Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Videos from Germany & Italy

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Here are all of the videos from my seminars in Germany and Italy (January/February 2012). When time allows I will post one more, which will ...
Monday, 20 February 2012

Andre Bertel 2012 European Seminars (Part Four)

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Below is an embedded video from my recent seminars in Mira (Venice Italy) at the new dojo of Mauro Mion Shihan - 7th Dan. The video was cre...
Sunday, 19 February 2012

Andre Bertel 2012 European Seminars (Part Three)

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It was once again a huge pleasure to teach seminars at Mauro Mion Shihan's Italian National Honbu Dojo in Mira (Venice). This year the ...
Saturday, 18 February 2012

Mauro Mion Shihan: Karate master & a gentleman

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Mauro Mion Shihan (7th Dan) is not only an Italian master of Shotokan Karate but also an exceptional human being whom I have great respect ...
Friday, 17 February 2012

Andre Bertel 2012 European Seminars (Part Two)

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Along with some images here are a couple of reports on my recent Karate-Do Seminars in Ahrensburg Germany. As more reports are written, ...

Special classes at the Hamburg Karate Dojo.

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I once again greatly enjoyed teaching classes at Sensei Stefan Scharnweber’s Hamburg Karate-dojo. I was introduced to Stefan by Oliver and Y...
Thursday, 16 February 2012

Brian Toomey Sensei

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It was great to finally meet Brian Toomey Sensei - 6th Dan who attended my seminars in Germany. He is my senpai (senior) in Karate-Do an...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012

André Bertel 2012 European Seminars (Part One)

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This is the first of several posts I will make on my 2012 karate seminars in Europe. It was great to teach Asai-ha Shotokan-ryu in both Ger...
Sunday, 15 January 2012

Well prepared for Germany & Italy

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Here are some photographs from my self-training at Sumner beach today. I'm now well prepared and in top condition for my upcoming semin...
Thursday, 12 January 2012

Kizami-zuki, gyaku-zuki & oi-zuki

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The base techniques of standard karate-do are essentially kizami-zuki (jab punch), gyaku-zuki (reverse punch) and oi-zuki (lunge punch). T...