I arrived in Osaka with fast lenses and a plan to freeze everything. By the third day I had put the plan away.
Freezing kills the cut
A sharp sword at 1/4000th looks like a prop. At 1/15th it becomes a brushstroke, and you can feel how fast it was.
Repetition is generosity
The sensei let me watch the same kata four hundred times. By the end I knew where the beauty was going to be before it arrived, which is the only way to photograph it.
Discipline is just attention that has stopped needing to be asked for.
