Sunday, 24 February 2008

Nito oumono wa itto omo ezu

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二 兎 追 う 者 は 一 兎 を も 得 ず "If you run after two hares, you will catch neither". ___________________ THE SENTEI KATA Presently I...
Sunday, 17 February 2008

ASAI SENSEI'S BOOKS

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As a direct student of Tetsuhiko Asai I have been asked many times about the karate textbooks he produced in the late 1970's. These boo...
Thursday, 14 February 2008

Snow way!

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Waking up we found the car and tanbo behind us covered in snow... I know this is nothing compared to many people who visit this website, bu...
Monday, 4 February 2008

Link to last years articles

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I've had some emails asking for the '07 posts on this site (there were 56 in total last year). Here is the link to the majority of t...
Sunday, 27 January 2008

Christchurch Karate Club - New Zealand

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Karate is a martial art characterized by the aim to achieve the ‘single finishing blow’, anything less cannot be considered as true karate. ...
Monday, 21 January 2008

Ichinichi Issho

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Ichinichi Issho is a famous saying in Japanese, which means 'One day one lifetime'. The first time I heard it was training at the J...
Monday, 14 January 2008

Was Asai Sensei the successor of Mr. Nakayama?

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Many people have asked me if my late teacher Tetsuhiko Asai was the true successor of Masatoshi Nakayama (as Chief instructor of the Japan ...
Thursday, 10 January 2008

KANGEIKO

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Sunday will conclude Kangeiko (special 'Winter Training'). All I'll say here, is that for the first time since starting this s...
Tuesday, 1 January 2008

New Years Day 2008

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It is hard for me to believe that 2007 is over, and we've already entered 2008! I've been back in Japan training for over nine mont...
Thursday, 27 December 2007

My current self-training schedule

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Here is my current self-training routine as of Christmas day. I've just overcome a minor back strain (which comes from a very old injur...