Karate Kumite and Clint Eastwood, I never thought those two things would come together in a sentence. In the old flick 'The Outlaw Josie Wales,' Mr. Eastwood lectures some soft pioneers about how to get mad dog mean when you're in a fight to the death. There is truth in his lecture, but there is, especially if you are training in classical martial arts training, a falsehood.
The truth is that you have to raise up your desire to survive. You have to be willing to do more than you have ever done before. You have to be willing to fight harder and never give up.
The lie is that emotion increases your desire to win. To understand this, and other things concerning emotion and the martial arts, we have to define what, exactly, emotion is. The odd thing is that if you look in a dictionary you will not find a good definition.