Friday, 19 December 2014

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND KARATE SEMINAR: January 2015

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On January 10 th and 11 th I’ll be coaching a weekend of Karate-Do seminars in Christchurch, New Zealand. This will be a one off event...
Thursday, 18 December 2014

Trainee from Sydney, Australia: Leo Pintos

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Leo at Kokuzou Jinja. Leo Pintos, from Sydney Australia, came to Japan to train at my private dojo last week. Leo has attended several ...
Friday, 14 November 2014

Italian trainee from Canada: Pietro Giordan

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Pietro and I, at dinner, after his final private lesson earlier this evening.  Pietro Giordan , an Italian 2 nd Dan (who is a univers...
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, ...