Kata

performance using a technique that could be best explained as 'pre-practizing the muscle memory'. With continuous and devoted repeating of certain series of movements, one will succeed better in the situations to come. Doing kata is always worth its while. Martan-em said that doing kata a hundred times gives you a basic understanding of what the kata wants to teach you. One thousand times makes you see your enemies. One hundred thousand times, and it becomes a part of one's spirit, and one knows how to perform right techniques at the right moment, flowing subconsciously from one's hara and empowered with Ki.