Saturday, 24 May 2008

Stretching

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If there is one area of my karate that I really need to work on, it’s my flexibility. In every other aspect of training I really push myself...
Sunday, 18 May 2008

Visitors of this blog

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According to my visitor statistics, people from the following countries have visited this blog ! Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, ...
Friday, 9 May 2008

JUNRO - Mastering the Jiku Ashi

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As stated in my last post, I’ve been focusing on Empi kata to address my jiku-ashi (pivot foot). Two days ago I switched this focus to the ...
Saturday, 3 May 2008

Unsu, Gojushihodai, Empi & Junro

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For your interest here is my updated training regime. As made clear from the title of this post, kata is the seed for this month's prac...
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 ...