Wednesday, 5 January 2022

分解 and 応用 (BUNKAI and OYO)

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To this day many people confuse 分解 and 応用 . I have published a lot about this in the past, however, I decided to reiterate this important p...
Tuesday, 4 January 2022

POSITIVE ENERGY VIDEOS

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I recently released three videos featuring non-special daily training footage. The focus is POSITIVE ENERGY from regularity; that is, 't...
Monday, 3 January 2022

あけましておめでとうございます!!!

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Training is every day, however, today I returned to regular intensity training. Every year, around the New Years period, I have a very relax...
Thursday, 30 December 2021

Kanku Dai (Part Two): A summary and some important points

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  Following up from my last article here is a technical summary of Kanku Dai Kata. The numbers convey the correct command count, which is op...
Wednesday, 29 December 2021

JUST DO KATA: Kanku Dai (Part One)

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Oh no! Not 観空大 (Kanku Dai)! We’ve all heard that before… Maybe we were the one’s that said it? I have in the past, because I'm naturall...
Sunday, 26 December 2021

MOTIVATION, POSITIVE ENERGY AND '押忍'

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  Here’s my updated self-training program for the last week of 2021 and will continue through until the end of January 2022. I hope this fin...
Thursday, 23 December 2021

New YouYube Video: STEP BY STEP

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 New YouTube video uploaded. I hope it is motivational. Greetings from Oita City, Kyushu, Japan. OSU! © André Bertel. Oita City, Japan (2021...
Wednesday, 22 December 2021

Joko and Hanon

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To understand the 常行 (Joko) series of kata, designed by Asai Tetsuhiko Sensei, one needs to understand their theoretical basis (pros and po...
Monday, 20 December 2021

New OLLIWAA Video

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Saturday, 11 December 2021

空

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  The kanji 空 has eight brush strokes and eight is very important in budo.   In fighting there are eight generic directions/angles… Are...