{"id":3258,"date":"2025-10-17T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:01:38","slug":"3258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=3258","title":{"rendered":"Seiza"},"content":{"rendered":"
I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever written about the seiza (the formal way of sitting before\/after class). \u00a0One usually sets one\u2019s body down with the left knee first followed by the right knee. \u00a0Etiquette usually has the women\u2019s knees together and the men\u2019s knees apart at a 90-degree angle. \u00a0One should sit in a relaxed but erect posture, hands resting on one\u2019s thighs, just below one\u2019s obi (belt). \u00a0When rising, the right knee goes up first, followed by the left. \u00a0The ancient reason for this was to allow the samurai to easily unsheath his sword in the event of sudden attack while rising or lowering himself. \u00a0This assumed that he was right-handed with his sword sheathed on his left side.<\/div>\n
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For some of our older members or others with knee\/ankle\/hip issues, we allow dispensation from this position. \u00a0So many of our karate practices can be healthful to one\u2019s body and the seiza is no exception. \u00a0See this article about the value of such a posture. \u00a0https:\/\/postureclinic.in\/seiza\/<\/a><\/div>\n
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That said, one of Sensei Trisha\u2019s favorite childhood stories concerns the seiza. \u00a0 She had woken from bed late one night (she was around 5-6 years old) to get a drink of water and found me fast asleep in the living room. \u00a0I was in front of the TV, head down, with my hand on the channel knob, sitting\u00a0in the seiza position.<\/b>\u00a0 She could see that the screen indicated normal programming had ended for the day. I\u2019m so glad she woke me up as I must have been in that position for over an hour. \u00a0I had lost all feeling in my legs and for several minutes, couldn\u2019t use them to get up. \u00a0Then feeling rushed back into my legs in the form of thousands of painful needle pricks and I slowly got up and hobbled off to bed, haha. \u00a0Amazingly, even today, with so many hundreds of channels and streaming options available, it can still be hard to find something good to watch on TV. \u00a0And thank God for the television remote.<\/div>\n
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I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever written about the seiza (the formal way of sitting before\/after class). \u00a0One usually sets one\u2019s body down with the left knee first followed by the right knee. \u00a0Etiquette usually has the women\u2019s knees together and the men\u2019s knees apart at a 90-degree angle. \u00a0One should sit in a relaxed but erect posture, hands resting on one\u2019s thighs, just below one\u2019s obi (belt). \u00a0When rising, the right knee goes up first, followed by the left. \u00a0The ancient reason for this was to allow the samurai to easily unsheath his sword in the event of sudden attack while rising or lowering himself. \u00a0This assumed that he was right-handed with his sword sheathed on his left side. For some of our older members or others with knee\/ankle\/hip issues, we allow dispensation from this position. \u00a0So many of our karate practices can be healthful to one\u2019s body and the seiza is no exception. \u00a0See this article about the value of such a posture. \u00a0https:\/\/postureclinic.in\/seiza\/ That said, one of Sensei Trisha\u2019s favorite childhood stories concerns the seiza. \u00a0 She had woken from bed late one night (she was around 5-6 years old) to get a drink of water and found [...]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}