Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Back to the fundamentals: A restart with a relocation

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In the recent weeks we've been settling back into Oita. Since moving I decided to go back to the core kihon of karate-do and kihon-kum...
Thursday, 27 August 2015

Seido Karate Christchurch (New Zealand): 50th Anniversary!!!

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In September, the Christchurch Seido Karate Shibu will have its 50th Anniversary!!! As I've mentioned on here, earlier this year, this ...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Final training at the JKA Kumamoto Chuo Dojo: Shototakuhirokan

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Nakamura Shihan and me at my final class in Kumamoto.   Upon returning from Germany I attended my final class at the JKA Kumamoto Chuo ...
Sunday, 16 August 2015

2015 Seminar in Germany (Part 3): Notes from Andrea Haeusler Sensei

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Whilst karateka from Spain, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands and Denmark attended, the majority of karateka were naturally from Deutsch...
Saturday, 15 August 2015

Andre Bertel Traditional Karate Seminar: Germany 2015 (Part 2)

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Many thanks to Frank Kohler for literally making this seminar happen; furthermore, his family for kindly hosting me. Nakayama Dojo Krefeld...
Friday, 7 August 2015

2015 Germany Seminars: Part 1

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Here is a video of my July 2015 seminars: in Krefeld, Germany. This footage was also filmed and edited by my dear friend, and fellow budo k...
Thursday, 9 July 2015

2015 SEMINAR IN GERMANY

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As many will know, I am teaching Karate-Do in Germany at the end of this month. This two day Open Seminar will be on the 25 th and 26 th...
Friday, 19 June 2015

8th Anniversary of `André Bertel’s Karate-Do’

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Today marks eight years since I started this blog and made my first post (click here to access it: http://andrebertel.blogspot.jp/2007/0...
Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Shizentai: Hachiji-dachi

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Speed work: Sanbon renzuki in shizentai - hachiji dachi. This article will briefly outline why I believe that the Shizentai (natural p...
Monday, 15 June 2015

Trainees from Australia's Sunshine Coast: Noel and Heidi Moralde

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Over the weekend I had two members of JKA Australia come for private training. Noel Moralde (who runs a JKA club on the Sunshine Coast)...