Recently I came across this quote:

“A practitioner who ignores reishiki is not merely rude; they are unreliable.”

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up.

While classical reishiki has all but disappeared from such modern arts as judo and karatedo, it remains an intrinsic part of the more traditional styles. But, although students adhere to the rituals, in all too many cases that is all they do - the reishiki has lost its true meaning and people merely walk through the ceremony with little understanding, and less appreciation, of what it is that they are actually doing.