Wednesday, 26 March 2008

ONE YEAR IN JAPAN TODAY

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How many people can come here and train karate pretty much every day for a year? Not to mention come to Japan consistently through their te...
Friday, 21 March 2008

Shotokan Karate-Do: The narrow river

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Shotokan is too narrow of a river to have major technical errors within its kihon. There are no excuses for such mistakes, only incompetent ...
Saturday, 8 March 2008

Asai Sensei and Yahara Sensei

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Like Asai Sensei, Yahara Sensei’s karate is ‘pure’ bujutsu (martial art), and clearly this is a dying breed in the karate world. It goes wit...
Thursday, 6 March 2008

The 'Pinak Kata' Dogi

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I just received my new custom made do-gi and silk kuro-obi. I was recommended to try Hirota’s very latest karate uniform, the 'Pinak Kat...
Saturday, 1 March 2008

Japan - The Land of the Rising Sun

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Welcome to my blog, if it is your first time here. Also a warm welcome to the many frequent visitors. On March 26th we will have been back i...
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. ...