Thursday, 28 June 2012

Off to Australia

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Tomorrow morning I leave to teach karate seminars for the KUA (Karate Union of Australia): http://www.kua.com.au/ I'm looking forward t...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Links to my karate videos

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While these are not all of my karate videos on the internet they are a fair few of them. I've uploaded them as 'a single post' ...
Monday, 25 June 2012

Kihon is THE BENCHMARK

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It is undeniable that what establishes the skill level of a persons karate is the level of their kihon (fundamentals). While kata is ruled ...
Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Mudslingers

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Since starting this blog a number of people have said all sorts of nasty things about me and my karate online, but I have noticed that whe...
Tuesday, 19 June 2012

André Bertel’s Karate-Do – 5th Anniversary!

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My blog turns five years old today! Yes, half a decade has passed since I started this website. Recently the site exceeded one million ...

Healthy hips and knees with yoko keage

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In my recent post on Heian-yondan I mentioned Asai Sensei’s biomechanically superior version of performing yoko-keage (body folded slightly ...
Monday, 11 June 2012

KARATE FIRST! My June training regime

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Here's my new training schedule for June. Where ever you are on planet Earth I hope it finds you well and training hard. My apologies ...
Thursday, 7 June 2012

I am free for the next few weeks

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From Monday of next week (June 11th) I'll be available full-time until I take a week off to teach karate-do seminars in Western Austral...

Neil Jerome Sensei visits Christchurch

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Neil Jerome Sensei (4th Dan) of the KUGB (Karate Union of Great Britain) came for a private class with me, late in May. It was a pleasure t...
Saturday, 26 May 2012

2012 Seminars in Australia

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The June Seminars in Australia are coming up. I've officially taken the week off instructing here to teach these seminars in Western Au...