Joe Berne sempai (guest in Episode 15 of The Applied Karate Show podcast) has posted a thought provoking article about how you should prioritise your workouts when time is limited. Joe makes several great points, and the whole article is … Continue reading → ...
On the face of it – What? Am I a masochist? Do I like pain? What the heck am I talking about getting hit? Well to a non-fighter – it might seem strange but when I sparr… one of the things I really enjoy is getting the crap beat out of me in an [...]...
Put some love into it Just like kids, food can somehow tell when you are agro. If a person does not enjoy cooking, they will rush everything just to get through it, which brings us to…… Be patient You can’t rush frying the onions and garlic, or fail to let the dish simmer properly on [...]...
The news has been full of knife attacks and even the TSA has been considering letting people fly with small pocket knives. It is even scarier to some so removed from fighting or using hand tools that in my estimation I think most people think that a knife attack is not survivable! I [...]...
I am a black belt in Shotokan having received it in 1975 from Master Fred Corritone, currently of Virginia. I think that kata are important for the karate...
I would say that sanchin is an amazing kata just because of its simplicity but also how annoyingly difficult it is to perform and is a very under rated...
In Pakistan Karate, there are few who are more experienced and longer training than Muzammal Ahmed. Sensei Muzammal, recognised as the first ever-black...
ve had a a frustrating recurrent cycle of back spasms, hip problems, and muscle pulls making it difficult to train and causing a steady downhill slide in fitness. I've been going regularly to a chiropractor and following his suggestions of applying heat and moderating exercise. I did check out whether the orthopedists felt any surgery was in order (they didn't). Much time in Jacuzzi and heat...
A little brother of one of our brown belts came in to his brother’s grading. I asked the child why he quit training and he said “I was bored”. Fair enough. But I added, “Not everyone is cut out to be a black belt”. He looked up at me with a bit of irritation on [...]...
Karate Stories, Articles and Karate Words of Experience. Karate Information and Martial Arts Stories. A great resource for the thinking Karateka and a good place to stock up on Martial Arts Info....
SLOW AND STEADY DOES ITIf karate was easy no one would be doing it. Someone asked me the other day why I still practice karate after so many years. Not...
s dojo will perform each of the standard Shorin-Ryu and Kobudo kata in their curriculum. Members of the Hawaii Karate Kenkyukai will perform their own versions of Nakata Sensei...
LAHORE, 10th February 2013 By MUZAMMAL AHMED The PAKISTAN SHOTOKAN KARATE ASSOCATION (PSKA), an affiliated body of SKDUN and FBSKUI (England) organised...
Urban Dictionary shred surfing: performing a series of cutbacks requiring seemingly impossible adeptness. To play so amazingly fast on guitar you almost destroy it’s strings. Sometimes you learn lessons in the strangest places. I learned a few behind the bar. Fresh out of bar tending school in San Diego, I had a big break. The [...]...
I am very sad to report that my good friend and senior, Sensei Pat Nakata, passed away last week, on Thursday, February 7th. He was 68. Words cannot express my sense of loss and also my deep respect for and gratitude to Nakata Sensei. If his approach to Karate could be summed up in one word, it would certainly be: TRAIN. You learn Karate by training. Talking about Karate is...
m back! After a three month hiatus where hopefully, my hip and back issues have settled down, I made it back to class last night. A number of people said: "Heh, we really need some help. You've got to get the Two Man Kata up online so we can learn it" Gee, it's great to see you all too. In any case, here are three videos. The first one with Niki is the offensive side of the Two Man Kata,...
You can’t really learn Karate at home but I’ll give you great info on Japanese Karate especially Shotokan Karate Techniques....
Good Karate Movies were once hard to find. Now Karate Video and Kata Videos are everywhere. But how do you dig up the very special Shotokan Videos or coolest Karate Kata Videos that are out there?...
Cage Fighting is great for Japanese Karate. MMA training brings the best fighting systems together as one. MMA fighters like Lyoto Machida have proven that Karate can produce top class cage fighters....
I have met two students of Chotoku Kyan and actually both of them have been to my home: Shoshin Nagamine and Shozen Sunabe. I have no doubt at all that these men studied with Kyan Sensei. In the case of Sunabe Sensei, I am confident that he trained daily at Kyan Sensei's house for twelve (12) years, and then during the summers when he attended college on mainland Japan. Come to think of...