Thursday, 23 February 2017

SUSTAINED MOTIVATION

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One of the biggest factors of success in any field is MOTIVATION. As everyone knows, “motivation is not something that is hard to at...
Monday, 20 February 2017

Heel, toes or middle of the foot?

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Migi sokuto tobi yoko-geri kekomi. One of the ‘technical must do’s’ of standard Shotokan style is to keep the entire foot flat on the ...
Sunday, 12 February 2017

抜塞大 & 慈恩

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Movement one of Bassai Dai: Sasho soede migi chudan uchi-uke (migi ashi mae kosa-dachi). Today, BASSAI DAI and JION. The point of the t...
Saturday, 11 February 2017

武道空手とは？

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WHAT IS BUDO KARATE? 武道空手とは？ Movment six of Bassai-Dai: Migi gedan sukui-uke kara migi chudan soto-uke (Migi zenkuts...
Wednesday, 1 February 2017

抜塞大: Bassai Dai

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Bassai Dai ( 抜塞大) Kata is characterized by its advancing strength which essentially practices to suppress the opponents attack. This chara...
Friday, 20 January 2017

Hatsugeiko 2017

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This years Hatsugeiko was essentially the establishment of a new self-training regime for the start of 2017. Here is a schedule outlin...
Monday, 16 January 2017

Trainee from Belgium: Kathleen Lambein

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I just had the pleasure of having Kathleen Lambein (3rd Dan, JKA—Japan Karate Association —Belgium ) here in at my dojo for private trainin...
Monday, 2 January 2017

First Article for 2017... A ‘FEW NOTES’ ON HEIAN SHODAN

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To start my articles/posts for 2017 I thought I'd outline a few important points from Heian Shodan Kata. I haven't ‘written out’ ...
Wednesday, 28 December 2016

A Brief Summary of 2016 and Video Links

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So, 2016, is quickly coming to an end. Here is a brief and very broad summary of my karate activities this year. I will conclude with dir...
Tuesday, 20 December 2016

André Bertel 2016 AUSTRALIA SEMINAR  

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On December third and forth, I conducted seminar on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. It was my forth time to teach Karate-Do ...