Sunday, 30 October 2022

Andre Bertel Karate-Do: TWO MILLION VISITORS!!!

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It was just confirmed to me that recently this site exceeded 2 MILLION VISITORS. I'm really surprised by this as the site has  only ever...
Friday, 28 October 2022

'Ball and chain impact, then skewer'

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In the last few days, I've been spending the majority of my time on Kihon. Generally speaking, the IKS Shodan Examination Kihon. Of part...
Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Brief history of Okinawan Karate and the rise of Shotokan:

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Introduction: To begin I need to emphasize that I’m by no means a karate historian, nor wish to be known as one (or become one), but I was ...
Sunday, 23 October 2022

Additional Home Training (Supplementary Practice)

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In addition to daily dojo training/practice I always review key parts of each session at home. Often these sessions are short but, sometimes...
Tuesday, 18 October 2022

The Autumn/Fall weather has finally reached Oita

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 Finally, the Autumn/Fall weather has reached Oita City. While warm-ups may take a little longer, trainings will certainly be a bit more ple...
Thursday, 13 October 2022

Karate Kata: Funakoshi Sensei's Direct Teachings

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  I recently found a text by senior students of Funakoshi Gichin Sensei, in Japanese (from ‘Karatedo Essentials’), which I thought was well ...
Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Karate for Self-Defense: Funakoshi Gichin Sensei's Karate 'Way'

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One of the things that Funakoshi Gichin Sensei recognized was that ideally, karate—in the case of self-defense for the average Japanese citi...
Sunday, 9 October 2022

IKS DAN EXAM KIHON (Brief summary in English)

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 At present IKS only tests Kihon in independently (after kyu) at SHODAN and NIDAN respectively. After which, kihon is examined within the ex...
Saturday, 8 October 2022

形は正しく実戦は別物

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  This week I spent most of my time working on kihon, much of which was practicing techniques from 自由な構え (jiyu na kamae). The link and bidi...
Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Renshusei applications, Dan Exams and Transfer of Dan

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  Many people are now enquiring about coming to Japan for renshusei training, also about transfer of Dan to IKS and Dan exams.   Before ...