Wednesday, 30 April 2008

Golden Week

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Yesterday marked the beginning of this years 'Golden Week' for us (you can see I have a 'holiday smile'!). Golden Week, als...
Friday, 18 April 2008

雲手　ＵＮＳＵ

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For nearly two decades Unsu was my tokui (favourite) kata. I used Unsu to pass the JKA (Japan Karate Association) examinations for nidan, sa...
Tuesday, 8 April 2008

Karate-Do for Social Education

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I still believe that Karate-Do keiko (training) fosters many positive attributes in young people, which are seriously lacking nowadays. Qu...
Sunday, 6 April 2008

HANAMI

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Hanami ( 花見 , flower viewing) is the traditional Japanese custom of 'enjoying the beauty of flowers', namely sakura or cherry blosso...
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...