Wednesday, 1 December 2021

Welcome to Winter: Updated daily self-training regime

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Today we officially entered winter here in Japan. So I decided to post my current self-training regime. I cannot believe that winter is back...
Sunday, 21 November 2021

岩鶴 (Gankaku)

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I was asked to write a brief overview on Gankaku. So here you are. 押忍 !! Tanaka Masahiko Sensei's Gankaku: Movement one:  Ryoko jodan so...
Monday, 15 November 2021

五本組手 (Gohon Kumite): An extension article 19 years later

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  五本組手 (Gohon Kumite) is unique to Shotokan Karate and some of the derivatives of it. It is generally the first form of Kumite (‘the meetin...
Thursday, 11 November 2021

The HOUSE of SHOTO

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Funakoshi Gichin Sensei was, of course, the founder of modern-day Karate-Do; furthermore, the founder of what became known as Shotokan-Ryu. ...
Thursday, 4 November 2021

抜塞小 (Bassai Sho) Overview

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 Bassai Sho ( 抜塞小 ) Kata, in contrast with the overtly powerful Bassai Dai, is more subtle in its use of strength; furthermore, Bassai Sho u...
Wednesday, 3 November 2021

An insight

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 Usually I do not detail my additional/supplementary daily practices, however, I decided to do that today, here in the office. My reasoning ...
Friday, 29 October 2021

Behavior in movement means 'application' in karate.

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  In this photo you can see that I'm executing a jodan mae-geri kekomi with tsumasaki. This can be directed to the face, in particular t...
Thursday, 21 October 2021

前屈立ち

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By request from one of my deshi I was asked to write an article on stationary zenkutsu-dachi. I thought that I'd keep it really simple a...
Tuesday, 19 October 2021

CORRECT 三戦立 (SANCHIN DACHI)

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三戦立                                                                    SANCHIN-DACHI Sanchin-dachi is a particularly important tachikata i...