Monday, 20 October 2014

HAIEN: Down and out with severe pneumonia

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A photo of my training in the early days of this website. One of my policies, when I write articles on this blog, is “…when I don’t tr...
Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Updated training regime: a return to the sentei-gata

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Warming up: my private dynamic stretching routine. At present I am reviewing the sentei-gata: Bassai Dai, Kanku-Dai, Enpi and Jion. Nee...
Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Hirota's Latest Karate Uniform: The `TAKUMI'

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A while back I bought the `Takumi’ (Craftsman), which is the latest dogi (karate uniform) from Hirota. I can honestly say that it is the be...
Thursday, 25 September 2014

Body imbalance

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Body balance is an area that is particularly challenging for me. Not keeping my balance but, rather, vertical and horizontal equilibrium—...
Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Talking and thinking too much: Western Karate Drivel

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"Learn by doing" - André Bertel (Kumamoto, Japan).  Simplification of practice with deep meaning/study/understanding is exa...
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Sunday, 31 August 2014

Progressing in Karate-Do forward requires the full circle

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Movement four of Enpi kata: hidari chudan kagi-zuki (kiba-dachi). While I am still strictly adhering to the training programme I start...
Sunday, 24 August 2014

Latest self-training regime

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Here is my latest karate-do training regime. I hope it finds you happy, healthy, and training hard. Especially those, enduring the cold, ...
Wednesday, 20 August 2014

Motivation for the `long haul'

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Self-practicing `hidari kizami mawashi-geri' (ido-kihon) yesterday.     Often people ask me “what is your key to my motivation in k...
Sunday, 17 August 2014

REBOOT

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Every so often I make a complete return to the start of my karate-do training. These days I like to describe it as `a self-reboot’. Tech...
Friday, 8 August 2014

Deutschland Seminar Video

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Below is a video from my last seminar in Germany in 2012. Like the previous video, from the United Kingdom, these YouTube uploads have esse...