Applied Methods by Adam Carter
Adam Carter – Karate practitioner and instructor with over five decades of training and teaching. Applied Methods explores practical karate, context, real-world application, and perspectives on karate, practice, teaching, and experience.
Recent Articles
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What Are We Really Practicing in Kata?
The value of kata may depend less on how well we perform the sequence and more on what we understand it to represent. Kata is…
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What Is Tradition in the Martial Arts?
What we inherit matters, but that does not mean it should remain unchanged. What is tradition, or traditional, in the martial arts? Who decides what…
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Experience Should Change Us
What years of practice can teach us about questioning what we think we know.
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Knowing When to Kick
Kicks have value in self-protection, but their usefulness depends on context, timing, and the person using them. Kicks can be among the most powerful tools…
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The Weight of Experience
How experience can deepen our understanding while quietly limiting what we are willing to reconsider There is an often-repeated saying: “I hear and I forget.…
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The Best Teaching Makes the Difficult Feel Familiar
Good instruction begins by connecting unfamiliar movements to actions the student already understands. When people begin learning karate, almost everything feels unfamiliar. The language and…
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Teaching the Fight First
Many self-defense classes begin at the point where self-protection has already failed. Self-defense. Everyone teaches it, right? It’s written on the flyers, displayed on the…
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What Is the Art in Martial Art?
Why the word “art” does not mean beauty, performance, or freedom from function. Someone recently told me that karate could not be viewed only through…
