Wednesday, 7 July 2021

UPDATE OF KATA REQUIREMENTS: 07-07-2021

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At the dojo earlier today, July 7th, 2021. Tekki Sandan Kata, now permissible for the Shodan Exam, UPDATED IKS 国際空手道松濤館 (INTERNATIONAL KARAT...
Monday, 5 July 2021

PLEASE STRETCH LIGHTLY AND SEE THE RESULTS OVER TIME WITHOUT INJURY.

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  The biggest secret of flexibility is not depth of stretching, nor height/depth of kicking but, rather, knowing one's own body and not ...
Thursday, 1 July 2021

鉄騎三段 (Tekki Sandan): Part Two

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Asai Tetsuhiko Sensei performing Tekki Sandan Kata (Jitsugi Karate, 1978). As you will know if you read my last post, I wrote a little about...
Monday, 28 June 2021

鉄騎三段 (Tekki Sandan): Part One

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                                        鉄騎三段 Tekki Sandan Practice of the three Tekki Kata consecutively on the spot. Shotokan's seika...
Saturday, 19 June 2021

14th Anniversary of this Blog

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IKS Renshusei-geiko: Don Walker Sensei (Western Australia, originally from Scotland) at Ryozenji. Today is the 14th Anniversary of this Blog...
Thursday, 17 June 2021

十手 (JITTE)

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十手 Today I will list each movement of 十手 (JITTE) or ‘Ten Hands’, which is one of ‘THE SEVEN CORE KATA’ of Shotokan-Ryu. I've also inc...
Friday, 11 June 2021

"TO MOVE NICELY IS NOT KARATE, TO MOVE WELL AGAINST A DANGEROUS OPPONENT IS, AND VALIDATES ONE'S NICE MOVE(MENT)." - Asai Tetsuhiko.

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  I first came to Japan to study karate 'at the source' 28 years ago. Since then, I have trained daily here  for close to 15 years, ...
Monday, 7 June 2021

未来は明るい

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There are 17 ‘waza’ or techniques in the first two Heian Kata, which as you will know were reversed in order by Funakoshi Gichin Sensei. Asa...