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More training of kihon and the dan grading combinations. Got shouted at for not being low enough in gyakuzuki no tsukomi. Not just me, it was the whole dojo! All that talk of kuzushi and kote gaeshi in the other thread must have made its way to Guildford... That's sort of what we did. DSC_0135.jpg D...

Day two. Kazutaka Ohtsuka and Arthur Meek took the general sessions. Kazutaka Ohtsuka went through through his trademark approach to body movement and got us to work in pairs on how to use the arms in an effective way for both defence to be able to attack quickly straight after. Arthur Meek cover Ki...

I will follow up with more longer posts when I can. Busy at the Winter Course at the moment. On kuzushi, we started the discussions with regards examples of kuzushi with the legs, and within judo there will be many examples of using the arms and jackets to initiate kuzushi to then take advantage of ...

One would think that a technique involving studies in the effects on Uke’s body being more complex and requires a degree of efficiency much higher in the skill range as kote gaeshi obviously does, it would surely need to commence its practices much earlier than KK #5 or so it appears. Kote gaeshi, ...

Shiomitsu Sensei will be teaching at this course hosted by the American Wado Academy. I know there will be people from Europe making the journey as they did last time.

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A great opportunity to train and visit the theme parks.

On the heel/ball of foot thing again, it has just occurred to me that when I have been teaching some of the pairworks that have an element of kuzushi against the opponent's leg, I have seen students come up onto the ball of the foot and try to push with the knee and it just ends up all wrong. One pr...

Aside from the training there is also the social aspects that surrounds the course.

To watch people rub their hands with glee and giggling like schoolkids, who are in fact close to pensionable age, as they meet up with old friends makes the whole-of-life approach of karate study very endearing.

The first day has ended, a gentle ease into things. Mokuso for about 20 minutes. Key things we covered today: sonoba zuki, jodan uke and gedan barai. All from straight legs then into shiko dachi and then turn to junzuki dachi to the sides. Pinan Shodan, didn't get past yoi without being corrected on...

Recently I had the chance to discuss this with my original sensei and in conversation the veil finally lifted. The movement in nagashi-zuki is the same movement as the sword technique, getting your whole body outside of the line of the incoming cut, obviously the first and most important thing to a...

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