Thursday, 29 April 2010

Oliver & Yan Schomburg

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The organizers of the seminars and classes I taught in Germany were Oliver and Yan Schombu rg. Oliver and Yan hosted us at their home in A...
Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Photos from the Ahrensburg Seminars

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Here are some photos from the Asai-ha Shotokan-ryu Karate seminars I taught in Ahrensburg, Germany, just outside of Hamburg. ______ It was ...
Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Training for time

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I can’t believe that we are already a week into April! B ut as the saying goes “time goes fast when you're having fun.” ______ Between ...
Saturday, 3 April 2010

Newly uploaded footage of Asai Sensei

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Here is some nice footage of my late teacher Tetsuhiko Asai Sensei introducing his basic shoulder, elbow and wrist snap to the Ukraine (in ...
Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Sakura

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As promised here are some hanami pictures. The sakura this year were typically breath taking! Here Mizuho and I are wearing traditional Japa...
Saturday, 27 March 2010

Sakura covered Nippon

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This week has been very busy with karate. Training and teaching daily as usual, nothing extra, but also karate nomikai (drinking parties), ...
Friday, 26 March 2010

Three years in Japan

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Three years ago today we arrived back in Japan. As my wife Mizuho is Japanese, returning to Japan is coming home for her. But in so many wa...
Monday, 22 March 2010

Special training for Bryan Dukas and Paul Kallender in Kyushu

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Some of you may have read my June 2009 post on Mike Dukas Shihan (please click on the following link to access it: http://andrebertel.blogs...

Australian instructors visit

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Australian Shotokan karate instructors Ken and Helen Bainbridge visited Nakatsu on Sunday morning (March 21st). It was nice meeting and doi...
Thursday, 18 March 2010

My kanji

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Some people have curiously asked me "Which kanji have been used for your name?" (on my dogi and obi) so I thought I'd quickly ...