Friday, 27 June 2008

Personal Training from Asai Sensei

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Here are some pictures of one-on-one practice with my late Sensei, Tetsuhiko Asai. I hope you enjoy them! I have many more photos and videos...
Tuesday, 24 June 2008

New competition kumite clips

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Last year I uploaded two clips of myself in kumite competition. The first of these was a jodan mawashi geri (upper level roundhouse kick) f...
Thursday, 19 June 2008

THE 1ST BIRTHDAY OF ANDRE BERTEL'S KARATEDO

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Today is the first anniversary of www.andrebertel.blogspot.com . Initially I was concerned if I could consistently publish posts making the...
Monday, 9 June 2008

New Asai Karate videos online soon!

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I've decided to upload some more footage including private lessons with Asai Sensei. __________ A few tapes were sent to me from New Ze...
Saturday, 7 June 2008

Asai Sensei's Birthday

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Today is Sensei's birthday so if he was still with us, he would have turned 73 years old. I still cannot believe that nearly two years ...
Thursday, 5 June 2008

Kihoken

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Kihoken (Way of Breathing Fist) was a kata designed by Asai Tetsuhiko Sensei to simultaneously, and equally, address three major issues. Fi...
Sunday, 1 June 2008

Summer Training Begins

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Today marked the beginning of Summer in Japan. As a person who loves the heat, Summer is my favourite season followed by Autumn and then Sp...
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 ...