Kata is an ancient way martan-em taught to better one's performance using a
technique that could be best explained as 'pre-practizing the muscle memory'.
With continuous and devoted repeating of certain series of movements, one will
succeed better in the situations to come. Doing kata is always worth its
while. Martan-em said that doing kata a hundred times gives you a basic
understanding of what the kata wants to teach you. One thousand times makes
you see your enemies. One hundred thousand times, and it becomes a part of
one's spirit, and one knows how to perform right techniques at the right
moment, flowing subconsciously from one's hara and empowered with Ki.