overcoming the weaknesses of the human condition.
This training should be conducted in the spirit of Osu, so that the individual's responsibilities in daily life are acceptable without doubts, worries and fears within.
While it is easy for Westerners to stop when things get complicated, the Japanese just know they must continue and persevere. When one experiences pain in training should not be a signal to stop, but an opportunity to overcome through perseverance.
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The Japanese word "OSU" is synonymous with perseverance and devotion, remains the foundation of Kyokushinkai. So Osu, means "hold up under pressure," involves the willpower to resist to the limit, it's like inside a call to everyone to stand, fight and thus overcoming the weaknesses of the human condition.
This training should be conducted in the spirit of Osu, so that the individual's responsibilities in daily life are acceptable without doubts, worries and fears within.
While it is easy for Westerners to stop when things get complicated, the Japanese just know they must continue and persevere. When one experiences pain in training should not be a signal to stop, but an opportunity to overcome through perseverance.
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There is a Japanese saying that symbolizes the need to persevere at all times "Ishi no ue no san nen": "three years sitting on a rock," Sosai Kyokushinkai has said that this should be changed to "ju nen Sekijo" " 10 years sitting on a rock ", this simile is meant to symbolize that, if a person is able to perform an action that entails sacrifice, a practitioner of Kyokushinkai work must be done very easily, as is normal in its train yourself to overcome , so you should aim to take action much more difficult to perform and should not be a concern from the blows of adversity, because it takes a fighter to get something available.
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