There are several postings throughout these forums on the topic of breathing, and they typically involve the “right” way to breathe, the physiological reasons for a breathing method, or the power obtained by a breathing method.
I’d like to come at the breathing question from a slightly different perspective:
Do you actively consider the type of breathing you do during each kata, practice, and sparring session?
Does it change based on what you consider is needed or do you simply breathe based on how you were originally trained?
Related questions:
· Are you actively choosing a specific breathing method for yourself, for a specific purpose?
· Do you know why you use a certain breathing method?
· Does repetitive training lead you to breathe a specific way anytime you do a specific type of movement or combination of movements?
· Do you ever seek to change/challenge how you breathe and test its affect?
· Finally, do you agree that your breathing should vary, based on need/goal in a particular movement/activity and multiple methods may be used at any given time in the same sparring session/kata?