Karate - "Images In Time"

These are powerful and spirited black and white images that capture moments in the continuum of practice and personal development. They are by Jeff Moriber, a long time Matsubashi-ryu karate-ka and award winning graphic designer, fine artist and print maker. Each image is crisply cut out of linoleum tile and produced with saturated inking.

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	Breaking Breaking takes training, spirit and focus. What appeared at the beginning to be an obstacle is really a spiritual destination, a moment through which to pass among the Kiais and road to spiritual development.
	Kumete Pre-arranged Kumete showed me symmetry, control and a key karate principle: to develop the strength and ability to focus power, and the control to not use it.
	Low Block Sinking low on one foot with a sweeping lower block while coiling power, beauty and grace combined with cat-like energy ready to spring.
	Reinforced Block At first it was a little bit like the kid's game of patting your head and rubbing your belly at the same time. How could she do that with such grace, ease, speed and strength? The answer came only a few short training years later: practice.
	The Stretch She could just as easily have been a ballet dancer stretching at the bar preparing to practice her craft instead of a fellow karate student stretching before class, both striving for grace and control. Both are beautiful in their own right.
	Belt I always treated each of my belts, white, green, brown and now black, with great respect. Each is imbued with countless hours of training. Each was almost always saturated in sweat, daily. Frayed at the edges from repeated knot tying and wearing. Yet always reminding me of the balance to be strived for in life. The belt shows me, when I roll it up to put it away after training, or put it on to train, that symbol, yin-yang, is always at its center.