Saturday, 27 November 2010

Traditional Karate-Do Beach Training - Christchurch, New Zealand.

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This morning a small group of karateka from the Christchurch Shotokan Karate Club did practice at North Beach from 6am. The training was ini...
Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Site Video Links Updated

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Arriving home tonight from training, at the Christchurch Shotokan Karate Club, I found several emails requesting links to my previously upl...
Monday, 22 November 2010

More video footage from Italy

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Here is some footage kindly uploaded by Silvio Cannizzo Sensei from the seminars I taught in Italy earlier this year. This was the final pra...
Friday, 19 November 2010

Sinking the tanden

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My mind set in regards to stances, whether deep or shallow, is to sink my tanden into the ground. I also do this when ground fighting an...
Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Bag work

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One piece of advice my late teacher Shuseki Shihan Tetsuhiko Asai stressed when I first met him at the JKA (Japan Karate Association) in th...
Sunday, 14 November 2010

The criticality of self-practice

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Self-practice is a critical element of karate training. Consider going to the dojo as attending university lectures, and self-practice as th...
Thursday, 11 November 2010

Links to previous articles

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It has been a while since I've posted backdated links for my articles so I thought I'd do that today. Currently there are 267 articl...
Sunday, 24 October 2010

Training schedule updated

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Kihon: (1) Chudan oi-zuki (fudo-dachi); (2) Jodan age-uke kara mawashi-geri, uraken yokomawashi uchi soshite chudan oi zuki; (3) Chudan ...
Sunday, 17 October 2010

Karate is like language

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The elements which make up karate can be compared to the main components of language. Consider phonology (sounds), morphology (words), synta...
Friday, 8 October 2010

Distance & Body Power

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Kicking at close range is an important skill just like punching from long range. This is because regardless of the maai (distance) in all ca...